Using Security Patterns to Develop Secure Systems—Ten Years Later

Abstract

The authors describe continuing work on the use of patterns in the development of secure systems. This work started as collaboration among five research centers on three continents and continues with a reduced number of involved researchers. Patterns are applied to all aspects of development, from domain analysis and attack modeling to basic design, and to all aspects of the systems under development, from the database and infrastructure to policies, monitoring, and forensics. The article provides an overview of a method of development involving the full range of patterns and describes recent contributions from some of the research threads being pursued within the collaboration.