104 research outputs found
Secure Identification in Social Wireless Networks
The applications based on social networking have brought revolution towards social life and are continuously gaining popularity among the Internet users. Due to the advanced computational resources offered by the innovative hardware and nominal subscriber charges of network operators, most of the online social networks are transforming into the mobile domain by offering exciting applications and games exclusively designed for users on the go. Moreover, the mobile devices are considered more personal as compared to their desktop rivals, so there is a tendency among the mobile users to store sensitive data like contacts, passwords, bank account details, updated calendar entries with key dates and personal notes on their devices.
The Project Social Wireless Network Secure Identification (SWIN) is carried out at Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) to explore the practicality of providing the secure mobile social networking portal with advanced security features to tackle potential security threats by extending the existing methods with more innovative security technologies. In addition to the extensive background study and the determination of marketable use-cases with their corresponding security requirements, this thesis proposes a secure identification design to satisfy the security dimensions for both online and offline peers. We have implemented an initial prototype using PHP Socket and OpenSSL library to simulate the secure identification procedure based on the proposed design. The design is in compliance with 3GPP‟s Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA) and our implementation has demonstrated the flexibility of the solution to be applied independently for the applications requiring secure identification. Finally, the thesis provides strong foundation for the advanced implementation on mobile platform in future
Secure Mobile Social Networks using USIM in a Closed Environment
Online social networking and corresponding mobile based applications are gaining popularity and now considered
a well-integrated service within mobile devices. Basic security mechanisms normally based on passwords for the authentication of social-network users are widely deployed and poses a threat for the user security. In particular, for dedicated social groups with high confidentiality and privacy demands, stronger and user friendly principles for the authentication and identification of group members are needed. On the other hand, most of the mobile units already provide strong authentication procedures through the USIM/ISIM module. This paper explores how to build an architectural framework for secure enrollment and identification of group members in dedicated closed social groups using the USIM/SIM authentication and in particular, the 3GPP Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA), which is built upon the USIM/SIM capabilities. One part of the research is to identify the marketable use-cases with corresponding security challenges to fulfill the requirements that extend beyond the online connectivity. This paper proposes a secure identification design to satisfy the security dimensions for both online and offline peers. We have also implemented an initial proof of the concept prototype to simulate the secure identification procedure based on the proposed design. Our implementation has demonstrated the flexibility of the solution to be applied independently for applications requiring secure identification
OpenID with certificate-based user authentication on smartcard
Ankara : The Department of Computer Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2013.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2013.Includes bibliographical references leaves 52-57.From the point of its users, federated identity systems provide great convenience
to log in to varied web sites without bothering of registration in advance. Looking
from a vantage point, federated identity management gives the opportunity to
users of one IT system to access data and sources of another IT system seamlessly
and securely without handling a complete user administration. Single signon
mechanisms manage user authentication process of these systems prompting
log in once and assure access control across those multiple independent systems.
OpenID is a widely used federated identity/single sign-on scheme generally implemented
with username-password authentication. In this work, we augment the
user authentication phase of OpenID with certi cate-based authentication using
smartcard technology. Our solution provides a secure method to authenticate the
user with user's digital certi cate written on the smartcard.Kişin, Bahar BernaM.S
Privacy considerations for secure identification in social wireless networks
This thesis focuses on privacy aspects of identification and key exchange
schemes for mobile social networks. In particular, we consider identification
schemes that combine wide area mobile communication with short range communication
such as Bluetooth, WiFi. The goal of the thesis is to identify possible
security threats to personal information of users and to define a framework
of security and privacy requirements in the context of mobile social networking.
The main focus of the work is on security in closed groups and the procedures
of secure registration, identification and invitation of users in mobile social networks.
The thesis includes an evaluation of the proposed identification and key
exchange schemes and a proposal for a series of modifications that augments
its privacy-preserving capabilities. The ultimate design provides secure and effective
identity management in the context of, and in respect to, the protection
of user identity privacy in mobile social networks
Strong Authentication for Web services with Mobile Universal Identity
To access services on the Web, users need quite often to have accounts, i.e. user names and passwords. This becomes a problem when the number of accounts keeps increasing at the same time password is a very weak form of authentication exposing the users to fraud and abuses. To address both mentioned issues we propose a Mobile Universal identity, which by combining Internet identifiers with mobile identifiers is capable of delivering strong authentication for Internet services. By introducing an identity provider, the solution enables the user to employ the Mobile Universal identity for multiple service providers. By federation with other identities, Mobile Universal identity can be used with service providers worldwide.© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. Locked until 2016-08-08
Identity Management and Authorization Infrastructure in Secure Mobile Access to Electronic Health Records
We live in an age of the mobile paradigm of anytime/anywhere access, as the mobile device
is the most ubiquitous device that people now hold. Due to their portability, availability, easy
of use, communication, access and sharing of information within various domains and areas of
our daily lives, the acceptance and adoption of these devices is still growing. However, due to
their potential and raising numbers, mobile devices are a growing target for attackers and, like
other technologies, mobile applications are still vulnerable.
Health information systems are composed with tools and software to collect, manage, analyze
and process medical information (such as electronic health records and personal health records).
Therefore, such systems can empower the performance and maintenance of health services,
promoting availability, readability, accessibility and data sharing of vital information about a
patients overall medical history, between geographic fragmented health services. Quick access
to information presents a great importance in the health sector, as it accelerates work processes,
resulting in better time utilization. Additionally, it may increase the quality of care.
However health information systems store and manage highly sensitive data, which raises serious
concerns regarding patients privacy and safety, and may explain the still increasing number
of malicious incidents reports within the health domain.
Data related to health information systems are highly sensitive and subject to severe legal
and regulatory restrictions, that aim to protect the individual rights and privacy of patients.
Along side with these legislations, security requirements must be analyzed and measures implemented.
Within the necessary security requirements to access health data, secure authentication,
identity management and access control are essential to provide adequate means to
protect data from unauthorized accesses. However, besides the use of simple authentication
models, traditional access control models are commonly based on predefined access policies
and roles, and are inflexible. This results in uniform access control decisions through people,
different type of devices, environments and situational conditions, and across enterprises, location
and time.
Although already existent models allow to ensure the needs of the health care systems, they still
lack components for dynamicity and privacy protection, which leads to not have desire levels
of security and to the patient not to have a full and easy control of his privacy. Within this
master thesis, after a deep research and review of the stat of art, was published a novel dynamic
access control model, Socio-Technical Risk-Adaptable Access Control modEl (SoTRAACE),
which can model the inherent differences and security requirements that are present in this
thesis. To do this, SoTRAACE aggregates attributes from various domains to help performing
a risk assessment at the moment of the request. The assessment of the risk factors identified
in this work is based in a Delphi Study. A set of security experts from various domains were
selected, to classify the impact in the risk assessment of each attribute that SoTRAACE aggregates.
SoTRAACE was integrated in an architecture with requirements well-founded, and based
in the best recommendations and standards (OWASP, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-57), as well based in
deep review of the state-of-art. The architecture is further targeted with the essential security
analysis and the threat model. As proof of concept, the proposed access control model was implemented within the user-centric
architecture, with two mobile prototypes for several types of accesses by patients and healthcare
professionals, as well the web servers that handles the access requests, authentication and
identity management.
The proof of concept shows that the model works as expected, with transparency, assuring privacy
and data control to the user without impact for user experience and interaction. It is clear
that the model can be extended to other industry domains, and new levels of risks or attributes
can be added because it is modular. The architecture also works as expected, assuring secure
authentication with multifactor, and secure data share/access based in SoTRAACE decisions.
The communication channel that SoTRAACE uses was also protected with a digital certificate.
At last, the architecture was tested within different Android versions, tested with static and
dynamic analysis and with tests with security tools.
Future work includes the integration of health data standards and evaluating the proposed system
by collecting users’ opinion after releasing the system to real world.Hoje em dia vivemos em um paradigma móvel de acesso em qualquer lugar/hora, sendo que
os dispositivos móveis são a tecnologia mais presente no dia a dia da sociedade. Devido à sua
portabilidade, disponibilidade, fácil manuseamento, poder de comunicação, acesso e partilha
de informação referentes a várias áreas e domínios das nossas vidas, a aceitação e integração
destes dispositivos é cada vez maior. No entanto, devido ao seu potencial e aumento do número
de utilizadores, os dispositivos móveis são cada vez mais alvos de ataques, e tal como outras
tecnologias, aplicações móveis continuam a ser vulneráveis.
Sistemas de informação de saúde são compostos por ferramentas e softwares que permitem
recolher, administrar, analisar e processar informação médica (tais como documentos de saúde
eletrónicos). Portanto, tais sistemas podem potencializar a performance e a manutenção dos
serviços de saúde, promovendo assim a disponibilidade, acessibilidade e a partilha de dados
vitais referentes ao registro médico geral dos pacientes, entre serviços e instituições que estão
geograficamente fragmentadas. O rápido acesso a informações médicas apresenta uma grande
importância para o setor da saúde, dado que acelera os processos de trabalho, resultando assim
numa melhor eficiência na utilização do tempo e recursos. Consequentemente haverá uma
melhor qualidade de tratamento. Porém os sistemas de informação de saúde armazenam e
manuseiam dados bastantes sensíveis, o que levanta sérias preocupações referentes à privacidade
e segurança do paciente. Assim se explica o aumento de incidentes maliciosos dentro do
domínio da saúde.
Os dados de saúde são altamente sensíveis e são sujeitos a severas leis e restrições regulamentares,
que pretendem assegurar a proteção dos direitos e privacidade dos pacientes, salvaguardando
os seus dados de saúde. Juntamente com estas legislações, requerimentos de segurança
devem ser analisados e medidas implementadas. Dentro dos requerimentos necessários
para aceder aos dados de saúde, uma autenticação segura, gestão de identidade e controlos de
acesso são essenciais para fornecer meios adequados para a proteção de dados contra acessos
não autorizados. No entanto, além do uso de modelos simples de autenticação, os modelos
tradicionais de controlo de acesso são normalmente baseados em políticas de acesso e cargos
pré-definidos, e são inflexíveis. Isto resulta em decisões de controlo de acesso uniformes para
diferentes pessoas, tipos de dispositivo, ambientes e condições situacionais, empresas, localizações
e diferentes alturas no tempo. Apesar dos modelos existentes permitirem assegurar
algumas necessidades dos sistemas de saúde, ainda há escassez de componentes para accesso
dinâmico e proteção de privacidade , o que resultam em níveis de segurança não satisfatórios e
em o paciente não ter controlo directo e total sobre a sua privacidade e documentos de saúde.
Dentro desta tese de mestrado, depois da investigação e revisão intensiva do estado da arte,
foi publicado um modelo inovador de controlo de acesso, chamado SoTRAACE, que molda as
diferenças de acesso inerentes e requerimentos de segurança presentes nesta tese. Para isto,
o SoTRAACE agrega atributos de vários ambientes e domínios que ajudam a executar uma avaliação
de riscos, no momento em que os dados são requisitados. A avaliação dos fatores de risco
identificados neste trabalho são baseados num estudo de Delphi. Um conjunto de peritos de
segurança de vários domínios industriais foram selecionados, para classificar o impacto de cada
atributo que o SoTRAACE agrega. O SoTRAACE foi integrado numa arquitectura para acesso a
dados médicos, com requerimentos bem fundados, baseados nas melhores normas e recomendações (OWASP, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-57), e em revisões intensivas do estado da arte. Esta
arquitectura é posteriormente alvo de uma análise de segurança e modelos de ataque.
Como prova deste conceito, o modelo de controlo de acesso proposto é implementado juntamente
com uma arquitetura focada no utilizador, com dois protótipos para aplicações móveis,
que providênciam vários tipos de acesso de pacientes e profissionais de saúde. A arquitetura é
constituída também por servidores web que tratam da gestão de dados, controlo de acesso e
autenticação e gestão de identidade. O resultado final mostra que o modelo funciona como esperado,
com transparência, assegurando a privacidade e o controlo de dados para o utilizador,
sem ter impacto na sua interação e experiência. Consequentemente este modelo pode-se extender
para outros setores industriais, e novos níveis de risco ou atributos podem ser adicionados
a este mesmo, por ser modular. A arquitetura também funciona como esperado, assegurando
uma autenticação segura com multi-fator, acesso e partilha de dados segura baseado em decisões
do SoTRAACE. O canal de comunicação que o SoTRAACE usa foi também protegido com
um certificado digital.
A arquitectura foi testada em diferentes versões de Android, e foi alvo de análise estática,
dinâmica e testes com ferramentas de segurança.
Para trabalho futuro está planeado a integração de normas de dados de saúde e a avaliação do
sistema proposto, através da recolha de opiniões de utilizadores no mundo real
Sécurité et performances des réseaux de nouvelle génération
L’IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) constitue l’architecture clé de contrôle pour les réseaux de nouvelle génération (NGN : Next Generation Network). IMS offre aux opérateurs réseaux la possibilité d'étendre leurs services, en intégrant la voix et des communications multimédia et de les livrer dans de nouveaux environnements avec de nouveaux objectifs. Sa sécurité totale mais à moindre coût est donc primordiale, principalement l’authentification. En IMS l’authentification est divisée en deux phases, une au niveau du domaine PS (Packet-Switch) avec le protocole 3GPP-AKA, et l’autre au niveau IMS en utilisant le protocole IMS-AKA. Dans notre première contribution, nous proposons un nouveau protocole d’authentification plus sécurisé que celui utilisé en IMS (IMS-AKA) et plus performant en termes d’utilisation de la bande passante et de temps de traitement. Notre méthode d’analyse repose sur la quantification de la signalisation induite par l’authentification IMS. La quantification est effectuée à l’aide d’expérimentations réelles. Sur la base des résultats obtenues, nous pouvons confirmer que notre protocole (1) peut économiser au moins 21,5% du trafic SIP/Cx par rapport à l’IMS-AKA, (2) permet de réduire la consommation de la bande passante de 27% par rapport à l’IMS-AKA, (3) résiste aux attaques atteignant la confidentialité et l’intégrité des données lors d’un enregistrement IMS (validé par AVISPA). Dans notre seconde contribution, nous avons présenté un nouveau modèle, nommé virtual walled-garden, de fourniture de services centré sur l'utilisateur en IMS. Ce modèle de fourniture de service permet d'offrir plus de liberté d'utiliser les services de tout fournisseur de contenu en fonction des besoins et préférences des utilisateurs. De cette manière les trois parties (utilisateur, fournisseurs de services et opérateur IMS) sont satisfaites. Les utilisateurs auront accès à un plus large éventail de services soutenus par l'IMS, les fournisseurs de services peuvent mettre en œuvre un large éventail de services IMS/SIP sans aucun investissement sur la mise en œuvre d'un réseau de cœur IMS ou de sa maintenance. Quant aux opérateurs cette façon de faire constitue une nouvelle forme de partenariat d'affaires avec les fournisseurs de services. Le modèle virtual walled-garden se base sur une fédération d'identité multi niveaux pour prendre en considération plusieurs niveaux de sécurité selon la criticité des applications sollicitées. ABSTRACT : The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) architecture is the key control for next generation networks (NGN). IMS gives network operators the opportunity to extend their services, including voice and multimedia communications and deliver them in new environments with new goals. Its security is paramount, especially authentication. In IMS, authentication is divided into two phases a PS (Packet-Switch) domain-level with the 3GPP-AKA protocol, and a second at IMS level using the IMS-AKA protocol. In our first contribution, we propose a new IMS authentication mechanism that improves the IMS-AKA in terms of security and more efficient in the use of bandwidth and processing time. Based on the results obtained, we can confirm that our protocol can save at least 21.5% of SIP/Cx traffic compared to the IMS-AKA and resists to attack reaching the confidentiality and integrity of data in an IMS registration (validated by AVISPA). In our second contribution, we propose a new Service provisioning model: Virtual Walled-Garden. This new model allows the user accessing all the applications, even the external ones transparently, simulating a walled-garden environment. This model will create a trust link between IMS domain and external services, and will reduce the burden of both end users and SPs through a Single Sign-On (SSO) feature, using identity federation. We also introduce the notion of security level to classify the SPs in a Multi-level model
Identidade digital federada globaliD
Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e TelemáticaO presente texto propõe uma solução para a gestão de identidade digital
online tendo em conta a versatilidade, o anonimato, a privacidade, a
veracidade, a credibilidade e a responsabilidade do utilizador, recorrendo para
isso ao uso do Cartão de Cidadão Electrónico Nacional Português e a outros
meios de autenticação públicos usados diariamente pelos utilizadores. A
dissertação é composta pela apresentação do conceito de identidade e das
suas particularidades, por uma análise aos vários problemas da gestão da
informação pessoal online, uma análise aos vários modelos, mecanismos e
especificações existentes para gerir a identidade digital online (gestão de
identidade digital). Uma solução de gestão de identidade digital baseada no
modelo de identidade federada e associada ao Cartão do Cidadão Electrónico
Nacional Português é apresentada, descrita, analisada, avaliada e comparada
com outras soluções existentes.
Por fim um protótipo de um provedor de identidades digitais federadas
baseado na solução de gestão de identidade digital proposta é apresentado.The following text provides a solution for the digital identity management on the
Web regarding the users’ versatility, anonymity, privacy, veracity,
trustworthiness and accountability by using the Portuguese National Electronic
Citizen Identity Card and other publicly available authentication mechanisms
users use daily. The dissertation consists of the presentation of the concept of
identity and its particularities, an analysis to the several problems of managing
personal information online, and an analysis to the several existing models,
mechanisms and specifications for the management of the digital identity online
(digital identity management). A solution for digital identity management based
on the federated identity model and associated to the Portuguese National
Electronic Citizen Identity Card is introduced, described, analyzed, evaluated
and compared to other several existing solutions. Last, a prototype of a
federated digital identity provider based on the purposed solution for digital
identity management is presented
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