Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG)

The purpose of the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG), active since 1996, is to study, evaluate and develop methods of implementing and testing application and system software in order to prevent, discover and eliminate implementation level security vulnerabilities in a proactive fashion. Our focus is on implementation level security issues and software security testing.
OUSPG is active as an academic research group in the University of Oulu since summer 1996.
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Research group information

Unit and faculty

Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Contact information

Research group leader

Researchers

Research group description

Current activities include

  • Black-box testing for software vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerability tracking of disclosures
  • Integrating secure programming in local curriculum
  • Study of the vulnerability classifications and taxonomies
  • Study of the life-cycle of the software vulnerabilities

OUSPG teaches several courses at the university.

See also: OUSPG tools available on our Github page.

CriM

The international Crisis Management workshop CriM gathers the teachers, researchers, experts and students of cybersecurity annually to study pressing issues of security and privacy of our digital systems.