This Open Access book explores the dilemma-like stalemate between security and regulatory
compliance in business processes on the one hand and business continuity and governance on the
other. The growing number of regulations e.g. on information security data protection or
privacy implemented in increasingly digitized businesses can have an obstructive effect on the
automated execution of business processes. Such security-related obstructions can particularly
occur when an access control-based implementation of regulations blocks the execution of
business processes. By handling obstructions security in business processes is supposed to be
improved. For this the book presents a framework that allows the comprehensive analysis
detection and handling of obstructions in a security-sensitive way. Thereby methods based on
common organizational security policies process models and logs are proposed. The Petri
net-based modeling and related semantic and language-based research as well as the analysis of
event data and machine learning methods finally lead to the development of algorithms and
experiments that can detect and resolve obstructions and are reproducible with the provided
software.
