Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) software provides a choice of products to streamline enterprise applications. COTS software integration can introduce security vulnerabilities due to mismatches between security constraints coupled with inadequate knowledge of interaction requirements. Though a component can be validated against its stand-alone functional and security requirements, two aspects of...

The network capability refers to the firm’s ability to build, handle and exploit relationships. These capabilities are interwoven in the complex configuration with other capabilities and competencies of the firm and are, in practice, very difficult to separate from them. Rather than assuming that firms inherently possess network capability, our aim is to discover if this actually naturally occu...