DEFINING VIEWPOINTS FOR SECURITY ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS

David G. Rosado, Carlos Gutiérrez, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Mario Piattini

2006

Abstract

For decades, the security community has undertaken detailed research into specific areas of security, while largely ignoring the design process. Software architecture has emerged as an important sub-discipline of software engineering, particularly in the realm of large system development. This paper describes how security architectural patterns lack of a comprehensive and complete well-structured documentation that conveys essential information of their logical structure, deployment-time, run-time behaviour, monitoring configuration, and so on. Thus we will propose a viewpoints model for describing security architectural patterns. We will investigate security architectural patterns from several IEEE 1471-2000 compliant viewpoints and develop an example that demonstrates how to describe a security architectural pattern with viewpoints. We will make use of well-known language notations such as UML to maximize comprehensibility.

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G. Rosado D., Gutiérrez C., Fernández-Medina E. and Piattini M. (2006). DEFINING VIEWPOINTS FOR SECURITY ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-63-4, pages 419-424. DOI: 10.5220/0002103204190424


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt06,
author={David G. Rosado and Carlos Gutiérrez and Eduardo Fernández-Medina and Mario Piattini},
title={DEFINING VIEWPOINTS FOR SECURITY ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={419-424},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002103204190424},
isbn={978-972-8865-63-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2006)
TI - DEFINING VIEWPOINTS FOR SECURITY ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS
SN - 978-972-8865-63-4
AU - G. Rosado D.
AU - Gutiérrez C.
AU - Fernández-Medina E.
AU - Piattini M.
PY - 2006
SP - 419
EP - 424
DO - 10.5220/0002103204190424