The number of security failure discovered and disclosed publicly are increasing at a pace
like never before. Wherein, a small fraction of vulnerabilities encountered in the operational …

Presence of vulnerabilities in any software can pose serious risk to majority of users of that
software, especially in web browsers or operating systems. The assertion that a software is …

Security vulnerability prediction models allow estimation of the number of potential
vulnerabilities and evaluation of the risks caused by these vulnerabilities. In particular, for …

Security vulnerabilities have been of huge concern as an un-patched vulnerability can
potentially permit a security breach. Vulnerability Discovery Modelling (VDM) has been a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a mathematical framework to optimally
allocate resources required for the discovery of vulnerabilities pertaining to different severity …

Vulnerability discovery models (VDMs) have recently been proposed to estimate the
cumulative number of vulnerabilities that will be disclosed after software is released. A …

An organization's eagerness to stay ahead of its competitive market leads to the
development of advanced software systems. Because of the highly distributed nature of …

Last decade has seen several multi up-gradation models and related software release
policies. The unified modeling framework for developing multi-release software systems has …

Abstract Vulnerability Discovery Models (VDMs) attempt to estimate the potential
vulnerabilities present in a software that will be discovered after a software is released. A …

Of late, the attacks or breaching of software systems has increased compared with accounts
in the past. Vulnerabilities present in software have become a serious threat to security, and …