This paper surveys the risks brought by multitenancy in software platforms, along with the
most prominent solutions proposed to address them. A multitenant platform hosts and …

Abstract Context Michael Howard conceptualized the attack surface of a software system as
a metaphor for risk assessment during the development and maintenance of software. While …

Context: Practitioners establish a piece of software's security objectives during the software
development process. To support control and assessment, practitioners and researchers …

Ubiquitous sensing environments such as sensor networks collect large amounts of data.
This data volume is destined to grow even further with the vision of the Internet of Things …

While the many economic and technological advantages of Cloud computing are apparent,
the migration of key sector applications onto it has been limited, in part, due to the lack of …

The OSGi framework is a Java-based, centralized, component oriented platform. It is being
widely adopted as an execution environment for the development of extensible applications …

Clouds provide a platform for efficiently and flexibly aggregating, storing, and processing
large amounts of data. Eventually, sensor networks will automatically collect such data. A …

With version 9, Java has been given the new module system Jigsaw. Major goals were to
simplify maintainability of the JDK and improve its security by encapsulating modules' …

LISE is a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to
put forward a set of methods and tools to (1) define software liability in a precise and …

Measurement is one of the foundations of sound engineering practices, because—as Tom
DeMarco put it—you cannot control what you can't measure. This principle should also apply …