Blind Security Testing—An Evolutionary Approach

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Security testing is difficult enough when auditors have complete access to the system under review. This task is all the more difficult when the auditor must perform this assessment blind. In a blind scenario, the attacker has an infinite number of test cases to choose from, far more than can be executed and evaluated in a reasonable amount of time. This talk will cover the use of evolutionary algorithms in test case generation and result evaluation with the goal of focusing security test cases on those most likely to result in flaws.