Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPA) are an emerging innovation that is changing the
means by which home users interact with technology. However, several elements expose …

Smart Buildings are networks of connected devices and software in charge of automatically
managing and controlling several building functions such as HVAC, fire alarms, lighting …

Context: Software security engineering provides the means to define, implement and verify
security in software products. Software security engineering is performed by following a …

Typical cyber security risk assessment methods focus on the system under consideration, its
vulnerabilities, and the resulting impact in the event of a system compromise. Cyber security …

Increasingly mobile device users are being hurt by security or privacy issues with the apps
they use. App developers can help prevent this; inexpensive security assurance techniques …

While the techniques to achieve secure, privacy-preserving software are now well
understood, evidence shows that many software development teams do not use them: they …

A number of security certifications for small-and medium-size enterprises have been
proposed, but how effective are these schemes? We evaluated the effectiveness of Cyber …

Developers struggle to program securely. Prior works have reviewed the methods used to
run user-studies with developers, systematized the ancestry of security API usability …

Though some software development teams are highly effective at delivering security, others
either do not care or do not have access to security experts to teach them how …

Recent years have seen rapid increases in cybercrime. The use of effective software security
activities plays an important part in preventing the harm involved. Objective research on …