SCENE: Guidelines for Security Chaos Engineering based on a systematic literature review

Journal article, 2026

Security Chaos Engineering (SCE) is a proactive approach to identify vulnerabilities and enhance security of systems. It embraces continuous security experimentation to build confidence in the capability of systems to withstand malicious conditions. Different SCE techniques are proposed for enhancing the resilience of software systems. The diversity of SCE techniques indicates the need for their collective analysis to uncover valuable practices and potential research opportunities. To fulfill this need, we consolidate and unify the knowledge on SCE practices through a systematic literature review. The results show that there has been limited and unsystematic investigation of SCE by the community, highlighting the importance of creating and promoting guidelines for SCE practices. Therefore, we create SCENE, a comprehensive set of guidelines for systematically reporting SCE. The goal is to support the clarity, consistency, and reproducibility of SCE practices. SCENE guidelines are evaluated by cybersecurity practitioners and active researchers in the field, and is mapped to established methodological guidelines. The results indicates that SCENE is perceived positive in terms of usefulness, understandability, practicality, and completeness. SCENE is also found to complement established experimental reporting guidelines and bridge the gap between academic studies and industrial use.