Research overview
Software is essential to the effective functioning of the Australian digital economy; its ubiquitous nature underpinning numerous applications. However, the recent cyber-attacks have exposed proprietary and open-source software and software supply chain vulnerabilities, posing a severe risk to the nation's software-intensive critical technologies and critical infrastructure. A significant portion of the reported software vulnerabilities relates to critical enterprise applications or internet-facing applications. Attackers can exploit such vulnerabilities to cause massive damage
Research details
Facing the vulnerabilities in software, the industry highlight the following major questions:
- Do we really know what’s in software coming into the organisation?
- How do we establish trust and preserve the security of software coming into the organisation?
SOCRATES aims to build a new set of solutions at the technology readiness level, for providing a higher level of software security assurance.
