Systems security engineering (SSE), as an integral part of systems engineering, applies scientific, mathematical, engineering, and measurement principles, concepts, and methods to coordinate, orchestrate, and direct the activities of security and other contributing engineering specialties (e.g. reliability, safety and human factors) to deliver sufficiently secure systems. This tutorial provides an overview of SSE, its concepts, and the increasingly critical role of SSE as part of systems engineering. Loss-driven systems engineering provides a means to focus the tutorial; relating to loss driven concepts will be a key element.
Systems engineering is about meeting stakeholder needs within constraints of cost, schedule, and performance; integrating system security into systems engineering is about meeting the security protection needs derived from those stakeholder needs. SSE activities address system-of-interest loss concerns associated with the system throughout its life cycle, in consideration of adverse conditions resulting from threats, disruptions and hazards. The tutorial will offer a system-oriented framing of the security perspective with connections to the technical engineering and technical engineering management methods and activities employed as part of a systems engineering project to address stakeholder security concerns.
This tutorial targets the experienced systems engineer who is a novice in SSE as a specialty discipline of systems engineering