The Impact of Ethical Regulation and Developer Reputation Scoring on Information Security Professionalism Practice

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dc.contributor.advisorLocasto, Michael
dc.contributor.authorChukuka, Benedict
dc.contributor.committeememberAycock, John
dc.contributor.committeememberHagen, Gregory
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-05T19:30:34Z
dc.date.available2016-01-05T19:30:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-05
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractWe consider the forces of ethical regulation and developer licensing in a software liability attribution regime as two factors that may influence the information security discipline. We conduct investigations that serve to provide insight into how these forces may play out in a regulatory environment of the future. Our first investigation entails a broad survey of ethical policies governing information security courses, and thus, the student trainee experience. We demonstrate the feasibility of fusing current divergent ethical policies into a standard policy on information security. Accordingly, we derive an ethical policy prototype that is based on the common elements of 329 different ethical policies. In our second investigation, we demonstrate a model for determining security reputation scores for individual software developers based on historical introduction of security bugs into source code. We employ information on 1,119 security bugs to compute developer reputation scores across 9 open source software development projects.en_US
dc.identifier.citationChukuka, B. (2016). The Impact of Ethical Regulation and Developer Reputation Scoring on Information Security Professionalism Practice (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28180en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28180
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2723
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectComputer Science
dc.subject.classificationInformation Technologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationEthicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationCodes of Conducten_US
dc.subject.classificationEthical Agreementsen_US
dc.subject.classificationPoliciesen_US
dc.subject.classificationDeveloper Licensingen_US
dc.titleThe Impact of Ethical Regulation and Developer Reputation Scoring on Information Security Professionalism Practice
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Science
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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