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EPSRC Reference:	GR/L96103/01
Title:	SECPOL: SPECIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF SECURITY POLICY FORDISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Principal Investigator:	Sloman, Professor M
Other Investigators:	Nuseibeh, Professor B Dulay, Dr N
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Department:	Computing
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 November 1998	Ends:	30 April 2002	Value (£):	177,947
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Networks & Distributed Systems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The overall objective of this project is to provide a framework for managing security in large, multi-organisational distributed systems. This will include techniques and tools for specification of security policy by refining high level goals into implementable policies; analysis of policies for inconsistencies and conflicts; and example mappings onto modern security implementation mechanisms. The work is novel in that it includes obligation policies, which define the activities that must be performed to manage violations and other aspects of security, as well as the more traditional authorisation policies which define what actions are permitted. The works builds upon the Role based framework developed in a previous EPSRC ROPA project.
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