Integrating Security and Software Engineering: An Introduction

Abstract

This chapter serves as an introduction to this book. It introduces software engineer-ing, security engineering, and secure software engineering, providing de?nitions and explanation of terms necessary for readers to understand the subsequent chapters. Characteristics of each of the above areas are presented followed by an overview of the current advances in these areas. Finally, the 10 approaches described in the remaining chapters of the book are brie?y introduced.