Multiagent Security Evaluation Framework for Service Oriented Architecture Systems

Abstract

As more and more organizations use the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to design and implement their information systems also the systems’ architects need the more intelligent and reliable tools. The complexity, modularity and heterogeneity of the information systems make the security evaluation process difficult. The proposed method uses multiagent approach as the most promising direction of the research. As the security evaluation requires the precise definition of the set of evaluation criteria the basic criteria for each functional layer of SOA have been presented. Also, the paper presents two algorithms where the first can be used separately for each of the particular layer of SOA and the second serves for the calculation of the generalized SOA system security level.KeywordsMultiagent SystemSecurity LevelService Orient ArchitectureSecurity EvaluationMonitoring AgentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.