Cyber Security Engineering: A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance

Chapter 1. Cyber Security Engineering: Lifecycle Assurance of Systems and Software

with Warren Axelrod and Dan Shoemaker

In This Chapter

• 1.1 Introduction

• 1.2 What Do We Mean by Lifecycle Assurance?

• 1.3 Introducing Principles for Software Assurance

• 1.4 Addressing Lifecycle Assurance

• 1.5 Case Studies Used in This Book

1.1 Introduction

Everything we do these days involves system and software technology: Cars, planes, banks, restaurants, stores, telephones, appliances, and entertainment rely extensively on technology. The operational security of these software-intensive systems depends on the practices and techniques used during their design and development. Many decisions made during acquisition and development have an impact on the ...