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Cloud computing is a new computational paradigm that offers an innovative business model for organizations to adopt IT without upfront investment. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the model security is still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Mohamed Almorsy , John Grundy , Ingo Müller

Software security is of utmost importance for most software systems. Developers must systematically select, plan, design, implement, and especially, maintain and evolve security features -- functionalities to mitigate attacks or protect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kevin Hermann , Sven Peldszus , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer , Thorsten Berger

End users positive response is essential for the success of any software. This is true for both commercial and Open Source Software (OSS). OSS is popular not only because of its availability, which is usually free but due to the user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Arif Razza , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Shuib Basri

This article analyzes trust and security in computing and communications systems. While in human-life, trust usually has some kind of commonly understood meaning, in the realm of computing and communications systems, it could be interpreted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

In these days embedded system have an important role in different Fields and applications like Network embedded system , Real-time embedded systems which supports the mission-critical domains, mostly having the time constraints, Stand-alone…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Qamar Jabeen , Fazlullah Khan , Muhammad Nouman Hayat , Haroon Khan , Syed Roohullah Jan , Farman Ullah

Open source software projects evolve thanks to a group of volunteers that help in their development. Thus, the success of these projects depends on their ability to attract (and keep) developers. We believe the openness of a project, i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Valerio Cosentino , Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo , Jordi Cabot

The Cloud Computing concept offers dynamically scalable resources provisioned as a service over the Internet.Economic benefits are the main driver for the Cloud, since it promises the reduction of capital expenditure and operational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Harit Shah , Sharma Shankar Anandane , Shrikanth

System security assurance provides the confidence that security features, practices, procedures, and architecture of software systems mediate and enforce the security policy and are resilient against security failure and attacks. Alongside…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ankur Shukla , Basel Katt , Livinus Obiora Nweke , Prosper Kandabongee Yeng , Goitom Kahsay Weldehawaryat

Embedded software is developed under the assumption that hardware execution is always correct. Fault attacks break and exploit that assumption. Through the careful introduction of targeted faults, an adversary modifies the control-flow or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Bilgiday Yuce , Patrick Schaumont , Marc Witteman

Freely and openly shared low-cost electronic applications, known as open electronics, have sparked a new open-source movement, with much un-tapped potential to advance scientific research. Initially designed to appeal to electronic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-14 Michael Oellermann , Jolle W. Jolles , Diego Ortiz , Rui Seabra , Tobias Wenzel , Hannah Wilson , Richelle Tanner

This paper explores the rapidly evolving ecosystem of publicly available AI models, and their potential implications on the security and safety landscape. As AI models become increasingly prevalent, understanding their potential risks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Huzaifa Sidhpurwala , Garth Mollett , Emily Fox , Mark Bestavros , Huamin Chen

Research in cybersecurity may seem reactive, specific, ephemeral, and indeed ineffective. Despite decades of innovation in defense, even the most critical software systems turn out to be vulnerable to attacks. Time and again. Offense and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Marcel Böhme

Cloud computing, undoubtedly, has become the buzzword in the IT industry today. Looking at the potential impact it has on numerous business applications as well as in our everyday life, it can certainly be said that this disruptive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Rashmi Rai , G. Sahoo , S. Mehfuz

A distributed storage system (DSS) needs to be efficiently accessible and repairable. Recently, considerable effort has been made towards the latter, while the former is usually not considered, since a trivial solution exists in the form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Lukas Holzbaur , Stanislav Kruglik , Alexey Frolov , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Open source software (OSS) has been playing a fundamental role in not only information technology but also our social lives. Attracted by various advantages of OSS, increasing commercial companies take extensive participation in open source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xuetao Li , Yuxia Zhang , Cailean Osborne , Minghui Zhou , Zhi Jin , Hui Liu

This paper discusses about the challenges, advantages and shortcomings of existing solutions in data security and privacy in public cloud computing. As in cloud computing, oceans of data will be stored. Data stored in public cloud would…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Yue Shi

Secure software engineering is a fundamental activity in modern software development. However, while the field of security research has been advancing quite fast, in practice, there is still a vast knowledge gap between the security experts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Vivek Arora , Enrique Larios Vargas , Maurício Aniche , Arie van Deursen

Software products are rarely developed from scratch and vulnerabilities in such products might reside in parts that are either open source software or provided by another organization. Hence, the total cybersecurity of a product often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Thomas Olsson , Martin Hell , Martin Höst , Ulrik Franke , Markus Borg

A growing framework of legal and ethical requirements limit scientific and commercial evalua-tion of personal data. Typically, pseudonymization, encryption, or methods of distributed com-puting try to protect individual privacy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Nikolaus von Bomhard , Bernd Ahlborn , Catherine Mason , Ulrich Mansmann

The damage caused by cybercrime makes the development of secure software inevitable. Although many tools and frameworks exist to support the development of secure software, statistics on cybercrime show no improvement in recent years. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alex R. Mattukat , Timo Langstrof , Horst Lichter