Introducing Abuse Frames for Analysing Security Requirements

  • Authors:
  • Luncheng Lin;Bashar Nuseibeh;Darrel Ince;Michael Jackson;Jonathan Moffett

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RE '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We are developing an approach using Jackson's Problem Frames to analyse security problems in order to determine security vulnerabilities. We introduce the notion of an anti-requirement as the requirement of a malicious user that can subvert an existing requirement. We incorporate anti-requirements into so-called abuse frames to represent the notion of a security threat imposed by malicious users in a particular problem context. We suggest how abuse frames can provide a means for bounding the scope of security problems in order to analyse security threats and derive security requirements.