The CISO Guide

Version 1.0 was published in November 2013.

Contents

• Preamble
  • Introduction
  • Executive Summary
  • Foreword
• The CISO Guide
  • Part I: Reasons for Investing in Application Security
  • Part II: Criteria for Managing Application Security Risks
  • Part III: Application Security Program
  • Part IV: Metrics For Managing Risks & Application Security Investments
• Supporting Information
  • References
  • About OWASP
• Appendix
  • Appendix A: Value of Data & Cost of an Incident
  • Appendix B: Quick Reference to OWASP Guides & Projects

Licensing

The OWASP Application Security Guide For CISOs is free to use. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

Credits

Project lead and main author

• Marco Morana

Other contributors

Co-authors, contributors and reviewers:

• Tobias Gondrom
• Eoin Keary
• Andy Lewis
• Stephanie Tan
• Colin Watson

Further Information

CISO guide

The OWASP CISO Guide is also available as

• Free downloadable PDF
• At cost print on demand monochrome book.

For full information about the Application Security Guide For CISOs Project, including mailing list details, the forward plan, how to contribute, the project status, and alternative media, see the project page:

• CISO Guide Project Page

CISO survey

The contributors to the OWASP CISO Survey also provided invaluable data for this guide.