Assessing the Impact of Firewalls and Database Proxies on SQL Injection Testing

Appelt, Dennis; Alshahwan, Nadia; Briand, Lionel

Reference : Assessing the Impact of Firewalls and Database Proxies on SQL Injection Testing


	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/9617

Title :	Assessing the Impact of Firewalls and Database Proxies on SQL Injection Testing
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Appelt, Dennis [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
	Alshahwan, Nadia [University College London - UCL > Department of Computer Science]
	Briand, Lionel [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > > ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)]
Publication date :	2013
Main document title :	Springer LNCS series
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
Event name :	1st International Workshop on Future Internet Testing
Event date :	12-11-2013
Event place (city) :	Istanbul
Event country :	Turkey
Keywords :	[en] SQL injection ; blackbox testing ; web service
Abstract :	[en] This paper examines the effects and potential benefits of utilising Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and database proxies in SQL injection testing of web applications and services. We propose testing the WAF itself to refine and evaluate its security rules and prioritise fixing vulnerabilities that are not protected by the WAF. We also propose using database proxies as oracles for black-box security testing instead of relying only on the output of the application under test. The paper also presents a case study of our proposed approaches on two sets of web services. The results indicate that testing through WAFs can be used to prioritise vulnerabilities and that an oracle that uses a database proxy finds more vulnerabilities with fewer tries than an oracle that relies only on the output of the application.
Research centres :	Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Funders :	Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/9617

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