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Penetration Testing is a methodology for assessing network security, by generating and executing possible hacking attacks. Doing so automatically allows for regular and systematic testing. A key question is how to generate the attacks. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Carlos Sarraute , Olivier Buffet , Joerg Hoffmann

Penetration Testing is a methodology for assessing network security, by generating and executing possible hacking attacks. Doing so automatically allows for regular and systematic testing. A key question is how to generate the attacks. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Carlos Sarraute , Olivier Buffet , Joerg Hoffmann

Security has become, nowadays, a major concern for the organizations as the majority of its applications are exposed to Internet, which increases the threats of security considerably. Thus, the solution is to improve tools and mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Mohammed Ennahbaoui , Said Elhajji

Penetration testing is a security exercise aimed at assessing the security of a system by simulating attacks against it. So far, penetration testing has been carried out mainly by trained human attackers and its success critically depended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Fabio Massimo Zennaro , Laszlo Erdodi

Agile development methods are commonly used to iteratively develop the information systems and they can easily handle ever-changing business requirements. Scrum is one of the most popular agile software development frameworks. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Martin Tomanek , Tomas Klima

In multi-tier network systems, custom applications, Web services and platform environments, storing data and information assets becomes a challenge for any organisation. Although there are different methods to secure network systems, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Aiman Al-Sabaawi , Thamer A. Alrowidhan

Deepfakes - manipulated or forged audio and video media - pose significant security risks to individuals, organizations, and society at large. To address these challenges, machine learning-based classifiers are commonly employed to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nicolas Müller , Piotr Kawa , Adriana Stan , Thien-Phuc Doan , Souhwan Jung , Wei Herng Choong , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

In recent years, technology has advanced considerably with the introduction of many systems including advanced robotics, big data analytics, cloud computing, machine learning and many more. The opportunities to exploit the yet to come…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sam Wen Ping , Jeffrey Cheok Jun Wah , Lee Wen Jie , Jeremy Bong Yong Han , Saira Muzafar

Penetration testing (or pentesting) is one of the widely used and important methodologies to assess the security of computer systems and networks. Traditional pentesting relies on the domain expert knowledge and requires considerable human…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ge Chu , Alexei Lisitsa

Fault Injection is the study of observing how systems behave under unusual stress, environmental or otherwise. In practice, fault injection involves testing the limits of computer systems and finding novel ways to potentially break…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Christopher Simon Liu , Fan Wang , Patrick Gould , Carter Yagemann

This paper presents a critical examination of the surprising efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in penetration testing. The paper thoroughly reviews the evolution of LLMs and their rapidly expanding capabilities which render them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Andreas Happe , Jürgen Cito

The mass production of complex software has made it impossible to manually test it for security vulnerabilities. Automated security testing tools come in a variety of flavors, function at various stages of software development, and target…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yan Wu , Jingyi Su , David D. Moran , Chris D. Near

Thanks to the advance of technology, all kinds of applications are becoming more complete and capable of performing complex tasks that save much of our time. But to perform these tasks, applications require that some personal information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Guilherme Girotto , Avelino Francisco Zorzo

Penetration testing (pentesting) involves performing a controlled attack on a computer system in order to assess it's security. Although an effective method for testing security, pentesting requires highly skilled practitioners and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Jonathon Schwartz , Hanna Kurniawati

Deep packet inspection is widely recognized as a powerful way which is used for intrusion detection systems for inspecting, deterring and deflecting malicious attacks over the network. Fundamentally, almost intrusion detection systems have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-03-04 Tamer AbuHmed , Abedelaziz Mohaisen , DaeHun Nyang

The openness of modern IT systems and their permanent change make it challenging to keep these systems secure. A combination of regression and security testing called security regression testing, which ensures that changes made to a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Irdin Pekaric , Clemens Sauerwein , Michael Felderer

Cyber threats are rapidly increasing, expanding their impact from large-scale enterprises to government services and individual users, making robust security systems increasingly essential. However, a significant shortage of skilled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yasod Ginige , Pasindu Marasinghe , Sajal Jain , Suranga Seneviratne

Software testing is a critical element of software quality assurance and represents the ultimate review of specification, design and coding. Software testing is the process of testing the functionality and correctness of software by running…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-26 S. S. Riaz Ahamed

As cyber threats continue to evolve and diversify, it has become increasingly challenging to identify the root causes of security breaches that occur between periodic security assessments. This paper explores the fundamental importance of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Prakhar Paliwal , Arjun Sable , Manjesh K. Hanawal

The majority of Ethical Hacking (EH) tools utilised in penetration testing are developed by practitioners within the industry or underground communities. Similarly, academic researchers have also contributed to developing security tools.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Paolo Modesti , Lewis Golightly , Louis Holmes , Chidimma Opara , Marco Moscini