In this seminar, recent developments on the formal foundations of
computer security will be presented and discussed. The seminar will be
based on recent research articles covering selected foundational aspects
of computer security. Each article will be presented by one
participant of the seminar and will then be discussed intensely by the
entire group of participants.
Formal foundations of computer
security are necessary to clarify desirable security guarantees and
possible security threats. For instance, formal security models can be
used to capture security requirements precisely and can then serve as a
reliable basis for verifying whether these requirements are met.
Formal foundations of security can also serve as a basis for
establishing security by design, including a precise definition of
security requirements, a component-based development of secure systems,
and the stepwise refinement of high-level system specifications to
more-detailed specifications, ultimately to secure program code.
- composition, abstraction and refinement in computer security,
- information-flow security and information-flow control,
- language-based security,
- security models and properties,
- secure usage and usage control,
- quantitative security, and
- verifiable security.
- Dozent*in: Ximeng Li
- Dozent*in: Markus Tasch