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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.

In 2016 the videogame market became 99.6 Billion dollar industry... any why shouldn't it be? Some of the most prolific and complex software developed today are video games. They are professionally played, sponsored, scrutinized, monetized, and celebrated, just like many sports. They handle clients, servers, web components, monetary transfers, social interactions, virtual markets, etc, with every bit the need of security that most internet hosted apps have (if not more in some cases). The GSF is designed to help threat model gaming issues that have devastated new games. Most importantly we hope the GSF can help new developers and security testers alike root out bugs in your favorite titles.

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

Project Leaders

Jason Haddix
Daniel Miessler

Contributors

Kevin Hemmingsen
Troy Cunefare
Ryan Lawrence
Martin Mendoza
Koray Algan
Tom Simkovic
Matt Espinoza
Chad Lynch

Related Projects

Collaboration

The Slack Channel

Quick Download

COMING SOON

News and Events

January, 2017: Doing a complete redesign of the project.
March 2017: Presenting version 1.0 at HouSecCon 2017.

Classifications

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 = Community =
-[https://www.iamthecavalry.org/ I Am The Cavalry]
+We are actively looking for people to help in the following areas:
+* Improving the framework schema, e.g., vulns, attack surfaces, technical impacts, business impacts, defenses, etc.
-A global grassroots organization that is focused on issues where computer security intersects public safety and human life.
+* Adding content to any of the various sections
+* Input from avid gamers on how useful this is to them
-Their areas of focus include:
+* Input from app security experts
-* Medical devices
+* Input from security types working at gaming companies
-* Automobiles
+* Input from game company business types
-* Home Electronics
+If you have interest in helping, reach out to us and we'll make you a contributor.
-* Public Infrastructure
-[http://builditsecure.ly 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
-[https://otalliance.org 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 [https://otalliance.org/initiatives/internet-things 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.
-[https://allseenalliance.org/framework 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.
-[http://www.iiconsortium.org/ 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.
-[http://securingsmartcities.org/ 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 <br>
-[https://www.owasp.org/images/5/51/RSAC2015-OWASP-IoT-Miessler.pdf Securing the Internet of Things: Mapping IoT Attack Surface Areas with the OWASP IoT Top 10 Project] <br>
-Daniel Miessler, Practice Principal <br>
-April 21, 2015 <br>
---- <br>
-Defcon 23 <br>
-[https://www.owasp.org/images/3/36/IoTTestingMethodology.pdf IoT Attack Surface Mapping] <br>
-Daniel Miessler <br>
-August 6-9, 2015
-===Podcasts===
-* [http://iotpodcast.com/ The Internet of Things Podcast]
-* [http://www.iot-inc.com/ IoT Inc]
-* [https://craigsmith.net/category/podcast/ IoT This Week]
-* [http://farstuff.com/ Farstuff: The Internet of Things Podcast]
-===IoT Conferences===
-* [http://www.iotevents.org Internet of Things Events]
-Conference Call for Papers
-* [http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/tool.search?q=internet+of+things&year=t WikiCFP - Internet of Things]
-* [http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/tool.search?q=iot&year=t WikiCFP - IoT]
-|}
 = Testing Tools =

ID	Vulnerabilty Name	Description	Surface Area	Goal	Techical Impact	Business Impact	Defense	Ref	Genre
V1	Local Resource Modification, Client-side Logic Flaw	In 2015 The Division experienced an exploit that allowed an attacker to switch weapons rapidly, applying weapon buffs in a stacking manner, with no cap.	Game Client	Unfair Player Advantage	Player Anger	Players leave, Lost Revenue	Cryptographic Integrity Checks on Game Client	http://www.gamesradar.com/theres-a-division-damage-stacking-glitch-if-youve-got-fast-fingers/	3PS/1PS/MMO
VN1	"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, which could have been prevented by `CRYPTOGRAPHIC INTEGRITY CHECKS ON GAME CLIENT`”