The ReqSec project
ReqSec = Requirements for Security
Financing and administrative info
ReqSec is a project financed by The Norwegian Research Council (NFR) under the program FRITEK, for the period 2009-2012. The project is a collaboration between the University of Bergen, represented by Prof. Andreas L. Opdahl and PhD fellow Christian Raspotnig, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), represented by Prof. Guttorm Sindre (project manager) and post-doctoral fellow Peter Karpati.
For more information about the project, contact guttorm.sindre at idi.ntnu.no.
Project summary
ReqSec is a basic research project which will develop and evaluate
methodology and tool support for security requirements engineering,
integrated with mainstream software development methods. The main
features of the contribution will be as follows:
- The methodology
shall be lightweight, meant to be used primarily by mainstream
software developers rather than by security experts.
- The methodology
shall be integrated with popular methodologies for software
development in general, so that security requirements can be
considered in the normal run of development activities rather than as
a separate activity on the side.
- Tools delivered in the project will
not be developed from scratch but rather as add-ons to existing
modeling and requirements management tools. This makes it more
realistic to achieve industry-strength functionality and usability
within a limited budget, and also ensures that tools will be
applicable in a larger development context.
- Thorough evaluations
(e.g., experiments, case studies) shall ensure that the methodology
provides empirically founded advice on when and how to apply various
techniques and tools.
The project is planned for 4 years from January
2009 and funds one PhD position and 1 post-doc positions for the
entire duration of the project. The project leader is Professor Guttorm Sindre at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and the other
senior participant is Professor Andreas L. Opdahl at the University of
Bergen (UiB), co-authors of some much cited publications on techniques
for eliciting security requirements.
Click here to see the entire project plan.
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