Security patterns are a means to encapsulate and communicate proven security solutions. They are well-established approaches for integrating security into the software development process. The literature includes a large array of security patterns...

Security patterns are a well-established means to encapsulate and communicate proven security solutions and introduce security into the development process. Our objective is to explore the research efforts on security patterns and discuss...

of the software development lifecycle. Security patterns have received considerable attention from the security community to introduce concepts such as authentication, access control and encryption to software design. Unfortunately, many well-known and commonly...