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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Walter T. Hulick, Jr., Pearland, TX (US);
Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Cupertino, CA (US);
Girish Sivasubramanian, Mountain House, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for evaluating penetration testing tools. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a plurality of instructions, wherein the instructions comprise one or more security vulnerabilities for testing a web server, generating the web server, wherein the web server comprises the plurality of instructions with the one or more security vulnerabilities, receiving a penetration test result from a penetration testing tool executing on the web server, and computing a precision of the penetration testing tool for detecting the one or more security vulnerabilities.