Research

Scott Christiansen describes how machine learning can be used to identify security bugs

Scott Christiansen, BU Cybersecurity Adjunct Faculty and Senior Security Program Manager at Microsoft co-authored a recent paper, Identifying Security Bug Reports Based Solely on Report Titles and Noisy Data, and featured blog post, Secure the software development lifecycle with machine learning, exploring methods to use machine learning to improve the identification and classification of security bugs. Discussed both on Venturebeat and The Verge these techniques are gaining the attention of software and service developers.