Miro: visual specification of security

Author

Heydon, Allan ; Maimone, Mark W. ; Tygar, J.D. ; Wing, Jeannette M. ; Zaremski, Amy Moormann

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

10

fYear

1990

fDate

10/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1185

Lastpage

1197

Abstract

Miro is a set of languages and tools that support the visual specification of file system security. Two visual languages are presented: the instance language, which allows specification of file system access, and the constraint language, which allows specification of security policies. Miro visual languages and tools are used to specify security configurations. A visual language is one whose entities are graphical, such as boxes and arrows, specifying means stating independently of any implementation the desired properties of a system. Security means file system protection: ensuring that files are protected from unauthorized access and granting privileges to some users, but not others. Tools implemented and examples of how these languages can be applied to real security specification problems are described

Keywords

security of data; specification languages; visual programming; Miro; arrows; boxes; constraint language; file system security; instance language; security specification problems; tools; visual specification of security; Computer displays; Contracts; Control systems; Data structures; File systems; Helium; Operating systems; Protection; Security; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.60298

Filename

60298