Book Chapters

Software Assurance in Education, Training & Certification
Life Cycle Support Volume I – (Version 2.1, March 1, 2011)
Current events related to cybersecurity encourage a fundamental shift in the way we think about educating and training a workforce prepared to address security issues in all phases of a software system. Software assurance education and training is aimed to ensure adequate coverage of requisite knowledge areas in contributing disciplines such as software engineering (including its many subdisciplines), systems engineering, project management, etc., to identify and acquire competencies associated with secure software. The primary audiences for this pocket guide are educators and trainers who can use this guide to identify resources to supplement their efforts as well as identify strategies to inject software assurance related topics in the existing education and training programs.
https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/swa/downloads/SwAWETPG-02-25-11v2.1.pdf

Gandhi, R. A., Lee, S. W., Ontology guided risk analysis: from informal specifications to formal metrics. Information & Intelligent Systems, Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2009.

Lee, S. W., Gandhi, R. A., Park, S., Requirements: Tracing, The Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, 2010.

Refereed Journal/Magazine Publications:

Mahoney, W., Gandhi, R.A., An Integrated Framework for Control System Simulation and Regulatory Compliance Monitoring, International Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection (IJCIP), 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2011.03.002.

Gandhi, R.A., Sharma, A., Mahoney, W., Sousan, W., Zhu, Q., Laplante, P., "Dimensions of Cyber-Attacks: Cultural, Social, Economic, and Political," IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol.30, no.1, pp.28-38, Spring 2011, doi: 10.1109/MTS.2011.940293, URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5725605&isnumber=5725598

Gandhi, R.A., Siy, H., Wu, Y., Studying Security Vulnerabilities, CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Sept/Oct issue 2010.

Gandhi, R.A., Lee, S.W., “Discovering Multi-dimensional Correlations among Regulatory Requirements to Understand Risk” In the ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology (ToSEM), Volume 20 Issue 4, 2011.

Lee, S.W, Gandhi R.A., Wagle, S.J., “Ontology Guided Dynamic Composition of Service-Oriented Architectures as reflections of Process Definition” International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, World Scientific, Vol. 19, No.6, September 2009. (fully accepted July 14, 2008)

Lee, S. W., Gandhi, R. A., and Ahn, G., “Certification Process Artifacts Defined as Measurable Units for Software-intensive Systems Lifecycle” International Journal on Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2007. Pages 165-189 (March/April) , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2007. (Published early view online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com ) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spip.313

Lee, S. W., and Gandhi, R. A., "Requirements as Enablers for Software Assurance", CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, December, Vol. 19, No. 12, pp.20-24, 2006. United States Department of Defense.

Lee, S. W., Muthurajan, D., Gandhi, R. A., Yavagal, D., and Ahn, G., “Building Decision Support Problem Domain Ontology from Security Requirements to Engineer Software-intensive Systems” International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp.851-884, December, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.

Lee, S. W., Gandhi, R. A., Ahn, G., "Establishing Trustworthiness in Services of the Critical Infrastructure through Certification and Accreditation", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes", Vol. 30, Issue 4, July 2005. ACM Press, New York, NY. (Also appeared in SESS workshop at ICSE '05)


Refereed Conference/Workshop Publications:

W., Sousan, Gandhi, R.A., Zhu, Q., Mahoney, W., "Using Anomalous Event Patterns in Control Systems for Tamper Detection," 7th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop, CSIIRW 2011, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 2011.

Wertzberger, N., Glatter, C., Mahoney, W., Gandhi, R.A., Dick, K., “Towards a Low-Cost SCADA Test Bed: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation”, The 2011 International Conference on Security and Management, Special Track on Mission Assurance and Critical Infrastructure Protection (STMACIP’11), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2011.

Siy, H., Wu, Y., Gandhi, R.A.,  Empirical Results on the Study of Software Vulnerabilities (NIER Track). In proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011), Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 21-28, 2011

Sharma, A., Gandhi, R.A., Mahoney, W., Sousan, W., Zhu, Q., “Building a Social Dimensional Threat Model from Current and Historic Events of Cyber Attacks,” International Symposium on Secure Computing (SecureCom-10) In conjunction with The Second IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust.

Walnez, B., Gandhi, R.A., Mahoney, Zhu, Q., “Exploring Social Contexts along the Time Dimension: Temporal Analysis of Named Entities,” International Symposium on Secure Computing (SecureCom-10) In conjunction with The Second IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust.

W., Sousan, Gandhi, R.A., Mahoney, W., Zhu, Q., Sharma, A., “Using Term Extraction Patterns to Discover Coherent Relationships from Open Source Intelligence,” International Symposium on Secure Computing (SecureCom-10) In conjunction with The Second IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust.

Yan, W., Gandhi, R.A, and Siy, H., “Using Semantic Templates to Study Vulnerabilities Recorded in Large Software Repositories” Proc. of The 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS'10) at the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), South Africa, Cape Town. 2010


Gandhi, R.A., Mahoney, W., Dick, K., and Wilson, Z., (2010) "Language-driven Assurance for Regulatory Compliance of Control Systems" To appear in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Warfare and Security, The Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA, 8-9 April 2010

Cooper, J, Lee, S.W., Gandhi, R.A., Gotel, O.(2009) “Requirements Engineering Visualization: A Survey on the State-of-the-Art” In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV’09), at the 17th International Conference on Requirements Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Gandhi, R.A., Mahoney, W., Dick, K. (2009) “ADACS – A Language for Monitoring Regulatory Compliance in Control Systems” In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Compiler and Architectural Techniques for Application Reliability and Security at the 39th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), Lisbon, Portugal.

Gandhi R.A. and Lee, S.W., “Assurance Case driven Case Study Design in Requirements Engineering Research,” In: 15th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality, REFSQ 2009.

Gandhi, R. A. and Lee, S. W., “Discovering and Understanding Multi-dimensional Correlations among Certification Requirements with application to Risk Assessment”, In the Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 07), October 15-19, Delhi, India, 2007. (Acceptance ratio 35/172 ≈ 20%) [PDF]

Gandhi, R. A. and Lee, S. W., “Visual Analytics for Requirements-driven Risk Assessment”, In the Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV 07) at the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 07), October 15-19, Delhi, India, 2007. [PDF]

Lee, S. W., Gandhi, R. A., Siddharth Wagle, and Ajeet Murty “r-AnalytiCA: Requirements Analytics for Certification & Accreditation” In Proceedings of the IEEE 15th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE '07), Posters, Demos and Exhibits Session. October 15-19, Delhi, India, 2007. [PDF]

Lee, S.W, Gandhi R. A., Siddharth, W., "Towards Requirements-driven Workbench for Supporting Software Certification and Accreditation", In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Software Systems (SESS 07), at the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 07), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2007 [PDF]

Gandhi, R. A. and Lee, S.W., "Methodological Support for Building Cohesion among Software Artifacts to Help Understanding Emergent Software Behavior," In the Proceedings of Doctoral Symposium at the 14th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06). September 11-15, 2006 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. [PDF]

Gandhi, R. A., Siddharth, W., and Lee, S.W., "Process Artifacts Defined as an Aspectual Service to System Models" In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements (SOCCER'06), 14th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), September 11-15, 2006 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. [PDF]

Richter, H, Gandhi, R.A., Liu, L., and Lee, S.W., "Incorporating Multimedia Source Materials into a Traceability Framework," In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering - Beyond Mere Descriptions, 14th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), September 11-15, 2006 Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. [PDF]

Lee, S.W, Gandhi, R. A, Muthurajan, D., Yavagal, D.S., and Ahn, G, "Building problem domain ontology from security requirements in regulatory documents," In Proceedings of the 2006 international Workshop on Software Engineering For Secure Systems (Shanghai, China, May 20 - 21, 2006). SESS '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 43-50. [PDF]

Lee, S.W. and Gandhi, R. A., "Ontology-based Active Requirements Engineering Framework", In Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC '05), Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 15-17, 2005. pp. 481-490 IEEE Computer Society Press. [PDF]

Lee, S.W., Gandhi, R. A. and Ahn, G. "Security Requirements Driven Risk Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Information Systems", In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE '05), Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS 05), 8/29-9/2, Paris, France. IEEE Press, Also invited for the publication by Springer. [PDF]

Lee, S.W. and Gandhi, R. A, "Engineering Dependability Requirements for Software-intensive Systems through the Definition of a Common Language", In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE '05), Workshop on Requirements Engineering for High-Availability Systems (RHAS), pp. 40-48, 8/29 - 9/2, Paris, France. Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University & IEEE Press. [PDF]

Lee, S.W. and Gandhi, R. A, "Ontology-based Active Requirements Engineering Framework" Accepted to the Eleventh International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ '05), In connection with The 17th conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE '05), June 13 - 17, Porto, Portugal, 2005.

Lee, S.W., Gandhi, R. A, Ahn, G. "Establishing Trustworthiness in Services of the Critical Infrastructure through Certification and Accreditation", In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 05), Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS 05) Workshop, pp. 43-49, St. Louis, Missouri, May 15-21, 2005. [PDF]

Lee, S.W., Ahn, G. and Gandhi, R. A. "Engineering Information Assurance for Critical Infrastructures: The DITSCAP Automation Study", In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE '05), - Systems Engineering: Bridging Industry, Government, and Academia, Session1, Track2, Rochester, NY, July 10-15. 2005.

Yavagal, D.S., Lee, S.W., Ahn, G. and Gandhi, R.A. “Common Criteria Requirements Modeling and its Uses for Quality of Information Assurance (QoIA)”, In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE ‘05), Vol. 2, pp. 130-135, March 18-20, Kennesaw State Univ. Kennesaw, Georgia. 2005. [PDF]

Lee, S.W., Gandhi, R. A, Ahn, G. and Yavagal, D. "Active Automation of the DITSCAP", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2005), Atlanta, Georgia, May 19-20, 2005. A Book Chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3495, pp. 479-485, Springer.

Tolone, W.J.; Gandhi, R. A.; Gail-Joon Ahn, "Locale-based access control: placing collaborative authorization decisions in context," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,5-8 Oct. 2003., vol.5, no.pp. 4120- 4127

Dissertation

Discovering and Understanding Multi-dimensional Correlations among
Regulatory Certification Requirements with application to Risk Assessment [PDF]
Advisor: Dr. Seok-Won Lee


Technical Reports
 

Technical Report, "ADACS – A Language for Monitoring Regulatory Compliance in Control Systems," Gandhi, R., Mahoney, W., Dick, K., White paper - requested by Sponsored Programs. 2009

Technical Report, Accepted, "Following the Breadcrumbs: From Cultural, Social, Economic, and Political Turmoil to Cyber Attacks," Gandhi, R., Mahoney, W., Sharma, A., Sousan, W., Zhu, Q., White paper - requested by Dr. Bob Herklotz, AFOSR. 2009

Technical Report, Accepted, "Evaluating Processor Architectures for Multi-Level Secure Memory Management," Nicoll, A., Gandhi, R., 7. 2009

Technical Report, Accepted, "Development and Training with Multics-like System Interfaces to Enhance Trustworthy Computing Education," Gandhi, R., Burnham, B., 2. 2009

Gandhi, R.A., Lee, S.W., “Understanding Risks in an Organizational Infrastructure during Software Certification Activities” TR-NISE-07-02, Feb, 2007.

Gandhi, R.A., Lee, S.W., “On Establishing Software Dependability through Certification and Accreditation Requirements,” TR-NISE-07-01, Jan, 2007.

Gandhi, R.A, Lee, S.W., “Methodological Support for Engineering Needs-driven Software Dependability,” TR-NiSE-06-03, Mar, 2006.

Lee, S.W., Gandhi, R.A., “Ontology-based Active Requirements Engineering and its Applications to the DITSCAP,” TR-NiSE-05-06, June, 2005.

Lee, S.W., Ahn, G., Gandhi, R.A., Yavagal, D. “An Information Assurance Engineering Methodology for Critical Infrastructure Protection: The DITSCAP Automation Study”, TR-NiSE-04-03, Nov, 2004.

 

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