Research Areas 5: Securing Untrusted Binaries with Acceptance Testing and Field Monitoring

Abstract

Today s Army relies on computing to effectively engage an increasingly sophisticated enemy. Using commercial off the shelf (COTS) software to build Army systems has many advantages: reduced development costs, leveraging of vendor resources and expertise, and greater functionality. Unfortunately, COTS software often includes untrusted components that may contain any variety of uncaught coding errors, intentionally planted time or logic bombs, trojan horses, backdoors, or other features which can cause security violations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 25, 2014
Accession Number
ADA624016

Entities

People

  • Jack W. Davidson
  • Jason D. Hiser

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Code Injection
  • Command Injection
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Patents
  • Security
  • Software Assurance
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • Technology Transfer

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Software Engineering.