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A Threat Model Driven Approach for Security Testing

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Linzhang Wang Wong, E. Dianxiang Xu
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Nanjing Univ., Nanjing (Linzhang Wang)
Abstract	In this paper, we propose a novel threat model-driven security testing approach for detecting undesirable threat behavior at runtime. Threats to security policies are modelled with UML (unified modeling language) sequence diagrams. From a design-level threat model we extract a set of threat traces, each of which is an event sequence that should not occur during the system execution. The same threat model is also used to decide what kind of information should be collected at runtime and to guide the code instrumentation. The instrumented code is recompiled and executed using test cases randomly generated. The execution traces are collected and analyzed to verify whether the aforementioned undesirable threat traces are matched. If an execution trace is an instance of a threat trace, security violations are reported and actions should be taken to mitigate the threat in the system. Thus the linkage between models, code implementations, and security testing are extended to form a systematic methodology that can test certain security policies.
Starting Page	10
Ending Page	10
File Size	130612
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769529526
DOI	10.1109/SESS.2007.2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-05-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing System testing Instruments Neodymium Unified modeling language Programming threat model Computer science UML sequence diagram Runtime security testing National security Computer security
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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