Aerospace, Military & Defence
OSD awards GrammaTech $1M for binary architecture recovery research
New architecture visualisation capability will allow security assessors to better focus on sensitive areas in an application to investigate
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rammaTech, a developer of commercial embedded software assurance tools and advanced cybersecurity solutions, announced that it has been awarded a $1 million, two year contract from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), a division of the Department of Defense, to perform research and development into architecture recovery of binary software. This contract is administered by the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
The goal of GrammaTech’s contribution
is to create high level Unified Modeling Language (UML) based architecture diagrams from information found in native binaries. These diagrams are a valuable asset when performing cyber security assessments.
High level UML based diagrams are typically created during the software development phase. However, the final software implementation often differs from the initial plan and the end user of the software seldom has access to the design documents. The architecture recovery technology that GrammaTech is developing allows security assessors to use UML diagrams to find critical paths through the software. This allows them to quickly focus their investigations on these areas of the application. “Vulnerability analysis often happens at the level of assembly code which makes it
very time consuming and makes it easy to overlook vulnerabilities”, says Dave Ciarletta, director of Reverse Engineering at GrammaTech. “This new architecture visualisation capability will allow security assessors to look at the big picture first and
then focus on sensitive areas in an application to investigate; saving time as well as improving accuracy.” UML architecture recovery will be integrated into the visualisation capability provided by GrammaTech’s CodeSonar static analysis tool. GrammaTech's advanced static analysis
tools are used by software developers worldwide, spanning a myriad of embedded software industries including avionics, government, medical, military, industrial control, and other applications where reliability and security are
paramount. Originally developed within Cornell University, GrammaTech is now a leading research center for software security and a commercial vendor of software-assurance tools and advanced cyber-security solutions. With both static and dynamic analysis tools that analyse source code as well as binary executables, GrammaTech continues to advance the science of superior software analysis, providing technology for developers to produce safer software.
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