Software Vulnerability Discovery Process: Concepts and Applications

This book is an overview of basics and other related fundamentals pertaining to software vulnerability discovery as a process. This collaboration of academia and industry disseminates various practical mathematical modeling-based tools and analytics used for vulnerability discovery.

A big challenge for software developers is producing and maintaining high quality offerings. Recent developments in both academia and industry have seen the devotion of many researchers to the security aspect of software systems. There are various instances where a security breech or more precisely a software vulnerability has led to the colossal loss of resources and, at times, human lives as well. The emergence of this naïve concept from the field of complex systems provides many new opportunities for the software security fraternity and has also raised many new exciting challenges. And so, of late, many practitioners have contributed to this domain.

Software Vulnerability Discovery Process: Concepts and Applications is not only for academicians, but also for those who need to understand nature of the vulnerabilities, like a vendor, a client in the domain of complex systems, and for understanding the patch management workflow. Along with these, anyone solving problems within the related application domains will benefit from this compilation.

Dr. Adarsh Anand obtained his doctorate from Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi. His research interests include modelling of innovation adoption in marketing and software reliability assessment. He is a lifetime member of the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM). He was awarded Young Promising Researcher in the Field of Software Reliability and Technology Management by SREQOM in 2012. He is on the editorial board for various journals and has guest edited several special issues for journals of repute. He has edited two books, System Reliability Management: Solutions & Technologies and Recent Trends in Software Reliability Assurance, and has authored one text book, Market Assessment with OR Applications, which were published by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis).

Navneet Bhatt is an Assistant Professor in Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce at SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, India. He did his doctorate in the area of Software Vulnerability Modeling from University of Delhi, India. He is a lifetime member of the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM). He has obtained six sigma green belt certifications from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He has publications in journals of international repute. His research interests include vulnerability discovery modeling, software reliability growth modelling, marketing management and quality management.

Omar H. Alhazmi is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Taibah University in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. in 2007 from Colorado State University, USA. Dr Alhazmi has published Over 50 articles in journals, conferences and as book chapters in the areas of software vulnerabilities, security, reliability of software and Internet of Things. He has also worked as consultant to e-government national programs.