Authors:
Duaa Alkubaisy
1
;
2
;
Luca Piras
3
;
Mohammed Ghazi Al-Obeidallah
4
;
Karl Cox
1
and
Haralambos Mouratidis
1
Affiliations:
1
Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems, University of Brighton, U.K.
;
2
Imam Abdurrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
;
3
School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, U.K.
;
4
School of Computer Sciences and Informatics, Amman Arab University, Jordan
Keyword(s):
Security Requirements, Privacy Requirements, Requirements Conflicts, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Requirements Modelling, Privacy by Design.
Abstract:
Privacy and security requirements, and their potential conflicts, are increasingly having more and more importance. It is becoming a necessary part to be considered, starting from the very early stages of requirements engineering, and in the entire software engineering cycle, for the design of any software system. In the last few years, this has been even more emphasized and required by the law. A relevant example is the case of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires organizations, and their software engineers, to enforce and guarantee privacy-by-design to make their platforms compliant with the regulation. In this context, complex activities related to privacy and security requirements elicitation, analysis, mapping and identification of potential conflicts, and the individuation of their resolution, become crucial. In the literature, there is not available a comprehensive requirement engineering oriented tool for supporting the requirements analyst. In this p
aper, we propose ConfIs, a tool for supporting the analyst in performing a process covering these phases in a systematic and interactive way. We present ConfIs and its process with a realistic example from DEFeND, an EU project aiming at supporting organizations in achieving GDPR compliance. In this context, we evaluated ConfIs by involving privacy/security requirements experts, which recognized our tool and method as supportive, concerning these complex activities.
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