Reverse Engineering
What is Reverse Engineering?
The process of analyzing software, hardware, or protocols to understand their design and functionality, used in security research and malware analysis.
Terms that appear alongside reverse engineering
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as reverse engineering. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 3 shared controls
- cybersecurity 3 shared controls
- compliance 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
- integrity 2 shared controls
- resilience 2 shared controls
- incident response 2 shared controls
- responsible ai 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern reverse engineering
What the standards actually require on reverse engineering
Requirements naming reverse engineering across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Per OWASP MASVS v2 MASVS-RESILIENCE: resilience against reverse engineering + tampering. Requirements include (a) understand resilience is defence in depth + not replacement for server-side controls + (b) implement anti-debugging + anti-tampering + anti-hookin...
OWASPMASVS-7 · MASVS-RESILIENCE: Resilience Against Reverse Engineering →Safety (Anzen 安全) is the second of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + significantly extended by establishment of the Japan AI Safety Institute (AISI 日本AIセーフティ・インスティテュート) on 14 February 2024.
JP-AIG-Safety-Validation-Testing-Robustness-AISI-AI-Safety-Institute-Pre-Deployment-Evaluation-Red-Teaming · Japan AI Guidelines Safety + Validation + Testing + Robustness + AISI AI Safety Institute (14 Feb 2024) + Pre-Deployment Evaluation + Red Teaming + Capability Evaluations + AI Incident Database + Safe Deployment + AI Safety Reports →Parts 123-125 of ITAR establish the export licensing framework administered by DDTC. (1) Part 123 Licensing of Defense Articles: (a) Form DSP-5 Application for Permanent Export of Unclassified Defense Articles - the basic ITAR license type + must be obtained p...
ITAR-Part123-125-ExportLicensing-DSP-5-DSP-73-DSP-61-MLA-TAA-Classified-Information-Routed · ITAR Parts 123-125 Export Licensing - DSP-5 Permanent Export + DSP-73 Temporary Export + DSP-61 Temporary Import + DSP-83 + Manufacturing License Agreements (MLA) + Technical Assistance Agreements (TAA) + Classified Information + Routed Export Transactions →Incident Response capability is critical per FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines. (1) Incident Response Plan: (a) Documented IR Plan + per FFIEC IT Examination Handbook reference; (b) ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management;
JP-FSA-CYB-Incident-Response-Playbooks-Containment-Eradication-Recovery-Post-Mortem-Tabletop-CSIRT · Japan FSA Cybersecurity Incident Response + Playbooks + Containment + Eradication + Recovery + Post-Mortem + Tabletop Exercises + CSIRT + FSA Notification + Customer Communication + Forensics + Lessons Learned →Questions people ask about reverse engineering
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