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SECTEST 2015

Monday, April 13, 2015

The Sixth International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2015), co-located with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2015), will be held on 13th April 2015 in Graz, Austria.

To improve software security, several techniques, including vulnerability modelling and security testing, have been developed but the problem remains unsolved. SECTEST 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, how security testing is different from and related to classical functional testing, and how to assess the quality of security testing. This is in particular interesting since testing the mere functionality of a system alone is already a fundamentally critical task. The objective of SECTEST 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 welcome. 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
  • secure interoperability
  • 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

Important Dates

Abstracts due: January 16, 2015

Papers due: January 23, 2015

Notification: February 20, 2015

Camera‐ready due: March 20, 2015