December 2015
Beginner
190 pages
5h 40m
English
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Chapter 4. Software Assurance
Software assurance, an important subdiscipline of software engineering, is the confidence that software will run as expected and be free of vulnerabilities. Given the weight and importance of these tasks, scientific experimentation and evaluation can help ensure that software is secure. In this chapter, we will look at the intersection of software assurance and cybersecurity science. We will use fuzzing as an example of experimentally testing a hypothesis, the importance and design of an adversarial model, and how to put the scientific method to work in evaluating software exploitability.
The Department of Homeland Security describes software assurance as “trustworthiness, predictable execution, and conformance.” Programmers and cybersecurity practitioners spend a lot of time finding and mitigating vulnerabilities to build software assurance, and cybersecurity science can aid that practice. “Since software engineering is in its adolescence, it is certainly a candidate for the experimental method of analysis. Experimentation is performed in order to help us better evaluate, predict, understand, control, and improve the software development process and product.” This quote is from an article from 1986, and is as true today as it was then.
In an ideal world, software developers could apply a magic process to confirm without a doubt that software is secure. Unfortunately, such a solution is not available, or at least not easily and universally available for ...
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