Secure business process management: a roadmap

The security of corporate business processes is crucial for the business success of companies. Existing business process management methodologies barely consider security and dependability objectives. Business processes and security issues are developed separately and often do not follow the same strategy. Growing business integration and legal requirements raise the need for secure business processes as security problems negatively affect profit and reputation of companies and their stakeholders. In this paper we summarize the state of the art of business process management and security and identify shortcomings of existing approaches. Based on that we identify research challenges and present a roadmap for secure business process management (SBPM) that allows an integrated view on business process management and security. This approach provides top management in process oriented enterprises with a stepwise methodology for the parallel and continuous development and improvement of business processes along with security issues over the whole business process life cycle.