An Approach to Security Requirements Engineering for a High Assurance System
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Authors
Irvine, Cynthia E.
Levin, Timothy E.
Wilson, J. D.
Shifflett, D.
Pereira, B.
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security
requirements
assurance
threat
specification
engineering
requirements
assurance
threat
specification
engineering
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2002-07-02
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Requirements Engineering Journal
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Requirements specifications for high assurance secure systems are rare in the open literature. This paper examines the development of a requirements document for a multilevel secure system that must meet stringent assurance and evaluation requirements. The system is designed to be secure, yet combines popular commercial components with specialized high assurance ones. Functional and non-functional requirements pertinent to security are discussed. A multi-dimensional threat model is presented. The threat model accounts for the developmental and operational phases of system evolution and for each phase accounts for both physical and non-physical threats. We describe our team-based method for developing a requirements document and relate that process to techniques in requirements engineering. The system requirements document presented provides a calibration point for future security requirements engineering techniques intended to meet both functional and assurance goals.
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Requirements Engineering Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 192-206, 18 December 2002
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.