Showing posts with label Integrity Model. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Integrity Model. Show all posts

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Comparison With Requirements

             Users can’t certify TPs, so CR5 and ER4 enforce this

             Procedural, so model doesn’t directly cover it; but special process corresponds to using TP

           No technical controls can prevent programmer from developing program on production system; usual control is to delete software tools

             TP does the installation, trusted personnel do certification

   CR4 provides logging; ER3 authenticates trusted personnel doing installation; CR5, ER4 control installation procedure

           New program UDI before certification, CDI (and TP) after

             Log is CDI, so appropriate TP can provide managers, auditors access

           Access to state handled similarly

Comparison to Biba

      Biba

   No notion of certification rules; trusted subjects ensure actions obey rules

   Untrusted data examined before being made trusted

      Clark-Wilson

   Explicit requirements that actions must meet

   Trusted entity must certify method to upgrade untrusted data (and not certify the data itself)

Key Points

      Integrity policies deal with trust

   As trust is hard to quantify, these policies are hard to evaluate completely

   Look for assumptions and trusted users to find possible weak points in their implementation

      Biba based on multilevel integrity


      Clark-Wilson focuses on separation of duty and transactions

Users and Rules

CR3     The allowed relations must meet the requirements imposed by the principle of separation of duty.

ER3     The system must authenticate each user attempting to execute a TP

    Type of authentication undefined, and depends on the instantiation

    Authentication not required before use of the system, but is required before manipulation of CDIs (requires using TPs)

Logging

CR4     All TPs must append enough information to reconstruct the operation to an append-only CDI.

   This CDI is the log

   Auditor needs to be able to determine what happened during reviews of transactions

Handling Untrusted Input

CR5     Any TP that takes as input a UDI may perform only valid transformations, or no transformations, for all possible values of the UDI. The transformation either rejects the UDI or transforms it into a CDI.

    In bank, numbers entered at keyboard are UDIs, so cannot be input to TPs. TPs must validate numbers (to make them a CDI) before using them; if validation fails, TP rejects UDI

Separation of Duty In Model

ER4     Only the certifier of a TP may change the list of entities associated with that TP. No certifier of a TP, or of an entity associated with that TP, may ever have execute permission with respect to that entity.

Enforces separation of duty with respect to certified and allowed relations