Abstract
Continuous Deployment (CD) has emerged as a new practice in the software industry to continuously and automatically deploy software changes into production. Continuous Deployment Pipeline (CDP) supports CD practice by transferring the changes from the repository to production. Since most of the CDP components run in an environment that has several interfaces to the Internet, these components are vulnerable to various kinds of malicious attacks. This paper reports our work aimed at designing secure CDP by utilizing security tactics. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of five security tactics in designing a secure pipeline by conducting an experiment on two CDPs- one incorporates security tactics while the other does not. Both CDPs have been analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. We used assurance cases with goal-structured notations for qualitative analysis. For quantitative analysis, we used penetration tools. Our findings indicate that the applied tactics improve the security of the major components (i.e., repository, continuous integration server, main server) of a CDP by controlling access to the components and establishing secure connections.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering |
Editors | Ernesto Damiani, George Spanoudakis, Leszek Maciaszek |
Place of Publication | Portugal |
Publisher | Scitepress |
Pages | 57-68 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Volume | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789897582509 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2017 - Porto, Portugal Duration: 28 Apr 2017 → 29 Apr 2017 Conference number: 12th http://www.enase.org/?y=2017 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-94135-6 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2017 |
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Abbreviated title | ENASE 2017 |
Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Porto |
Period | 28/04/17 → 29/04/17 |
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Keywords
- Continuous deployment
- Continuous deployment pipeline
- Continuous integration
- Security