A Knowledge Based Process Proposal for Mobile Security

Mobile applications are an emerging area in software development. Having a wide and heterogeneous users community as a target implies a special focus on technical requirements. In this paper, we are concerned with the handling of a relevant non functional requirement which is security. During the building process, the software developer should be assisted for security assessment. We present in this paper, a security ontology based support for mobile software developer. The ontology is structured in sub-ontologies, each one deals with a set of concepts. Relevant security concepts and semantic relationships with additional non functional requirements are handled and presented in our conceptualization. The ontology is implemented with OWL-DL.