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SecurityGuard: An Automated Secure Coding Framework

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The security of software systems is becoming extra vulnerable as new software is being created. It is due to several reasons such as security exploiters are becoming much smarter while the majority of developers are usually not aware of a new set of attacks or even using previous codes that are known to be vulnerable. It’s quite challenging to build secure software with limited time and budget. This work presents a framework called SecurityGuard which is an automated secure coding framework that will allow auto-code fixes based on recommendations from experts as well as learning from best practices. The proposed framework can be used as a plugin to the Integrated Development Environment. The framework is based on three important segments along with a user-friendly interface and an adaptable dashboard providing useful statistics. SecurityGuard will ensure that developers can focus on business logic development without worrying about the implementation of security components.

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  1. Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Yasir Javed & Mamdouh Alenezi

  2. Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Qasim Ali Arian

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  2. The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

    Imran Sarwar Bajwa

  3. University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

    Filippo Sanfilippo

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Javed, Y., Arian, Q.A., Alenezi, M. (2021). SecurityGuard: An Automated Secure Coding Framework. In: Yildirim Yayilgan, S., Bajwa, I.S., Sanfilippo, F. (eds) Intelligent Technologies and Applications. INTAP 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1382. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71711-7_25

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