ANALYSIS OF SECURITY VULNERABILITIES USING MISUSE PATTERN TESTING APPROACH

Abstract

Vulnerability detection is commonly been executed during the testing phase of software development. Current methods are not able to detect system or software security vulnerabilities of certain types of attacks during the early stages of software development. These attacks include both the ones were anticipated as well as the ones unknown during the design phase. This paper proposes a method to detect the security vulnerabilities during the design phase of software development. This approach simulates attacks according to the misuse patterns using model testing method. With this approach, one is able to analyze system security vulnerabilities during the design stage of the system development. The practical examples provide evidences to the feasibility of the proposed method.