Integrating software development security activities with agile methodologies

Because of several vulnerabilities in software products and high amount of damage caused by them, software developers are enforced to produce more secure systems. Software grows up through its life cycle, so software development methodologies should pay special attention to security aspects of the product. This paper focuses on agile methodologies in order to equip them with security activities. We can restrain reduction of agile nature of organization´s current process by means of agility measurement and applying an efficient activity integration algorithm with a tunable parameter named agility reduction tolerance (ART). Using this approach, method engineer of the project can enhance his agile software development process with security features to increase product´s trustworthiness.