Abstract
Architectural threat analysis has become an important cornerstone for organizations concerned with developing secure software. Due to the large number of existing techniques it is becoming more challenging for practitioners to select an appropriate threat analysis technique. Therefore, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of the existing techniques for threat analysis. In our study we compare 26 methodologies for what concerns their applicability, characteristics of the required input for analysis, characteristics of analysis procedure, characteristics of analysis outcomes and ease of adoption. We also provide insight into the obstacles for adopting the existing approaches and discuss the current state of their adoption in software engineering trends (e.g. Agile, DevOps, etc.). As a summary of our findings we have observed that: the analysis procedure is not precisely defined, there is a lack of quality assurance of analysis outcomes and tool support and validation are limited.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 275-294 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Systems and Software |
| Volume | 144 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was partially supported by the Swedish VINNOVA FFI project “HoliSec: Holistic Approach to Improve Data Security”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Risk assessment
- Security-by-design
- Software systems
- Systematic literature review (SLR)
- Threat analysis (modeling)