Volume 8 - Issue 2
IMSA – Intra Model Security Assurance
- Qiang Zhi
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
zhiqiang0728@gmail.com
- Shuichiro Yamamoto
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
syamamoto@acm.org
- Shuji Morisaki
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan
morisaki@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Keywords: Security case, Assurance case, Intra Model Security Assurance, Enterprise Architecture, ArchiMate.
Abstract
Security assurance cases for architecture diagrams are developed independently by using traditional
approaches. This paper proposes a new method, Intra Model Security Assurance, IMSA, approach
to develop both security assurance cases and architectures in the same diagrams by using ArchiMate.
IMSA enables to efficiently assure security by reducing the cognition and operation gaps caused by
manipulating different diagrams such as security assurance cases and architecture diagrams. The
effectiveness of the proposed method is also showed by experimental evaluation. According to the
experimental results, proposed approach is superior to traditional approach for assuring security.