A Secure Framework for Discovering the Liabilities of a Network Server

The role of network and information systems is increasing in our day today infrastructures that provide critical services like banking and commerce applications, telecommunications, distribution, transportation, etc. This increases the levels of dependability on such applications, which brings about several pros and cons as well. If these infrastructures are damaged, it can compromise the availability of the critical services. Thus, it is the need of the hour to secure the available network and information systems from malicious attacks. In this paper, we have proposed a secure technique named as Network Liability Detection (NLD) and a software we named as Network Liability Tool (NLT), that points out the liabilities or vulnerabilities of your system that can be exploited to compromise its security. We propose a model based approach where the behavior of each component of the system is carefully monitored to find out the well known as well as as-yet-unknown loopholes in the system. A prototype of the application is built in Windows Platform using Java, to demonstrate the entire functioning of this system and helps in solving the security related loopholes in the network servers. The speculative results affirm that the proposed technique is effective in detecting the liabilities of the network servers.