CAIRIS (Computer Aided Integration of Requirements and Information Security) is a Requirements Management tool for specifying secure and usable systems. CAIRIS was built from the ground-up to support the elements necessary for usability, requirements, and risk analysis. CAIRIS features include:

• Support for KAOS goal and obstacle modelling, and traceability between goal, requirements, security, and usability model elements.
• Support for entering and managing usability data, such as personas, tasks, and use cases
• Support for entering and managing risk analysis data.
• Support for specifying attack patterns to reason about potential attacks.
• The ability to import architectural patterns to automatically derive attack surface metrics based on them.
• Automatic visualisation of models, and quantitative/quantative scoring of security and usability data
• Automatic document generation of a VOLERE compliant requirements specification.

CAIRIS-web is a fork of the original CAIRIS. CAIRIS-web separates the business layers from the UI and provides easy access by providing a HTML based UI. It also provides a RESTful API which can be used by other applications.

The client side version of CAIRIS-web relies on HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery 2. Any browser which supports these technologies should be able to run the web UI.

The application server of CAIRIS-web should be able to run on most flavours of Linux. There are however some dependencies that need to be installed in order to get CAIRIS-web running:

• dblatex (0.3 or higher)
• DocBook (4.5 or higher)
• GraphViz (2.20 or higher)
• MySQL Server and Client (5.1 or higher)
• Python (2.6 or higher)

Besides the application dependencies, there are also some Python extensions that are required:

• Flask
• Flask-RESTful
• Flask-RESTful-swagger
• Flask-CORS
• jsonpickle
• Mako
• python-numpy
• python-mysqldb
• pyparsing 1.5.7
• pydot

To run the desktop version of CAIRIS within this repository, you will also have to install the original GTK and Glade dependencies:

OS:

• python-wxglade
• python-glade2
• python-wxgtk2.8

A full step-by-step installation guide will be available soon. Please consult the installation guide of the original CAIRIS for the time being.

If you get any problems running CAIRIS, or have any questions or feature requests then please do get in touch.