Bringing Autonomy to AppSec - Dr. David Brumley - ESW #255

Published: Dec. 24, 2021, 10 p.m.

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Log4j, solar winds, tesla hacks, and the wave of high profile appsec problems aren\\u2019t going to go away with current approaches like SAST and SCA. Why? They are: -40 years old, with little innovation -Haven\\u2019t solved the problem. In this segment, we talk about fully autonomous application security. Vetted by DARPA in the Cyber Grand Challenge, the approach is different: -Prove bugs, rather than trying to list all of them. -Zero false positives, which leads to better autonomy.

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Segment Resources:

Article on competition: https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/cyber-grand-challenge

Technical article on approach: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mayhem-the-machine-that-finds-software-vulnerabilities-then-patches-them

Example vulns discovered: https://forallsecure.com/blog/forallsecure-uncovers-critical-vulnerabilities-in-das-u-boot

https://github.com/forallsecure/vulnerabilitieslab

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw255

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