Title: Security policy specification for home network

Authors: Geon Woo Kim, Deok Gyu Lee, Jong Wook Han, Sang Wook Kim

Addresses: Information Security Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea. ' Information Security Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea. ' Information Security Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea. ' School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Abstract: As home network is expanding into ubiquitous computing environment and numerous home network services are available, we need to protect home network system from illegal accesses and a variety of threats. Home network is exposed to various cyber attacks of internet, involving hacking, malicious codes, worms, viruses, DoS attacks, and eavesdropping since it is connected to internet. So in this paper, we propose a new specification for security policy on home network for guaranteeing reliability and availability including authentication, authorisation and security policy deployment.

Keywords: home networks; security policies; xHDL; extensible home security description language; security policy specification; authentication; authorisation; access control; ubiquitous computing; cyber attacks; reliability; availability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2009.028665

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009 Vol.4 No.6, pp.372 - 378

Published online: 22 Sep 2009 *

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