Modeling Network Security: Case Study of Email System

We study operational security in computer network security, including infrastructure, internal processes, resources, information, and physical environment. Current works on developing a security framework focus on a security ontology that contributes to applying common vocabulary, but such an approach does not assist in constructing a foundation for a holistic security methodology. We focus on defining the bounds and creating a representation of a security system by developing a diagrammatic representation (i.e. a model) as a means to describe computer network processes. The model, referred to a thinging machine, is a first step toward developing a security strategy and plan. The general aim is to demonstrate that the representation of the security system plays a key role in making thinking visible through conceptual description of the operational environment, a region in which active security operations are undertaken. We apply the proposed model for email security by conceptually describing a real email system.

@article{Al-Fedaghi2020,
  title     = {Modeling Network Security: Case Study of Email System},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {11},
  number    = {3},
  year      = {2020},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Sabah Al-Fedaghi and Hadeel Alnasser},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110312},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110312}
}