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Information Sciences 277 (2014) 375–395
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A novel secure business process modeling approach
and its impact on business performance
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Youseef Alotaibi a,b, , Fei Liu a
a Department puter Science puter Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia
b Department puter Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
article info abstract
Article history: The existing information system (IS) development methods do not meet the requirements
Received 15 April 2013 to resolve security-related IS problems and they fail to provide for the essful integra-
Received in revised form 30 September 2013 tion of security and systems engineering during all development process stages. Security
Accepted 10 February 2014
should be considered during the whole software development process and the require-
Available online 20 February 2014
ments specifications should be identified. This paper aims to propose an integrated security
and IS engineering approach in all software development process stages by using the ià lan-
Keywords:
guage. The proposed framework is divided into three separate parts: modeling the business
Information system security
environment, modeling the information technology system and modeling IS security. A
Software development process
Business process modeling (PM) mobile phone order management process in a pany is used as a
Business performance case study to validate the proposed framework. An empirical analysis based on data from
Case study 130 business and IT managers is used to evaluate and investigate if it has an impact on
Survey research business process performance. The results were subjected to reliability and validity analy-
ses. Bivariate correlation analysis was used to test four hypotheses. The results show that
considering security IS goals in the whole system development process can have a positive
influenc