Software architecture-driven detection of security vulnerabilities

Crucial architectural features are often violated. It is typically difficult to find these violations. The violations cause the software to decay and may create security vulnerabilities. In the past, we have used an architecture-driven approach to successfully detect architecture violations. This ongoing experimental study, a work-in-progress, will shed some light on the relationship between architecture constructs and security vulnerabilities and will help determine to what extent architecture analysis tools can help detect security vulnerabilities that are caused by architecture violations. Ultimately our goal is to help design software architectures that meet their security requirements.