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Empirical Study on Attack Surface Mozilla Firefox Case Study. Università degli Studi di Trento Fabio Massacci and Viet Hung Nguyen This work is partial supported by EU committee with grant of. The 3 rd Workshop on Security and Trust, 11 th – 12 th Jan, 2010, Luxembourg. Attack Surface.
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Empirical Study on Attack Surface Mozilla Firefox Case Study UniversitàdegliStudidi Trento Fabio Massacci and Viet Hung Nguyen This work is partial supported by EU committee with grant of The 3rd Workshop on Security and Trust, 11th– 12th Jan, 2010, Luxembourg
Attack Surface • What is the Attack Surface? • Risk and the Attack Surface • Attack surface is static (in a period of time) • Risk is variable • Attack surface can be used to estimate risk …is how much of something or someone can be attacked …is a set of ways in which adversaries can use to attack a software system.
Motivation • Attack Surface as a security metric • Our motivation Empirical Study on Attack Surface: Mozilla Firefox Case Study
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