ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF SOFTWARE FAILURES ON TRUST ASSUMPTIONS

Qian Feng1 and Robyn Lutz2

ABC Virtual, Inc.1,
Iowa State University and Jet Propulsion Lab2,

rlutz@cs.iastate.edu


Abstract

The contribution of this paper is a technique to assess whether software failures during operational use can invalidate the trust assumptions and, hence, the adequacy of the software security. Use of the technique identified four security-related software requirements for making the system more robust to denial-of-service attacks.