Agree to Disagree: Security Requirements Are Different, But Mechanisms For Security Adaptation Are Not

Tun, Thein and Bennaceur, Amel (2018). Agree to Disagree: Security Requirements Are Different, But Mechanisms For Security Adaptation Are Not. In: SEAMS ’18: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, ACM, New York, pp. 194–195.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3194133.3194151

Abstract

We describe a dialogue between a proponent and an opponent of the proposition "security is not just another quality attribute in self-adaptive systems". The dialogue is structured in two steps. First, we examine whether security requirements are different from other system-level requirements. Our consensus is that security requirements require specific methods for elicitation, reasoning, and analysis. However, other requirements (such as safety, usability and performance) also require specific techniques. Then, we examine the adaptation mechanisms for security and compare them with other properties. Our consensus is that most adaptation techniques can be applied to maintain security and other requirements alike.

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