Agile software development methodology and DevOps, together, have helped the business
to achieve agility and velocity in delivering time-to-market applications and services. Open …

Security has become an important topic for many software systems. Security patterns are
reusable solutions to security problems. Although many security patterns and techniques for …

We are developing a methodology to build secure software for complex applications and its
related support. This methodology considers the whole software lifecycle, uses security …

Rapid technological advances in recent years have precipitated a general shift towards
software distribution as a central computing paradigm. This has been accompanied by a …

In previous work we introduced an approach for finding security requirements based on
misuse activities (actions). This method starts from the activity diagram of a use case (or a …

A pattern is an encapsulated solution to a problem in a given context that can be used to
guide system design and evaluation. Analysis, design and architectural patterns are …

Security patterns are now starting to be accepted by industry. Security patterns are useful to
guide the security design of systems by providing generic solutions that can stop a variety of …

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 a classification for security patterns that addresses the needs of users.
The approach uses a matrix defined by dividing the problem space along multiple …

Architectural tactics are decisions to efficiently solve quality attributes in software
architecture. Security is a complex quality property due to its strong dependence on the …