Title
Mitigating security threats using tactics and patterns: a controlled experiment.
Abstract
Security Patterns and Architectural Tactics are two well-known techniques for designing secure software systems. There is little or no empirical evidence on their relative effectiveness for security threats mitigation. This study presents MUA (Misuse activities + Patterns), an extension of misuse activities that incorporates patterns, and reports on a controlled comparison of this method that incorporate these techniques for threat mitigation with regard to MAST (Methodology for Applying Security Tactics) which already incorporates tactics. A simple Tsunami Alert System design was analyzed and modified by 40 undergraduate students, and significant difference was found for security threats mitigation (averaging 3.0 for Patterns versus 1.9 for Tactics, in a 1-to-5 scale). This result is contrary to previous results with professional subjects, leading us to believe that novices benefit more of detailed advice than of high-level concepts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2993412.3007552
ECSA Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
Security,Security Patters,Security Tactics,software architecture,software architecture security experiment
Security through obscurity,Security engineering,Software security assurance,Computer science,Computer security,Software system,Security analysis,Security information and event management,Software architecture,Computer security model
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gilberto Pedraza-Garcia1103.60
René Noël215.10
Santiago Matalonga3309.58
Hernán Astudillo426436.77
Eduardo B. Fernandez51653429.84