Policy 2005 Panel

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Policy 2005 Panel
A Roadmap to Policy Research Accomplishments and
Future Challenges
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A Roadmap to Policy Research Accomplishments and
Future Challenges

• Policy-related research has been ongoing for many
  years in both systems management and security.
• The motivation for this work lies in the
  requirement for systems to adapt to events such
  as failures, intrusions or changes of user
  requirements.
• Policies define rules governing changes in the
  behaviour of systems. However, with policies came
  a number of research questions

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A Roadmap to Policy Research Accomplishments and
Future Challenges

• What form should policies take declarative or
  procedural specifications, goals, utility
  functions? Are these forms complementary or
  inherently incompatible?
• How do policies relate to the systems information
  models and business processes?
• Can policies be analysed? What properties can be
  satisfied or guaranteed in a policy-based system?
• Can policies be derived from higher-level
  security and business goals? To what extent?
• How do we engineer and test policy-based systems?
• What role do policies play in network and systems
  management, access control, security management,
  pervasive computing?

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A Roadmap to Policy Research Accomplishments and
Future Challenges

• Solutions have been proposed to some of these
  questions whilst others remain unanswered.
• Panel Scope
• State of the art and accomplishments in
  policy-based research.
• Attempt to identify, motivate and prioritise the
  main challenges that lie ahead a.k.a. A roadmap

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Policy 2005 Panel

• Frank Siebenlist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Ken Moody, University of Cambridge
• Jorge Lobo, IBM Research
• John Strassner, Motorola