TITLE:
The Current and Future of Software Securities and Vulnerabilities
AUTHORS:
Cuixue Zhang, Meijiao Zhou, Yalian Xie, Xiangli Li
KEYWORDS:
e-Time; SDLC; Software Security; White-Box Testing and Black-Box Testing
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.7 No.1,
December
26,
2013
ABSTRACT:
As it has been stepping into the e-time period,
software, which is considered as the key factor of the network and computer
development, has become an integral part of everyday life. Millions of people
may perform transaction through internet, mobile phone, ATM, and send e-mails,
handle word processing or spreadsheets for different purposes. In another word,
the network and information have been related to our daily life completely. Then, by IT advancing, the awareness of software security
becomes a hot and serious topic. This paper will give some comments in various
aspects, such as, in the
beginning of the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle), how do designers analyze the functional and non-functional requirements and
choose the proper development model? And then the testing
professors take which kinds of methods to test the software with white-box
testing or black-box testing to discover the vulnerabilities and flaws. At the same time, the paper gives some examples to
demonstrate why the security of software is pretty important and what we should
do to secure that. In addition, the paper will talk something about the
enterprises’ actions to build a more secure network environment.