Engineering Trustworthy Systems: Get Cybersecurity Design Right the First Time

CHAPTER

19   Engineering Fundamentals

Overview

•   19.1 Systems Engineering Principles

•   19.1.1 Murphy’s Law

•   19.1.2 Margin of Safety

•   19.1.3 Conservation of Energy and Risk

•   19.1.4 Keep It Simple, Stupid

•   19.1.5 Development Process

•   19.1.6 Incremental Development and Agility

•   19.2 Computer Science Principles

•   19.2.1 Modularity and Abstraction

•   19.2.2 Layering

•   19.2.3 Time and Space Complexity: Understanding Scalability

•   19.2.4 Focus on What Matters: Loops and Locality

•   19.2.5 Divide and Conquer and Recursion

Learning Objectives

•   Explain the implications of Murphy’s Law to systems engineering.

•   Define the engineering of a margin of safety and how it relates to uncertainty.

•   Discuss the pseudo-principle ...