Software Development Considerations of Information Security

In early days of networking, individual computers were connected together and mostly used in academic and government organisations. When business started to widely embrace the Internet as a sales channel and business tool in the early-to-mid 1990s, a new security model was required. As the use of information technologies evolved, the original all-or-nothing approaches to security no longer met the needs of information consumers. Changing scenarios of network systems force us to analyse newer types of information security issues and challenges that may occur in development of information systems. It is a practicable idea to integrate information security concepts into different stages of software development. In this paper, we discussed different issues that one has to deal with possible inculcation of information security concepts into different software development phases.