The Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) is a rather new security interoperability standard within the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Caleb Sima, SPI Dynamics CTO, talks to Help Net Security about this interesting web application security topic.
Scope on Application Vulnerability Description Language
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there is a new trend here. the need for semi-formal specification languages for various aspects of IT security which have previously been mediated by human natural languages.
the advantages of a computer readable and proessable spec language are numerous. from simple search and consistency checks to more complex quantifications of risk or even automatically merging organisations which have organisationally merged.
have a look at:
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/projects/secpol/SecPol-overview.html
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/Research/policies/ponder.shtml
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/Research/policies/index.shtml
Soon we will have ad-hoc spec for generating semi-ad-hoc spec. It will add amazing quality to life. No more human language ever again. Everything little brackets for machine. Except bold new platform needed to make spec work in innovative new ways for maximum life quality improvement!
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