Controlling vulnerabilities in open-source libraries through different tools and techniques

-, Huma Sulthana (2022) Controlling vulnerabilities in open-source libraries through different tools and techniques. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

This paper attempts to find the security vulnerabilities that occurs in an open-source libraries. These vulnerabilities are the weak points of open-source libraries which are used by attackers to reduce or/and breach the information security of the system. Hence, this is crucial to identify such vulnerable or weak points in the open-source libraries that harm a system for which this research is conducted. The main motivation behind this research is to identify and prevent security issues and provide a secure environment to students, researchers, and other people or institutes that used open-source libraries. The related work has been done on some of the tools such as Lodash, HTML unit, and handlebars are few of the popular open-source libraries. Among these tools to detect and prevent security issues, the Security Onion application is selected as it is free, open-source, and cloud-based. From the examinations, it is found that the application can detect issues, source and destination of it, set alerts, and check the health of the system. Though, it will be better if it blocked the IP addresses that most occurred as threats else the researcher could use paid tools for this. Though, it will increase the cost of this research.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > Computer software > Computer Security T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Computer software > Computer Security Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science > Computer Systems > Information Storage and Retrieval Systems T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science > Computer Systems > Information Storage and Retrieval Systems
Divisions:	School of Computing > Master of Science in Cyber Security
Depositing User:	Tamara Malone
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2022 16:32
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2022 18:03
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/6006

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