Quantitative Security Evaluation for Software System from Vulnerability Database

Hiroyuki Okamura, Masataka Tokuzane, Tadashi Dohi · Journal of Software Engineering and Applications · 2013

This paper proposes a quantitative security evaluation for software system from the vulnerability data consisting of discovery date, solution date and exploit publish date based on a stochastic model. More precisely, our model considers a vulnerability life-cycle model and represents the vulnerability discovery process as a non-homogeneous Poisson process. In a numerical example, we show the quantitative measures for contents management system of an open source project.

Read the paper · More papers on PaperTik