Architecting Secure Software Systems Using an Aspect-Oriented Approach: : A Survey of Current Research

The importance of security in the development of complex software systems has increasingly become more critical as software becomes increasingly more pervasive in our everyday lives. Aspect-orientation has been proposed as a means to handle the crosscutting nature of security requirements when developing, designing and implementing security-critical applications. This paper surveys some of the approaches and contributions of integrating an aspect-oriented approach into designing and implementing secure software systems.