Software Security Workshop
The security of computer systems and networks has become increasingly limited by the quality and security of the software running on these machines. Researchers have estimated that more than half of all vulnerabilities are due to buffer overruns, an embarassingly elementary class of bugs. All too often systems are hacked by exploiting software bugs. In short, a central and critical aspect of the security problem is a software problem. How can we deal with this?
The Software Security Workshop explored these issues. The scope of the workshop included security engineering, architecture and implementation risks, security analysis, mobile and malicious code, education and training, and open research issues. In recent years many promising techniques have arisen from connections between computer security, programming languages, and software engineering, and one goal was to bring these communities closer together and crystalize the subfield of software security.
- Original proposal [PDF] for the workshop.
- Participants
- Presentations
