SecuRe - An Approach to Recommending Security Design Patterns

IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), pp. 186–189

Abstract

Security is an important quality attribute of software systems. Thus, designing secure architectures is a highly important, yet difficult and complex task. Moreover, there is a huge lack of security architecture experts. To overcome these challenges, we aim to make security design knowledge reusable for architects by proposing SECURE, a recommendation approach to secure software design. It lifts design patterns and knowledge engineering concepts to security-related design recommendations for software architectures. This paper presents the central concepts of this approach, the overall recommendation process, and the first results from an initial case study.

Authors 3

1. Alex R. Sabau Aachen Research Group Software Construction

   RWTH Aachen University

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   Research Group Software Construction RWTH Aachen University,Aachen,Germany

2. Dominik Lammers Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University,Aachen,Germany

3. Horst Lichter Aachen Research Group Software Construction

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Research Group Software Construction RWTH Aachen University,Aachen,Germany