SECTINO – Inter-Organizational Workflow Security in E-Government

The focus of the SECTINO project, a co-operation with the University of Innsbruck’s research group "Quality Engineering", is the systematic development and the subsequent realisation of security-critical, system-wide workflows on the basis of web services. This especially concerns the investigation of security requirements on a technical level, the development of a component-based security architecture, as well as the systematic conversion of security-critical business processes on the basis of this reference architecture.

With the SECTINO project a framework is created, which makes it possible to systematically and efficiently convert innovative workflows e.g. in e-Government with a special focus on security aspects.

The highest objective in technical terms is the generation of executable, machine-readable software artefacts for the configuration and extension of security components, derived from abstract requirements.

The SECTINO project will supply the following results:

• A method for the systematic design of security-critical, system-wide workflows using object-oriented modelling techniques
• A reference architecture for the systematic realisation of these workflows
• A prototype generator of artefacts for the configuration of security components on the basis of security requirements

Work is currently underway on prototype implementation.