Enterprise-Driven Open Source Software: A Case Study on Security Automation

Enterprise-Driven Open Source Software : A Case Study on Security Automation

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Agile and DevOps are widely adopted by the industry. Hence, integrating security activities with industrial practices. such as continuous integration (CI) pipelines, is necessary to detect security flaws and adhere to regulators' demands early. In this paper, we analyze automated security activities in CI pipelines of enterprise-driven open source software (OSS). This shall allow us, in the long-run, to better understand the extent to which security activities are (or should be) part of automated pipelines. In particular, we mine publicly available OSS repositories and survey a sample of project maintainers to better understand the role that security activities and their related tools play in their CI pipelines. To increase transparency and allow other researchers to replicate our study (and to take different perspectives), we further disclose our research artefacts. Our results indicate that security activities in enterprise-driven OSS projects are scarce and protection coverage is rather low. Only 6.83% of the analyzed 8,243 projects apply security automation in their CI pipelines, even though maintainers consider security to be rather important. This alerts industry to keep the focus on vulnerabilities of 3rd Party software and it opens space for other improvements or practice which we outline in this manuscript.

NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Programvaruteknik hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Software Engineering hsv//eng
Security
Secure Software Engineering
Continuous Integration
Open Source Software
DevOps
Industrial Companies
DevSecOps

Voggenreiter, MarkusSiemens Technol, Mumbai, DEU (author)
Moyon, FabiolaTech Univ Munich, DEU (author)
Mendez, DanielBlekinge Tekniska Högskola,Institutionen för programvaruteknik(Swepub:bth)dmz (author)
Tech Univ Munich, DEUSiemens Technol, Mumbai, DEU (creator_code:org_t)

In:2021 IEEE/ACM 43RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IN PRACTICE (ICSE-SEIP 2021): IEEE Computer Society, s. 278-2879780738146690

By the author/editor: Angermeir, Flori ...; Voggenreiter, Ma ...; Moyon, Fabiola; Mendez, Daniel

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