工作流系统中的安全问题

Security Issues in Workflow Management System

随着工作流技术的日趋成熟,今天越来越多的企业开始采用它作为提高企业效率的手段。工作流管理主要用于协调商业过程的执行,这些过程往往涉及到分布的资源。随着企业组织越来越依赖工作流管理系统完成他们的日常工作,如何保护商业秘密成为一个越来越重要的问题。该文介绍了工作流管理系统中所采用的安全体系结构。WoWWW!它充分考虑了工作流管理系统的特点,能够很好地保证信息的秘密性、完整性和可用性。

Nowadays more and more organizations adopt workflow management technology, which deals with the coordinationexecution of business processes, to improve their efficiency. Workflow management often involves distributed resources and as organizations get increasingly dependent on the system to carry on their daily business activities, it becomes an important issue to keep their business secrets. This paper introduces the security architecture used in the workflow management system-WoWWW!. Fully taking the characteristics of workflow management system into account, it works well to keep information secrecy, integrity and availability.