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\n Polaris: Structural Security Posture Analysis Tool\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Polaris: Structural Security Posture Analysis Tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Polaris<\/em> is a web-based system modelling and analysis tool to design, analyze, and manage the structural security posture of a software system. It allows anyone with a web browser to design and analyze the structural security posture of their system. Polaris simplifies the structural security posture analysis into three steps: Design, Analyze, and Summarize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polaris helps system architects, developers, evaluators, and certifiers analyze their system’s structural security posture. Structural security posture is a security evaluation approach to evaluate a system’s preparedness to deal with knowable threats based on its structural view and to enhance the developer’s security knowledge of the system. The structural security posture uses a collection of metrics to reflect a system’s security. It also leverages external data sources to guide the identification of vulnerabilities (thanks to integration with Merak<\/a>). Polaris also enables practitioners to perform what-if analyses to improve their system’s security and make appropriate design decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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