OWASP Secure Coding Practices - Quick Reference Guide

Welcome to the Secure Coding Practices Quick Reference Guide Project

The Secure Coding Practices Quick Reference Guide is a technology agnostic set of general software security coding practices, in a comprehensive checklist format, that can be integrated into the development lifecycle. At only 17 pages long, it is easy to read and digest.

The focus is on secure coding requirements, rather then on vulnerabilities and exploits. It includes an introduction to Software Security Principles and a glossary of key terms.

It is designed to serve as a secure coding kick-start tool and easy reference, to help development teams quickly understand secure coding practices.

Sections of the Guide:

• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Software Security Principles Overview
• Secure Coding Practices Checklist
• Links to useful resources
• Glossary of important terminology

Download the current v2 (Stable) release:

• English version PDF
• English version MS Word

Translations:

• Brazilian Portuguese Translation PDF
• Portugal Portuguese Translation PDF
• Korean Translation PDF
• Spanish Translation doc
• Chinese Translation PDF

Related Presentations:
This slide deck incorporates many concepts from the Quick reference guide, but also utilizes other OWASP resources.
Web Application Development Dos and Donts - Presentation from the Royal Bank of Scotland

Related Projects:
Go programming language secure coding practices guide, based on the OWASP Secure Coding Practices

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Project Lead:

• Keith Turpin

Contributors:

• Dan Kranz
• Walt Pietrowski
• Catherine Spencer
• Caleb McGary
• Brad Causey
• Ludovic Petit
• Michael V. Scovetta
• Jim Manico
• Jason Coleman
• Anurag Agarwal
• Andrew Petukhov

Translation Contributors

Portuguese Translation

• Tarcizio Vieira Neto
• Sílvio Correia Filho
• Leandro Gomes

Korean Translation

• OWASP Korea chapter

Spanish Translation

• Canedo,Gerardo
• Flores,Mauro
• Hill,Alberto
• Martinez,Mateo
• Papaleo,Mauricio
• Soarez,Nicolás
• Targetta, Cecilia

Chinese Translation

• Jie Wang
• Yongliang He
• Henghui Lin

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what is this project? Name: OWASP Secure Coding Practices - Quick Reference Guide (home page) Purpose: This document provides a quick high level reference for secure coding practices. It is technology agnostic and defines a set of general software security coding practices, in a checklist format, that can be integrated into the development lifecycle. Implementation of these practices will mitigate most common software vulnerabilities. License: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 who is working on this project? Project Leader(s): Keith Turpin @ Project Contributor(s): Dan Kranz Walt Pietrowski Catherine Spencer Caleb McGary @ Jim Manico @ Brad Causey @ Ludovic Petit @ Michael V. Scovetta @ Jason Coleman Tarcizio Vieira Neto how can you learn more? Project Pamphlet: View Project Presentation: View Mailing list: Mailing List Archives Project Roadmap: View Main links: Video - Keith Turpin presenting the Quick Reference Guide on OWASP AppSec USA 2010 SCP v2 > Brazilian Portuguese Translation > PDF file SCP v2 > Portugal Portuguese Translation > PDF file SCP v2 > Korean Translation > PDF file SCP v2 > Spanish Translation > doc file Slide - Presented by Keith Turpin on OWASP AppSec USA 2010 Key Contacts Contact Keith Turpin @ to contribute to this project Contact Keith Turpin @ to review or sponsor this project

current release SCP v2 - 8 November 2010 - (download) Release description: Now available in Portuguese: Updated Portuguese Version PDF Sections of the guide were re-ordered, renamed and new sections were added to map more closely to the ASVS. However input and output handling was left at the beginning, as apposed to be lower in the list as it is with ASVS, since this is the source of the most common vulnerabilities and ones that effect even very simple applications. Entirely new sections include: Cryptographic Practices, Error Handling and Logging". The guide's "Data Validation" section was split to match ASVS and is now represented as two separate sections "Input Validation" and "Output Encoding", The guide's "Authorization and Access Management" section was renamed to Access Control, The guide's "Sensitive Information Storage or Transmission" section was split to match ASVS and is now two new sections "Data Protection" and "Communication Security", Additional practices were added to most sections to account for requirements in ASVS that the guide did not specifically cover and some rewording of existing practices was also done. Additional terms were added to the glossary. Several improvements were made thanks to new contributors. Rating: Stable Release - Assessment Details last reviewed release SCP v1.1 - 8 September 2010 - (download) Release description: The Secure Coding Practices Quick Reference Guide is a technology agnostic set of general software security coding practices, in a comprehensive checklist format, that can be integrated into the development lifecycle. At only 17 pages long, it is easy to read and digest. This release is the result of the changes introduced in the previous version (SCP v1) which were the consequence of the assessment process it was submitted to. Rating: Stable Release - Assessment Details other releases SCP v2 SCP v1.1 SCP v1