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Should a full disk encrypted hard drive on a live system be considered encryption at rest?

If you are specifying requirements that a certain classification of data be encrypted while at rest (on storage), should the requirement be considered met if the data is stored on an live (turned on) ...
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What are the key elements of a good security requirement?

What does a good security requirement for an application look like? I am talking about functional as well as non-functional security requirements here. For traceability reasons I consider it ...
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Design of a state machine model to solve conflict of interest in Computer Security

I need to design a state machine model to solve conflict of interest in computer security. [I know Chinese wall model but it is an information flow model] Are there any such existing models? Any ...
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What to consider in an SLA to ensure secure software when outsourcing software development?

To ensure secure development in the off shore team what are considerations to be taken into account in the SLA? I got this as a reference: ...
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Are all security requirements expected to be testable?

Many approaches exist to define security requirements. To keep it simple, i would say to define a security requirement, one need to model the threat encountered when building up misuse cases for ...
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How to define security requirements to ensure that developers… do not provide security by obscurity?

I tried to explain that security by obscurity should not be used but let's say I was challenged! I received the answer to list the known security by obscurity that I know, as a kind of bad practice ...
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Is it necessary to protect user data if they know and agree to it being insecure?

If I'm running a website that, say, takes a survey, must I protect user data from disclosure if the users are informed initially that it's insecure? I'm not storing financial data or social security ...