Software is developed to fulfil a given purpose, and developers aim to maximize their compliance with stories, use cases, APIs and a myriad of dependencies. While development progresses, bugs and (design) flaws are introduced into systems, sometimes reaching exposed interfaces, and becoming a vulnerability to the correct execution of the system.
This lecture will explore what is a vulnerability and what is the role of vulnerabilities and vulnerability tracking.
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Recommended reading:
- Security in Computing, 5th edition, C. P. Pfleeger, S. L. Pfleeger: Chap 7
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- Segurança em Redes Informáticas, A. Zúquete, Chap. 2
- Seven Pernicious Kingdoms: A Taxonomy of Software Security Errors
- Sasha Romanosky, Examining the costs and causes of cyber incidents, Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2016, Pages 121–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyw001