Nudging Software Developers Toward Secure Code

Felix Fischer; Jens Grossklags

doi:10.1109/MSEC.2022.3142337

Nudging Software Developers Toward Secure Code

Felix Fischer, Jens Grossklags

Informatics 24 - Associate Professorship of Cyber Trust

Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

The prevalence of insecure code is one of the main challenges security experts are trying to solve. We study behavioral patterns among developers which largely contribute to insecure software-googling and reusing code from the Web-and apply nudge theory to harness these behaviors and help developers write more secure code.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	76-79
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Security and Privacy
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2022.3142337
State	Published - 2022

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