Estimating Benefits from Investing in Secure Software Development

July 31, 2013 • White Paper

By

Ashish Arora, Rahul Telang, and Steven Frank

In this paper, the authors discuss the costs and benefits of incorporating security in software development and presents formulas for calculating security costs and security benefits.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Cybersecurity Engineering Software Assurance

Abstract

This article discusses the costs and benefits of incorporating security in software development and presents formulas for calculating security costs and security benefits.