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Project About

OWASP Tool Project Template

This section should include an overview of what the project is, why the project was started, and what security issue is being addressed by the project deliverable.

Introduction
Secure software development has a number of stakeholders.

1. IT risk: I need to know where my highest risks are, so I can focus on mitigating these
2. Information security: I need to generate a list f security requirements to protect against vulnerabilities
3. Compliance and Assurance: I need to ensure the code meets security requirements and we have evidence proving that
4. Business: I need to get the functionality to the market before our competitors
5. Development teams: I need to do all of the above and within a two week sprint cycle :-)

How these stakeholder requirements are often met?
For every development cycle

1. Development teams: Need to read and understand all 99 articles of the GDPR: to make sure, for example, the data is categorised and user consent is stored
2. Development teams: Need to read and understand the 114 controls listed in ISO 27002 (if the use ISO): To make sure the solution can be safely integrated into the organisations information security management system (ISMS) and for example, application logs are in a format that can be consumed and reported to the SEIM
3. Development teams: Need to select from the 99 GDPR articles and the 114 ISO controls those that apply to the solution, perform a risk assessment on the selected controls, write security test plans to test selected controls
4. Development teams: Need to technically implementation and test security requirements
5. Approvers: Need to hunt through hundreds of automated test results to find the testing evidence proving that the security requirements were tested
6. Business: Need Scream and shout about not meeting the two week sprint cycle deadline

Development teams cannot perform these security tasks within a reasonable time frame, let alone a two week sprint cycle By this time the 2 week sprint cycle has elapsed and

How should these stakeholder requirements be met
For every development cycle

1. Information security: Needs to understand the technical implementation and generate a list of security requirements to protect against vulnerabilities
2. Information security: Make sure development teams understand the security requirements
3. Development teams: Need to implement, test and record evidence proving the security requirements are met
4. Approvers: Need to review testing evidence, accept the risk and approve the release
5. Compliance and Assurance: Need to review collect evidence for consistency and traceability

Why is it so hard to meet these stakeholder requirements?

• Each stakeholder represents a separate domain, each domain contains a huge body of knowledge.
• This huge body of security, risk, compliance and assurance knowledge needs to be filtered, made applicable and applied to every critical function in the application landscape
• Adding to the complexity is that every critical function in the application landscape could be coded in a different language and implemented in a different environment
• Further compounding the problem is the fact that most other organisational processes have a first line of defence that integrates these security controls into the process but, unless your organisation is gifted with budget and resources the software development process does not have a first line of defence

The lack of a dedicated fist line of defence or a planned security control implementation usually results in a a 50 page security policy being dumped on the developers desk with the comment "Implement this please"

What will the role of a first line of defence be in the software development process:

1. Generates security requirements before coding begins
2. Guiding developers towards correctly implementing security requirements
3. Guiding testers towards correctly verifying security requirements are met
4. Speeding up the approval process to minimise its impact on responsiveness to market
5. Inform risk based decision making and prioritising

To combat the limited budget and resources the Secure coding tool attempts to fill the shoes of the first line of defence

<p> Please note
It's important to note that the secure coding tool is part of a system of components to secure software development.
Other components of the system include governance, human support and vulnerability management<b>.
I've detailed these components in a different article that will be published in the Nov/Dec issue of the ISC2 magazine, I will add a link here after publication. </p>

<p> <b>What does the Secure coding tool do?
The secure coding tool, goes beyond theory and procedure and attempts to implement a planned control integration effort.
The Secure coding tool is written in MVC \ MySQL and consists of 5 screens each serving a specific stakeholder

1. Information security stakeholder: Filters the security requirements according to the functional requirement: Streamlining security requirements generation
2. Dev team stakeholder: Provides secure code blocks to implement the security requirement: Providing code level guidance for developers towards correctly implementing security requirements
3. Dev team stakeholder: Provides security test plans to testing the security requirements: Guiding testers towards correctly verifying security requirements are met
4. Compliance and assurance stakeholder: Provides a central store for testing results: Promoting traceability through requirements and serving as a quick reference screen for assurance to view control assurance evidence, speeding up the approval process and minimising its impact on responsiveness to market
5. IT risk stakeholder: Provides IT risk with an overview of each applications exposure to OWASP TOP 10 risks: Informing risk based decision making and prioritising

<p> How does the secure coding tool do it?
The secure coding tool, goes beyond theory and procedure and attempts to implement a planned control integration effort.
The Secure coding tool is written in MVC \ MySQL and consists of 5 screens each serving a specific stakeholder

1. Information security stakeholder: Filters the security requirements according to the functional requirement: Streamlining security requirements generation
2. Dev team stakeholder: Provides secure code blocks to implement the security requirement: Providing code level guidance for developers towards correctly implementing security requirements
3. Dev team stakeholder: Provides security test plans to testing the security requirements: Guiding testers towards correctly verifying security requirements are met
4. Compliance and assurance stakeholder: Provides a central store for testing results: Promoting traceability through requirements and serving as a quick reference screen for assurance to view control assurance evidence, speeding up the approval process and minimising its impact on responsiveness to market
5. IT risk stakeholder: Provides IT risk with an overview of each applications exposure to OWASP TOP 10 risks: Informing risk based decision making and prioritising

<p> Implementation instructions
Not a silver bullet ready to go

1. Filter the list of OWASP risks
2. Filter the list of OWASP ASVS requirements
3. Add additional architectural security requirements
4. Filter the list of OWASP security tests

For a more detailed look at the inner workings of the tool and a brief instructional video please take a look at my linkedIn article <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/secure-coding-tool-michael-bergman/">Secure coding tool</a>

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. This example assumes that you want to use the AGPL 3.0 license.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the link GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. OWASP XXX and any contributions are Copyright © by {the Project Leader(s) or OWASP} {Year(s)}.

Roadmap

As of November, 2013, the highest priorities for the next 6 months are:

Subsequent Releases will add

Getting Involved

Involvement in the development and promotion of Tool Project Template is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert or a programmer to contribute. Some of the ways you can help are as follows:

Project Resources

This is where you can link to the key locations for project files, including setup programs, the source code repository, online documentation, a Wiki Home Page, threaded discussions about the project, and Issue Tracking system, etc.

Installation Package

Source Code

What's New (Revision History)

Documentation

Wiki Home Page

Issue Tracker

Slide Presentation

Video

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.

Michael Bergman

Related Projects

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

• OWASP_Code_Project_Template
• OWASP_Documentation_Project_Template

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