A Six-View Perspective Framework for System Security: Issues, Risks, and Requirements

  • Authors:
  • Surya B. Yadav

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas Tech University, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

To secure information systems, the security risks and requirements must be clearly understood before the proper security mechanisms can be identified and designed. Today脙¢â聜卢TMs security requirement specifications are generally incomplete and narrowly focused, which leads to ineffective security designs of information systems. The author asserts that multiple views脙¢â聜卢"management, threat, resource, process, assessment, and legal脙¢â聜卢"of information systems provides an opportunity for a better understanding of security risks and requirements. In this paper, the author proposes a six-view perspective of a system security framework to identify a more complete set of security risks and requirements. The proposed framework presents a synergistic view of the system security in which the author presents an extensive list of heuristics/guidelines under each view, discussing security issues, risks, and requirements. Through a case study, the authors shows that a multiple view perspective of system security is effective in determining a more complete set of security requirements than the traditional approach of focusing on threats alone.