Automated testing for security vulnerabilities of devices
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsAdam M. Davis, Attique Ahmad
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Abstract
A method includes selecting an attack signature from an attack signature database; generating a fingerprint that includes parameters indicative of the attack signature; generating configuration data for one or more test devices based on the fingerprint, wherein the configuration data is capable of configuring the one or more test devices to provide a security response to the attack signature; providing the configuration data to the one or more test devices; transmitting the attack signature to the one or more test devices; examining a security response to the attack signature from the one or more test devices; and outputting a result of the examining.
Claims20
An automated method comprising:
- selecting an attack signature from an attack signature database;
- generating a fingerprint that includes parameters indicative of the attack signature, wherein the fingerprint is platform independent;
- generating configuration data for one or more test devices based on the fingerprint, wherein the configuration data is used to configure the one or more test devices to provide a security response to the attack signature, and wherein generating the configuration data is based on model and vendor information associated with the one or more test devices;
- providing the configuration data to the one or more test devices;
- transmitting the attack signature to the one or more test devices;
- examining a security response to the attack signature from the one or more test devices;
- and
- outputting a result of the examining.
A network device comprising:
- one or more memories to store instructions;
- and
- one or more processors to execute the instructions in the one or more memories to automatically:
- select an attack signature;
- generate a fingerprint of the attack signature that includes parameters indicative of the attack signature, wherein the fingerprint is platform independent;
- generate configuration data for one or more security devices, wherein the configuration data is used to configure the one or more security devices to provide a response to the attack signature, and wherein the configuration data is generated based on model and vendor information associated with the one or more security devices;
- provide the configuration data to the one or more security devices;
- transmit the attack signature to the one or more security devices;
- and
- examine a security response to the attack signature from the one or more security devices.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media containing instructions executable by at least one processor, the one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions for:
- selecting an attack signature;
- generating a fingerprint that includes parameters indicative of the attack signature, wherein the fingerprint is platform independent;
- generating configuration data for one or more test devices based on the fingerprint, wherein the configuration data is used to configure the one or more test devices to provide a security response to the attack signature, and wherein generating the configuration data is based on model and vendor information associated with the one or more test devices;
- transmitting the configuration data to the one or more test devices;
- transmitting the attack signature to the one or more test devices;
- examining a security response to the attack signature from the one or more test devices;
- and
- outputting a result of the examining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.