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Authentication

1. Objective
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Best Practices
5. Forms based authentication
6. Strong Authentication
7. Federated Authentication
8. Positive Authentication
9. Multiple Key Lookups
10. Referer Checks
11. Browser remembers passwords
12. Default accounts
13. Choice of usernames
14. Change passwords
15. Weak password controls
16. Reversible password encryption
17. Automated password resets
18. Brute Force
19. Remember Me
20. Idle Timeouts
21. Logout
22. Account Expiry
23. Self registration
24. CAPTCHA
25. Further Reading

Authorization

1. Objectives
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Best Practices
5. Best Practices in Action
6. Principle of least privilege
7. Centralized authorization routines
8. Authorization matrix
9. Controlling access to protected resources
10. Protecting access to static resources
11. Reauthorization for high value activities or after idle out
12. Time based authorization
13. Be cautious of custom authorization controls
14. Never implement client-side authorization tokens
15. Further Reading

Session Management

1. Objective
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Description
5. Best practices
6. Exposed Session Variables
7. Page and Form Tokens
8. Weak Session Cryptographic Algorithms
9. Session Token Entropy
10. Session Time-out
11. Regeneration of Session Tokens
12. Session Forging/Brute-Forcing Detection and/or Lockout
13. Session Token Capture and Session Hijacking
14. Session Tokens on Logout
15. Session Validation Attacks
16. Further Reading

Data validation

1. Objective
2. Platforms Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Description
5. Definitions
6. Where to include integrity checks
7. Where to include validation
8. Where to include business rule validation
9. Data Validation Strategies
10. Prevent parameter tampering
11. Hidden fields
12. ASP.NET Viewstate
13. URL encoding
14. HTML encoding
15. Encoded strings
16. Data Validation and Interpreter Injection
17. Delimiter and special characters
18. Further Reading

Interpreter Injection

1. Objective
2. Platforms Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. User Agent Injection
5. HTTP Response Splitting
6. SQL Injection
7. ORM Injection
8. LDAP Injection
9. XML Injection
10. Code Injection
11. Further Reading
12. SQL-injection
13. Code Injection
14. Command injection

Canoncalization, locale and Unicode

1. Objective
2. Platforms Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Description
5. Unicode
6. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc#
7. Input Formats
8. Locale assertion
9. Double (or n-) encoding
10. HTTP Request Smuggling
11. Further Reading

Error Handling, Auditing and Logging

1. Objective
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Description
5. Best practices
6. Error Handling
7. Detailed error messages
8. Logging
9. Noise
10. Cover Tracks
11. False Alarms
12. Destruction
13. Audit Trails
14. Further Reading
15. Error Handling and Logging

File system

1. Objective
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Description
5. Best Practices
6. Defacement
7. Path traversal
8. Insecure permissions
9. Insecure Indexing
10. Unmapped files
11. Temporary files
12. PHP
13. Includes and Remote files
14. File upload
15. Old, unreferenced files
16. Second Order Injection
17. Further Reading
18. File System

Distributed Computing

1. Objective
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Best Practices
5. Race conditions
6. Distributed synchronization
7. Further Reading

Administrative Interfaces

1. Objective
2. Environments Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Best practices
5. Administrators are not users
6. Authentication for high value systems
7. Further Reading

Cryptography

1. Objective
2. Platforms Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Description
5. Cryptographic Functions
6. Cryptographic Algorithms
7. Algorithm Selection
8. Key Storage
9. Insecure transmission of secrets
10. Reversible Authentication Tokens
11. Safe UUID generation
12. Summary
13. Further Reading
14. Cryptography

Configuration

1. Objective
2. Platforms Affected
3. Relevant COBIT Topics
4. Best Practices
5. Default passwords
6. Secure connection strings
7. Secure network transmission
8. Encrypted data
9. PHP Configuration
10. Global variables
11. register_globals
12. Database security
13. Further Reading
14. No backup or old files
15. Unnecessary features are off by default
16. Setup log files are clean
17. No default accounts
18. Easter eggs
19. Further Reading

GNU Free Documentation License

1. PREAMBLE
2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
3. VERBATIM COPYING
4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
5. MODIFICATIONS
6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
9. TRANSLATION
10. TERMINATION
11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE

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