OO Vulnerability: Measuring the vulnerability of an object-oriented design

  • Authors:
  • A. Agrawal;R. A. Khan

  • Affiliations:
  • Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India;Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India

  • Venue:
  • Network Security
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Secure software development is still an underexplored topic for many organisations, who failed to design security in at the early stage of the development process. The issue is complicated by advanced software architectural concepts, such as object oriented design, in which multiple pieces of software inherit characteristics and methods from each other. This article discusses a practical approach to assessing vulnerabilities within object oriented designs, taking into account object-based principles such as inheritance and polymorphism. Traditional approaches to security focus primarily on antivirus, firewalls, intrusion detection, and so on.^1 In spite of these protection, the attacks continue, and data breaches and other losses are escalating. This proves that network security alone cannot protect application from attacks. What else is missing?