Date of Award
7-2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Computer Engineering and Sciences
First Advisor
Marco M. Carvalho
Second Advisor
Carlos Otero
Third Advisor
Thomas C. Eskridge
Fourth Advisor
William H. Allen, III
Abstract
The security of computer programs and systems is a very critical issue. Threats against computer networks and software are on the rise. Therefore, businesses and IT professionals should take steps to ensure that their information systems are as secure as possible. However, many programmers and software engineers do not think about adding security to their programs until their projects are near completion, which results in vulnerable and insecure systems that could be exploited by attackers. This dissertation presents a recommender system to help programmers write more secure code. We created a model that mines and categories source code from existing open source projects and uses machine learning and text mining techniques to offer recommendations and example fixes to programmers of where security could be included in their projects. We achieved positive results in the performance and statistically significant results regarding the usability and the ability of the system to help programmers write more secure code.
Recommended Citation
Nembhard, Fitzroy, "A Recommender System for Improving Program Security Through Source Code Mining and Knowledge Extraction" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 784.
https://repository.fit.edu/etd/784