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Combinatorial Testing

Ongoing
For more information regarding the Combinatorial Testing, please visit the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC)..

Face Recognition Prize Challenge 2017

Ongoing
Results From June to September 2017, NIST evaluated 41 face recognition algorithms from 16 developers. The algorithms were applied to datasets of 2D still photographs in two ways: verification of “wild” photojournalism and social media images, and identification of faces from surveillance videos

Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance

Ongoing
The Structured Software Assurance (SSA) task is investigating a methodology known as "structured assurance case models," which have been used extensively in assuring safety-critical systems and applications, for their potential application in assuring other software system qualities, such as

Publications

Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3

Author(s)
Paul E. Black, William Mentzer, Elizabeth Fong, Bertrand Stivalet
The Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3 can create vast numbers of synthetic programs with and without specific flaws or vulnerabilities. Such

SATE VI Report: Bug Injection and Collection

Author(s)
Aurelien Delaitre, Paul E. Black, Damien Cupif, Guillaume Haben, Loembe Alex-Kevin, Vadim Okun, Yann Prono, Aurelien Delaitre
The SATE VI report presents the results of a security-focused bug finding evaluation exercise carried out from 2018 to 2023 on various code bases using static