System and method for building an executable script for performing a network security audit

A method for building an executable script for performing a network security audit, comprising:

• storing a source program expressed in a network packet simulation language and comprising a plurality of statements encoding logic to simulate an exchange of network protocol compliant-packets;
• scanning each statement into a sequence of individual tokens;
• parsing each token into grammatical phrases comprising at least one of an expression and a control construct, each expression evaluating to a data value and each control construct defining a process flow;
• and
• compiling the grammatical phrases into program instructions to execute the logic on a target machine.

A computer-readable storage medium for a device holding code for performing a method for building an executable script for performing a network security audit, comprising:

• storing a source program expressed in a network packet simulation language and comprising a plurality of statements encoding logic to simulate an exchange of network protocol compliant-packets;
• scanning each statement into a sequence of individual tokens;
• parsing each token into grammatical phrases comprising at least one of an expression and a control construct, each expression evaluating to a data value and each control construct defining a process flow;
• and
• compiling the grammatical phrases into program instructions to execute the logic on a target machine.