| Abstract: | Over the last decade, a significant increase has been observed in the use
of web-based Information systems that process sensitive information, e.g., personal, financial, medical. With this increased use, the security of such systems
became a crucial aspect to ensure safety, integrity and authenticity of the data.
To achieve the objectives of data safety, security testing is performed. However,
with growth and diversity of information systems, it is challenging to apply security testing for each and every system. Therefore, it is important to classify the
assets based on their required level of security using an appropriate technique.
In this paper, we propose an asset security classification technique to classify
the System Under Test (SUT) based on various factors such as system exposure,
data criticality and security requirements. We perform an extensive evaluation of
our technique on a sample of 451 information systems. Further, we use security
testing on a sample extracted from the resulting prioritized systems to investigate
the presence of vulnerabilities. Our technique achieved promising results of successfully assigning security levels to various assets in the tested environments and
also found several vulnerabilities in them. |
