System and Method To Analyze Software Systems Against Tampering

摘要

A system, article of manufacture and method is provided for determining the vulnerability to attack of a software system by generating a hybrid graph, the hybrid graph including an attack graph portion describing at least one potential attack goal on the software system and describing sub-attacks required to achieve the potential attack goal. The hybrid graph also includes a defense graph describing ways to defend against the potential sub-attacks. The hybrid attack-defense graph may be evaluated and a score may be calculated based on the evaluation.