Using I-TRIZ for Computer Security Innovation

The last fifteen years has seen a rise in interest in a body of work called TRIZ (pronounced ―trees‖) comprising a set of tools, methodologies, knowledge bases, and cognitive approaches designed to turn creative and innovative thinking into an algorithmic exercise. Since TRIZ is new to the computer security domain, this paper gives a brief summary of classical TRIZ dating back to 1946 and continues to present day in introducing one of the contemporary derivatives of TRIZ called I-TRIZ. Principal ITRIZ components are discussed and we show how to use I-TRIZ in two problems involving issues in computer security.