Automated Security Driven Solution for Inter-Organizational Workflows

Abstract

This paper presents a new solution to deal with security in dynamic Inter-Organizational Workflow (IOW) Systems. The IOW system aims to support the collaboration between distributed business processes running in several autonomous organizations in order to complete a set of common goals. In such dynamic environments, where participating organizations (partners) in the IOW are not known before its execution, many security breaches could arise. Thus, we propose a new automated security-driven solution based on i) partner selection ii) access control partner negotiation and policy conflict resolution.