ABSTRACT

The importance and the real potential of the Requirements Engineering is now being well recognized. A series of reversed as well as assorted researches are underway particularly on ‘ways to incorporate security right from the beginning’. Researchers are doing excellent work in this area. In this paper, we review current Secure Requirements Engineering (SRE) research and try to identify current research directions, based on the recently published work. The research is considered with respect to technologies developed to address specific requirement tasks, such as elicitation, modeling, and analysis. Such a review enables us to identify mature areas of research, as well as areas that warrant further investigation. Finally, we highlight the hot current and future research topics, of significance and present a critical analysis.