Fortifying our digital economy: advanced automated vulnerability discovery

该项目旨在使安全研究人员能够以最高的效率、成本效益和已知的统计准确性来检测大型软件系统中的关键漏洞。其目标是开发先进的高性能模糊器，通过在开始之前暴露安全漏洞来有效地挫败恶意软件攻击、勒索软件流行和网络恐怖主义。该项目将采用一个在生态学研究中使用的成熟的统计框架，以提供基本的见解，以提高软件漏洞发现的效率，以及在投入更多资源和获得更好的网络安全保证之间的权衡。随着我们对新技术的依赖与日俱增，该项目为澳大利亚提供了装备，以经济高效地遏制网络犯罪。

This project aims to enable security researchers to detect critical vulnerabilities in large software systems with maximal efficiency, cost-effectively, and with known statistical accuracy. The aim is to develop advanced high-performance fuzzers that effectively thwart malware attacks, ransomware epidemics, and cyber terrorism by exposing security flaws before they can commence. The project will employ a well-established statistical framework utilised in ecology research to provide fundamental insights to boosting the efficiency of software vulnerability discovery, and on the trade-off between investing more resources and gaining better cyber security guarantees. As our reliance on new technologies is ever growing, this project equips Australia to curb cyber crime cost-effectively.