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_id: '5647'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Reviewing literature on open source and closed source security reveals that
    the discussion is often determined by biased attitudes toward one of these development
    styles. The discussion specifically lacks appropriate metrics, methodology and
    hard data. This paper contributes to solving this problem by analyzing and comparing
    published vulnerabilities of eight open source software and nine closed source
    software packages, all of which are widely deployed. Thereby, it provides an extensive
    empirical analysis of vulnerabilities in terms of mean time between vulnerability
    disclosures, the development of disclosure over time, and the severity of vulnerabilities,
    and allows for validating models provided in the literature. The investigation
    reveals that (a) the mean time between vulnerability disclosures was lower for
    open source software in half of the cases, while the other cases show no differences,
    (b) in contrast to literature assumption, 14 out of 17 software packages showed
    a significant linear or piecewise linear correlation between time and the number
    of published vulnerabilities, and (c) regarding the severity of vulnerabilities,
    no significant differences were found between open source and closed source.
author:
- first_name: Guido
  full_name: Schryen, Guido
  id: '72850'
  last_name: Schryen
citation:
  ama: 'Schryen G. Security of open source and closed source software: An empirical
    comparison of published vulnerabilities. In: <i>15th Americas Conference on Information
    Systems</i>. ; 2009.'
  apa: 'Schryen, G. (2009). Security of open source and closed source software: An
    empirical comparison of published vulnerabilities. In <i>15th Americas Conference
    on Information Systems</i>.'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Schryen_2009, title={Security of open source and closed
    source software: An empirical comparison of published vulnerabilities}, booktitle={15th
    Americas Conference on Information Systems}, author={Schryen, Guido}, year={2009}
    }'
  chicago: 'Schryen, Guido. “Security of Open Source and Closed Source Software: An
    Empirical Comparison of Published Vulnerabilities.” In <i>15th Americas Conference
    on Information Systems</i>, 2009.'
  ieee: 'G. Schryen, “Security of open source and closed source software: An empirical
    comparison of published vulnerabilities,” in <i>15th Americas Conference on Information
    Systems</i>, 2009.'
  mla: 'Schryen, Guido. “Security of Open Source and Closed Source Software: An Empirical
    Comparison of Published Vulnerabilities.” <i>15th Americas Conference on Information
    Systems</i>, 2009.'
  short: 'G. Schryen, in: 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2009.'
date_created: 2018-11-14T14:41:24Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:02:19Z
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: '277'
extern: '1'
file:
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  date_created: 2018-12-18T13:16:39Z
  date_updated: 2018-12-18T13:16:39Z
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has_accepted_license: '1'
keyword:
- Vulnerabilities
- security
- open source software
- closed source software
- empirical comparison
language:
- iso: eng
oa: '1'
publication: 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems
status: public
title: 'Security of open source and closed source software: An empirical comparison
  of published vulnerabilities'
type: conference
user_id: '61579'
year: '2009'
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