30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06)
An Aspect-Oriented Approach to Security Requirements Analysis
Chicago, Illinois
September 17-September 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2655-1
This paper presents an aspect-oriented approach to integrated elicitation of functional and security requirements based on use case-driven development. We identify security threats with respect to use cases and adopt threat mitigations for preventing or reducing security threats. To capture crosscutting nature of threats and mitigations, we specify them as aspects that encapsulate pointcuts and advice. A threat (mitigation) pointcut is a collection of join points in use cases at which the use cases are threatened (secured); whereas threat/mitigation advice describes how a threat can become an attack (can be mitigated). Eliciting threats and mitigations as aspects provides a structured way for separating functional and security concerns.
Index Terms:
Security requirements, aspect-oriented software development, use case, threats, mitigation.
Citation:
Dianxiang Xu, Vivek Goel, Kendall Nygard, "An Aspect-Oriented Approach to Security Requirements Analysis," compsac, vol. 2, pp.79-82, 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06), 2006