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OWASP Secure Software Contract Annex German

SECURE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT ANNEX

 WARNING: THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED GUIDANCE ONLY.
 OWASP STRONGLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU CONSULT A QUALIFIED
 ATTORNEY TO HELP YOU NEGOTIATE A SOFTWARE CONTRACT.

INTRODUCTION

This contract Annex is intended to help software developers and their clients negotiate and capture important contractual terms and conditions related to the security of the software to be developed or delivered. The reason for this project is that most contracts are silent on these issues, and the parties frequently have dramatically different views on what has actually been agreed to. We believe that clearly articulating these terms is the best way to ensure that both parties can make informed decisions about how to proceed.

"The security of commercial software will improve when the market demands better security.
At a minimum, every software request for proposal should ask vendors to detail how they
test their products for security vulnerabilities. This step will start convincing vendors
of off-the-shelf software and outsourced developers that enterprises value security."
      -- As John Pescatore, research director with Gartner

We urge Clients and Developers to use this document as a framework for discussing expectations and negotiating responsibilities. This Annex is intended to be appended to a software development contract. These terms are negotiable, meaning they can and should be discussed by the Client and Developer.

Licensing

A project must be licensed under a community friendly or open source license.  For more information on OWASP recommended licenses, please see OWASP Licenses. While OWASP does not promote any particular license over another, the vast majority of projects have chosen a Creative Commons license variant for documentation projects, or a GNU General Public License variant for tools and code projects.

The OWASP Security Principles are free to use. In fact it is encouraged!!! Additionally, I also encourage you to contribute back to the project. I have no monopoly on this knowledge; however, we all have pieces of this knowledge from our experience. Let's begin by putting our individual pieces together to make something great. Great things happen when people work together.

The OWASP Security Principles are licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 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.

What is OWASP Security Principles Project?

Here you should add a short description of what your project actually does. What is the primary goal of your project, and why is it important?

The end goal is to identify, cite, and document the fundamental principles of information security. Once this is well organised, I think it would be great to publish this through the OWASP Press. Of course, it will always remain freely available, and any money collected will go directly into the project to absorb costs with any remaining funds going to the OWASP Foundation.

This document should serve as a guide to technical architects and designers outlining the fundamental principles of security.

Presentation

This is where you can link to slide presentations related to your project.

AppSec USA 2013 [1]

Project Leader

A project leader is the individual who decides to lead the project throughout its lifecycle. The project leader is responsible for communicating the project’s progress to the OWASP Foundation, and he/she is ultimately responsible for the project’s deliverables. The project leader must provide OWASP with his/her real name and contact e-mail address for his/her project application to be accepted, as OWASP prides itself on the openness of its products, operations, and members.

• Dennis Groves

Related Projects

This is where you can link to other OWASP Projects that are similar to yours.

• OWASP_CISO_Survey

Openhub

• OWASP Project Openhub

Quick Download

This is where you can link to your repository.

The home of the OWASP Security Principles is on GitHub. You are encourged to fork, edit and push your changes back to the project through git or edit the project directly on github.

However, if you like you may also download the master repository from the following links:

• .zip file.
• .tgz file.

News and Events

This is where you can link to press your project has been a part of. Appropriate press includes: Project Leader interviews, articles written about your project, and videos about your project.

• [20 Nov 2013] News 2
• [30 Sep 2013] News 1

In Print

This is where you place links to where your project product can be downloaded or purchased, in the case of a book.

This project can be purchased as a print on demand book from Lulu.com

Classifications

Here is where you can let the community know what project stage your project is currently in, whether the project is a builder, breaker, or defender project, and what type of project you are running.