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An Extensible Framework for Web Application Vulnerabilities Visualization and Analysis

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Future Data and Security Engineering (FDSE 2014)

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The popularity of web-based applications makes them interesting targets of cyber attacks. To deal with that threat, discovering existing vulnerabilities is a proactive step. Although there are many web application scanners designed for this task, they lack visual analysis capability and do not collaborate well together. In this paper, we propose a novel visualization technique and a flexible framework to solve the two problems mentioned above. We also develop a prototype based on the proposal and use it to experiment with virtual websites. Experiment results indicate the unique benefits our work offers. But more importantly, it shows that not only improving the visualization technique from a technical viewpoint is needed, but also improving it from a human cognitive viewpoint should be placed at a higher priority.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam

    Tran Tri Dang & Tran Khanh Dang

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  1. Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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  2. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

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  3. University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 29, 1190, Wien, Austria

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Dang, T.T., Dang, T.K. (2014). An Extensible Framework for Web Application Vulnerabilities Visualization and Analysis. In: Dang, T.K., Wagner, R., Neuhold, E., Takizawa, M., Küng, J., Thoai, N. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. FDSE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8860. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12778-1_7

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