A common criteria based security requirements engineering process for the development of secure information systems

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Mellado;Eduardo Fernández-Medina;Mario Piattini

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Technology Center of the National Social Security Institute, Ministry of Labour and Social Affair, Madrid, Spain;ALARCOS Research Group, Information Systems and Technologies Department, UCLM-Soluziona Research and Development Institute, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071 Ciuda ...;ALARCOS Research Group, Information Systems and Technologies Department, UCLM-Soluziona Research and Development Institute, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071 Ciuda ...

  • Venue:
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In order to develop security critical Information Systems, specifying security quality requirements is vitally important, although it is a very difficult task. Fortunately, there are several security standards, like the Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408), which help us handle security requirements. This article will present a Common Criteria centred and reuse-based process that deals with security requirements at the early stages of software development in a systematic and intuitive way, by providing a security resources repository as well as integrating the Common Criteria into the software lifecycle, so that it unifies the concepts of requirements engineering and security engineering.