Startup Development and Security

Supervisor: Mari Seeba

Contact: mari.seeba ät ut dot ee

There are the Startup development phases- https://www.startupcommons.org/startup-development-phases.html . Startups are used with risks, and usually, security is the last thing to think about. Security makes the production process complicated and products and services expensive. And at the very beginning (formation phases), the need for security isn't notable and could not cause significant losses. But anyway, startuppers need to make backups, comply with laws, fight against idea theft, etc.

How to reach with secure-by-design mentality into startuppers community which can help to reduce costs in the future?

In October 2020 Garage48 cybersecurity hackathon, a team named SecureMVP provided the security model to startup development phases. The model is still waiting for validation and reach to the community. The potential master thesis should elicit the startuppers security requirements in different development phases and provide a validated security model (baseline security) in compliance with some security regulation or standard (E-ITS https://eits.ria.ee/, ISO27001, etc.).