Understanding Effects of Norms and Policies on the Robustness, Liveness, and Resilience of Systems - October 2016

Public Audience
Purpose: To highlight project progress. Information is generally at a higher level which is accessible to the interested public. All information contained in the report (regions 1-3) is a Government Deliverable/CDRL.

PI(s):  Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle, Munindar Singh
Researchers:  Hongying Du, Nirav Ajmeri

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED

• Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration - Norms provide a standard of correctness for collaborative behavior, with respect to which policies of the participants can be evaluated individually or in groups.
• Resilient Architectures - The study of robustness and resilience of systems modeled in terms of norms would provide a basis for understanding resilient social architectures.

PUBLICATIONS

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We are building a model of a software development organization as a basis for studying the effects of norms pertaining to software development, specifically, norms about the adoption of security-enhancing software development tools. In light of our previous work on a normative model of enterprise security practices, this model is about software development organizations with a view to understanding how to improve security practices in software development.