Title :
Analysing Requirements to Detect Latent Security Vulnerabilities
Author :
Busby Earle, Curtis C. R. ; France, Robert B. ; Ray, I.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
fDate :
June 30 2014-July 2 2014
Abstract :
To fully embrace the challenge of securing software, security concerns must be considered at the earliest stages of software development. Studies have shown that this reduces the time, cost and effort required to integrate security features into software during development. In this paper we describe a technique for uncovering potential vulnerabilities through an analysis of software requirements and describe its use using a small, motivating example.
Keywords :
security of data; software engineering; latent security vulnerabilities detection; security features; software development; software requirements; software security; Context; Educational institutions; Natural languages; Object recognition; Ontologies; Security; Software; Loophole Analysis; Requirements; Security; Vulnerabilities;
Conference_Titel :
Software Security and Reliability-Companion (SERE-C), 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1109/SERE-C.2014.35