The Danger Within: Insider Threat Modeling Using Business Process Models
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Threat modeling has been successfully applied to model technical threats within information systems. However, a lack of methods focusing on non-technical assets and their representation can be observed in theory and practice. Following the voices of industry practitioners, this paper explored how to model insider threats based on business process models. Hence, this study developed a novel insider threat knowledge base and a threat modeling application that leverages Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN). Finally, to understand how well the theoretic knowledge and its prototype translate into practice, the study conducted a real-world case study of an IT provider's business process and an experimental deployment for a real voting process. The results indicate that even without annotation, BPMN diagrams can be leveraged to automatically identify insider threats in an organization.
Institution: University of Zurich
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402811955