System security review
All the security vulnerabilities and mistakes happen due to poorly constructed systems; these problems are initiated during the creating of the software development procedures; these procedures require lots of monitoring and controlling by the assigned software engineers. Some of these security issues go unnoticed by the sophisticated security tools. Poorly constructed software is easily attacked by cybercriminals. Due to the different views by different software engineers, there is a challenge in the SDLC stage, which is the most significant stage during implementation and maintenance (Schuilenburg & Peeters, 2018).
Many incidences reported, most are either generated by manually or automatically using the various software testing techniques. Poor security is very dangerous to any field of application; tactical networks are used by the security systems, they are used in the battlefields to connect soldiers and commanders during the battle (Kamatchi, 2012). It is normally a wireless network system and since the soldier does not know where the attack is coming from their lives depends mainly on the system
During the war, drones are used in the battlefields whose main purpose is to detect and report the addresses of the system being used by the enemies. The privacy of the soldiers can be secured using a clustering algorithm that can achieve anonymization. The program is created to change the location and addresses of all machines in the territory before the drone delivers information to the enemies. Using this technique, privacy-preservation frameworks that are distributed enable data anonymization. Data anonymization has presented great improvement using data mining techniques to prevent data disclosure and common attacks (Hutchison & Sterbenz, 2018).
The security architecture of the system determines the level of assurance on the security of a system. This strength of the security architecture is determined during the design of the product; it illustrates the security during the development and the overall system. System security is one of the non-functional requirements of a system, though it needs to be treated as any other requirements such as the cost and capability of the system. Principles that need to be considered during the design include; designing the security from the start of the design process. The designers need to ensure a room is left for future enhancements of the system. The developers need to develop systems that do not depend on secrecy for security (Kamatchi, 2012).
The design principles that need to be included as protection mechanisms are; the least privileged users of the system should only be allowed chances to accomplish only their tasks. Every access to every object must be checked carefully to ensure the security of the system is not compromised. The system should be open scrutiny any time a friend’s workmate wishes to, its better when an error is discovered by a friend than an enemy. During system design, the user interface needs to be made easy to use so that the users may not bypass (Schuilenburg & Peeters, 2018).
Since there is no computer system that can be totally secure, trusted computing base (TCB) is all the protection mechanisms within a computer, it offers different levels of security depending on the type of data being handled. Enabling the TCB in a system ensures the safety of the system; it has components that enforce its security policy directly into the system. TCB handles the security of the memory and all input-output operations.
The system architecture is an important factor during the design of any computer software system, and all systems require a proper design for a secure system. Frequent updates of the system should be done at all times to ensure the safety of data secured by the system (Hutchison & Sterbenz, 2018). Testers should ensure no block goes unturned during testing; application of efficient testing methods should be applied.