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OWASP Game Security Framework (GSF)

The OWASP Game Security Framework (GSF) represents a modular approach to understanding the security issues that surround video game ecosystems.

The framework is broken into three main concepts / sections:

1. Identifying and clustering the components of risk within the overall game security space, and then giving instances of each component.

Components include the following:

Attack Surfaces: the various surface areas that can be attacked by attackers in order to cause harm to the gaming ecosystem.

Vulnerabilities: the specific weaknesses in design or implementation that allows attackers to successfully target a given game.

Attacker Goals: a list of the reasons that an attacker might want to attack a given game.

Negative Outcomes: a collection of ways that the gaming company could ultimately be impacted negatively by attacks to its game and associated infrastructure.

2. A natural language semantic structure for thinking about and articulating game security issues, which uses the modular risk components as sentence structure.

Example:

"The attacker attacked and edited the LOCAL GAME CLIENT (Attack Surface), which had a LACK OF CLIENT INTEGRITY CONTROLS (Vulnerability), which allowed her to ARTIFICIALLY INCREASE HER ABILITIES (Attacker Goal), ultimately leading to an UNHAPPY PLAYER BASE (Negative Outcome) and DECLINING GAME REVENUE (Negative Outcome) due to cheating.”

Using this structure, security testers can clearly communicate the various aspects of a game security issue to many different types of stakeholder—from pentesting peers to business executives in the gaming industry.

3. Examples of real-world examples of previous attacks against games, and how the attacks map to the GSF framework components.

Licensing

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What is the OWASP Game Security Framework?

The goal of the OWASP Game Security Framework is to provide a structure for discussing the various aspects around the security of video games.

The target audience for the project includes:

Gamers
Game designers
Penetration testers
Gaming executives
Anyone else with a vested interest in game security

Project Leaders

Jason Haddix
Daniel Miessler

Contributors

LFG

Related Projects

Collaboration

The Slack Channel

Quick Download

COMING SOON

News and Events

[JANUARY 2017] Doing a complete redesign of the project.

Classifications

I Am The Cavalry

A global grassroots organization that is focused on issues where computer security intersects public safety and human life.

Their areas of focus include:

Medical devices
Automobiles
Home Electronics
Public Infrastructure

BuildItSecure.ly

A project focused on helping small business connect with security researchers to aid in securing their IoT-based products before going market.

Their goals include:

Focus effort towards small business
Build partnerships
Coordinate efforts
Curate informational resources
Present research

Online Trust Alliance

Formed as an informal industry working group in 2005, today OTA is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) approved 501c3 charitable organization with the mission to enhance online trust and empower users, while promoting innovation and the vitality of the internet. OTA is global organization supported by over 100 organizations headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with offices in Washington DC.

Addressing the mounting concerns, in January 2015 the Online Trust Alliance, established the IoT Trustworthy Working Group (ITWG), a multi-stakeholder initiative. The group recognizes “security and privacy by design” must be a priority from the onset of product development and be addressed holistically. The framework focuses on privacy, security sustainability. The sustainability pillar is critical as it looks at the life-cycle issues related to long- term supportability and transfers of ownership of devices and the data collected.

AllSeen Alliance

The AllSeen Alliance is a Linux Foundation collaborative project. They're a cross-industry consortium dedicated to enabling the interoperability of billions of devices, services and apps that comprise the Internet of Things. The Alliance supports the AllJoyn Framework, an open source software framework that makes it easy for devices and apps to discover and communicate with each other. Developers can write applications for interoperability regardless of transport layer, manufacturer, and without the need for Internet access. The software has been and will continue to be openly available for developers to download, and runs on popular platforms such as Linux and Linux-based Android, iOS, and Windows, including many other lightweight real-time operating systems.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)

The Industrial Internet Consortium is the open membership, international not-for-profit consortium that is setting the architectural framework and direction for the Industrial Internet. Founded by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel in March 2014, the consortium’s mission is to coordinate vast ecosystem initiatives to connect and integrate objects with people, processes and data using common architectures, interoperability and open standards.

Securing Smart Cities

Securing Smart Cities is a not-for-profit global initiative that aims to solve the existing and future cybersecurity problems of smart cities through collaboration between companies, governments, media outlets, other not-for-profit initiatives and individuals across the world.

Talks

RSA Conference San Francisco
Securing the Internet of Things: Mapping IoT Attack Surface Areas with the OWASP IoT Top 10 Project
Daniel Miessler, Practice Principal
April 21, 2015
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Defcon 23
IoT Attack Surface Mapping
Daniel Miessler
August 6-9, 2015

Podcasts

IoT Conferences

Internet of Things Events

Conference Call for Papers

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 | '''Local Game Client'''
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-* The locally running game client that is accessible to the gamer because it's running on his/her machine.
+* Ability to edit in-game resources
+* Ability to bypass license requirement
 |-
 | '''Game Network Traffic'''
 |
-* The network which game traffic traverses in order to reach the game's server or peers who are playing the game.
+* Network Denial of Service (player)
+** Player bandwidth exhaustion
+** Player game client resource exhaustion
+|-
+| '''Game Application Traffic''
+|
+* Application Level Denial of Service (Player)
+** Player application logic Denial of Service
 |-
 | '''Game Server'''
 |
-* The game server that is hosting the instance that gamers connect to in order to play the game.
+* Application Level Denial of Service (Server)
+** Server application logic Denial of Service
+* Ability to modify game ladder rankings
+* Ability to modify own player resources
 |-
 | '''Game Economy'''
 |
-* The economic system that exists within the game.
+* Ability to generate unlimited money on client side
+* Ability to generate unlimited money through network/application traffic modification
+* Ability to modify prices for in-game items
+* Ability to replay financial actions such as buying or selling through network/application manipulation
 |-
 |}