How to Design Computer Security Experiments

Citation

S. Peisert and M. Bishop, “How to Design Computer Security Experiments,” Proceedings of the World Conference on Information Security Education pp. 141–148 (June 2007).

Paper

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the scientific method and how it can be applied to computer security experiments. We reiterate a number of general scientific principles, such as falsifiable hypotheses, scientific controls, reproducible results, and data quality.

Copyright Notice

The version posted here is a manuscript version. The definitive version was published in the Proceedings of the Fifth World Conference on Information Security Education, June 2007.

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