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Identifying Security Requirements Using the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method - Integrating Security and Software Engineering

Book Chapter
In this book chapter, Nancy Mead describes the SQUARE method, which can be used to elicit, analyze, and document security requirements for software systems.
Publisher

IGI Global

ISBN
978-1599041476

Abstract

In this chapter, we describe general issues in developing security requirements, methods that have been useful, and a method (SQUARE) that can be used for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting security requirements for software systems. SQUARE, which was developed by the CERT Program at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, provides a systematic approach to security requirements engineering. SQUARE has been used on a number of client projects by Carnegie Mellon student teams, prototype tools have been developed, and research is ongoing to improve this promising method.