Software security risk mitigation using object oriented design patterns

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SOFTWARE SECURITY RISK MITIGATION USING OBJECT
ORIENTED DESIGN PATTERNS
RehmanS1
,Mustafa.K2
DepartmentofInformationTechnology,SalmanbinAbdulAzizUniversity,KSA,shabana.infosec@gmail.com
Department of Computer Science,Jamia Millia Islamia, India, kmustafa@jmi.ac.in
Abstract
It is now well known that requirement and the design phase of software development lifecycle are the phases where security
incorporation yields maximum benefits.In this paper, we have tried to tie security requirements, security features and security design
patterns together in a single string. It is complete process that will help a designer to choose the most appropriate security design
pattern depending on the security requirements. The process includes risk analysis methodology at the design phase of the software
that is based on the common criteria requirement as it is a wellknown security standard that is generally used in the development of
security requirements. Risk mitigation mechanisms are proposed in the form of security design patterns. Exhaustive list of most
reliable and well proven security design patterns is prepared and their categorization is done on the basis of attributes like data
sensitivity, sector, number of users etc. Identified patterns are divided into three levels of security. After the selection of security
requirement, the software designer can calculate the percentage of security features contribution and on the basis of this percentage;
design pattern level can be selected and applied.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Mainly software systems are developed without security
requirements in mind, which happen because developers
usually tend to concentrate their efforts in first understanding
systems functional requirements, non-function ones, like
security, on a second plan [Ferraz et al., 2009]. Number of
approaches of security incorporation in software development
life cycle had been proposed, some of the well-known
approaches includes UMLsec [Jurjens,2004]; CORAS
[Braber, 2003]; CLASP [Chandra, 2006];
SecureTropos[Mouratidis, 2007] ;Goal-Risk [Ansar et al.,
2007] etc. But there is no standard method that is reliable,
well defined and based on security features and design
patterns. Still there is significant need to develop a risk
estimation method in the design phase of the software that can
estimate the need of security feature and guide the designer to
choose appropriate security design pattern accordingly.
In this paper CC (Common Criteria) security requirements
[Common Criteria, 2008] is taken as a reference model and its
all 64 classes (software specific) are accumulated in six basic
security feature classes which include 1).Authentication;
2).Authorization; 3). Audit and Logging; 4).Secured Storage;
5). Secure Information Flow and 6). Secure Session
Management. The percentage of contribution of each security
feature is calculated on the basis of common keywords in the
CC security requirement class and the security feature class
definition. Further the weightage of each requirement is
calculated on the basis of availability of security feature under
each class of security requirement. The risk factor of each
security feature is calculated on the basis of their occurrence
in the requirements and the severity of the feature and finally
mitigation level is proposed according to the risk factor of
each security feature. Each risk mitigation level consist of
various design patterns that are classified on the basis of
attributes like data sensitivity, number of users involved etc.
Rest of the paper is organized as follows, in section 2,
Common Criteria requirements are discussed. In section 3,
security feature class is explained followed by section 4, in
which relationship of common criteria security requirements
and security features is covered. Risk analysis of security
features is presented in section 5.Section 6 covers the risk
mitigation through design patterns and case study is carried
out in section 7 followed by conclusion and future work in
section 8.
2.0 CC STANDARD AND SECURITY FEATURE
CLASS
The Common Criteria (CC) is an internationally recognized
approach to security evaluation of IT products. It provides a
set of criteria, which can be used to set security requirements
of IT products. These requirements serve as a guide for the
development, procurement and evaluation of IT security
features and products [NATO, 2008]. The CC permits
comparability between the results of independent security
evaluations. The CC does so by providing a common set of
requirements for the security functionality of IT products and
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security evaluation. These IT products may be implemented in
hardware, firmware or software. [Common Criteria, part 2].
There are total 65 class of security requirement in common
criteria. After exhaustive review of these requirements, it was
found that out of 65, 64 requirements are applicable to
software. The class that is left out is ‘15.6 TSF physical
protection (FPT_PHP)’, as this class is applicable to the
hardware and firmware security only. The reason of choosing
common criteria standard is that it is well proven that it has a
potential to relate ‘Taxonomy of vulnerabilities’ and can be
used in the risk estimation and mitigation.According to
[Malboeuf, et al. 2004, December] the CC has the potential to
relate to the following:
1) Structured terminology of controls;
2) Qualitative description of safeguards;
3) System architecture model;
4) Applicable threat model, including threat agent attributes
(motivation, capability, opportunity, etc…) and threat
scenarios;
5) Taxonomy of relevant vulnerabilities;
6) Classification scheme / sensitivity analysis of information
assets;
7) Impact analysis of information assets, with respect to
confidentiality, integrity and vailability scenarios, and
possibly mode of access;
8) Risk derivation model, the functional relation between risk
and any of the above parameters;
9) Risk mitigation model linking safeguards and controls to
threat scenarios; and
10)Risk acceptance of system operations is assessed based on
CC evaluation results of security components of a system.
In our approach, the common criteria requirement will be used
in the risk analysis of object oriented design and relationship
is created with security feaures classes.
Taxonomy of security features to classify vulnerabilities is
already developed [Rehman and Mutafa, 2010]. Here same
taxonomy of security feature is adapted to perform risk
analysis on security requirements. Due to complexity of
access control at database storage, secured storage was
excluded from the taxonomy, but as accurate risk analysis
cannot be performed without the consideration of secured
storage, the inclusion of this class is necessary. The first level
software vulnerability taxonomy is shown in figure 2.1.The
whole process of taxonomy creation is explained in [Rehman
and Mutafa, 2011].
Figure 2.1: First level hierarchy of security features at
architectural design level
3. RELATING CC REQUIREMENTS AND
SECURITY FEATURE
There are 64 security requirements class of Common Criteria
that are applicable to software. In order to measure security
feature class risk factor, the common criteria requirement
needs to be expressed in terms of security feature classes. The
first steps towards it includes the availability of each ‘security
feature class’ in each ‘CC requirement security class
definition’. To achieve this, common keywords were
identified from security feature of each class and the
description of each CC security requirement class. The table
3.1 is the list of keywords used to relate CC security
requirement class and vulnerability class.
Table 3.1 List of keywords in vulnerability class
S. No. Vulnerability Classes Common Keywords
1. Authentication Authentication; Non Repudiation; User Attribute; Specification of
Secrets; Data Identification; User-Subject Binding; Event
Selection
Secured
Storage
Access Control at
Storage Level

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2. Authorization Authorization; Authorized users; Access control; Data
Identification, Non Repudiation; Rollback; User attribute;
Specification of Secrets; User-Subject Binding; Management of
Functions Security Attributes and Data; Priority of Service; Event
Selection ; Integrity, Availability, Confidentiality of data
3. Audit and Logging Audit; Logging; Rollback; Non Repudiation; Fail Secure;
Authentication Failure; Fault tolerance
4. Secured Data Storage Data storage; Residual; Rollback; Management of data;
Revocation; Availability of data
5. Secure Information
Flow
Information Flow; Data Export; Data Import; Data Transfer;
Data Consistency; Confidentiality and integrity of Data
6. Secure Session
Management
Session Management; Replay Detection; State Synchronization;
Data Consistency; Availability of Data
The availability matrix of vulnerability class and the CC
security requirement class is shown in table 3.2. Similar
approach of availability matrix is created in [Berghe,et al,
2010]. The value ‘1’ is assigned when CC security
requirement and security class have more than one common
keyword and value ‘0’ is assigned when no keyword matches
between the two, for example CC class ‘Security Audit
Automatic Response (FAU_ARP)’ and security feature class
‘Audit and logging’ have more than one word in common like
audit, logging, response. This makes the value of security
audit automatic requirement, under audit and logging class
equals to ‘1’ all the other values in first row remains ‘0’.
Table 3.2 Availability matrix of vulnerability class and the CC security requirement class
S.No. Requirement Classes Authen
-
ticatio
n
(Au)
Autho
ri-
zation
(Ao)
Audit
and
Loggi
ng
(At)
Secured
Storage
(S)
Secur
e
Infor
m-
ation
Flow
(If)
Secure
Session
manage
ment
(Ss)
Tota
l
Max
=6
1. 8.1 Security audit automatic
response (FAU_ARP)
0 0 1 0 0 0 1
2. 8.2 Security audit data generation
(FAU_GEN)
0 1 1 0 0 0 2
3. 8.3 Security audit analysis
(FAU_SAA)
0 1 1 0 0 0 2
4. 8.4 Security audit review
(FAU_SAR)
0 1 1 0 0 0 2
5. 8.5 Security audit event selection
(FAU_SEL)
0 1 1 0 0 0 2
6. 8.6 Security audit event storage
(FAU_STG)
0 1 1 1 0 0 3
7. 9.1 Non-repudiation of origin
(FCO_NRO)
1 1 1 0 0 0 3
8. 9.2 Non-repudiation of receipt
(FCO_NRR)
1 1 1 0 0 0 3
9. 10.1 Cryptographic key
management (FCS_CKM)
0 1 0 1 1 0 3
10. 10.2 Cryptographic operation
(FCS_COP)
0 0 0 0 1 0 2
11. 11.1 Access control policy
(FDP_ACC)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2

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12. 11.2 Access control functions
(FDP_ACF)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
13. 11.3 Data authentication
(FDP_DAU)
1 0 0 1 0 0 2
14. 11.4 Export from the TOE
(FDP_ETC)
1 0 0 0 1 0 2
15. 11.5 Information flow control
policy (FDP_IFC)
1 0 0 0 1 1 3
16. 11.6 Information flow control
functions (FDP_IFF)
1 0 0 0 1 1 3
17. 11.7 Import from outside of the
TOE (FDP_ITC)
1 1 0 0 1 0 3
18. 11.8 Internal TOE transfer
(FDP_ITT)
1 1 0 0 1 0 3
19. 11.9 Residual information
protection (FDP_RIP)
1 1 0 1 0 0 3
20. 11.10 Rollback (FDP_ROL) 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
21. 11.11 Stored data integrity
(FDP_SDI)
0 1 1 1 0 0 3
22. 11.12 Inter-TSF user data
confidentiality transfer protection
(FDP_UCT)
0 1 0 0 1 0 2
23. 11.13 Inter-TSF user data integrity
transfer protection (FDP_UIT)
0 1 0 0 1 0 2
24. 12.1 Authentication failures
(FIA_AFL)
1 0 1 1 0 0 3
25. 12.2 User attribute definition
(FIA_ATD)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
26. 12.3 Specification of secrets
(FIA_SOS)
1 1 0 1 0 0 3
27. 12.4 User authentication
(FIA_UAU)
1 0 0 1 0 0 2
28. 12.5 User identification (FIA_UID) 1 1 0 1 0 0 3
29. 12.6 User-subject binding
(FIA_USB)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
30. 13.1 Management of functions in
TSF (FMT_MOF)
1 1 0 1 0 0 3
31. 13.2 Management of security
attributes (FMT_MSA)
1 1 0 1 0 0 3
32. 13.3 Management of TSF data
(FMT_MTD)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
33. 13.4 Revocation (FMT_REV) 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
34. 13.5 Security attribute expiration
(FMT_SAE)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
35. 13.6 Specification of Management
Functions (FMT_SMF)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
36. 13.7 Security management roles
(FMT_SMR)
1 1 0 0 0 0 2
37. 14.1 Anonymity (FPR_ANO) 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
38. 14.2 Pseudonymity (FPR_PSE) 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
39. 14.3 Unlinkability (FPR_UNL) 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
40. 14.4 Unobservability (FPR_UNO) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
41. 15.1 Fail secure (FPT_FLS) 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
42. 15.2 Availability of exported TSF
data (FPT_ITA)
0 1 0 1 1 0 3
43. 15.3 Confidentiality of exported
TSF data (FPT_ITC)
0 1 1 0 1 0 3
44. 15.4 Integrity of exported TSF data
(FPT_ITI)
0 1 1 0 1 0 3
45. 15.5 Internal TOE TSF data
transfer (FPT_ITT)
0 1 1 0 1 0 3
46. 15.6 TSF physical protection
(FPT_PHP)
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
47. 15.7 Trusted recovery (FPT_RCV) 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
48. 15.8 Replay Detection (FPT_RPL) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
49. 15.9 State Synchrony Protocol
(FPT_SSP)
0 0 0 0 1 1 2

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50. 15.10 Time stamps (FPT_STM) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
51. 15.11 Inter-TSF TSF data
consistency (FPT_TDC)
0 0 0 1 1 1 3
52. 15.12 Testing of external entities
(FPT_TEE)
1 1 1 0 0 0 3
53. 15.13 Internal TOE TSF data
replication consistency (FPT_TRC)
0 0 1 1 0 0 2
54. 15.14 TSF self test (FPT_TST) 1 1 0 1 0 0 3
55. 16.1 Fault tolerance (FRU_FLT) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
56. 16.2 Priority of service (FRU_PRS) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
57. 16.3 Resource allocation
(FRU_RSA)
0 1 0 0 0 0 1
58. 17.1 Limitation on scope of
selectable attributes (FTA_LSA)
0 1 0 0 0 0 1
59. 17.2 Limitation on multiple
concurrent sessions (FTA_MCS)
0 1 0 0 1 1 3
60. 17.3 Session locking and
termination (FTA_SSL)
0 1 0 0 0 1 2
61. 17.4 TOE access banners
(FTA_TAB)
0 1 0 0 0 0 1
62. 17.5 TOE access history
(FTA_TAH)
0 1 1 1 0 0 3
63. 17.6 TOE session establishment
(FTA_TSE)
0 1 0 0 0 1 2
64. 18.1 Inter-TSF trusted channel
(FTP_ITC)
0 0 0 0 1 0 1
65. 18.2 Trusted path (FTP_TRP) 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Total 27 46 21 18 20 9
Total number of security requirements classes under common
criteria are 64, one class i.e. ‘15.6 TSF physical protection
(FPT_PHP)’ is not applicable in the case of software.
Therefore total 64 classes are considered. As total number of
security feature classes are 6, therefore total number of
possible values are 384.Out of which total number of ones in
the matrix are 141.Now in order to find out weightage of each
security Feature in terms of its availability in the security
requirements, the values of Sac (Security Feature Contribution
percentage) can be calculated as follows:
Total number of cells= 64 x 6 = 384
Total Occurrence of Ones =141
SFC = (OSR /Total Number of Occurrences) x 100
= (OSR/141) x 100
Where,
SFC = Security Feature Contribution
OSR = Occurrence of each Security feature in Requirements
The final values of OSR and SFC are shown in table 4.3
Table 3.3: Security Feature Occurrence in Requirements
S. No. Security Features OSR SFC
1. Authentication 27 19.14894
2. Authorization 46 32.62411
3. Audit & logging 21 14.89362
4. Secure Storage 18 12.76596
5. Secured Information
Flow
20
14.1844
6. Secured Session
Management
09
6.38297
Total 141 100

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Now as it can be seen in table 3.2, that several requirements
have more then one security Feature occurrences. Therefore
weight of each security requirement in terms of security
Feature, can be calculated by adding the SFC values of each
Feature. The final weightage of each security Feature is
termed as TSFC (Total Security Feature Contribution under
each Requirement).The TSFC values are shown in Table 3.4.
Table 3.4.CC Requirements Classes with TSFC Values
S. No. CC. Class No. CC Requirement Class Title Subsets of security
Features
TSFC
1. 8.1 Security audit automatic response (FAU_ARP) (At) 14.89362
2. 8.2 Security audit data generation (FAU_GEN) ( Ao, At ) 47.51773
3. 8.3 Security audit analysis (FAU_SAA) (Ao, At ) 47.51773
4. 8.4 Security audit review (FAU_SAR) (Ao, At) 47.51773
5. 8.5 Security audit event selection (FAU_SEL) (Ao, At ) 47.51773
6. 8.6 Security audit event storage (FAU_STG) (Ao, At ) 47.51773
7. 9.1 Non-repudiation of origin (FCO_NRO) (Ao, At) 47.51773
8. 9.2 Non-repudiation of receipt (FCO_NRR) (Au, Ao, At ) 66.66667
9. 10.1 Cryptographic key management (FCS_CKM) (Ao, S, If ) 59.57447
10. 10.2 Cryptographic operation (FCS_COP) ( If) 14.1844
11. 11.1 Access control policy (FDP_ACC) ( Au, Ao) 51.77305
12. 11.2 Access control functions (FDP_ACF) ( Au, Ao) 51.77305
13. 11.3 Data authentication (FDP_DAU) ( Au, S) 31.9149
14. 11.4 Export from the TOE (FDP_ETC) ( Au, If) 33.33334
15. 11.5 Information flow control policy (FDP_IFC) ( Au, If, Ss ) 39.71631
16. 11.6 Information flow control functions (FDP_IFF) ( Au, If, Ss ) 39.71631
17. 11.7 Import from outside of the TOE (FDP_ITC) ( Au, Ao,If,) 65.95745
18. 11.8 Internal TOE transfer (FDP_ITT) ( Au, Ao,If,) 65.95745
19. 11.9 Residual information protection (FDP_RIP) ( Au, Ao, If) 65.95745
20. 11.10 Rollback (FDP_ROL) ( At, S,) 27.65958
21. 11.11 Stored data integrity (FDP_SDI) ( Ao, At, S ) 60.28369
22. 11.12 Inter-TSF user data confidentiality transfer
protection (FDP_UCT)
(Ao, If) 46.80851
23. 11.13 Inter-TSF user data integrity transfer protection
(FDP_UIT)
(Ao, If ) 46.80851
24. 12.1 Authentication failures (FIA_AFL) ( Au, At, S) 46.80852
25. 12.2 User attribute definition (FIA_ATD) ( Au, Ao,) 51.77305
26. 12.3 Specification of secrets (FIA_SOS) ( Au, Ao, S ) 64.53901
27. 12.4 User authentication (FIA_UAU) ( Au,S ) 31.9149
28. 12.5 User identification (FIA_UID) ( Au, Ao, S ) 64.53901
29. 12.6 User-subject binding (FIA_USB) ( Au, Ao ) 51.77305
30. 13.1 Management of functions in TSF (FMT_MOF) ( Au, Ao, S ) 64.53901
31. 13.2 Management of security attributes
(FMT_MSA)
( Au, Ao, S) 64.53901
32. 13.3 Management of TSF data (FMT_MTD) ( Au, Ao ) 51.77305
33. 13.4 Revocation (FMT_REV) ( Au, Ao) 51.77305
34. 13.5 Security attribute expiration (FMT_SAE) ( Au, Ao) 51.77305
35. 13.6 Specification of Management Functions
(FMT_SMF)
( Au, Ao) 51.77305
36. 13.7 Security management roles (FMT_SMR) ( Au, Ao) 51.77305
37. 14.1 Anonymity (FPR_ANO) ( Au, Ao ) 51.77305
38. 14.2 Pseudonymity (FPR_PSE) ( Ao, At) 47.51773
39. 14.3 Unlinkability (FPR_UNL) ( Ao, At ) 47.51773
40. 14.4 Unobservability (FPR_UNO) ( Ao ) 32.62411
41. 15.1 Fail secure (FPT_FLS) ( At) 14.89362
42. 15.2 Availability of exported TSF data (FPT_ITA) (Ao, S, If) 59.57447
43. 15.3 Confidentiality of exported TSF data
(FPT_ITC)
( Ao, At, If ) 61.70213
44. 15.4 Integrity of exported TSF data (FPT_ITI) (Ao, At, If) 61.70213
45. 15.5 Internal TOE TSF data transfer (FPT_ITT) (Ao, At, If ) 61.70213

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46. 15.7 Trusted recovery (FPT_RCV) (At, S) 27.65958
47. 15.8 Replay Detection (FPT_RPL) ( If, Ss ) 20.56737
48. 15.9 State Synchrony Protocol (FPT_SSP) ( If, Ss ) 20.56737
49. 15.10 Time stamps (FPT_STM) (If, Ss ) 20.56737
50. 15.11 Inter-TSF TSF data consistency (FPT_TDC) ( S, If, Ss ) 33.33333
51. 15.12 Testing of external entities (FPT_TEE) ( Au, Ao, At ) 66.66667
52. 15.13 Internal TOE TSF data replication consistency
(FPT_TRC)
( At, S) 27.65958
53. 15.14 TSF self test (FPT_TST) ( Au, Ao, S) 64.53901
54. 16.1 Fault tolerance (FRU_FLT) (Ao ) 32.62411
55. 16.2 Priority of service (FRU_PRS) ( Ao ) 32.62411
56. 16.3 Resource allocation (FRU_RSA) (Ao ) 32.62411
57. 17.1 Limitation on scope of selectable attributes
(FTA_LSA)
(Ao ) 32.62411
58. 17.2 Limitation on multiple concurrent sessions
(FTA_MCS)
( Ao, If, Ss ) 53.19148
59. 17.3 Session locking and termination (FTA_SSL) (Ao, Ss ) 39.00708
60. 17.4 TOE access banners (FTA_TAB) ( Ao ) 32.62411
61. 17.5 TOE access history (FTA_TAH) ( Ao, At, S ) 60.28369
62. 17.6 TOE session establishment (FTA_TSE) ( Au,Ss ) 25.53191
63. 18.1 Inter-TSF trusted channel (FTP_ITC) ( If ) 14.1844
64. 18.2 Trusted path (FTP_TRP) ( If ) 14.1844
Total 2857.447
Now to calculate the maximum possible values of security
requirements in terms of security Feature, the sum of all the
TSFC values is carried out, as follows:
n
MVSFC = ∑ TSFC = 2857.447
i=1
Where,
MVSFC = Maximum Value of Security Feature Contribution
in Requirements
After getting the maximum possible value of security
requirement in terms of security Features, a scale is created to
measure the security requirement weight. The minimum value
is taken as ‘0’ and maximum value is taken as 2857.447. Now
software developer have to select the desired requirements
from a set of available 64 classes of requirements. The sum of
desired security requirements is stored in variable MVSFC.
0 714.361 1428.724 2143.085 2857.447
Undefine General Secured Very Secured
Fig. 3.1 Software Security Requirement Scale
The scale is divided into four equal parts as shown in Fig.3.1.
First part i.e. (0 – 714.361) is for undefined security
requirements, second part i.e. (714.361-1428.724) is for
‘general security requirements’, third part i.e. (1428.724 -
2143.085) is for ‘secured requirements’ and the last slot i.e.
(2143.085-2857.447) is for the ‘very secured requirements’.
When the value of MVSFC falls between (0-714.361), then
this indicates that not enough security requirements class are
chosen, therefore there is no need to perform next step of Risk
analysis. When the value of MVSFC falls in the second sloth
then it is a indication that chosen security requirements are too
generic in nature and software have marginal need of security
e.g. security need of simple text processing software for home
users. The third part is for the secured software, when MVSFC
value falls in this slot then designer of the software have to
take extra care of the security and has to choose reliable and
well proven security design pattern i.e. pattern suggested in
Level2 of Table 5.2. The value in the last slot indicates that
utmost care of security should be taken. It is for the software
that handles highly confidential information. Use of Level 3
design pattern of Table 5.2 are suggested in this case. Table
3.5 is showing the MVSFC values and suggested security
design pattern levels:
Table 4.5: MVSFC Sloths and Risk Mitigation Levels
S.NO. MVSFC Sloth Class Risk
Mitigation
Level
- 714.361 Undefined N/A
714.36 -
1428.724
General L1
1428.724 -
2143.085
Secured L2
2143.085 -
2857.447
Very Secured L3

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The approach used in this section can be used when the
software developer want to find the overall risk involve by just
selecting the desired requirement from the list. Based on the
MVSFC value mitigation level can be chosen. But there is one
more way through which Security design pattern can be
chosen by the developer based the value of the security
feature. In the next section risk analysis based on security
features values is explained.
4. RISK ANALYSIS OF SECURITY FEATURES
Risk analysis is a process for considering possible risks and
determining which are the most significant for any particular
effort [Ruffin et al., 2007]. In order to incorporate security in
the software, risk analysis should be performed right from the
beginning from software development lifecycle. Developers
are expected to identify, rank, mitigate and manage risk
throughout the software product life cycle [Devis, 2004]. To
attend software security risks at the design level, the security
requirements should be addressed first followed by Risk
calculation which facilitates designer in choosing appropriate
security design pattern. Since available security design
patterns, modeled by various software designers/experts often
cannot be traced back to the security requirement, there is a
need to relate these security patterns to requirements so that
smooth chain of security events in SDLC can be created.
In order to calculate the risk factor of each security feature,
first of all the severity constant is calculated. As explained in
chapter 4, the severity of vulnerability under each security
feature is calculated using design level vulnerabilities of NVD
(National Vulnerability Database). The severity values
assigned are basically calculated by CVSS (Common
Vulnerability Scoring System). The value of severity, assigned
by CVSS is in the scale of 0-10.In order to relate its values
with other variables, we have multiplied it 10, so that the
values of severity can be calculated in terms of percentage (0-
100). As the process involves the risk analysis of security
feature, the occurrence of each security feature in
requirements (OSR) is calculated next. The maximum value of
OCR i.e. MaxOCR will always be equals to the values
selected in the requirements set, e.g. if designer has selected
40 security requirements from the set of 64 security
requirements then the maximum value of OCR will be 40 for
each security feature. Now using OCR and MaxOCR, the
percentage of each security feature contribution in
requirements (PSR) can be calculated as follows:
PSR = (OSR / MaxOSR) x 100
All the values that are assigned and calculated in order to
calculate the risk factor of security feature is shown in Table
4.1.
Where,
SC = Security feature Constant
= Severity x 10
MaxC = Maximum value of the Constant = 100
OSR = Occurrence of each Security Feature in the Desired
Requirement
MaxOSR = Maximum Possible Frequency of Security Feature
in the Desired
Requirements
= Number of Desired Requirements
PSR = Percentage of Security Feature Contribution in the
Desired Requirement
= (OSR / MaxOSR) x 100
RFS = Risk Factor of Security Feature based of the Desired
Requirements
= SC*PSR/100
MaxRF = Maximum value of Risk Factor for each Feature
= SC*MaxPSR /100
MaxPSR = Maximum value of all the Possible Security
Requirement
= 64
APRF = Actual Percent of Risk Factor for each Security
Feature
= RF x 100 / MaxRF

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Table 4.1 Risk Analysis of Security Feature
The final value obtained is APRF(Actual Percent of Risk
Factor for each Security Feature).Using this value the risl
mitigation level can be selected from Table 6.3 with the help
of Risk mitigation scale, as shown in Fig. 4.1.
0 33.3 66.6 100
Level 1 Level2 Level3
Fig.4.1: Risk Mitigation Scale
5. RISK MITIGATION MECHANISM IN FORM
OF SECURITY DESIGN PATTERNS
Security patterns document good practices to solve security
problems arising frequently in software development
[Schumacher et al., 2006], [Steel et al., 2005]. A security
pattern is a design pattern that generally describes a group of
participants and their relationships and collaborations, which
achieve some security goals [Steel et al., 2005]. Gamma et al.
(Gamma et al.,1995), first proposed a the basic template of the
design pattern, Buschmann et al. (Buschmann et al., 2007)
then further enhanced that template. The attributes that are
covered in Buschmann’s templates are listed as follows:
 Name: a name and a short summary of the pattern
 Also Known As: other names of the pattern
 Example: a real world example that demonstrates the
purpose and the benefit of the pattern
 Context: situations in which the pattern may apply
 Problem: a description of the problem the pattern
addresses including its associated forces
 Solution: a description of how the problem can be
solved
 Variants: a reference to other patterns that are
variants or specialization of this pattern
 Consequences: an outline of the benefits and
potential tradeoffs of the pattern
S.No
. Attribute
Values
Security
Features
SC=
severity
*10
OSR PSR=
(OSR/M
axOSR)
* 100
RFS=
SC*PSR/
100
MaxRF=
SC*MaxPSR
/100
APRf=RF
*100/Max
RF
Max
value=
100
MaxOSR
=No. of
Desired
Requirem
-ents
Max
value=10
0
Max
value
=100
Max value
=100
Max value
=100
Authentication 70
Authorization 85
Audit &
logging
40
Secure Storage 60
Secured
Session
Management
50
Secured
Information
Flow
65

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A good amount of research work in the area of security design
patterns is reported in the literature. Yoder et al., in [Yoder,
1997] introduced a 7-pattern catalogue which was not
complete set of list but it can be considered as starting point
towards a collection of patterns. Security pattern repository
was developed by [Kienzle, 2010] that contains 29-pattern, it
categorized security patterns as either structural or procedural
patterns. The other significant contributions in the field of
security pattern are [Steel et al., 2005], [Schumacher et al.,
2006], [Brown et al., 1999], [Romanosky, 2001],
[Wassermann and Betty, 2003], [OpenGroup,2002].Even
though a good amount of research work is available still there
is a need of evaluation and usability measurement of these
available design pattern. According to Wiesauer et al.
[Wiesauer and Sametinger, 2009] there is need of security
design pattern selection criteria that are based on certain well
known attributes. On the basis of existing literature, a list of
most common and reliable security pattern is developed as
shown in Table 5.1
Table 5.1: List of Security Design Patterns
S.No. UML
Security
Pattern
ID
UML
Security
Pattern Name
Brief description Reference
1. PAu1 Password
Design and
Use
This pattern describes security best practice
for designing, creating, managing, and
using password components
[Schumacher et al., 2006] p.217
2. PAu2 Authenticator
pattern
describes a general mechanism for
providing identification and
authentication to a server from a client.
[Brown et al., 1999] p.1
3. PAu3 Single Access
Point (SAP)
proposes single interface to the system to
improve control
[Berry,2002], pp. 203; [Yoder and
Barcalow, 1997], p. 4; [Wassermann
and Betty, 2003], p. 18
4. PAu4 Security
Provider
This pattern describes what a client should
operate to perform authentication against
the identity service provider for
authentication or authorization assertion. It
is part of the single sign-on process for
enterprise identity management.
[Romanosky, 2002], p. 11
5. PAu5 Biometrics
Design
Alternatives
This pattern aids the selection of
appropriate biometric mechanisms to satisfy
I&A requirements
6. PAo1 Check point A structure for checking incoming requests
and handling violations
[Berry], p. 204; [Yoder and
Barcalow1997], p.7;[OpenGroup,
2002], p. 47; [Wassermann and
Betty, 2003], p. 27
7. PAo2 Role-Based
Access
Control
This pattern describes how to assign rights
based on the functions or tasks of people
in an environment in which control of
access to computing resources is required
8. PAo3 Roles Organizing users with similar security
privileges.
[Berry, 2002], p. 205; [Yoder and
Barcalow, 1997] p.11
9. PAo4 Limited View Allowing users to only see what they have
access to
[Yoder and Barcalow, 1997] p.19
10. PAo5 Security
Context
This pattern provides a container for access
to security attributes, such as effective user
ID and group ID.
[OpenGroup,2002], p. 40

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11. PAo6 Secure Chain
of
Responsibility
The intent of the Secure Chain of
Responsibility pattern is to decouple the
logic that determines
user/environment-trust dependent
functionality from the portion of the
application requesting the functionality
[Dougherty, 2009] p.48
12. PAo7 Reference
Monitor
this pattern enforces declared access
restrictions when an active entity requests
resources.
13. PAo8 Multilevel
Security
This pattern describes how to categorize
sensitive
information and prevent its disclosure.
14. PAt1 Audit
Interceptor
the Audit Interceptor pattern enables the
administration and manages the logging and
audit in the back-end.
[Steel et al., 2005] C.8
15. PAt2 Security Event
Logging
This pattern is related to the capture and
tracking of security-related events for
logging and audit trail. Logged information
can be used for risk assessment or analysis.
[Romanosky, 2001], p. 8;
[Romanosky, 2002], p. 4; [Amos,
2003], p. 4; [Berry,2002], p. 205
16. PAt3 Log for Audit The Log for Audit pattern ties logging to
auditing, to ensure that logging is
configured with audit in mind and that
auditing is understood to
be integral to effective logging.
[Kienzle et al., 2006] p.141
17. PSs1 Client Data
Storage
The Client Data Storage pattern uses
encryption techniques to protect data that
this stored on the client.
18. PSs2 Information
Obscurity
Obscure the more sensitive
items of data using an encryption
mechanism in situations in which it might
be exposed
to attack, while leaving the bulk of the
application data unencrypted
19. PSm1 Session Localizing global information in a multi-
user environment.
[Yoder and Barcalow, 1997] p. 14
and [Amos, 2003] p.3
20. PSm2 Secure Session
Manager
This pattern defines how to create a secure
session by capturing session information.
21. PSm3 Directed
Session
The Directed Session pattern ensures that
users will not be able to
skip around within a series of Web pages.

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22. PSm4 Secure Session
Object
This pattern defines ways to secure session
information in EJBs facilitating distributed
access and seamless propagation of security
context.
23. PSm5 Secure
Association
This pattern shows how to make secure
interactions between two entities; for
example, protecting the session between the
browser and Web server using SSL
[Open Group], p. 32.
24. PSm6 Front Door It identifies users and keeps track of user
sessions.
25. PSi1 Authoritative
Source of Data
This pattern verifies the data source for
authenticity and data integrity.
[Romanosky, 2002], p. 2; [Berry,
2002], p.206
26. PSi2 Secure
Message
Router
This pattern facilitates secure XML
communication with multiple partner
endpoints that adopt message-level security
and identity-federation mechanisms.
27. PSi3 Secure
Channels
Create secure channels for sensitive data
that obscure the data in transit.
28. PSi4 Third-Party
Communicatio
n
This pattern helps identify the risks of the
third-party relationship and applies relevant
security protection measures for the third-
party communication.
[Romanosky, 2002], p. 6
29. PSi5 Known
Partners
Ensure that access to system functionality
and data is restricted to known partners who
must authenticate themselves in a secure
manner.
30. PSi6 Network
Address
Blacklist
A network address blacklist is used to keep
track of network
addresses (IP addresses) that are the sources
of hacking attempts and other mischief.
31. PSi7 Validated
Transaction
The Validated Transaction pattern puts all
of the security-relevant validation for a
specific transaction into one page request.
32. PSi8 Network
Encryption
Protocol
A cryptographic protocol is an orderly
sequence of steps of one ore more parties to
accomplish the protection against threats.
[Schumacher and Roedig, 2001]
p.15
33. PSi9 Protection
Reverse Proxy
It is used to shields the real Web server. [Schumacher et al., 2006] p.457
34. PSi10 Integration
Reverse Proxy
Use a reverse proxy to integrate all your
Web servers as back-end servers with a
common host address (that of the reverse
proxy).

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Pearson and Shen in their framework [Paerson and Shen,
2010] proposed user-related contextual factors that affect the
degree of privacy protection. They include factors like
sensitivity of data, location of data, sector, contractual
restrictions, cultural expectations, user trust (in organisations,
etc.), trustworthiness of partners, security deployed in the
infrastructure, etc. They proposed the decision based support
system that assesses context and deduces a list of
recommendations and controls. They further declare their
framework as a broad solution that can be used for privacy,
security and other types of requirement. In order to categorize
our security design patterns we have selected six most relevant
context factors from the list proposed by [Paerson and Shen,
2010]. The selected patterns are listed as follows:
1. Data sensitivity
2. Location of Data
3. Potential Location of transferred data
4. Sector
5. Number of Users
6. user role in the organization
On the basis of above mentioned factors, each design pattern
is categorized in three levels level1, level2 and level3. The
values that are assigned to each context factor are also in a
range of 1-3.The values 2 and 3 are in ascending order of the
factor’s significance but value‘1=general’ is used when the
design pattern is applicable to all kind of conditions under
specific factor. E.g., ‘Password Design and Use’ pattern is
applicable to almost all kind of data irrespective to their
sensitivity; therefore ‘data sensitivity factor’ of password
pattern will be assigned value as ‘1’. There are certain security
patterns, in which the value of context factor does not applied,
e.g. in ‘Password Design and Use’ pattern, the context factor
‘Potential Location of Transferred Data’ will not be applied
therefore we assign ‘N/A’ to it. The list of values that are
assigned to each context factor is as follows:
 Data sensitivity: General=1, High=2, Very High=3
 Location of data: General=1, Multiple=2, Multiple
and Variable=3
 Potential Location of Transferred Data: General =1,
Multiple=2, Multiple and Variable=3
 Sector: General=1, Private or Small Business =2,
Large Business =3
 Number of User: General=1, About 50 % users=2,
About 100%=3
 User role in organization: General=1, Administrator
only =2, Administrator and End user both=3
The rating of each security pattern is done on the basis of
weightge of context factors specified in the definition of each
security pattern as shown in Table 5.2.
Table5.2. Ratings of Security Design pattern on the Basis of Context Factor
S.No S.N
A
Data
Sensitivity
Location of
data
Potential
Location
of
transferred
data
Sector No. of
users
User role in
organization
Level
1. PAu1 1 1 N/A 1 1 1 1
2. PAu2 2 2 1 2 3 3 2
3. PAu3 1 2 2 3 N/A N/A 2
4. PAu4 1 3 3 3 N/A N/A 3
5. PAu5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
6. PAo1 1 2 N/A 1 1 1 1
7. PAo2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1
8. PAo3 1 1 N/A 1 2 1 1
9. PAo4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
10. PAo5 2 2 N/A 2 2 2 2
11. PAo6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
12. PAo7 3 3 3 3 N/A N/A 3

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13. PAo8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
14. PAt1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
15. PAt2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2
16. PAt3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
17. PSs1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
18. PSs2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
19. PSm1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1
20. PSm2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2
21. PSm3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
22. PSm4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
23. PSm5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
24. PSm6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
25. PSi1 1 1 1 2 N/A 1 1
26. PSi2 1 1 1 1 N/A N/A 1
27. PSi3 2 2 3 2 2 N/A 2
28. PSi4 2 2 3 2 2 2 2
29. PSi5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
30. PSi6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
31. PSi7 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
32. PSi8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
33. PSi9 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
34. PSi10 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
The average of all the values of context factor is taken as a
final value of the level. For the sake of simplicity the values
after decimal are omitted. After the analysis of security design
patterns, the Table 5.3 is created that classifies all the
identified design pattens in three different levels.
Table 5.3 Risk Mitigation Levels in the form of Security Design Patterns
S. No. Security Features Level1 Level2 Level3 Level to
be used
1 Authentication PAu1; PAu2 PAu1; PAu2;
PAu3
PAu1; PAu2;
PAu3; PAu4;
PAu5
2nd
2 Authorization PAo1; PAo2;
PAo3; PAo4
PAo1;PAo2;
PAo3; PAo4;
PAo5
PAo1; PAo2;
PAo3; PAo4;
PAo5; PAo6;
PAo7; PAo8
2nd
3 Audit & logging PAt1 PAt1; PAt2 PAt1; PAt2;
PAt3
1st

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0 33.3 66.6 100
Level 1 Level2 Level3
Fig. 5.1 Risk Mitigation Scale
6. CASE STUDY
In this section the use of the proposed process is explained.
The whole process of security requirement risk assessment is
shown in Fig 6.1. The steps wise process of security
requirement risk assessment is explained as follows:
Choose security requirement standard (here Common
Criteria Standard for security requirement is taken)
a). Requirement Assessment:Select ‘Desired Security
Requirement Classes’ from the list of all security requirements
and calculate the sum of all the values of selected
requirements, (Use Table 3.4). For example total 42
requirements are selected, in which the occurrence of security
features are as follows:
Table 6.1 Security feature and their occurrences in example
S.No. Security Feature No. of
Occurrences
Authentication 16
Authorization 17
Audit & logging 11
Secure Storage 10
Secured Session Management 4
Secured Information Flow 13
4 Secure Storage PSs1 PSs1; PSs2 PSs1; PSs2 1st
5 Secured Session
Management
PSm1 PSm1;PSm2 PSm1; PSm2;
PSm3; PSm4;
PSm5; PSm6
1st
6 Secured Information
Flow
PSi1; PSi2 PSi1;PSi2
PSi3; PSi4
PSi1; PSi2;
PSi3; PSi4;
PSi5; PSi6;
PSi7; PSi8;
PSi9; PSi10
2nd

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Figure 6.1 Risk Mitigation using security Design patterns
b. Software Security Estimation:Match the obtained
value to the security requirement scale and designer can find
out security category of the software and Mitigation level from
Table 4.3.
The sum of values of all the 42 classes is as follows:
n
MVSFC = ∑ TSFC = 1591
i=1
Therefore, the value of security class will be ‘Secured’ and
Level 2 of risk mitigation will be applicable to this software
design, as shown in Table 6.2
Table 6.2 MVSFC Values and their Risk Mitigation Sloth
S.no. Security
Features
SC=
severity
*10
OSR PSR=
(OSR/MaxOSR)
* 100
RFS=
SC*PSR/100
MaxRF=
SC*MaxPSR
/100
APRf=RF*100/MaxRF
Max
value=
100
MaxOSR
(e.g. 42)
Max value=100 Max value
=100
Max value
=100
Max value =100
Authentication 70 16 38.09524 26.66667 44.8 59.52382
Authorization 85 17 40.47619 34.40476 54.4 63.24404
Audit &
logging
40 11
26.19048 10.47619 25.6 40.92262
Secure
Storage
60 10
23.80952 14.28571 38.4 37.20237
Secured
Session
Management
50 4
9.52381 4.761905 32 14.88095
Secured
Information
Flow
65 13
30.95238 20.11905 41.6 48.3631

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c. Security Feature Percentage Calculation:Use
Table 4.1 and identify a mitigation level using scale as shown
in Fig. 3.1.The Risk factor calculations table on the basis of
values that are specified in step 1, are as follows:
Table 6.3 Risk Mitigation of Security Feature
S.NO. MVSFC
Sloth
Security
Class
Risk
Mitigation
Level
Check
point
- 714.361 Undefined N/A
714.36
- 1428.724
General L1
1428.724 -
2143.085
Secured L2 √
2143.085 -
2857.447
Very
Secured
L3
d. Mitigation Level Selection: Select the mitigation
level required under each class of security attribute as shown
in Table 6.3. On the basis of values calculated in Table 6.3,
the risk mitigation levels applicable are shown in Table 6.4
Table 6.4 Risk Mitigation using Security Pattern Levels
S.
No.
Security
Features
Level1 Level2 Level3 Level to be used
1 Authentication PAu1;
PAu2
PAu1;
PAu2;
PAu3
PAu1;
PAu2;
PAu3;
PAu4;
PAu5
2nd
2 Authorization PAo1;
PAo2;
PAo3;
PAo4
PAo1;PAo2;
PAo3;
PAo4;
PAo5
PAo1;
PAo2;
PAo3;
PAo4;
PAo5;
PAo6;
PAo7; PAo8
2nd
3 Audit & logging PAt1 PAt1; PAt2 PAt1; PAt2;
PAt3
1st
4 Secure Storage PSs1 PSs1; PSs2 PSs1; PSs2 1st
5 Secured Session
Management
PSm1 PSm1;PSm2 PSm1; PSm2;
PSm3; PSm4;
PSm5; PSm6
1st
6 Secured
Information Flow
PSi1; PSi2 PSi1;PSi2
PSi3; PSi4
PSi1; PSi2;
PSi3; PSi4;
PSi5; PSi6;
PSi7; PSi8;
PSi9; PSi10
2nd

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I n Table 6.4, only Identification number of security design
patterns are mentioned. The full detail of the pattern is given
in Table 5.1.After selecting the Risk Mitigation Level, the
details of the pattern can be found in Table 5.1 and further full
details of the pattern can be found from the reference provided
in the last column of Table 5.1.
7. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
A proactive approach of paying close attention to security
during the design phase prevents expensive redesign and
yields substantial benefits during all later phases of the SDLC.
Security requirements and security features plays a very
important role in the security integration at design phase of the
SDLC. Prevention of security issues is the best way to deals
with security. In the proposed process of ‘Risk Mitigation
through Security Design Patterns’ a preventive approach is
taken, in which risk assessment is performed on the security
requirements on the basis of security feature. All the software
specific security requirement of Common Criteria standard is
considered and they measured in terms of security feature. A
measurement scale is created, that can be used to measure the
need of effort required at the design level to integrate security.
The proposed process of risk mitigation through design pattern
is a simplistic and can be adapted by the designer without the
prior knowledge of security. The comprehensive list of
reliable and authentic design patterns is provided that can be
used as simple and easily manageable tool. In future we will
try to automate the process by creating the tool so that process
can be adapted easily by the software designer.
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