SAW 2016 - 3rd International Workshop on Software Assurance

Software security is drawing more attention from the software engineering community, in part due to the many highly publicized attacks exploiting software vulnerabilities. Software increasingly affects our daily lives: our social networks, our automobiles, our smart home systems, our smart phones, and our financial well-being.
Although many attempts have been made to improve software security over the years, the focus of these efforts has traditionally been limited to just a few tools and techniques such as static analysis, penetration testing, and secure coding.
We believe that the scope of software security is much wider than those heavily studied research areas and would like to invite researchers to explore other facets of software security, which have not been as thoroughly studied.
Topics of interest comprise but are not limited to:
Software safety and its relationship to security
Secure software design/architecture
Security frameworks and their adoption
Security patterns
Agile methodologies and software security
Security analysis tools and methods
Software security metrics Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and software Security
Secure software development process
Software security risk Management
IT auditing and its relationship to secure software Engineering
Business continuity planning and its relationship to secure software Engineering
Malware detection/intrusion detection
Obfuscation and software security