Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

S.p.i. Dynamics Incorporated

Caleb Sima

Darrin Ray Barrall

Dennis Wayne Hurst

Raymond Kelly

Bryan Sullivan

William Matthew Hoffman

Timothy Farley

Steve Alan Millar

Gerald Eugene Sullivan

David Tillery

Providing secure web application development and operation. In a web development environment, code developed for the web application is analyzed to identify vulnerabilities and remedial actions are identified. The remedial actions may be automatically invoked or a developer can be prompted to take particular actions to remediate the vulnerability.

Secure web application development and execution environment

A web application is more efficiently analyzed by intelligently generating attack sequences to be used in the assessment. Rather than simply sending a canned list of static strings at a web application, the operation of the web application is analyzed to determine the filtering and acceptance characteristics of the web site. As this information is ascertained, a vocabulary of allowed symbols is created. This vocabulary is used in the building of attack strings and as such, the number of attack strings fired at the web application is greatly reduced, as well as the number of false positives.

Web application assessment based on intelligent generation of attack strings

A recursive web crawling and analysis tool that includes conducting an initial crawl of a target to identify testable or analyzable objects. The objects are then parsed to identify vulnerabilities, as well as additional objects that can be analyzed. An attack is then launched against the analyzable objects in an effort to break or verify the vulnerabilities. During this attack, additional analyzable objects may be discovered. If such additional objects are discovered, the web crawler is invoked on the additional objects as well, and the results of the crawl are fed back into the parser and attacker functions.

System and method for testing web applications with recursive discovery and analysis

Various embodiments of systems, methods, software tools, etc. for providing secure web application development are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for developing a secure web application. One such method comprises: analyzing code associated with a web application to identify at least one vulnerable input; and validating the at least one vulnerable input.

Secure web application development environment

A vulnerability assessment tool that is operative to analyze web sites by simultaneously operating a crawling process and an audit process. Once the crawling process is invoked, the results are provided to the audit process. The audit process, rather than waiting until the crawl process is completed, simultaneously audits the web site based on the already provided crawl results. The results of the audit are also fed back to the crawl process to further enhance the crawl.

Integrated crawling and auditing of web applications and web content

Various embodiments of systems, methods, software tools, etc. for performing an assessment of an application are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for performing an assessment of a web application. One such method comprises: recording user interactions with a web application; and playing back the user interactions to perform an assessment of the web application.

Automated user interaction in application assessment

An automated Web security analysis system and process identifies security vulnerabilities in a target Internet Web site by parsing through the target Web sit to search for a predetermined list of common security vulnerabilities. The process is recursive, exploiting information gathered throughout the process to search for additional security vulnerabilities. A prioritized list of detected security vulnerabilities is then presented to a user, including preferably a list of recommendations to eliminate the detected security vulnerabilities.

Webcrawl internet security analysis and process

An automated Web security analysis system and process identifies security vulnerabilities in a target Internet Web site by parsing through the target Web site to search for a predetermined list of common security vulnerabilities. The process is recursive, exploiting information gathered throughout the process to search for additional security vulnerabilities. A prioritized list of detected security vulnerabilities is then presented to a user, including preferably a list of recommendations to eliminate the detected security vulnerabilities.

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Woodstock, GA, United States of America

Caleb Sima