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What is Software Security

Chapter 5
Modern Theories and Practices for Cyber Ethics and Security Compliance
An art of providing protection to software against hackers and attackers during the life cycle of the software.
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Towards a Security Competence of Software Developers: A Literature Review
Nana Assyne (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3149-5.ch005
Abstract
Software growth has been explosive as people depend heavily on software on daily basis. Software development is a human-intensive effort, and developers' competence in software security is essential for secure software development. In addition, ubiquitous computing provides an added complexity to software security. Studies have treated security competences of software developers as a subsidiary of security engineers' competence instead of software engineers' competence, limiting the full knowledge of the security competences of software developers. This presents a crucial challenge for developers, educators, and users to maintain developers' competences in security. As a first step in pushing for the developers' security competence studies, this chapter utilises a literature review to identify the security competences of software developers. Thirteen security competences of software developers were identified and mapped to the common body of knowledge for information security professional framework. Lastly, the implications for, with, and without the competences are analysed and presented.
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Open Source Software Evaluation
How well a piece of software is built in terms of vulnerabilities and defense against them. Any software will have some type of security hole in it that allows a person, often with hostile intentions, to break into the software and use it for purposes that are unwanted. It is necessary for developers to minimize these holes and fix them if they are discovered. In case of open source software, because the source is public, the users may help in discovery by examining the source code. This, however, also means that a person with hostile intentions can also find these holes by examining the source code. Thus, it is always important to keep a close eye on security.
Published in Chapter: Open Source Software Evaluation; From: Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
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