Toward an Integrative Model of Application-Software Security

Abstract

Populist approaches to studying information systems security include architectural, infrastructure-related and system-level security. This study focuses on software security implemented and monitored during systems development and implementation stages. Moving away from the past checklist methods of studying software security, this study provides a model that could be used in categorizing checklists into meaningful clusters. Many constructs, such as principle of least privilege, execution monitoring, social engineering and formalism and pragmatism in security implementations, are identified in the model. The identification of useful constructs to study can form the basis of evaluating security in software systems as well as provide guidelines of implementing security in new systems developed.