Towards Automatic Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Software Applications

REGANO, LEONARDO;CANAVESE, DANIELE;BASILE, CATALDO;VITICCHIE', ALESSIO;LIOY, ANTONIO

2016-01-01

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel semi-automatic risk analysis approach that not only identifies the threats against the assets in a software application, but it is also able to quantify their risks and to suggests the software protections to mitigate them. Built on a formal model of the software, attacks, protections and their relationships, our implementation has shown promising performance on real world applications. This work represents a first step towards a user-friendly expert system for the protection of software applications.