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Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Understand and Secure Web/Enterprise Systems

Project description

Automated test case generation to identify security threats

What security-related mistakes do software developers make and why do they make them? The answer to this will assist in forming a much-needed theoretical framework for the field of security testing, which identifies threats and measures vulnerabilities in software applications. The EU-funded EAST project will design new techniques that can be used to automatically generate test cases for large web/enterprise systems and that can find common types of security threats. Specifically, the tools and techniques developed in the EAST project will assist in studying and broadening our understanding of what kinds of security-related mistakes developers make in practice. Ultimately, it will contribute to software engineering, evolutionary computation and computer security, especially in developing breakthroughs in investigating the so-called oracle problem, which determines whether a test has passed or failed.

Host institution

HOYSKOLEN KRISTIANIA - ERNST G. MORTENSENS STIFTELSE
Net EU contribution
€ 2 000 000,00
Address
Kirkegata 24-26
0107 Oslo
Norway

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Region
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00

Beneficiaries (1)

HOYSKOLEN KRISTIANIA - ERNST G. MORTENSENS STIFTELSE
Norway
Net EU contribution
€ 2 000 000,00
Address
Kirkegata 24-26
0107 Oslo

See on map

Region
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00