When the software goes beyond its requirements - A software security perspective

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Abstract

Evidences from current events have shown that, in addition to virus and hacker attacks, many software systems have been embedded with "agents" that pose security threats such as allowing someone to "invade" into computers with such software installed. This will eventually grow into a more serious problem when Cluster and Cloud Computing becomes popular. As this is an area that few have been exploring, we discuss in this paper the issue of software security breaches resulting from embedded sleeping agents. We also investigate some patterns of embedded sleeping agents utilized in software industry. In addition, we review these patterns and propose a security model that identifies different scenarios. This security model will provide a foundation for further study on how to detect and prevent such patterns from becoming security breaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology, ITNG 2012
Pages403-408
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event9th International Conference on Information Technology, ITNG 2012 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 16 Apr 201218 Apr 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology, ITNG 2012

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Information Technology, ITNG 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period16/04/1218/04/12

Keywords

  • security code
  • software agents
  • software assurance
  • Software security
  • software security model

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