Despite the correct deployment of access control mechanisms, information leaks can persist and undermine the compliance of workflows to regulations and policies. This paper proposes InDico, a framework for the automated detection of information leaks in workflow models based on static information flow analysis. InDico identifies leaks induced by the structure of the workflow, i.e. its control flow. To this end, it translates workflow models, e.g. in BPEL or BPMN, into Petri nets and conducts the static information flow analysis. Examples demonstrate the applicability and the kinds of information leaks InDico currently detects.
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