Title
Security Assurance Cases-State Of The Art Of An Emerging Approach
Abstract
Security Assurance Cases (SAC) are a form of structured argumentation used to reason about the security properties of a system. After the successful adoption of assurance cases for safety, SAC are getting significant traction in recent years, especially in safety-critical industries (e.g., automotive), where there is an increasing pressure to be compliant with several security standards and regulations. Accordingly, research in the field of SAC has flourished in the past decade, with different approaches being investigated. In an effort to systematize this active field of research, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of the existing academic studies on SAC. Our review resulted in an in-depth analysis and comparison of 51 papers. Our results indicate that, while there are numerous papers discussing the importance of SAC and their usage scenarios, the literature is still immature with respect to concrete support for practitioners on how to build and maintain a SAC. More importantly, even though some methodologies are available, their validation and tool support is still lacking.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s10664-021-09971-7
EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Security, Assurance cases, Systematic literature review
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1382-3256
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamad Mazen100.34
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer217822.88
Scandariato Riccardo300.34