• Vulnerability Lifecycle

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

December 2010

Authors

Sandy Clark, Stefan Frei, Matt Blaze, Jonathan Smith

Excerpt

Our analysis of a decade of software vulnerability (both open and closed source), shows that properties extrinsic to the software play a much greater role in the rate of vulnerability discovery than do intrinsic properties such as software quality.

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