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Sharing of vulnerability information amongcompanies: a survey of Swedish companies
RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, ICT, SICS.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2933-1925
Lund University, Sweden.
Lund University, Sweden.
RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, ICT, SICS.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2017-7914
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2019 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Software products are rarely developed from scratch and vulnerabilities in such products might reside in parts that are either open source software or provided by another organization. Hence, the total cybersecurity of a product often depends on cooperation, explicit or implicit, between several organizations. We study the attitudes and practices of companies in software ecosystems towards sharing vulnerability information. Furthermore, we compare these practices to contemporary cybersecurity recommendations. This is performed through a questionnaire-based qualitative survey. The questionnaire is divided into two parts: the providers' perspective and the acquirers' perspective. The results show that companies are willing to share information with each other regarding vulnerabilities. Sharing is not considered to be harmful neither to the cybersecurity nor their business, even though a majority of the respondents consider vulnerability information sensitive. However, the companies, despite being open to sharing, are less inclined to proactively sharing vulnerability information. Furthermore, the providers do not perceive that there is a large interest in vulnerability information from their customers. Hence, the companies' overall attitude to sharing vulnerability information is passive but open. In contrast, contemporary cybersecurity guidelines recommend active disclosure and sharing among actors in an ecosystem.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-40577OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-40577DiVA, id: diva2:1362932
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Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications 2019, August 28-30, 2019 Kallithea, Chalkidiki, Greece
Available from: 2019-10-22 Created: 2019-10-22 Last updated: 2023-06-08Bibliographically approved

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