Software security enthusiast

This page lists my research output to date. To obtain the open-access (free) version of a paper, click on the title below. If you’d like to send me feedback on my research, you can use the very short survey here: https://tinyurl.com/itaryan, or drop me an email at ita@itaryan.com and put “secure coding” in the subject line. We researchers love feedback.


Detecting Vibe-Coded Malware

Utz Roedig, Seán Óg Murphy, Ita Ryan, Cormac J. Sreenan

23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF Companion ’26 ), May 19, 2026.


Software Security Is Your Highest Priority. Do Your Developers Know That?

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

IEEE Security & Privacy ( Volume: 24, Issue: 3, May-June 2026)


Towards moving target defense for IoT malware detection

Ita Ryan, Luke Kurlandski, Nate Mathews

8th International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Practices for the IoT (SERP4IoT ’26), Apr 18, 2026.



Weak Programmers Need Not Apply, LLMs Welcome! Survey Screening in the AI Era

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’26), Apr 16, 2026.



“ImmediateShortTerm3MthsAfterThatLOL”: Developer Secure-Coding Sentiment, Practice and Culture in Organisations

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP) · May 2, 2025.



Training developers to code securely: Theory and practice

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2024 ACM/IEEE 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) and 2024 IEEE/ACM Second International Workshop on Software Vulnerability · Apr 15, 2024.


Unhelpful assumptions in software security research

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security · Nov 15, 2023.


The state of secure coding practice: Small organisations and “lone, rogue coders”

Ita Ryan, Klaas-Jan Stol, Utz Roedig

2023 IEEE/ACM 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) · May 15, 2023.


Studying secure coding in the laboratory: Why, what, where, how, and who?

Ita Ryan, Klaas-Jan Stol, Utz Roedig

2023 IEEE/ACM 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) · May 15, 2023.


Measuring secure coding practice and culture: A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) · May 14, 2023.


Insecure software on a fragmenting Internet

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2022 Cyber Research Conference-Ireland (Cyber-RCI) · Apr 25, 2022.


Understanding Developer Security Archetypes

Ita Ryan, Utz Roedig, Klaas-Jan Stol

2021 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS) · Jun 3, 2021.

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