Visualising personas as goal models to find security tensions.

Faily, Shamal; Iacob, Claudia; Ali, Raian; Ki-Aries, Duncan

Abstract

This paper aims to present a tool-supported approach for visualising personas as social goal models, which can subsequently be used to identify security tensions. The authors devised an approach to partially automate the construction of social goal models from personas. The authors provide two examples of how this approach can identify previously hidden implicit vulnerabilities and validate ethical hazards faced by penetration testers and their safeguards. Visualising personas as goal models makes it easier for stakeholders to see implications of their goals being satisfied or denied, and easier for designers to incorporate the creation and analysis of such models into the broader requirements engineering (RE) tool-chain. The approach can be used with minimal changes to existing user experience and goal modelling approaches and security RE tools.

Citation

FAILY, S., IACOB, C., ALI, R. and KI-ARIES, D. 2021. Visualising personas as goal models to find security tensions. Information and computer security [online], 29(5), pages 787-815. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/ICS-03-2021-0035

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 26, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Aug 16, 2021
• Publication Date: Nov 12, 2021
• Deposit Date: Sep 2, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 2, 2021
• Journal: Information and Computer Security
• Print ISSN: 2056-4961
• Electronic ISSN: 2056-497X
• Publisher: Emerald
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 787-815
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ICS-03-2021-0035
• Keywords: User personas; Systems security; Security risk analysis; Human-computer interaction (HCI); Software engineering; Requirements engineering
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1427715