Security in the Conceptual, Requirements, & Specifications Stages As a Senior IT Security Consultant for Salus Cybersecurity Services, LLC (Salus Cybsec), a company that provides cybersecurity services to both private industry and government clients, you have been assigned to develop a secure software development plan for your client Greentech Engineering and Services (GES). GES develops green technology applications for their products and web-based services. In this section of your plan, you will focus on security in the conceptual stage as well as in the requirements and specifications stage. To complete this section of your plan you will address the following tasks: Task background: The creation of, and changes to applications begin with conceptual topics. At this early stage of analysis, key notions of application software security must be considered. Examples include: sensitive information, information flow, data access, use of services infrastructure, application and service dependencies. Task: Develop a worksheet for conceptual-stage activities that will help the identification of application software security-related issues that should be addressed early in the software development lifecycle. Identify and briefly explain key application security considerations that must be addressed during the application conceptual stage. Task background: After an application has been conceptualized, requirements and specifications will be detailed stipulations that describe the characteristics of the application. Requirements and specifications will provide detailed decisions on each criterion of the application. Examples include: user roles, access control mechanisms, use cases, interfaces to internal and external systems, concurrency, ease of use, extensibility, maintainability, performance, portability, reliability, scalability, security, technology constraints and standards. Further, the requirements should form the basis of a detailed test plan, such that every decision under the requirements will be testable and verifiable. Task: Identify and provide guidelines for criteria that should be included in the requirements and specifications.