Mansooreh Zahedi

End-users’ knowledge and perception about security of clinical mobile health apps: A case study with two Saudi Arabian mHealth providers

B Aljedaani, A Ahmad, M Zahedi, MA Babar

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Systems and Software

Mobile health apps (mHealth apps) are being increasingly adopted in the healthcare sector, enabling stakeholders such as medics an..

Why, How and Where of Delays in Software Security Patch Management: An Empirical Investigation in the Healthcare Sector

N Dissanayake, M Zahedi, A Jayatilaka, MA Babar

Journal article  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Numerous security attacks that resulted in devastating consequences can be traced back to a delay in applying a security patch. De..

An Empirical Study of Automation in Software Security Patch Management

N Dissanayake, A Jayatilaka, M Zahedi, MA Babar

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Several studies have shown that automated support for different activities of the security patch management process has great pote..

Systematic Literature Review on Cyber Situational Awareness Visualizations

Liuyue Jiang, Asangi Jayatilaka, Mehwish Nasim, Marthie Grobler, Mansooreh Zahedi, M Ali Babar

Journal article  |  2022  |  IEEE ACCESS

The dynamics of cyber threats are increasingly complex, making it more challenging than ever for organizations to obtain in-depth ..

Challenges and solutions when adopting DevSecOps: A systematic review

RN Rajapakse, M Zahedi, MA Babar, H Shen

Journal article  |  2022  |  Information and Software Technology

Context: DevOps (Development and Operations) has become one of the fastest-growing software development paradigms in the industry...

An empirical study of developers' discussions about security challenges of different programming languages

Roland Croft, Yongzheng Xie, Mansooreh Zahedi, M Ali Babar, Christoph Treude

Journal article  |  2022  |  EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Given programming languages can provide different types and levels of security support, it is critically important to consider sec..

Software security patch management-A systematic literature review of challenges, approaches, tools and practices

Nesara Dissanayake, Asangi Jayatilaka, Mansooreh Zahedi, M Ali Babar

Journal article  |  2021  |  INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY

Context: Software security patch management purports to support the process of patching known software security vulnerabilities. P..

An empirical analysis of practitioners perspectives on security tool integration into devops

RN Rajapakse, M Zahedi, MA Babar

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Background: Security tools play a vital role in enabling developers to build secure software. However, it can be quite challenging..

A grounded theory of the role of coordination in software security patch management

N Dissanayake, M Zahedi, A Jayatilaka, MA Babar

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  ESEC/FSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Several disastrous security attacks can be attributed to delays in patching software vulnerabilities. While researchers and practi..

Security awareness of end-users of mobile health applications: An empirical study

B Aljedaani, A Ahmad, M Zahedi, M Ali Babar

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Mobile systems offer portable and interactive computing - empowering users - to exploit a multitude of context-sensitive services,..