This report presents an overview of the results of a three year DARPA-sponsored effort investigating dynamic software security analysis. This research effort resulted in the design and implementation of two major tool sets (FIST and VISTA), each comprised of many individual tools, and the development of a methodology that provides the capability to perform a thorough security analysis on a piece of security-critical software written in C or C++. The ...
This report discusses the research and results discovered under a Phase I SBIR program awarded by DARPA and the U.S. Missile Command contract number DAAH01-97-C-R095. The main objective of this Phase I research grant is to study the feasibility in using connectionist approaches to detecting the existence of anomalous or unknown intrusions against programs in real-time. The research resulted in the development of a prototype that can be used to ...