A Security Architecture for Web 2.0 Applications
Lieven Desmet, Wouter Joosen, Fabio Massacci, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Pieter Philippaerts, Frank Piessens, Ida Siahaan, Dries Vanoverberghe · IOS Press eBooks · 2009
The problem of supporting the secure execution of potentially malicious third-party applications has received a considerable amount of attention in the past decade. In this paper we describe a security architecture for Web 2.0 applications that supports the flexible integration of a variety of advanced technologies for such secure execution of applications, including run-time monitoring, static verification and proof-carrying code. The architecture also supports the execution of legacy applications that have not been developed to take advantage of our architecture, though it can provide better performance and additional services for applications that are architecture-aware. A prototype of the proposed architecture has been built that offers substantial security benefits compared to standard (state-of-practice) security architectures, even for legacy applications.