<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The 4th International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2018)<br class="">will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on<br class="">Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018 –<br class=""><a href="http://www.ares-conference.eu" class="">http://www.ares-conference.eu</a>)<br class=""><br class="">IMPORTANT DATES<br class=""><br class="">Submission Deadline May 6, 2018<br class="">Author Notification May 28, 2018<br class="">Proceedings Version June 29, 2018<br class="">Conference August 27 – August 30, 2018<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">GOAL: Organizations are required often to produce secure software.<br class="">They apply a software development and operation processes that<br class="">integrate activities such as threat modeling, security code analysis,<br class="">and security code review. The goal of the workshop is to bring<br class="">together security and software development researchers and<br class="">practitioners to share their finding, experiences, and positions about<br class="">developing secure software. The workshop aims to encourage the use of<br class="">scientific methods to investigate the challenges related to developing<br class="">secure software. It aims also to increase the communication between<br class="">security researchers and software development researchers to enable<br class="">the development of techniques and best practices for developing secure<br class="">software.<br class=""><br class="">TOPICS OF INTEREST COMPRISE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:<br class=""><br class="">Experience with secure DevOps<br class="">Data-driven secure software development<br class="">Challenges for agile development of secure software<br class="">Incremental development of cyber-physical systems<br class="">Secure software development training and education<br class="">Tools supporting incremental secure software development<br class="">Usability of agile secure software development<br class="">Security awareness for software developers<br class="">Security and robustness testing in agile development<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">WORKSHOP CHAIRS<br class=""><br class="">Juha Röning<br class="">University of Oulu<br class="">juha[.]roning[at]<a href="http://oulu.fi" class="">oulu.fi</a><br class=""><br class="">Lotfi ben Othmane<br class="">Iowa State University, USA<br class="">othmanel[at]<a href="http://iastate.edu" class="">iastate.edu</a><br class=""><br class="">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br class=""><br class="">Benjamin Aziz, University of Portsmouth, UK<br class="">Bhargava, Bharat, Purdue University, USA<br class="">Achim Brucker, University of Sheffield, UK<br class="">Joern Eichler, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany<br class="">Felderer, Michael, Universität Innsbruck, Austria<br class="">Vimal Kumar, University of Waikato, New Zealand<br class="">Lotfi ben Othmane, Iowa State University, USA<br class="">Sandra Ringman, Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany<br class="">Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland<br class="">Markus Wagner, St.Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria<br class="">Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria<br class="">Hasan Yasar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br class="">Koen Yskout, KU Leuven, Belgium<br class="">Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen’s University, Canada<br class=""><br class="">SUBMISSION<br class=""><br class="">The submission guidelines valid for the SSE workshop are the same as<br class="">for the ARES conference. It is necessary that all papers submitted to<br class="">EasyChair are anonymized (no names or affiliations of authors should<br class="">be visible in the paper).<br class=""><br class="">They can be found at:<br class=""><a href="https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/" class="">https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/</a> . Select track:<br class="">SSE 2018<br class=""><br class="">Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the<br class="">workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to special<br class="">issues of international journals.</body></html>