Here's Johnny: a methodology for developing attacker personas.

Atzeni, Andrea; Cameroni, Cesare; Faily, Shamal; Lyle, John; Fléchais, Ivan

Abstract

The adversarial element is an intrinsic part of the design of secure systems, but our assumptions about attackers and threat is often limited or stereotypical. Although there has been previous work on applying User-Centered Design on Persona development to build personas for possible attackers, such work is only speculative and fails to build upon recent research. This paper presents an approach for developing Attacker Personas which is both grounded and validated by structured data about attackers. We describe a case study example where the personas were developed and used to support the development of a Context of Use description for the EU FP7 webinos project.

Citation

ATZENI, A., CAMERONI, C., FAILY, S., LYLE, J. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2011. Here's Johnny: a methodology for developing attacker personas. In Proceedings of the 6th International conference on availability, reliability and security (ARES 2011), 22-26 Aug 2011, Vienna, Austria. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 722-727. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ARES.2011.115

• Conference Name: 6th International conference on availability, reliability and security (ARES 2011)
• Conference Location: Vienna, Austria
• Start Date: Aug 22, 2011
• End Date: Aug 26, 2011
• Acceptance Date: Aug 22, 2011
• Online Publication Date: Oct 17, 2011
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 19, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 8, 2021
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Pages: 722-727
• ISBN: 9781457709791
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ares.2011.115
• Keywords: User personas; Systems security; Security risk analysis; Attack tree; Hacking; Penetration testing; Toulmin model; Software engineering
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1437195