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Science & Technology, Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Theory & Methods, Computer Science, security, software architecture, requirements, patterns, REQUIREMENTS, FRAMEWORK

Abstract:

The feedback from architectural decisions to the elaboration of requirements is an established concept in the software engineering community. However, pinpointing the nature of this feedback in a precise way is a largely open problem. Often, the feedback is generically characterized as additional qualities that might be affected by an architect’s choice. This paper provides a practical perspective on this problem by leveraging architectural security patterns. The contribution of this paper is the Security Twin Peaks model, which serves as an operational framework to co-develop security in the requirements and the architectural artifacts.