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On the Security Cost of Using a Free and Open Source Component in a Proprietary Product

by Stanislav Dashevskyi, Achim D. Brucker, and Fabio Massacci

Cover for dashevskyi.ea:foss-costs:2016.The work presented in this paper is motivated by the need to estimate the security effort of consuming Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components within a proprietary software supply chain of a large European software vendor. To this extent we have identified three different cost models: centralized (the company checks each component and propagates changes to the different product groups), distributed (each product group is in charge of evaluating and fixing its consumed FOSS components), and hybrid (only the least used components are checked individually by each development team). We investigated publicly available factors (eg, development activity such as commits, code size, or fraction of code size in different programming languages) to identify which one has the major impact on the security effort of using a FOSS component in a larger software product.

Keywords: Free and Open Source Software usage, Free and Open Source Software vulnerabilities, security maintenance costs
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Stanislav Dashevskyi, Achim D. Brucker, and Fabio Massacci. On the Security Cost of Using a Free and Open Source Component in a Proprietary Product. In International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9639), pages 190-206, Springer-Verlag, 2016.
Keywords: Free and Open Source Software usage, Free and Open Source Software vulnerabilities, security maintenance costs
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@InCollection{ dashevskyi.ea:foss-costs:2016,
abstract = {The work presented in this paper is motivated by the need to estimate the security effort of consuming Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components within a proprietary software supply chain of a large European software vendor. To this extent we have identified three different cost models: centralized (the company checks each component and propagates changes to the different product groups), distributed (each product group is in charge of evaluating and fixing its consumed FOSS components), and hybrid (only the least used components are checked individually by each development team). We investigated publicly available factors (\eg, development activity such as commits, code size, or fraction of code size in different programming languages) to identify which one has the major impact on the security effort of using a FOSS component in a larger software product.},
address = {Heidelberg},
author = {Stanislav Dashevskyi and Achim D. Brucker and Fabio Massacci},
booktitle = {International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS)},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30806-7_12},
editor = {Juan Caballero and Eric Bodden},
isbn = {978-3-642-11746-6},
keywords = {Free and Open Source Software usage, Free and Open Source Software vulnerabilities, security maintenance costs},
language = {USenglish},
number = {9639},
pages = {190--206},
pdf = {https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/download/2016/dashevskyi.ea-foss-costs-2016.pdf},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
title = {On the Security Cost of Using a Free and Open Source Component in a Proprietary Product},
url = {https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/abstract/dashevskyi.ea-foss-costs-2016},
year = {2016},
}