Cost Benefit Analysis of Incorporating Security and Evaluation of Its Effects on Various Phases of Agile Software Development

Sushil Kumar, Avinash Kaur, Ashish Jolly, Mohammed Baz and Omar Cheikhrouhou

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-10

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This article addresses the costs and benefits of integrating security into the development of applications and gives formulas for calculating security costs and benefits. The lack of safe application might lead to safety issues. Increasingly, there are accidents recorded that expose security flaws in many major software systems. It results in significant losses for consumer companies. While software businesses are working to produce secure software, the utility of secure software is quite limited. In contrast to the traditional manufacturers of commodities, for example, automakers, software developers have no legal responsibility if their products include flaws. The market reacts adversely to software manufacturers with serious vulnerabilities in their products. This is because of the loss of credibility, cost of patches, and so on. The study shows that the market is ready to penalize the supplier for insecurity and therefore offers the chance to deliver safer technologies. To improve cost/efficiency, the vulnerabilities are connected by accessible fixes. Significant savings are gained when security shortcomings are corrected during designing requirements instead of fixing security failures after deploying software. For suppliers, updates are more expensive to produce and publish. In addition, development costs can be reduced by plugging security issues in the early stages of development.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/7837153

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