The document discusses methodologies for assessing application security, including both blackbox and whitebox approaches. It outlines challenges with each approach, such as difficulty discovering all application assets and endpoints with blackbox testing. Whitebox testing is presented as able to more fully cover the application scope by analyzing source code directly. The document also covers specific challenges for assessing web 2.0 applications and services.
API Security in a Microservice ArchitectureMatt McLarty
This presentation was given at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York on Feb. 28, 2018. It gives an overview of the new book, Securing Microservice APIs. Download available here: https://transform.ca.com/API-securing-microservice-apis-oreilly-ebook.html
here's where Microsoft has invested, across these areas: identity and access management, apps and data security, network security, threat protection, and security management.
We’ve put a tremendous amount of investment into these areas and the way it shows up is across a pretty broad array of product areas and features.
Our Identity and Access Management tools enable you to take an identity-based approach to security, and establish truly conditional access policies
Our App and Data Security help you protect your apps and your data as it moves around—both inside and outside your organization
Azure includes a robust networking infrastructure with built-in security controls for your application and service connectivity.
Our Threat Protection capabilities are built in and fully integrated, so you can strengthen both pre-breach protection with deep capabilities across e-mail, collaboration services, and end points including hardware based protection; and post-breach detection that includes memory and kernel based protection and response with automation.
And our Security Management tools give you the visibility and more importantly the guidance to manage policy centrally
SAST vs. DAST: What’s the Best Method For Application Security Testing?Cigital
High profile security breaches are leading to heightened organizational security concerns. Firms around the world are now observing the consequences of security breaches that are becoming more widespread and more advanced. Due to this, firms are ready to identify vulnerabilities in their applications and mitigate the risks.
Two ways to go about this are static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST). These application security testing methodologies are used to find the security vulnerabilities that make your organization’s applications susceptible to attack.
The two methodologies approach applications very differently. They are most effective at different phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and find different types of vulnerabilities. For example, SAST detects critical vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and buffer overflow earlier in the SDLC. DAST, on the other hand, uses an outside-in penetration testing approach to identify security vulnerabilities while web applications are running.
Let us guide you through your application security testing journey with more key differences between SAST and DAST:
Static Analysis Security Testing for Dummies... and YouKevin Fealey
Most enterprise application security teams have at least one Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) tool in their tool-belt; but for many, the tool never leaves the belt. SAST tools have gotten a reputation for being slow, error-prone, and difficult to use; and out of the box, many of them are – but with a little more knowledge behind how these tools are designed, a SAST tool can be a valuable part of any security program.
In this talk, we’ll help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of SAST tools by illustrating how they trace your code for vulnerabilities. You’ll see out-of-the-box rules for commercial and open-source SAST tools, and learn how to write custom rules for the widely-used open source SAST tool, PMD. We’ll explain the value of customizing tools for your organization; and you’ll learn how to integrate SAST technologies into your existing build and deployment pipelines. Lastly, we’ll describe many of the common challenges organizations face when deploying a new security tool to security or development teams, as well as some helpful hints to resolve these issues
This presentation is from Null/OWASP/G4H November Bangalore MeetUp 2014.
technology.inmobi.com/events/null-owasp-g4h-november-meetup
Talk Outline:-
A) Reflective-(Non-Persistent Cross-site Scripting)
- What is Reflective Cross-site scripting.
- Testing for Reflected Cross site scripting
How to Test
- Black Box testing
- Bypass XSS filters
- Gray Box testing
Tools
Defending Against Reflective Cross-site scripting.
Examples of Reflective Cross-Site Scripting Attacks.
B) Stored -(Persistent Cross-site Scripting)
What is Stored Cross-site scripting.
How to Test
- Black Box testing
- Gray Box testing
Tools
Defending Against Stored Cross-site scripting.
Examples of Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks.
AWS offers you the ability to add additional layers of security to your data at rest in the cloud, providing access control as well scalable and efficient encryption features. Flexible key management options allow you to choose whether to have AWS manage the encryption keys or to keep complete control over the keys yourself. In this session, you will learn how to secure data when using AWS services. We will discuss Key Management Service, S3, access controls, and database platform security features.
API Security in a Microservice ArchitectureMatt McLarty
This presentation was given at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York on Feb. 28, 2018. It gives an overview of the new book, Securing Microservice APIs. Download available here: https://transform.ca.com/API-securing-microservice-apis-oreilly-ebook.html
here's where Microsoft has invested, across these areas: identity and access management, apps and data security, network security, threat protection, and security management.
We’ve put a tremendous amount of investment into these areas and the way it shows up is across a pretty broad array of product areas and features.
Our Identity and Access Management tools enable you to take an identity-based approach to security, and establish truly conditional access policies
Our App and Data Security help you protect your apps and your data as it moves around—both inside and outside your organization
Azure includes a robust networking infrastructure with built-in security controls for your application and service connectivity.
Our Threat Protection capabilities are built in and fully integrated, so you can strengthen both pre-breach protection with deep capabilities across e-mail, collaboration services, and end points including hardware based protection; and post-breach detection that includes memory and kernel based protection and response with automation.
And our Security Management tools give you the visibility and more importantly the guidance to manage policy centrally
SAST vs. DAST: What’s the Best Method For Application Security Testing?Cigital
High profile security breaches are leading to heightened organizational security concerns. Firms around the world are now observing the consequences of security breaches that are becoming more widespread and more advanced. Due to this, firms are ready to identify vulnerabilities in their applications and mitigate the risks.
Two ways to go about this are static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST). These application security testing methodologies are used to find the security vulnerabilities that make your organization’s applications susceptible to attack.
The two methodologies approach applications very differently. They are most effective at different phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and find different types of vulnerabilities. For example, SAST detects critical vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and buffer overflow earlier in the SDLC. DAST, on the other hand, uses an outside-in penetration testing approach to identify security vulnerabilities while web applications are running.
Let us guide you through your application security testing journey with more key differences between SAST and DAST:
Static Analysis Security Testing for Dummies... and YouKevin Fealey
Most enterprise application security teams have at least one Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) tool in their tool-belt; but for many, the tool never leaves the belt. SAST tools have gotten a reputation for being slow, error-prone, and difficult to use; and out of the box, many of them are – but with a little more knowledge behind how these tools are designed, a SAST tool can be a valuable part of any security program.
In this talk, we’ll help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of SAST tools by illustrating how they trace your code for vulnerabilities. You’ll see out-of-the-box rules for commercial and open-source SAST tools, and learn how to write custom rules for the widely-used open source SAST tool, PMD. We’ll explain the value of customizing tools for your organization; and you’ll learn how to integrate SAST technologies into your existing build and deployment pipelines. Lastly, we’ll describe many of the common challenges organizations face when deploying a new security tool to security or development teams, as well as some helpful hints to resolve these issues
This presentation is from Null/OWASP/G4H November Bangalore MeetUp 2014.
technology.inmobi.com/events/null-owasp-g4h-november-meetup
Talk Outline:-
A) Reflective-(Non-Persistent Cross-site Scripting)
- What is Reflective Cross-site scripting.
- Testing for Reflected Cross site scripting
How to Test
- Black Box testing
- Bypass XSS filters
- Gray Box testing
Tools
Defending Against Reflective Cross-site scripting.
Examples of Reflective Cross-Site Scripting Attacks.
B) Stored -(Persistent Cross-site Scripting)
What is Stored Cross-site scripting.
How to Test
- Black Box testing
- Gray Box testing
Tools
Defending Against Stored Cross-site scripting.
Examples of Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks.
AWS offers you the ability to add additional layers of security to your data at rest in the cloud, providing access control as well scalable and efficient encryption features. Flexible key management options allow you to choose whether to have AWS manage the encryption keys or to keep complete control over the keys yourself. In this session, you will learn how to secure data when using AWS services. We will discuss Key Management Service, S3, access controls, and database platform security features.
Single sign on (SSO) How does your company apply?Đỗ Duy Trung
SSO is not a new concept, even we’ve heard very much in your work or research. It's useful but it’s really belong to administration/management people? It's interesting for users but it's really complex and headache for someone implement it? Especially nowadays, we are in an age of Troika Computing: Cloud, Social Network, Mobile, Big data and federation problems. So, with being a professional organisation, or being a skilled member in development team, you will start from where? what is your knowledge about it? which methods will you choose to implement in your organisation? how to develop or intergrate to your customers' products? how does your organisation deploy to support customers and partners...
OWASP Top 10 2021 – Overview and What's New.
OWASP Top 10 is the most successful OWASP Project
It shows ten most critical web application security flaws.
Read the presentation and you will learn each OWASP Top 10 category and recommendations on how to prevent it.
Full stack monitoring across apps & infrastructure with Azure MonitorSquared Up
Azure Thames Valley is a group for anyone interested in Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform and Services. We aim to provide the whole Microsoft Azure community, whatever their level, with a regular meeting place to share knowledge, ideas, experiences, real-life problems, best working practices and many more from their own past experiences. Professionals across various disciplines including Developers, Testers, Architects, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, CTOs and many more are all welcome.
Presentation: A look into Azure Monitoring solutions, with Clive Watson
Azure Monitoring solutions include some great insights into your Cloud & Hybrid services and applications. Do you want to learn more about the technologies, setup and usage? We will take a look at Azure Monitor and Log Analytics and supporting services in this talk and demo.
Clive has over 30 years’ experience within the industry (14+ at Microsoft), currently he is an Azure Infrastructure Specialist for Microsoft based in the UK.
Managing Updates with System Center Configuration Manager 2012JasonCondo
From the Dogfood Conference 2014 in Columbus Ohio (www.dogfoodcon.com). Learn how the SUP role works in ConfigMgr 2012, how to implement a security risk process and how to manage updates in ConfigMgr 2012.
This slide deck provides the basics of Azure App Service. This presentation was presented by Harikharan Krishnaraju, Developer Support Escalation Engineer, Microsoft during the TechMeet360 event organized by BizTalk360, held on December 17, 2016 at Coimbatore.
What is SAML , How does SAML Works , request and Response , Enterprise and Web SSO, Advantages and Disadvantages of SSO, What is SSO, Single Sign On, Security Assertion Mark-up language.
Amazon Inspector is a service from AWS that identifies security issues in your application deployments. Use Amazon Inspector with your applications to assess your security posture and identify areas that can be improved. Amazon Inspector works with your Amazon EC2 instances to monitor activity in your applications and system. This session will cover getting started with Amazon Inspector, how to automate the process, how to manage and act on findings, and additional ways you can enhance your development and release lifecycle.
Misconfiguration is define as configuration mistakes that results in unintended application behavior that includes misuse of default passwords, privileges, and excessive debugging information disclosure
As long as code and data cannot be distinguished by machines, Injection attacks will prevail. Injection flaws are very prevalent, particularly in legacy code. Injection flaws occur when an application sends untrusted data to an interpreter. This talk will focus on different injection flaws, challenges associated with it and possible ways to mitigate it.
Stephane Lapointe: Governance in Azure, keep control of your environmentsMSDEVMTL
June 11th 2018
Azure Group
Subject: Governance in Azure, keep control of your environments.
Speaker: Stephane Lapointe, Azure MVP
It's very easy to lose control over what's happening in your Azure environments. In this talk, see solutions for managing security, costs, and governance. We'll talk about tools like tags, RBAC, policies, Azure Security Center & Azure Advisors to implement initiatives that will greatly help your management in Azure.
Unleash the Power of Temporary AWS Credentials (a.k.a. IAM roles) (SEC390-R1)...Amazon Web Services
In this chalk talk, we discuss why using temporary security credentials to manage access to your AWS resources is an AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) best practice. IAM roles help you follow this best practice by delivering and rotating temporary credentials automatically. We discuss the different types of IAM roles, the assume role functionality, and how to author fine-grained trust and access policies that limit the scope of IAM roles. We then show you how to attach IAM roles to your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. We also discuss migrating applications that use long-term AWS access keys to temporary credentials managed by IAM roles.
Single sign on (SSO) How does your company apply?Đỗ Duy Trung
SSO is not a new concept, even we’ve heard very much in your work or research. It's useful but it’s really belong to administration/management people? It's interesting for users but it's really complex and headache for someone implement it? Especially nowadays, we are in an age of Troika Computing: Cloud, Social Network, Mobile, Big data and federation problems. So, with being a professional organisation, or being a skilled member in development team, you will start from where? what is your knowledge about it? which methods will you choose to implement in your organisation? how to develop or intergrate to your customers' products? how does your organisation deploy to support customers and partners...
OWASP Top 10 2021 – Overview and What's New.
OWASP Top 10 is the most successful OWASP Project
It shows ten most critical web application security flaws.
Read the presentation and you will learn each OWASP Top 10 category and recommendations on how to prevent it.
Full stack monitoring across apps & infrastructure with Azure MonitorSquared Up
Azure Thames Valley is a group for anyone interested in Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform and Services. We aim to provide the whole Microsoft Azure community, whatever their level, with a regular meeting place to share knowledge, ideas, experiences, real-life problems, best working practices and many more from their own past experiences. Professionals across various disciplines including Developers, Testers, Architects, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, CTOs and many more are all welcome.
Presentation: A look into Azure Monitoring solutions, with Clive Watson
Azure Monitoring solutions include some great insights into your Cloud & Hybrid services and applications. Do you want to learn more about the technologies, setup and usage? We will take a look at Azure Monitor and Log Analytics and supporting services in this talk and demo.
Clive has over 30 years’ experience within the industry (14+ at Microsoft), currently he is an Azure Infrastructure Specialist for Microsoft based in the UK.
Managing Updates with System Center Configuration Manager 2012JasonCondo
From the Dogfood Conference 2014 in Columbus Ohio (www.dogfoodcon.com). Learn how the SUP role works in ConfigMgr 2012, how to implement a security risk process and how to manage updates in ConfigMgr 2012.
This slide deck provides the basics of Azure App Service. This presentation was presented by Harikharan Krishnaraju, Developer Support Escalation Engineer, Microsoft during the TechMeet360 event organized by BizTalk360, held on December 17, 2016 at Coimbatore.
What is SAML , How does SAML Works , request and Response , Enterprise and Web SSO, Advantages and Disadvantages of SSO, What is SSO, Single Sign On, Security Assertion Mark-up language.
Amazon Inspector is a service from AWS that identifies security issues in your application deployments. Use Amazon Inspector with your applications to assess your security posture and identify areas that can be improved. Amazon Inspector works with your Amazon EC2 instances to monitor activity in your applications and system. This session will cover getting started with Amazon Inspector, how to automate the process, how to manage and act on findings, and additional ways you can enhance your development and release lifecycle.
Misconfiguration is define as configuration mistakes that results in unintended application behavior that includes misuse of default passwords, privileges, and excessive debugging information disclosure
As long as code and data cannot be distinguished by machines, Injection attacks will prevail. Injection flaws are very prevalent, particularly in legacy code. Injection flaws occur when an application sends untrusted data to an interpreter. This talk will focus on different injection flaws, challenges associated with it and possible ways to mitigate it.
Stephane Lapointe: Governance in Azure, keep control of your environmentsMSDEVMTL
June 11th 2018
Azure Group
Subject: Governance in Azure, keep control of your environments.
Speaker: Stephane Lapointe, Azure MVP
It's very easy to lose control over what's happening in your Azure environments. In this talk, see solutions for managing security, costs, and governance. We'll talk about tools like tags, RBAC, policies, Azure Security Center & Azure Advisors to implement initiatives that will greatly help your management in Azure.
Unleash the Power of Temporary AWS Credentials (a.k.a. IAM roles) (SEC390-R1)...Amazon Web Services
In this chalk talk, we discuss why using temporary security credentials to manage access to your AWS resources is an AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) best practice. IAM roles help you follow this best practice by delivering and rotating temporary credentials automatically. We discuss the different types of IAM roles, the assume role functionality, and how to author fine-grained trust and access policies that limit the scope of IAM roles. We then show you how to attach IAM roles to your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. We also discuss migrating applications that use long-term AWS access keys to temporary credentials managed by IAM roles.
Vulnerabilities in modern web applicationsNiyas Nazar
Microsoft powerpoint presentation for BTech academic seminar.This seminar discuses about penetration testing, penetration testing tools, web application vulnerabilities, impact of vulnerabilities and security recommendations.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
7. Review flow
Architecture Review
Scoping
Footprinting
Discovery
Enumeration & Profiling
Security Controls & Cases
Vulnerability Assessment
Threat Modeling
Mitigation strategies
Reporting
Sample Security Control Categories – Authentication,
Access Controls/Authorization, API misuse, Path traversal,
Sensitive information leakage, Error handling, Session management,
Protocol abuse, Input validations, Cross Site Scripting (XSS),
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Logic bypass, Insecure crypto,
Denial of Services, Malicious Code Injection, SQL injection,
XPATH and LDAP injections, OS command injection,
Parameter manipulations, Bruteforce, Buffer Overflow,
Format string, HTTP response splitting, HTTP replay,
XML injection, Canonicalization, Logging and auditing.
8. Challenges
• Technology fingerprinting
• Hidden calls
• Framework integration
• Entry points are multiple
• Traditional fuzzing will not work
• Auto assessment can be challenge
• Behavioral assessment with Artificial
intelligence
12. Challenges
• JavaScript code analysis
• Logic on Client
• Reverse engineering on code – Flash,
Silverlight or Ajax
• Server side issues and source code analysis
• Web Services a major concern and its source
security
13. Challenges
• Filtering required for different streams
• Code security on client side is needed as well
• Browser and DOM security
• Web application firewall – web 2.0 stream
protection
• Overall new approach for entry point analysis
14. Web 2.0 Challenges
• How to identify possible hosts running the application? –
Cross Domain.
• Identifying Ajax and RIA calls
• Dynamic DOM manipulations points
• Identifying XSS and XSRF vulnerabilities for Web 2.0
• Discovering back end Web Services - SOAP, XML-RPC or REST.
• How to fuzz XML and JSON structures?
• Web Services assessment and audit
• Client side code review
• Mashup and networked application points
15. WhiteBox vs. BlackBox
• Scope of coverage
– Blackbox method uses crawling and spidering to
determine all possible resources
– Application assets are residing in JavaScript and various
other tags in HTML, it makes asset detection very difficult
and blackbox approach fails in many cases.
– If one is using whitebox approach then not a single line of
code will get missed and scope can be covered at 100%.
Whitebox can do much better job when comes to covering
the scope of the source.
16. WhiteBox vs. BlackBox
• Discovery and Detection
– Blackbox testing uses signature analysis for vulnerability
detection. Example, it looks for ODBC error for SQL
injection and so on.
– If errrors are missing …
– Blackbox fails in those cases
– Whitebox good to go
17. WhiteBox vs. BlackBox
• Accuracy of Vulnerability
– Accuracy of vulnerability is very important as well.
– Blackbox is inaccurate in some cases
– Came up false +/-
18. WhiteBox vs. BlackBox
• Cause Identification
– One of the major challenges is to identify actual cause of
the vulnerability.
– Blackbox shows symptoms
– Whitebox can pin point the cause
