Title: A formal model towards scientific workflow security in a cloud

Authors: Donghoon Kim; Mladen A. Vouk

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA ' Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Abstract: Scientific workflow management systems (SWFMS) may be vulnerable in a cloud since they may have not embraced practical security solutions yet. This paper presents an approach to formal modelling of scientific workflow security in the cloud. We focus on the procedure to build secure data flows in a holistic way. This work also suggests that a whitelist approach to input validation can play a role in protecting the flows from zero-day attacks.

Keywords: formal method; security; workflow; security property; input validation; access control; cloud.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCC.2018.095381

International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2018 Vol.7 No.3/4, pp.226 - 236

Received: 11 Aug 2017
Accepted: 13 Feb 2018
Published online: 03 Oct 2018 *

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