Agents of responsibility in software vulnerability processes

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-110

  Takanen, Ari ^a   Vuorijärvi, Petri ^a   Laakso, Marko ^a   Röning, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information security; Professional ethics; Security evaluation; Software development; Software vulnerability; Softwaretesting

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SECURITY EVALUATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE VULNERABILITIES; VULNERABILITES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33947398937     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-004-1266-3     Document Type: Article

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