PhD thesis,
SECURITY VIGILANCE SYSTEM THROUGH LEVEL DRIVEN SECURITY MATURITY MODEL
Lübeck, (April 2012)
DOI: 10.5121/ijcseit.2012.2202
Abstract
Success of any software system largely looms upon its vigilance efficiency that prompts organizations to
meet the set of objectives in the arena of networks. In the highly competitive world, everything appears to
be vulnerable; information system is also not an exception to this fact. The security of information system
has become a cause of great concern. On the contrary, till time the software security engineers are trying
hard to develop fully protected and highly secured information systems but all these developments are at
nascent stages. It is quite revelling that in the earlier research studies, little attention is paid to highlight an
accurate status of the security alertness for developed software. Hence, keeping all these factors at the
backdrop, this paper is an attempt to propose a holistic Security Maturity Model (SMM), in which five
levels/stars have been developed, driven on the strength of the security vigilance occurring at the various
stages for any software. SMM is in its conceptual stage; the detailed steps will certainly require time to be
developed so that every software system can reap out the benefits of this model. To categorize/discriminate
the level of potency, SMM will be highlighted through appropriate ranking/star system. It is hoped that if
SMM will be followed in its true letter and sprit; undoubtedly, this will restore the clients’ trust and
confidence on the software as well as their corresponding vendors. Moreover, this will also enable software
industry to follow transparent and ethical practices.
