A new solution for complex security testing

In the context of complex networks,such as Internet, security testing determines whether an implementation under test conforms to its specification. Testing was carried out in a centralized and sequential way. This is no longer applicable or feasible as systems to be tested have become increasingly complex and can be widely distributed. We present a new solution to evaluate how a distributed approach can help in testing complex network security such as a network´s components efficiently. The paper proposes two solutions to generate automatically distributed tests. By applying these solutions to Internet, it showed that the solutions ease development of distributed tests and distributed tests obtained are well suited for testing complex systems.