For quite some time, in systems and software design, security only came as a second
thought or even as a nice-to-have add-on. However, since the breakthrough of the Internet …

When trying to incorporate security into a program, software developers face either too much
theoretical information that they cannot apply or exhaustive and discouraging …

The importance of software security has been profound, since most attacks to software
systems are based on vulnerabilities caused by poorly designed and developed software …

In order to develop trustworthy information systems, security aspects should be considered
from the early project stages. This is particularly true for authorization and access control …

Driven by expanding scientific computing and business enterprise needs, the last decade
has seen a shift toward software paradigms in which distribution plays a central role. The …

Software security is an emerging area in software development. More and more
vulnerabilities are published and highlight the endangerment of systems. Hence, software …

Voice over IP (VoIP) has had a strong effect on global communications by allowing human
voice and fax information to travel over existing packet data networks along with traditional …

This paper presents an emerging tool for security configuration of service-oriented
architectures with Web Services. Security is a major concern when implementing mission …

Security pattern-based system and software engineering (PBSE) approaches aim at building
secure software and systems by capturing and reusing artifacts that encapsulate security …

There is a huge disconnect between security professionals and systems developers.
Security professionals are primarily concerned with the security of a system, while …