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In the past decade, explosive growth in computer networks has brought security issues to the forefront. One of the greatest challenges in computer security today is the software assurance problem: How do we deal with the fact that our most trusted software, even our security software itself, is often buggy?
In this talk, I will discuss how static analysis can help with the software assurance problem. I will describe some recent experience with static analysis tools for vulnerability detection. I will also survey a number of open problems in the field and suggest a few promising directions for future research.
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Wagner, D. (2001). Static Analysis and Software Assurance. In: Cousot, P. (eds) Static Analysis. SAS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47764-0_25
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