A Threatmodel for Trust-based Systems Consisting of Open, Heterogeneous and Distributed Agents

Jan Kantert, Lukas Klejnowski, Sarah Edenhofer, Sven Tomforde, Christian Müller-Schloer

2016

Abstract

Information and communication technology witnesses a raise of open, distributed systems that consist of various heterogeneous elements. Within such an environment, individual elements have to efficiently fulfil their goals, which may require cooperation with others. As a consequence, a variety of threats appears that need to be handled and circumvented in the entity’s behaviour. One major technical approach to provide a working environment for such systems is to introduce technical trust. In this paper, we present a basic threat model that comprises the most important challenges in this context – related to the basic system and the trust management, respectively. In order to illustrate the particular hazardous aspects, we discuss a Desktop Computing Grid application as scenario.

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Kantert J., Klejnowski L., Edenhofer S., Tomforde S. and Müller-Schloer C. (2016). A Threatmodel for Trust-based Systems Consisting of Open, Heterogeneous and Distributed Agents . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-172-4, pages 173-180. DOI: 10.5220/0005696801730180


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@conference{icaart16,
author={Jan Kantert and Lukas Klejnowski and Sarah Edenhofer and Sven Tomforde and Christian Müller-Schloer},
title={A Threatmodel for Trust-based Systems Consisting of Open, Heterogeneous and Distributed Agents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2016},
pages={173-180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005696801730180},
isbn={978-989-758-172-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A Threatmodel for Trust-based Systems Consisting of Open, Heterogeneous and Distributed Agents
SN - 978-989-758-172-4
AU - Kantert J.
AU - Klejnowski L.
AU - Edenhofer S.
AU - Tomforde S.
AU - Müller-Schloer C.
PY - 2016
SP - 173
EP - 180
DO - 10.5220/0005696801730180