SECTEST 2013 - 2013 The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Security Testing

To improve software security, several techniques, including vulnerability modelling and security testing, have been developed but the problem remains unsolved. On one hand, the workshop tries to answer how vulnerability modelling can help users understand the occurrence of vulnerabilities so to avoid them, and what the advantages and drawbacks of the existing models are to represent vulnerabilities. At the same time, the workshop tries to understand how to solve the challenging security testing problem given that testing the mere functionality of a system alone is already a fundamentally critical task, how security testing is different from and related to classical functional testing, and how to assess the quality of security testing. The objective of this workshop is to share ideas, methods, techniques, and tools about vulnerability modelling and security testing to improve the state of the art.
In particular, the workshop aims at providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to exchange ideas, perspectives on problems, and solutions. Both papers proposing novel models, methods, and algorithms and reporting experiences applying existing methods on case studies and industrial examples are welcomed. The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
network security testing
application security testing
security requirements definition and modelling
security and vulnerability modelling
runtime monitoring of security-relevant applications
security testing of legacy systems
cost effectiveness issues
comparisons between security-by-design and formal analyses
formal techniques for security testing and validation
security test generation and oracle derivation
specifying testable security constraints
test automation
penetration testing
regression testing for security
robustness and fault tolerance to attacks
test-driven diagnosis of security weaknesses
process and models for designing and testing secure system
when to perform security analysis and testing
"white box" security testing techniques
compile time fault detection and program verification
tools and case studies
industrial experience reports
This workshop is a follow-up and combination of the First International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2008) and the First International Workshop on Modelling and Detection of Vulnerabilities (MDV 2010), as well as the Second International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2011) and the Third International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2012).