A Decision Support Map for Security Patterns Application

In software engineering, security concerns should be addressed at every phase of the development process. To do that, patterns based security engineering approach has been proposed and investigated becoming a very active area of research. Security patterns capture the experience of experts in order to solve a security problem in a more structured and reusable way. With the proliferation of security patterns, thus it is becoming harder to select which ones should be applied and in each case. In this paper, our main contribution consists in the proposition of a map layered security patterns. This map allows software engineer to select and apply patterns in a systematic manner in order to guide the security decisions.