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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2018
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Yang-Seo Choi, Daejeon, KR;
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for assessing cybersecurity vulnerabilities based on a serial port. The apparatus includes a vulnerability DB for storing vulnerability assessment items, a communication unit for configuring an environment for serial communication with an assessment target device and configuring a network environment, a vulnerability scanning unit for selecting a vulnerability assessment item for which cybersecurity vulnerability assessment is to be performed on the assessment target device, and performing scanning for checking the selected vulnerability assessment item on the assessment target device, a response analysis unit for analyzing a response of the assessment target device to the scanning, and setting one or more of an operating system, an application, and a protocol corresponding to the assessment target device, and a vulnerability presence determination unit for determining, using the set one or more of the operating system, application, and protocol, whether a vulnerability is present.