SecuRe - An Approach to Recommending Security Design Patterns

Security is an important quality attribute of software systems. Thus, designing secure architectures is a highly important, yet difficult and complex task. Moreover, there is a huge lack of security architecture experts. To overcome these challenges, we aim to make security design knowledge reusable for architects by proposing SecuRe, a recommendation approach to secure software design. It lifts design patterns and knowledge engineering concepts to security-related design recommendations for software architectures. This paper presents the central concepts of this approach, the overall recommendation process, and the first results from an initial case study.