Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique

Rapid changes in mobile computing devices or modern devices such as smartphones, tablets and iPads have encouraged employees to use their personal devices at workplace. Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) phenomenon in an enterprise has become pervasive in demand for business purposes. Most organizations...

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Main Author: Md. Zain, Zamhariah
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling my-utm-ep.811752019-07-24T03:35:11Z Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique 2018-07 Md. Zain, Zamhariah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Rapid changes in mobile computing devices or modern devices such as smartphones, tablets and iPads have encouraged employees to use their personal devices at workplace. Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) phenomenon in an enterprise has become pervasive in demand for business purposes. Most organizations practice BYOD as it offers a wide variety of advantages such as increasing work productivity, reducing cost and giving employee’s satisfaction. Despite that, BYOD practices trigger opportunities and challenges for the enterprise if there have no security policies, regulations and management on personal devices. Common BYOD security threats includes data leakage, exposure to malicious malware and sensitive corporates information. In this study, the Security-based BYOD Risk Assessment Metamodel (Security-based BYODRAM), a high-level knowledge structure was proposed for describing Security-based BYOD Risk Assessment domain. Review on thirty-five existing models which comprises of Risk Assessment and BYOD security models was done to identify the important concepts and semantic. Meta Object Facility (MOF) was the metamodeling language used in developing the metamodel. This study contributes a platform of incorporating and sharing of the Security-based BYOD Risk Assessment knowledge and giving solutions in managing BYOD security breaches. Real BYOD scenarios such as the Ottawa Hospital, privacy risks in enterprise and independent schools in Western Australian were used in demonstrating the semantics of proposed metamodel. 2018-07 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81175/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81175/1/ZamhariahMdZainMFC2018.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:119468 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
Md. Zain, Zamhariah
Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
description Rapid changes in mobile computing devices or modern devices such as smartphones, tablets and iPads have encouraged employees to use their personal devices at workplace. Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) phenomenon in an enterprise has become pervasive in demand for business purposes. Most organizations practice BYOD as it offers a wide variety of advantages such as increasing work productivity, reducing cost and giving employee’s satisfaction. Despite that, BYOD practices trigger opportunities and challenges for the enterprise if there have no security policies, regulations and management on personal devices. Common BYOD security threats includes data leakage, exposure to malicious malware and sensitive corporates information. In this study, the Security-based BYOD Risk Assessment Metamodel (Security-based BYODRAM), a high-level knowledge structure was proposed for describing Security-based BYOD Risk Assessment domain. Review on thirty-five existing models which comprises of Risk Assessment and BYOD security models was done to identify the important concepts and semantic. Meta Object Facility (MOF) was the metamodeling language used in developing the metamodel. This study contributes a platform of incorporating and sharing of the Security-based BYOD Risk Assessment knowledge and giving solutions in managing BYOD security breaches. Real BYOD scenarios such as the Ottawa Hospital, privacy risks in enterprise and independent schools in Western Australian were used in demonstrating the semantics of proposed metamodel.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Md. Zain, Zamhariah
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title Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
title_short Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
title_full Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
title_fullStr Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
title_full_unstemmed Modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
title_sort modelling semantics of security risk assessment for bring your own device using metamodelling technique
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81175/1/ZamhariahMdZainMFC2018.pdf
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