Vulnerability Assessment is the proactive examination of software in order to find vulnerabilities that may exist. While this work is no longer being carried out by EGI members work is continuing.
First Principles Vulnerability Assessment
Members of the University of Wisconsin / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Middleware Security and Testing Group have developed First Principles Vulnerability Assessment techniques for assessing software for vulnerabilities and carried out assessments of several major middleware systems, found significant vulnerabilities in many of them, then helped the developers with remediation strategies. Assessing further packages is planned.
Some of this work is continuing at the University of Wisconsin https://research.cs.wisc.edu/mist/
A vulnerability assessment of singularity has been carried out and the report made available in February 2020 - see http://hdl.handle.net/2142/104612
Some of their work and related security topics is reported at https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/98549
For some earlier work see also EGEE/GridPP information at: