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| − | <b>SECURITY ARCHITECTURE CHEAT SHEET FOR INTERNET APPLICATIONS</b><br/>
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| − | This cheat sheet offers tips for the initial design and review of an application’s security architecture.<br/>
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| − | * #1: BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
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| − | ; Business Model
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| − | : What is the application’s primary business purpose?
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| − | : How will the application make money?
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| − | : What are the planned business milestones for developing or improving the application?
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| − | : How is the application marketed?
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| − | : What key benefits does application offer its users?
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| − | : What business continuity provisions have been defined for the application?
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| − | : What geographic areas does the application service?
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| − | ; Data Essentials
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| − | What data does the application receive, produce, and process?
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| − | How can the data be classified into categories according to its sensitivity?
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| − | How might an attacker benefit from capturing or modifying the data?
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| − | What data backup and retention requirements have been defined for the application?
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| − | ; End‐Users
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| − | Who are the application’s end‐users?
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| − | How do the end‐users interact with the application?
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| − | What security expectations do the end‐users have?
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| − | ; Partners
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| − | Which third‐parties supply data to the application?
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| − | Which third‐parties receive data from the applications?
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| − | Which third‐parties process the application’s data?
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| − | What mechanisms are used to share data with third‐parties besides the application itself?
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| − | What security requirements do the partners impose?
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| − | ; Administrators
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| − | Who has administrative capabilities in the application?
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| − | What administrative capabilities does the application offer?
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| − | ; Regulations
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| − | In what industries does the application operate?
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| − | What security‐related regulations apply?
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| − | What auditing and compliance regulations apply?
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| − | * #2: INRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS
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| − | ; Network
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| − | What details regarding routing, switching, firewalling, and load‐balancing have been defined?
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| − | What network design supports the application?
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| − | What core network devices support the application?
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| − | What network performance requirements exist?
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| − | What private and public network links support the application?
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| − | Authored by [Lenny Zeltser http://www.zeltser.com/]
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| − | ;Systems
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| − | What operating systems support the application?
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| − | What hardware requirements have been defined?
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| − | What details regarding required OS components and lock‐down needs have been defined?
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| − | ;Infrastructure Monitoring
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| − | What network and system performance monitoring requirements have been defined?
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| − | What mechanisms exist to detect malicious code or compromised application components?
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| − | What network and system security monitoring requirements have been defined?
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| − | ;Virtualization and Externalization
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| − | What aspects of the application lend themselves to virtualization?
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| − | What virtualization requirements have been defined for the application?
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| − | What aspects of the product may or may not be hosted via the cloud computing model?
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| − | * #3: APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
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| − | ; Environment
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| − | What frameworks and programming languages have been used to create the application?
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| − | What process, code, or infrastructure dependencies have been defined for the application?
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| − | What databases and application servers support the application?
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| − | ; Data Processing
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| − | What data entry paths does the application support?
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| − | What data output paths does the application support?
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| − | How does data flow across the application’s internal components?
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| − | What data input validation requirements have been defined?
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| − | What data does the application store and how?
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| − | What data is or may need to be encrypted and what key management requirements have been defined?
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| − | What capabilities exist to detect the leakage of sensitive data?
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| − | What encryption requirements have been defined for data in transit over WAN and LAN links?
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