Business Process Compliance via Security Validation as a Service

by Luca Compagna, Pierre Guilleminot, and Achim D. Brucker

Modern enterprise systems are often process-based, i. e., they allow for the direct execution of business processes that are specified in a high-level language such as BPMN. Moreover, modern enterprises need to comply to more and more security and compliance regulations. In this paper, we present a service based, called Security Validation as a Service (SVaaS) for validating the compliance of the business processes (BPs) during design-time. Basically, while modeling a BP the business analyst specifies as well the security and compliance requirements the BP should comply to. By pressing a button, these requirements are validated and the results are presented in a graphical format to the business analysis. At the core of SVaaS lies a rigorous and industrially viable approach in which the security validation business logic is handled server-side (SVaaS Server) in the Cloud, while the client-side user interface that business analysts use is handled by a light-weight (SVaaS Connector). As proof-of-concept we created a SVaaS prototype in which the SVaaS Server is deployed on the SAP NetWeaver Cloud and two SVaaS Connectors are built to enable two well-known BPM clients, SAP NetWeaver BPM and Activiti, to consume SVaaS against industrial relevant BPs.

Keywords: Validation, Security, Business Process Management
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Please cite this article as follows:
Luca Compagna, Pierre Guilleminot, and Achim D. Brucker. Business Process Compliance via Security Validation as a Service. In IEEE Sixth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST). , pages 455-462, IEEE Computer Society, 2013.
Keywords: Validation, Security, Business Process Management
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