Design and implementation of evolution-based vulnerability assessment system

Nowadays, Internet-based applications are widely deployed by enterprises; network security problems affect enterprises greatly. The high cost of computing and network resources brought by existing mainstream vulnerability assessment tools affects the running of application systems seriously. To solve problems mentioned above, the algorithm, framework and prototype system of evolution-based vulnerability assessment is proposed here. Components of the system are organized to comply with the subscriber/publisher architecture; the subscriber is responsible for system characteristics collecting while the publisher is responsible for vulnerability assessment. Experimental results demonstrate that compared with other vulnerability assessment tools, the system is more efficiency, lower computing and network resources required, less affection on applications and applicable to large-scale computing network.