Quality Trade-offs in Self-Protecting System

The complexity of software systems has raised many challenges in the way they will be installed, configured, deployed and merged in the near future. The vision of a self-protecting system with the capability of defending itself as a whole as well as planning how to mitigate the attack given different scenarios and requirements is one of the most promising research directions to solve these challenges. In this paper, we present an approach to leverage the progress in self-protecting system research with the focus on building prototypes for self-protecting systems for the purpose of experimentally studying quality of service and security trade-offs of various self-protection solutions.