Automating Detection of Security-Related Software Engineering Failures

The software engineering discipline encompasses the techniques that are responsible for defining, designing and managing the development and lifecycle of software systems. Given this, the discipline has key responsibilities for preventing cybersecurity issues in code and software systems, more broadly. Despite goals in this area, numerous software products are released with defects. This paper proposes techniques for the automatic detection of failures of the software engineering process that cause security issues. This automatic detection process is designed to help prevent errors during the design and coding processes as well as to detect errors during product deployment and after release.