Short note on Security Assessment.
Security Assessment
- Security assessment has something in common with a safety assessment.
- It is intended to demonstrate that the system cannot enter some state (an unsafe or an insecure state) rather than to demonstrate that the system can do something.
- However, there are differences
- Safety problems are accidental; security problems are deliberate;
- Security problems are more generic - many systems suffer from the same problems; Safety problems are mostly related to the application domain
Security validation
Experience-based validation
- The system is reviewed and analyzed against the types of attacks that are known to the validation team.
Tool-based validation
- Various security tools such as password checkers are used to analyze the system in operation.
Tiger teams
- A team is established whose goal is to breach the security of the system by simulating attacks on the system.
Formal verification
- The system is verified against a formal security specification.
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