Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes
In the current state of practice, analysis of the security attributes of software systems is typically carried out through subjective evaluations by security experts who accumulate system knowledge in bits and pieces from architectures, specifications, designs, code, and tests. In contrast, this report describes foundations for a new computational security attributes (CSA) technology. This innovative approach provides precise computational methods for defining and analyzing security attributes based solely on the data and transformations of data found within programs. CSA permits security attributes to be evaluated through automatable analysis of the functional behavior of programs. The technology can support specification of security attributes of systems before they are built; specification and evaluation of security attributes of acquired software; verification of the as-built security attributes of systems; and real-time evaluation of security attributes during system operation.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
Security and SurvivabilityTechnical Report
CMU/SEI-2006-TR-021
December 2006
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SEI:
Walton, Gwendolyn; Longstaff, Thomas; & Linger, Richard. Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes (CMU/SEI-2006-TR-021). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/06tr021.cfm
IEEE:
G. Walton, T. Longstaff, and R. Linger, "Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2006-TR-021, 2006. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/06tr021.cfm
APA:
Walton, G., Longstaff, T., & Linger, R. (2006). Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes (CMU/SEI-2006-TR-021). Retrieved May 25, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/06tr021.cfm
CHI:
Walton, Gwendolyn, Thomas Longstaff, and Richard Linger. Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes (CMU/SEI-2006-TR-021). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/06tr021.cfm
MLA:
Walton, G., Longstaff, T., & Linger, R. 2006. Technology Foundations for Computational Evaluation of Software Security Attributes (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2006-TR-021). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/06tr021.cfm
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