Software Security and Privacy: Threats, Standards, and Solutions

This report delves into the critical aspects of software security, addressing various threats like viruses, privilege escalation, and logic bombs, alongside discussions on system infrastructure and privacy standards. It explores the challenges in establishing international privacy regulations and the need for robust authentication and authorization procedures. The report emphasizes the importance of system infrastructure management, including the application of security updates and attack monitoring, as well as the implementation of backup policies to ensure data integrity. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of traffic encryption and multi-factor authentication in securing network communications and protecting against cyber threats. The report is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of software security and to offer practical solutions for mitigating risks, safeguarding data, and maintaining system integrity.

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Types of threat
System security threat is a malicious action targeted at interrupting
the integrity of computer systems and programs. There are lots of threats
that have to be considered when developing a software product against
cyber-attacks but the three major threats are viruses, privilege escalation,
and logic bombs. Virus threat has the ability to replicate itself by hooking
itself on the software product. When developing a software product, a
software developer should consider how they can avoid a virus from hooking
themselves on to the software product. Privilege escalation threat is where
software developers are required to be aware of bugs on the software
product which can be exploited by hackers to gain access to certain
computer resources. Logic bombs are also referred to as slag code. This is a
type of threat whereby, a hacker is able to add to lines of codes to a software
product which in turn sets of a specific function. With logic bombs threat a
hacker is able to delete and corrupt computer data (Schneidewind, 2011).
The reason as to why it is difficult to establish a set of privacy standards
which can be applied internationally on software products
Privacy standard is an approach to protect the confidentiality of a
software product which is achieved by embedding it into software design
specifications. It has been difficult to establish a set of privacy standards that

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can be applied internationally on software products due to; first lack of
common regulations detailing how software developers ought to prioritize
privacy when developing software products. Example some regions such as
the EU countries requires software developers to ask consent from
customers before they can set privacy standards on software products. In
the US software developers are required to have a dedicated data privacy
protection officer. Other regions do not have even privacy regulations
meaning that software developers are free to do what they wish (Janczewski
& Colarik, 2013).

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References
Janczewski, L., & Colarik, A. M. (2013). Cyberwarfare and cyber terrorism. Chicago: John &
Wiley Press.
Schneidewind, N. (2011). Systems and software engineering with applications. New York:
Springer Press.