Remembering Security In Systems Design

📄 Project Abstract

How are security requirements included in systems and in which ways can they be included? This project sets out to look into and provide an insight to the best practice(s) for including security requirements in systems design. This has been achieved through extensive literary research to find a survey of practices to include security requirements, in which each method has been identified and analysed. The practices examined range from pre-design issues, such as the use of risk analysis and requirements capture to the use of actual practices for including security in systems design -all with a degree of practicality to the 'real world'. It has been found that two main methods are considered important to the inclusion of security requirements. The first method particular analyses UMLsec as a security modelling technique for including security requirements. Although still under research UMLsec has the potential to become as popular as the industry standard of unified modelling language (U...