OWASP Python Security Project

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OWASP Python Security Project Python Security is a free, open source, OWASP project that aims at creating a hardened version of python that makes it easier for security professionals and developers to write applications more resilient to attacks and manipulations. The project is designed to explore how web applications can be developed in python by approaching the problem from three different angles: Introduction Python Security is a free, open source, OWASP project that aims at creating a hardened version of python that makes it easier for security professionals and developers to write applications more resilient to attacks and manipulations. The project is designed to explore how web applications can be developed in python by approaching the problem from three different angles: Security in python: white-box analysis, structural and functional analysis Security of python: black-box analysis, identify and address security-related issues Security with python: develop security hardened python suitable for high-risk and high-security environments Detect and Respond to Attacks from Within the Application Detection AppSensor defines over 50 different detection points which can be used to identify a malicious attacker. Response AppSensor provides guidance on how to respond once a malicious attacker has been identified. Possible actions include: logging out the user, locking the account or notifying an administrator. More than a dozen response actions are described. Defending the Application An attacker often requires numerous probes and attack attempts in order to locate an exploitable vulnerability within the application. By using AppSensor it is possible to identify and eliminate the threat of an attacker before they are able to successfully identify an exploitable flaw. Citations CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering Creating Attack-Aware Software Applications with Real Time Defenses, Vol. 24, No. 5, Sep/Oct 2011 Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Tronheim AppSensor: Attack-Aware Applications Compared Against a Web Application Firewall and an Intrusion Detection System, Thomassen P, 2012 US Department of Homeland Security Resilient Software Software Assurance Resources Licensing OWASP AppSensor is free to use. Guide The guide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Reference Implementation The reference implementation is licensed under the MIT License, which is a permissive (commercial-friendly) license only requiring you to include a copy of the license upon distribution or copying. © OWASP Foundation

What is AppSensor? Detect and respond to attacks from within the application. This project includes both a well documented idea (the Guide) and a reference implementation (the Code). Intro for Developers Two-sided US Letter or A4 AppSensor Website See the new AppSensor website for an introduction and quick start instructions. Overview 12-page US Letter booklet Project Founder Michael Coates @ Project Leaders Dennis Groves @ John Melton @ Colin Watson @ Related Projects OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set

Quick Download OWASP AppSensor Guide v2.0.1 EN PDF DOC Hard copy OWASP AppSensor Reference Implementation v2 Code News and Events [9 June 2015] AppSensor Code v2.1.0 released [20 May 2015] Working session at OWASP Project Summit - Code [19 May 2015] Working session at OWASP Project Summit - Documentation [09 Apr 2015] CISO Briefing booklet published [22 Feb 2015] Proposal for Google Summer of Code 2015 [13 Feb 2015] Introduction for Developers flyer published [13 Feb 2015] AppSensor project awarded OWASP flagship status [28 Jan 2015] AppSensor Code v2.0.0 final released [18 Sep 2014] Guide book giveaway and signing at AppSecUSA 2014 [17 Sep 2014] Presentation at London API Group [12 Sep 2014] AppSensor website launched Code Repository AppSensor v2 https://github.com/jtmelton/appsensor (Current) Note: LEGACY AppSensor v1 https://code.google.com/p/appsensor/ In Print The AppSensor Guide and CISO Briefing can be purchased at cost as a print on demand books. Classifications

Volunteers

All OWASP projects rely on the voluntary efforts of people in the software development and information security sectors. They have contributed their time and energy to make suggestions, provide feedback, write, review and edit documentation, give encouragement, make introductions, produce demonstration code, promote the concept, and provide OWASP support. They participated via the project’s mailing lists, by developing code, by updating the wiki, by undertaking research studies, and through contributions during the AppSensor working session at the OWASP Summit 2011 in Portugal and the AppSensor Summit at AppSec USA 2011. Without all their efforts, the project would not have progressed to this point, and this guide would not have been completed.

Josh Amishav-Zlatin Ryan Barnett Simon Bennetts Joe Bernik Rex Booth Luke Briner Rauf Butt Juan C Calderon Fabio Cerullo Marc Chisinevski Robert Chojnacki Michael Coates Dinis Cruz August Detlefsen Ryan Dewhurst

Sean Fay Timo Goosen Dennis Groves Randy Janida Chetan Karande Eoin Keary Alex Lauerman Junior Lazuardi Benjamin-Hugo LeBlanc Jason Li Manuel López Arredondo Bob Maier Jim Manico Sherif Mansour Farag John Melton

Mark Miller Craig Munson Louis Nadeau Giri Nambari Erlend Oftedal Jay Reynolds Chris Schmidt Sahil Shah Eric Sheridan John Steven Raphael Taban Alex Thissen Don Thomas Christopher Tidball Kevin W Wall Colin Watson Mehmet Yilmaz

OWASP Summer of Code 2008

The AppSensor Project was initially supported by the OWASP Summer of Code 2008, leading to the publication of the book AppSensor v1.1.

Google Summer of Code 2012

Additional development work on SOAP web services was kindly supported by the Google Summer of Code 2012.

Other Acknowledgements

The project has also benefitted greatly from the generous contribution of time and effort by many volunteers in the OWASP community including those listed above, and contributors to the OWASP ESAPI project, members of the former OWASP Global Projects Committee, the OWASP Board, OWASP staff and support from the OWASP Project Reboot initiative. The v2 code and documentation were conceived during the AppSensor Summit held during AppSec USA 2011 in Minneapolis.

Please join the project's mailing lists to keep up-to-date with what's going on, and to contribute your ideas, feedback, and experience:

• General project
• Code development

Current activities

Non code

• Update AppSensor Guide to keep in step with code changes and improvements to ideas (see discussion and editable list of changes)
• Create demo
• Develop training materials

v2 Code

The current code being worked on is located on GitHub

The code has been fully rewritten. v2.0.0 final was released in late January 2015. v2.1.0 final was released in June 2015.

The main reason for the rewrite was to allow a client-server style model as opposed to requiring AppSensor be fully embedded in the application. You can now have a central server collecting events from multiple applications and performing analysis. These front-end applications can be in any language as long as they speak rest/soap. There's been a host of other changes, but this was the primary one. A number of starter ideas for coding, user interface and documentation have been outlined via the mailing list at 17th March 2014.

if you want to work on ANYTHING, please let jtmelton[@]gmail.com know.

Code Roadmap

Q4 2015 (2.0)

• Jan - v 2.0.0 final release -> DONE

Q4 2014 (2.0)

• Oct - v 2.0.0 release candidate -> DONE
• Jan 2015 (delay due to bug) - v 2.0.0 final -> DONE
• Additional unit tests -> DONE
• Move appsensor.org site over from static html to python -> NOT NECESSARY
• Finish up user documentation at appsensor.org -> DONE

June 2015 (2.1)

• Add at least 1 attack emitter for DEVOPS visualization (JMX -> SNMP, syslog, SNMP, .. something) (github issue) -> DONE
• Sample application / demo (github issue) -> DONE
• Finish up developer documentation on github and appsensor.org (github issue) -> DONE
• Preparation for GSOC 2015 submission -> DONE - see GSoC2015_Ideas - Update - OWASP not selected

September 2015 (2.2)

• First version of administration UI for appsensor (monitoring UI) (github issues here and here)

January 2016 (2.3)

• Get CI server (cloudbees?) setup (github issue)
• Video demo of setting up appsensor (screen capture) (related to sample apps)
• New detection point implementations (github issue)
• AOP examples of detection point implementations

May 2016 (2.4)

• Trend monitoring implementation (github issue)
• Additional integrations for reporting (graphite, ganglia -> see list supported by codahale metrics)

Past activities

June 2015 Final release v2.1.0 code

April 2015 CISO Briefing booklet published

February 2015 Introduction for Developers flyer published

January 2015 Final release v2.0.0 code

May 2014 Finalisation and publication of the AppSensor Guide v2.0

November, 2013 - AppSensor 2.0 hackathon, and document writing & review at AppSecUSA 2013, New York

2012-2013 - Active Development of next AppSensor book

September, 2011 - AppSensor Summit at AppSec USA 2011, Minneapolis

September, 2010 - Presented at AppSecUSA slides

June, 2010 - Active ESAPI Integration Underway

November, 2009 OWASP DC, November 2009

2009 v1.2 in the works, demo application in development

May, 2009 - AppSec EU Poland - Presentation (PPT) (Video)

January, 2009 - v1.1 Released - Beta Status

November, 2008 - AppSensor Talk at OWASP Portugal

November, 2008 - v1.0 Released - Beta Status

April 16, 2008 - Project Begins

Below are the primary detection points defined within AppSensor. These are just the titles; the document contains descriptions, examples and considerations for implementing these detection points.

Detailed Detection Point Information Here 

Response Action Information Here

Summary of Information Detection Categories:

RE - Request

AE - Authentication

SE - Session

ACE - Access Control

IE - Input

EE - Encoding

CIE - Command Injection

FIO - File IO

HT - Honey Trap

UT - User Trend

STE - System Trend

RP - Reputation

Signature Based Event Titles

ID Event

RE1 Unexpected HTTP Command

RE2 Attempt to Invoke Unsupported HTTP Method

RE3 GET When Expecting POST

RE4 POST When Expecting GET

RE5 Additional/Duplicated Data in Request

RE6 Data Missing from Request

RE7 Unexpected Quantity of Characters in Parameter

RE8 Unexpected Type of Characters in Parameter

AE1 Use Of Multiple Usernames

AE2 Multiple Failed Passwords

AE3 High Rate of Login Attempts

AE4 Unexpected Quantity of Characters in Username

AE5 Unexpected Quantity of Characters in Password

AE6 Unexpected Type of Character in Username

AE7 Unexpected Type of Character in Password

AE8 Providing Only the Username

AE9 Providing Only the Password

AE10 Adding POST Variable

AE11 Missing POST Variable

AE12 Utilization of Common Usernames

SE1 Modifying Existing Cookie

SE2 Adding New Cookie

SE3 Deleting Existing Cookie

SE4 Substituting Another User's Valid Session ID or Cookie

SE5 Source IP Address Changes During Session

SE6 Change Of User Agent Mid Session

ACE1 Modifying URL Argument Within a GET for Direct Object Access Attempt

ACE2 Modifying Parameter Within a POST for Direct Object Access Attempt

ACE3 Force Browsing Attempt

ACE4 Evading Presentation Access Control Through Custom POST

IE1 Cross Site Scripting Attempt

IE2 Violation of Implemented White Lists

IE3 Violation Of Implemented Black Lists

IE4 Violation of Input Data Integrity

IE5 Violation of Stored Business Data Integrity

IE6 Violation of Security Log Integrity

EE1 Double Encoded Character

EE2 Unexpected Encoding Used

CIE1 Blacklist Inspection for Common SQL Injection Values

CIE2 Detect Abnormal Quantity of Returned Records

CIE3 Null Byte Character in File Request

CIE4 Carriage Return or Line Feed Character In File Request

FIO1 Detect Large Individual File

FIO2 Detect Large Number of File Uploads

HT1 Alteration to Honey Trap Data

HT2 Honey Trap Resource Requested

HT3 Honey Trap Data Used

Behavior Based Event Titles

UT1 Irregular Use of Application

UT2 Speed of Application Use

UT3 Frequency of Site Use

UT4 Frequency of Feature Use

STE1 High Number of Logouts Across The Site

STE2 High Number of Logins Across The Site

STE3 Significant Change in Usage of Same Transaction Across The Site

RP1 Suspicious or Disallowed User IP Address

RP2 Suspicious External User Behavior

RP3 Suspicious Client-Side Behavior

RP4 Change to Environment Threat Level

Introductory Briefings

Developers		Architects		CISOs

The CISO briefing is also available to buy at cost in print.

AppSensor Website

http://appsensor.org/

Code

• v2 Github Code
• (LEGACY) v1 Google Code

AppSensor Guide

• OWASP AppSensor Guide
  • v2.0 EN
    • PDF
    • DOC
    • Print on demand at cost hard copy
  • v1.1 EN
    • PDF
    • DOC

Presentations

Automated Application Defenses to Thwart Advanced Attackers (Slides & Audio)

July, 2010 - OWASP London (UK) - Real Time Application Attack Detection and Response with OWASP AppSensor

June, 2010 - OWASP Leeds/North (UK) - OWASP AppSensor - The Self-Aware Web Application

June, 2010 - Video presentation - Automated Application Defenses to Thwart Advanced Attackers

November, 2009 - AppSec DC - Defend Yourself: Integrating Real Time Defenses into Online Applications

May, 2009 - OWASP Podcast #51

May, 2009 - AppSec EU Poland - Real Time Defenses against Application Worms and Malicious Attackers

November, 2008 - OWASP Summit Portugal 2008 PPT

Video Demos of AppSensor

Detecting Multiple Attacks & Logging Out Attacker

Detecting XSS Probes

Detecting URL Tampering

Detecting Verb Tampering

Source Documents / Artwork

• Guide
  • Word (content only), DOC 11Mb
  • Word, images, Lulu covers, diagrams, ZIP 96Mb
• Introduction for Developers
  • A4 Illustrator and PDF exports, ZIP 19Mb
  • US letter Illustrator and PDF exports, ZIP 19Mb
• Poster
  • A1 Illustrator and PDF export ZIP, 18Mb

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what is this project? Name: OWASP AppSensor Project (home page) Purpose: Real Time Application Attack Detection and Response Overview The AppSensor project defines a conceptual framework and methodology that offers prescriptive guidance to implement intrusion detection and automated response into an existing application. Current efforts are underway to create the AppSensor tool which can be utilized by any existing application interested in adding detection and response capabilities. Detection AppSensor defines over 50 different detection points which can be used to identify a malicious attacker. Response AppSensor provides guidance on how to respond once a malicious attacker has been identified. Possible actions include: logging out the user, locking the account or notifying an administrator. More than a dozen response actions are described. Defending the Application An attacker often requires numerous probes and attack attempts in order to locate an exploitable vulnerability within the application. By using AppSensor it is possible to identify and eliminate the threat of an attacker before they are able to successfully identify an exploitable flaw. License: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 for documentation & MIT License for Tools who is working on this project? Project Leader(s): Michael Coates @ John Melton @ Colin Watson @ Dennis Groves @ Project Contributor(s): Ryan Barnett @ Simon Bennetts August Detlefsen Randy Janida Jim Manico @ Giri Nambari Eric Sheridan Kevin Wall Dennis Groves how can you learn more? Project Pamphlet: View Project Presentation: View Mailing list: Mailing List Archives Project Roadmap: View Main links: Automated Application Defenses to Thwart Advanced Attackers Diagram AppSensor v2 Code Former Project About Key Contacts Contact Michael Coates @ to contribute to this project Contact Michael Coates @ to review or sponsor this project

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what is this project? Name: OWASP Python Security Project (home page) Purpose: Python Security is a free, open source, project that aims at creating a hardened version of python that makes it easier for security professionals and developers to write applications more resilient to attacks and manipulations. The project is designed to explore how web applications can be developed in python by approaching the problem from three different angles: - Security in python: white-box analysis, structural and functional analysis - Security of python: black-box analysis, identify and address security-related issues - Security with python: develop security hardened python suitable for high-risk and high-security environments License: Apache 2.0 License (fewest restrictions, even allowing proprietary modifications and proprietary forks of your project) who is working on this project? Project Leader(s): Enrico Branca @ how can you learn more? Project Pamphlet: Not Yet Created Project Presentation: Mailing list: Mailing List Archives Project Roadmap: View Key Contacts Contact Enrico Branca @ to contribute to this project Contact Enrico Branca @ to review or sponsor this project

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