Security Requirements Engineering: A Survey for the Systems Engineer

This paper presents a survey of existing literature, standards, methods, and best practices for security requirements elicitation in the field of systems engineering. Despite the abundance of research on requirements engineering, there is a notable scarcity of resources addressing security requirements from a systems engineering perspective. This work integrates insights from both software centric security engineering and traditional systems engineering to offer a consolidated reference for systems engineers. Key areas reviewed include relevant systems engineering standards, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods, Systems Theory approaches, and software security requirements engineering practices. This survey aims to provide a valuable resource for systems engineers striving to enhance security requirements development during system design.