In the requirement engineering phase, the team members work to get the user requirements, comprehend them and specify them for the next process. There are many models for the requirement engineering phase. There is a need to select the best Requireme...
Security is crucial, especially as software systems become increasingly complex. Both practitioners and researchers advocate for the early integration of security requirements (SR) into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). However, ensuring th...
Context and motivation: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are gaining priority over other systems. The heterogeneity of these systems increases the importance of security. Both the developer and the requirement analyst must consider details of not only t...
An effective network security requirement engineering is needed to help organizations in capturing cost-effective security solutions that protect networks against malicious attacks while meeting the business requirements. The diversity of currently a...
In the digital era, cybersecurity is integral for preserving national security, digital privacy, and social sustainability. This research emphasizes the role of non-functional equirements (NFRs) in developing secure software systems that enhance soci...
Security requirements Engineering (SRE) is an activity conducted during the early stage of the SDLC. SRE involves eliciting, analyzing, and documenting security requirements. Thorough SRE can help software engineers incorporate countermeasures agains...
The rapid development of intelligent connected vehicles has increased the attack surface of vehicles and made the complexity of vehicle systems unprecedented. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) need to accurately represent and identify threats a...
In recent years, the growing importance of data ownership has attracted significant attention, reflecting not only its pivotal role in the evolving data-driven environment but also the complexity of addressing it across diverse contexts. The necessit...
Current blockchain-based cloud (BBC) systems have several security vulnerabilities regarding smart contracts (SC), and several attacks have been reported recently. The SC development lacks standard design processes that follow software lifecycle prin...
With recent advancements of technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing, security of information systems has emerged as a critical issue. This has created a need for elicitation and analysis of the security requirements at an early st...
Different activities, artifacts, and roles can be found in the literature on the agile engineering of secure software (AESS). The purpose of this paper is to consolidate them and thus identify key activities, artifacts, and roles that can be employed...
This paper presents how Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) could be leveraged in order to mitigate security risks at an early stage of system development. Primarily, MBSE was used to manage complex engineering projects in terms of system requireme...
A surge in successful Information Security (IS) breaches targeting Research and Education (R&E) institutions highlights a pressing need for enhanced protection. Addressing this, a consortium of European National Research and Education Network (NR...
While technological advancements and their deep integration in connected and automated vehicles is a central aspect in the evolving trend of automotive industry, they also depict a growing size attack surface for malicious actors: the latter ones typ...
Applying Software Engineering (SE) processes is vital to critical and complex systems including security and networking systems. Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their applications are found in many military and civilian systems which ma...
Zero-trust security architecture reconstructs the trust foundation of access control based on authentication and authorization by continuously authenticating the terminal during the authentication process and not relying solely on geographic location...
The launch vehicle industry has long been considered a pioneering industry in systems engineering. Launch vehicles are large complex systems that require a methodical multi-disciplinary approach to design, build, and launch. Launch vehicles are used...
The development of Smart Grid systems has proven to be a challenging task. Besides the inherent technical complexity, the involvement of different stakeholders from different disciplines is a major challenge. In order to maintain the strict security...
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an autonomous flying robot that has attracted the interest of several communities because of its capacity to increase the safety and productivity of labor. In terms of software engineering, UAV system development i...
Aviation is characterized by many stakeholders, long lifespans of its assets, and high requirements regarding safety, security, and documentation. To meet these requirements as well as customer needs, aircraft are regularly retrofitted with new cabin...
Variability in stream flow/discharge results in serious problems for engineers and difficulties in characterizing water systems under future climatic conditions. The management of water security in the engineering domain requires approaches aimed at...
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has brought about tremendous possibilities, but at the same time, it has opened up new vulnerabilities and attack vectors that could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability...
Often the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a single problem domain, with proposed solutions intended to be applied across a wide range of applications. However, the privacy and security needs of critical engineering infrastructure or sensiti...
The automotive sector is facing challenges in terms of the requirements for guaranteeing the safety and security of cars. In respect of the engineering process, it is challenging to incorporate functional safety, safety of the intended functionality,...
Conventional authentication methods, like simple text-based passwords, have shown vulnerabilities to different types of security attacks. Indeed, 61% of all breaches involve credentials, whether stolen via social engineering or hacked using brute for...
Presented in this paper is the Impact Monitor framework and interactive Dashboard Application (DA) validated through a use case, focusing on investigating the viability and competitiveness of future propulsion architectures for next-generation aircra...
The paper examines intelligent sensor and sensor system development according to the Common Criteria methodology, which is the basic security assurance methodology for IT products and systems. The paper presents how the development process can be sup...
A key requirement for an integrated digital tool chain is secure access and control of data assets. Not all stakeholders will have the same access to or control over the flow of information, some will be able to input or change data whilst others wil...
Cassava is a very important food crop that is capable of providing food security. However, a lot of problems prevent the development and use of modern equipment for its production. Most of the cassava produced still comes from peasant farmers who dep...
Usable security involves designing security measures that accommodate users’ needs and behaviors. Balancing usability and security poses challenges: the more secure the systems, the less usable they will be. On the contrary, more usable systems...
Log files are essential assets for IT engineers engaged in the security of server and computer systems. They provide crucial information for identifying malicious events, conducting cybersecurity incident analyses, performing audits, system maintenan...
Computing the determinant of large matrix is a time-consuming task, which is appearing more and more widely in science and engineering problems in the era of big data. Fortunately, cloud computing can provide large storage and computation resources,...
The development of chemical industrial parks has resulted in the accumulation of a significant amount of hazardous substances, thereby increasing the demand for enhanced firefighting security, which directly relates to fire stations. This article pre...
The penetration test has many repetitive operations and requires advanced expert knowledge, therefore, the manual penetration test is inefficient. With the development of reinforcement learning, the intelligent penetration test has been a research ho...
As industries in various sectors increasingly adopt model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for system lifecycle design and development, engineers can manage and describe systems of higher complexity than ever before. This is especially true for the f...
The increasing complexity and connectivity of automotive systems have raised concerns about their vulnerability to security breaches. As a result, the integration of formal methods and validation techniques has become crucial in ensuring the security...
The judgment of tunnel personnel’s safety status mainly requires the collection of construction personnel’s physical signs and cave environment data, and the early warning of abnormal status usually requires professional staff to make rap...
Social engineering is one of the most inventive methods of gaining unauthorized access to information systems and obtaining sensitive information. This type of cybersecurity threat requires minimal technical knowledge because it relies on the organiz...
Designing smart building IoT applications is a complex task. It requires efficiently integrating a broad number of heterogeneous, low-resource devices that adopt lightweight strategies. IoT frameworks, especially if they are standard-based, may help...
It is a well known fact that the weakest link in a cyber secure system is the people who configure, manage or use it. Security breaches are persistently being attributed to human error. Social engineered based attacks are becoming more sophisticated...
Currently, abnormality detection and/or prediction is a very hot topic. In this paper, we addressed it in the frame of activity monitoring of a human in bed. This paper presents a comprehensive formulation of a requirements engineering dossier for a...
The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduces a complex set of binding lifecycle security obligations, presenting a significant compliance challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. This study addresses this challenge by...
A smart contract is the algorithmic description of a contractual transaction protocol that is automatically executed together with the information provided by its parties. It is written in a simplified programming language that is specific to a parti...
The growing use of the internet has resulted in an exponential rise in the use of web applications. Businesses, industries, financial and educational institutions, and the general populace depend on web applications. This mammoth rise in their usage...
The pandemic forced educators to shift abruptly to distance learning, also referred to as e-learning education. Educational institutions integrated new educational tools and online platforms. Several schools, colleges, and universities began incorpor...
Blockchain technology has recently inspired remarkable attention due to its unique features, such as privacy, accountability, immutability, and anonymity, to name of the few. In contrast, core functionalities of most Internet of Things (IoT) resource...
Information technology equipment (ITE) processing sensitive information can have its security compromised by unintentional electromagnetic radiation. Appropriately assessing likelihood of a potential compromise relies on radio frequency (RF) engineer...
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has transformed how individuals work and learn and how they can apply cyber-security requirements in their, mostly remote, environments. This transformation also affected the university student pop...
SRAM-based FPGA(Field Programmable Logic Arrays) requires external memory since its internal memory gets erased when power is cut off. The process of transmitting the circuit netlist in bitstream from external memory during power-up in FPGA is vulner...
Smart building applications require robust security measures to ensure system functionality, privacy, and security. To this end, this paper proposes a Federated Learning Intrusion Detection System (FL-IDS) composed of two convolutional neural network...
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