Software Security Comprehension

Abstract

Software security is becoming more and more important with the increasing number of applications and platforms connected to the Internet, for example, enterprise applications, smartphones or the iPad. The growing importance makes it a progressively interesting field for developers, software designers, end users, and enterprises. Fixing security bugs belongs to the traditional field of software maintainace what makes it also necessary to apply software-comprehension techniques. In the following we present our ongoing research on software-security comprehension, a first step towards program comprehension tailored to the needs of security experts.