16Security awareness in the software arena

Rory V. O’Connor and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

1 Introduction

In modern society we are highly dependent on software systems in most aspects of our daily activities, such as financial services, telecommunications, electronics, transportation, home appliances and more. As the software system is involved in various aspects of society, security becomes an important issue and a vital requirement for the software system (Salini and Kanmani, 2012a). Many security issues such as confidentiality, availability and integrity need to be preserved in order to consider software as secure (Khan and Zulkernine, 2009).

Non-secure software can cause serious problems for an organisation’s reputation with customers, partners ...

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