Deployment Strategy for Secure Systems in Populations of Low Digital Literacy

Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology: Engineering Education Facing the Grand Challenges, What Are We Doing?
Date of Conference: July 29 - 31, 2015
Location of Conference: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Authors: Juan C. Lavariega Jarquín
Emmanuel Casas
Lorena Gomez
Kim Mallalieu
Refereed Paper: #230

Abstract:

Nowadays, we depend on multiple computer systems and software applications, which ease our daily lives. From financial and corporate applications to health records and personal apps for keeping records of our daily habits such as food intake, exercise routings or just chatting with distant family members and friends. Undoubtedly, all software applications must exhibit security as one of their top quality attributes, in some applications security is the most valuable characteristics, for example, online financial applications and electronic health records deal with sensitive, private and confidential information. In this paper, we present our software development framework for achieving secure applications. We have used this framework in the construction of a financial application that manages on-line wireless transactions in rural communities and we have starting using the framework in our remote health monitoring and EHR systems. Our framework for building secure applications consists of principles, strategies, and tasks associated to the software development process.

Keywords - Secure software, software development.