Amanda Gagne is a member of the Class of 2025 at St Lawrence University. She is a double major in Computer Science and Music. She recently completed a Research Fellowship through the St. Lawrence University Fellows Program investigating the potential role of Artificial Intelligence in hardening software and defending against...
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Summer 2024
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During this fellowship, there was work done with AI and Penetration testing tools to harden software and defend against cyberattacks. The testing site used was a website created in a Web Programming Class. Using Kali Linux software, which is used for penetration testing and digital forensics, a variety of tools were used to identify whether a site is encrypted or unencrypted, which also indicates whether a site is secure or not. These tools include Hydra, skipfish, burp suite, Wireshark and XSSer. AI was a useful tool, as it helped explain output results, and files from each tool were a great aid in ensuring that the command line was correct for the particular software being used.