Confis: a tool for privacy and security analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design

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Alkubaisy, D., Piras, L., Al-Obeidallah, M., Cox, K. and Mouratidis, H. 2021. Confis: a tool for privacy and security analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design. Ali, R., Kaindl, H. and Maciaszek, L. (ed.) 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. Virtual 26 - 27 Apr 2021 SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications. pp. 80-91 https://doi.org/10.5220/0010406100800091
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TitleConfis: a tool for privacy and security analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design
AuthorsAlkubaisy, D., Piras, L., Al-Obeidallah, M., Cox, K. and Mouratidis, H.
Abstract

Privacy and security requirements, and their potential conflicts, are increasingly having more and more importance. It is becoming a necessary part to be considered, starting from the very early stages of requirements engineering, and in the entire software engineering cycle, for the design of any software system. In the last few years, this has been even more emphasized and required by the law. A relevant example is the case of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires organizations, and their software engineers, to enforce and guarantee privacy-by-design to make their platforms compliant with the regulation. In this context, complex activities related to privacy and security requirements elicitation, analysis, mapping and identification of potential conflicts, and the individuation of their resolution, become crucial. In the literature, there is not available a comprehensive requirement engineering oriented tool for supporting the requirements analyst. In this p aper, we propose ConfIs, a tool for supporting the analyst in performing a process covering these phases in a systematic and interactive way. We present ConfIs and its process with a realistic example from DEFeND, an EU project aiming at supporting organizations in achieving GDPR compliance. In this context, we evaluated ConfIs by involving privacy/security requirements experts, which recognized our tool and method as supportive, concerning these complex activities.

KeywordsSecurity Requirements; Privacy Requirements; Requirements Conflicts; General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); Requirements Modelling; Privacy by Design
Sustainable Development Goals9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Middlesex University ThemeCreativity, Culture & Enterprise
Conference16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
Page range80-91
Proceedings TitleProceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering ENASE - Volume 1
EditorsAli, R., Kaindl, H. and Maciaszek, L.
ISSN2184-4895
ISBN9789897585081
PublisherSCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
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Print26 Apr 2021
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Accepted05 Feb 2021
Deposited02 May 2024
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Alkubaisy, D., Piras, L., Al-Obeidallah, M., Cox, K. and Mouratidis, H. ConfIs: A Tool for Privacy and Security Analysis and Conflict Resolution for Supporting GDPR Compliance through Privacy-by-Design. DOI: 10.5220/0010406100800091
In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2021), pages 80-91 ISBN: 978-989-758-508-1
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