Abstract: A method comprising: (a) receiving a machine-readable functional requirement as an input at a data processor, (b) producing, by an algorithm running on said data processor, a machine-readable functional requirement, to produce at least one machine-readable mutated copy of said functional requirement, each of said at least one mutated copies retaining the function of the input, as a product at said data processor, and (c) providing one or more of said mutated copies as an output.

Abstract: A system for a communication infrastructure in a network including at least one connected system (CS) and at least one network risk management network element (SW), wherein the network acts as a virtual network comprising at least one virtual network element, and wherein the at least one virtual network element takes over the roles of existing network elements comprising at least one of a switch, a router, a firewall and an intrusion prevention system (IPS), and wherein the virtual network is comprised of physical elements that work together to form the network's infrastructure.