SAW 2018 - 5th 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:
Business continuity planning and its relationship to secure software Engineering
IT auditing and its relationship to secure software Engineering
Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and software Security
Software safety and its relationship to security
Agile methodologies and software security
Security frameworks and their adoption
Malware detection/intrusion detection
Secure software development process
Secure software design/architecture
Security analysis tools and methods
Obfuscation and software security
Software security risk Management
Software security metrics
Security patterns