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Some sources, e.g. ISTQB, claim that security testig is a functional one. This would be compliant with ISO 9126 (which the ISTQB is based on) but it goes against most other sources - as far as I know, security is a non functional requirement. In ISO 25010, security is one of the quality characteristics (non functional).

I believe security testing is non functional testing as we do not test functionality, we examine the system from this perspective the same way we test performance.

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    Is there a question you want to ask and have answered? The way this is written it comes off as a statement. Is this a question that can be answered in a non-subjective way?
    – Chris Kenst
    Commented Jun 3, 2015 at 23:29

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ISO 25010 is an updated revision of ISO 9126. Security is considered non-functional.

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