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To improve the information assurance of mission execution over modern IT infrastructure, new cyber defenses need to not only provide security benefits, but also perform within a given cost regime. Current approaches for validating and integrating cyber defenses heavily rely on manual trial-and-error, without a clear and systematic understanding of security versus cost tradeoffs. Recent work on model-based analysis of cyber defenses has led to quantitative measures of the attack surface of a distributed system hosting mission critical applications. These metrics show great promise, but the cost of manually creating the underlying models is an impediment to their wider adoption. This paper describes an experimentation framework for automating multiple activities associated with model construction and validation, including creating ontological system models from real systems, measuring and recording distributions of resource impact and end-to-end performance overhead values, executing real attacks to validate theoretic attack vectors found through analytic reasoning, and creating and managing multi-variable experiments.

In last twenty years, use of internet applications, web hacking activities have exaggerated speedily. Organizations facing very significant challenges in securing their web applications from rising cyber threats, as compromise with the protection issues don't seem to be reasonable. Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) techniques help them to go looking out security loopholes. These security loopholes could also be utilized by attackers to launch attacks on technical assets. Thus it is necessary ascertain these vulnerabilities and install security patches. VAPT helps organization to determine whether their security arrangements are working properly. This paper aims to elucidate overview and various techniques used in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT). Also focuses on making cyber security awareness and its importance at various level of an organization for adoption of required up to date security measures by the organization to stay protected from various cyber-attacks.