The spread of software services through the Internet has increased the importance of software security. Security patterns is a tool that helps developers, architects and security specialists utilize security experts’ knowledge and standardize how they respond to security threats. Security patterns contain recurring solutions about security problems. However, there is a possibility that develope...

Software security has become a crucial component of any software system in today’s market. However, the development of secure software is still a maturing process. Software architecture (SA) assessment methods have gained increasing attention in recent years. Most of these evaluation techniques are scenario-based, and thus depend heavily on the quality of the scenarios selected for their evalua...

Software security is an emerging area in software development. More and more vulnerabilities are published and highlight the endangerment of systems. Hence, software designers and programmers are increasingly faced with the need to apply security solutions to software systems. Security patterns are best practices to handle recurring security problems. The abundance of documented security patter...

Expectancy theory is applied to the use of software that secures the testing environment of in-class examinations. This security software prohibits students from viewing unauthorized material during an examination. The empirical study collected 60 student questionnaire responses completed after using the security software. These responses were used to develop measures for a model derived from e...

Software security encompasses the measures taken to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability in software systems. In present-day software development, security is often an afterthought rather than part of the software development life-cycle. In order to reveal potential security flaws before a software system is actually implemented, security aspects should be taken into account start...

W study the question of whether a software vendor should allow users of unlicensed (pirated) copies of a software product to apply security patches. We present a joint model of network software security and software piracy and contrast two policies that a software vendor can enforce: (i) restriction of security patches only to legitimate users or (ii) provision of access to security patches to ...

In this paper we outline a new process model for security engineering. This process model extends object oriented, use case oriented software development by systematic security requirements elicitation and realization. In particular, we integrate the modeling of security requirements, threat and risk analysis on the one hand with the modeling of business processes, use cases and the constructio...

The security of software applications is a major concern, especially for information owners, software developers and users. Increasingly, these stakeholders need to be confident that the software applications being developed are secure and can be trusted when used in the intended environment. However, a problem exists in terms of how to confidently address the security of software applications ...

Software security encompasses all the measures taken to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability in software systems. In present-day software development, security is often just an afterthought rather than part of the software development life-cycle. In order to reveal potential security flaws before a software system is actually implemented, security aspects should be taken into acco...

trend, most systems for designing software also tend to describe positive features. Savvy software practitioners are beginning to think beyond features, touching on emergent properties of software systems such as reliability, security , and performance. This is mostly because experienced customers are beginning to demand secure and reliable software; but in many situations, it's still up to the...