Intellectual Property (IP) Protection

The increased complexity of software systems has led to the situation where their security and reliability have become more necessary and more challenging. As a response, researchers and developers are constantly advancing software assurance techniques and tools that increase the assurance productivity. For example, one advancement in software assurance is the use of fuzz testing, which involves automatically generating random inputs to a program in order to find unexpected behavior. Fuzz testing has been shown to be effective at identifying security vulnerabilities that might have been missed by traditional manual testing methods.