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Adaptive systems improve their efficiency, by modifying their behaviour to respond to changes in their operational environment. Also, security must adapt to these changes and policy enforcement becomes dependent on the dynamic contexts. We extend (the core of) an adaptive functional language with primitives to enforce security policies on the code execution, and we exploit a static analysis to instrument programs. The introduced checks guarantee that no violation of the required security policies occurs.
Work partially supported by the MIUR-PRIN project Security Horizons.
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Bodei, C., Degano, P., Galletta, L., Salvatori, F. (2014). Linguistic Mechanisms for Context-Aware Security. In: Ciobanu, G., Méry, D. (eds) Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2014. ICTAC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8687. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10882-7_5
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