Towards security effectiveness measurement utilizing risk-based security assurance

Abstract

Systematic and practical approaches to risk-driven operational security evidence help ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of security controls in business-critical applications and services. This paper introduces an enhanced methodology to develop security effectiveness metrics that can be used in connection with correctness assurance of security controls. This methodology is then applied to an example system: a Push E-mail service. The methodology is based on threat and vulnerability analysis, and parallel security requirement and system architecture decomposition.