Patent Document ID: 20180139226
Application ID: 15888201
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for automatically tuning a configuration of a security analysis tool based on a correlation analysis, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computer processors, a configuration from a user for a security analysis tool, wherein: the configuration includes two or more configuration items; the security analysis tool is used to analyze an Internet application for security vulnerabilities during development of the Internet application; each configuration item is a parameter, in the configuration of the security analysis tool, that has a plurality of possible values; and each configuration item is selected from the group consisting of case sensitive uniform resource locators (URLs), in-session detection, automatic form fill requirements, parameters and paths being tracked; determining, by one or more computer processors, a correlation between the two or more configuration items in the received configuration from the user, wherein the correlation between the two or more configuration item is based on one or more pre-determined empirical correlations, wherein: the one or more pre-determined empirical correlations are derived from an Apriori algorithm; the Apriori algorithm generates correlations between two or more items of an input database; the input database includes a plurality of configuration items (p) and a plurality of possible values (v) for each of the plurality of configuration items resulting in a database that ranges over all possible values of (p,v); the Apriori algorithm performs a breadth-first search through all possible values of (p,v) that yields a set of association rules for the (p,v) pair combinations; and the breadth-first search is an algorithm for searching graph data structures that starts at a root and explores neighbor nodes before moving to next level neighbors; providing, by one or more computer processors, an optimized configuration of the two or more configuration items in the received configuration to the user based on the determined correlation between the two or more configuration items in the received configuration; sending, by one or more computer processors, a query to the user requesting a priority of the two or more configuration items in the received configuration; receiving, by one or more computer processors, an input from the user indicating the priority of the two or more configuration items in the received; and sending, by one or more computer processors, a recommendation to the user, wherein the recommendation includes one or more configuration item values for each configuration item of the two or more configuration items based on the pre-determined empirical correlations and the indicated priority of the two or more configuration items.