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Assessing the Risk of COTS Usage in Survivable Systems

by Howard F. Lipson, Nancy R. Mead, and Andrew P. Moore

Lower up-front costs and a belief that the cost savings extend throughout the system's lifecycle are primary motivators in the shift from custom-designed to commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based systems. The disadvantages associated with COTS-based systems design include the absence of source code and lack of access to the artifacts of the software engineering process used to design the COTS components.

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Assessing the Risk of COTS Usage in Survivable Systems May 2002

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