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CERT SQUARE for Privacy (P-SQUARE)

Software
P-SQUARE was designed for stakeholders, requirements engineers, and administrators and supports the security and privacy aspects of SQUARE.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

SQUARE for Privacy, also known as P-SQUARE, is a robust tool to support SQUARE that was developed by a team of Carnegie Mellon Master of Software Engineering students with oversight by staff in the SEI's CERT Division.

The P-SQUARE tool, designed for use by stakeholders, requirements engineers, and administrators, supports both the security and privacy aspects of SQUARE by

  • recording definitions and searching and adding new terms
  • identifying the project business goals, assets, and security and/or privacy goals
  • adding or editing links to project artifacts
  • performing risk assessment and identify threats
  • comparing and selecting security and/or privacy elicitation techniques
  • linking the elicited requirements to goals, risks, and artifacts
  • classifying requirements based on predefined categories
  • prioritizing security and/or privacy requirements
  • inspecting requirements, viewing traceability to risks and artifacts, and exporting requirements to tools such as Requisite Pro