Green-Aware Security: Towards a new Research Field

Green Security is a new research field aimed at defining and investigating security solutions under an energy-aware perspective. The aim of Green Security is twofold: 1) evaluating the actual security mechanisms both considering the energy costs and the effectiveness; 2) building new security mechanisms by considering energy efficiency from the design phase. In this paper, we first provide a definition of Green-Aware Security and an early manifest. Thus, we investigate some formalism to model Green-Aware Security issues, then we provide a use case showing how it is possible to model the energy consumption of two Intrusion Detection System (IDS) strategies, then we leverage this model to assess the energy leakage due to the late discovery of bad packets. Finally, we discuss an introductory assessment of the energy costs related to security on mobile device, which is a promising research trend for Green-Aware Security.