Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany)
Prospects of Combining Security Testing and MBT.
The current practice for security evaluations is mainly based on system audits. Security testing did not yet gain from the advances of model-driven approaches as realized e.g. in the development of software-based systems or in functional testing. Existing security testing tools usually test specific security features without being able to test the overall system consistency wrt. its security requirements. Model-based testing approaches for security testing are expected to enable highly secure systems by early testing and test automation. These approaches should support an early identification of design vulnerabilities and support efficient system and test designs targeting security aspects. This talk will give a review on security testing and on model-based testing approaches and outline possible ways of their combination.

To improve software security, several techniques, including vulnerability modelling and security testing, have been developed but the problem remains unsolved. On one hand, the workshop tries to answer how vulnerability modelling can help users understand the occurrence of vulnerabilities so to avoid them, and what the advantages and drawbacks of the existing models are to represent vulnerabilities. At the same time, the workshop tries to understand how to solve the challenging security testing problem given that testing the mere functionality of a system alone is already a fundamentally critical task, how security testing is different from and related to classical functional testing, and how to assess the quality of security testing. The objective of this workshop is to share ideas, methods, techniques, and tools about vulnerability modelling and security testing to improve the state of the art.

In particular, the workshop aims at providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to exchange ideas, perspectives on problems, and solutions. Both papers proposing novel models, methods, and algorithms and reporting experiences applying existing methods on case studies and industrial examples are welcomed. The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• network security testing
• application security testing
• security requirements definition and modelling
• security and vulnerability modelling
• runtime monitoring of security-relevant applications
• security testing of legacy systems
• cost effectiveness issues
• comparisons between security-by-design and formal analyses
• formal techniques for security testing and validation
• security test generation and oracle derivation
• specifying testable security constraints
• test automation
• penetration testing
• regression testing for security
• robustness and fault tolerance to attacks
• test-driven diagnosis of security weaknesses
• process and models for designing and testing secure system
• when to perform security analysis and testing
• "white box" security testing techniques
• compile time fault detection and program verification
• tools and case studies
• industrial experience reports

Audience

• Paul Ammann (George Mason University, USA)
• Alessandra Bagnato (TXT e-solutions, Corporate Research Division, Italy)
• Benoit Baudry (INRIA Rennes, France)
• Ruth Breu (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• Achim Brucker (SAP Research, Germany)
• Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France)
• Khaled El Fakih (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
• Daniel Faigin (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
• Roland Groz (Grenoble University, France)
• Mohamed Jmaiel (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
• Keqin Li (SAP Research, France; co-chair)
• Lijun Liu (China Mobile Research Institute, China)
• Wissam Mallouli (Montimage, France; co-chair)
• Matteo Meucci (OWASP-Italy)
• Charles P. Pfleeger (Pfleeger Consulting Group, USA)
• Ronald Ritchey (Booz Allen & Hamilton, USA)
• Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
• Nahid Shahmehri (Linköping University)
• Luca Viganò (Università di Verona, Italy; co-chair)
• Bachar Wehbi (Montimage, France)
• Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Nina Yevtushenko (Tomsk State University, Russia)

Steering Committee

• Alessandro Armando (University of Genova, Italy)
• Ana Cavalli (Telecom SudParis, France)
• Jorge Cuellar (Siemens, Germany)
• Alexander Pretschner (KIT, Germany)
• Yves Le Traon (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

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