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2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
Combining Misuse Cases with Attack Trees and Security Activity Models
Krakow, Poland
February 15-February 18
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3965-2
Misuse cases and attack trees have been suggested for security requirements elicitation and threat modeling in software projects. Their use is believed to increase security awareness throughout the software development life cycle. Experiments have identified strengths and weaknesses of both model types. In this paper we present how misuse cases and attack trees can be linked to get a high-level view of the threats towards a system through misuse case diagrams and a more detailed view on each threat through attack trees. Further, we introduce links to security activity descriptions in the form of UML activity graphs. These can be used to describe mitigating security activities for each identified threat. The linking of different models makes most sense when security modeling is supported by tools, and we present the concept of a security repository that is being built to store models and relations such as those presented in this paper.
Index Terms:
security, requirements, threat models, attack tree, misuse case
Citation:
Inger Anne Tøndel, Jostein Jensen, Lillian Røstad, "Combining Misuse Cases with Attack Trees and Security Activity Models," ares, pp.438-445, 2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2010
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