Measuring the Sustainable-Security of Web Applications Through a Fuzzy-Based Integrated Approach of AHP and TOPSIS

Alka Agrawal,Raees Ahmad Khan,Rajeev Kumar,Mamdouh Alenezi

doi:10.1109/access.2019.2946776

Abstract

Ensuring sustainable-security of web applications for minimizing security breaches and enhancing users' trust and satisfaction is the foremost priority of all security experts and web developers. However, sustainable-security is multidimensional, emergent, and an irreducible concept. Also, designing sustainable-security of web application is a complex process because it is a multi-attribute approach which is based on the users' needs and organization's policies. In this context, the decision making process could be an effective means to quantitatively evaluate sustainable-security of web application design. In this research study, the authors have used a technique that involves integrating Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy AHP) and Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (Fuzzy TOPSIS) approaches for the assessment of sustainable-security of web applications. The efficacy of this technique has then been tested on a web application designed specifically to cater to the requisites of an academic institution, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in India. Given the sensitivity of web application, this paper has used different versions of a University web application. The results thus obtained and the approach employed in this study would definitely aid the future researchers and developers in designing web applications with higher sustainable-security.

Highlights

Sustainable-security is about building sustainable and secure web application while ensuring that every developer who is involved in the design process understands the importance of security [1[], [2]
A lot of work has been done on sustainable-security in the past, we found that the planned security and sustainability assessment methods in the available references lacked sustainable-security assessment framework with preferable design attributes
With the help of equations (1-26), sustainable-security estimation through Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS has been evaluated as follows: With the help of table 1 and equations (1-9), authors converted the linguistic values into numeric values and aggregated Triangular Fuzzy Number (TFN) values

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Sustainable-security is about building sustainable and secure web application while ensuring that every developer who is involved in the design process understands the importance of security [1[], [2]. According to a report by Microsoft, there has been a noticeable increase in the practitioners’ efforts to reform their whole security models to integrate sustainability during the early stages of web application development [6]. It is imperative to apply a more effective approach for estimating sustainable-security and enabling the practitioners to know the preferences of factors while guaranteeing sustainable-security of the web applications developed by them. In this backdrop, the authors of this paper propose to opt for an integrated fuzzy based approach i.e., Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS method for the estimation of sustainable-security. Sustainable-security of the web application has been estimated with the assistance of the tree structure and Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS method. The discussion and the conclusion have been drafted in segment seven and eighth, respectively

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