At a time when some say users pose the biggest threat, new tools are emerging that give users more freedom than ever.
451 Analyst, Adrian Sanabria speaks on this bold new approach to application control in our latest webinar.
KEY TOPICS
1. Learn from the past: valuing User Experience, IT workload & business/IT relations.
2. Take off the training wheels: it’s possible to trust users to make the right choices, but still have options if they don”t.
3. Drop unreasonable goals: more restrictions ≠ more security.
At a time when some say users pose the biggest threat, new tools are emerging that give users more freedom than ever.
451 Analyst, Adrian Sanabria speaks on this bold new approach to application control in our latest webinar.
KEY TOPICS
1. Learn from the past: valuing User Experience, IT workload & business/IT relations.
2. Take off the training wheels: it’s possible to trust users to make the right choices, but still have options if they don”t.
3. Drop unreasonable goals: more restrictions ≠ more security.
Even though large breaches have hit headline news in years past, some companies are still on the fence about investing in cybersecurity. As a security practitioner (or jack of all trades) how can you be expected to cover your assets with zero budget? Thankfully, there are plenty of open-source tools out there that will allow you to secure your organization. Come join me as I discuss how you can track your network assets, perform vulnerability assessments, prevent attacks with intrusion prevention systems, and even deploy HIDS. We will also jump into finding sensitive data and PII in your network, as well as incident response tools and automation. All it costs is your time (and maybe a VM or two). You really can drastically improve the security posture of your network with little to no budget, and you’ll have fun doing it! OK, maybe it won’t be fun, but at least you’ll learn something, right?
Outpost24 webinar - Why security perfection is the enemy of DevSecOpsOutpost24
The chase for security perfection is not uncommon. The idea of ‘shift left’ - locating defects from the beginning of SDLC and rectifying them early is a well-founded approach. But in a competitive business landscape, companies must balance the tradeoff between speed and quality to keep their business moving. Join our application security webinar and learn how to implement an agile DevSecOps to carry out the necessary security checks without compromising on time-to-market.
In this session Aaron will uncover the importance of using Chaos Engineering in developing a learning culture in a DevSecOps world. Aaron will walk us through how to get started with Chaos Engineering for security and how it can be practically applied to enhance system performance, resilience and security.
Security focused Chaos Engineering allows engineering teams to derive new information about the state of security within their distributed systems that was previously unknown. This new technique of instrumentation attempts to proactively inject security turbulent conditions or faults into our systems to determine the conditions by which our security will fail so that we can fix it before it causes customer pain.
During this session we will cover some key concepts in Safety & Resilience Engineering and how new techniques such as Chaos Engineering are making a difference in improving our ability to learn from incidents proactively before they become destructive.
VMWare Tech Talk: "The Road from Rugged DevOps to Security Chaos Engineering"Aaron Rinehart
This session will cover the foundations DevSecOps and the application of Chaos Engineering for Cyber Security. We will cover how the craft has evolved by sharing some lessons learned driving digital transformation at the largest healthcare company in the world, UnitedHealth Group. During the session we will talk about DevSecOps, Rugged DevOps, Open Source, and how we pioneered the application of Chaos Engineering to Cyber Security.
We will cover how DevSecOps and Security Chaos Engineering allows for teams to proactively experiment on recurring failure patterns in order to derive new information about underlying problems that were previously unknown. The use of Chaos Engineering techniques in DevSecOps pipelines, allows incident response and engineering teams to derive new information about the state of security within the system that was previously unknown.
As far as we know Chaos Engineering is one of the only proactive mechanisms for detecting systemic availability and security failures before they manifest into outages, incidents, and breaches. In other words, Security focused Chaos Engineering allows teams to proactively, safely discover system weakness before they disrupt business outcomes.
[Webinar] Building a Product Security Incident Response Team: Learnings from ...bugcrowd
Kymberlee Price's Black Hat 2016 talk in a live webcast. This presentation will address some best practices and templates to help security teams build or scale their incident response practices.
Shifting Security Left - The Innovation of DevSecOps - ValleyTechConTom Stiehm
DevSecOps adds on the DevOps by making Application Security part of the daily workflow of the team in order to improve the quality and security of a product. Shift AppSec practices left is the key enabler to making AppSec a first-class citizen in the development effort rather than an afterthought with limited ability to be successful.
Blameless Retrospectives in DevSecOps (at Global Healthcare Giants)DJ Schleen
Join us at Agile+DevOps East's DevSecOps Summit on November 18th to check out our new presentation: https://agiledevopseast.techwell.com/program/devsecops-summit-sessions/blameless-retrospectives-devsecops-global-healthcare-giants-agile-devops-virtual-2020
OWASP AppSec Global 2019 Security & Chaos EngineeringAaron Rinehart
Security today is customarily a reactive and chaotic exercise.
In this session, we will introduce a new concept known as Security Chaos Engineering and how it can be applied to create highly secure, performant, and resilient distributed systems.
Endpoint threats have entered a new era, and the security industry has been rushing to catch up. The result is a highly fragmented and confusing market that has doubled in size to over 70 vendors in the last four years. We're in the midst of the second great endpoint security consolidation and will discuss precisely what that means. We'll discuss six progressive stages endpoint security will work through as this market continues to mature over the next five years or so.
Getting to Know Security and Devs: Keys to Successful DevSecOpsFranklin Mosley
In the past, security was seen as function of the ‘security’ organization. With DevOps, we aim to break down these silos, and make security a shared responsibility. What do Security and Development teams need know about each other to work together more effectively?
The reactionary state of the industry means that we quickly identify the ‘root cause’ in terms of ‘human-error’ as an object to attribute and shift blame. Hindsight bias often confuses our personal narrative with truth, which is an objective fact that we as investigators can never fully know. The poor state of self-reflection, human factors knowledge, and the nature of resource constraints further incentivize this vicious pattern. This approach results in unnecessary and unhelpful assignment of blame, isolation of the engineers involved, and ultimately a culture of fear throughout the organization. Mistakes will always happen.
Rather than failing fast and encouraging experimentation, the traditional process often discourages creativity and kills innovation. As an alternative to simply reacting to failures, the security industry has been overlooking valuable chances to further understand and nurture ‘accidents’ or ‘mistakes’ as opportunities to proactively strengthen system resilience. Expose the failures, build resilient systems, and develop an "Applied security" model to minimize the impact of failures. In this session we will cover discuss the role of ‘human-error’, root cause, and resilience engineering in our industry and how we can use new techniques such as Chaos Engineering to make a difference.
Security focused Chaos Engineering proposes that the only way to understand this uncertainty is to confront it objectively by introducing controlled signals. During this session we will cover some key concepts in Safety & Resilience Engineering work based on Sydney Dekker’s 30 years of research into airline accident investigations and how new techniques such as Chaos Engineering are making a difference in improving our ability to learn from incidents proactively before they become destructive
Cloud, DevOps and the New Security PractitionerAdrian Sanabria
First presented at Cloud Security World in Boston on June 15th, 2016.
Once upon a time, walls were erected between the Linux/UNIX crowd, Windows admins and the mainframers. Each architecture had its place and its experts, and they rarely mixed. This time around, we didn’t just get a new domain, we got a new way of doing IT and running businesses. Cloud has created new opportunities and DevOps has capitalized on them. The result of this combination is so unrecognizable that it isn’t uncommon to see IT organizations split down the middle by the new and old approaches. As DevOps continues to gain in popularity, the same split is occurring in the security workforce. Will the traditional security practitioner be in danger of becoming obsolete?
Even though large breaches have hit headline news in years past, some companies are still on the fence about investing in cybersecurity. As a security practitioner (or jack of all trades) how can you be expected to cover your assets with zero budget? Thankfully, there are plenty of open-source tools out there that will allow you to secure your organization. Come join me as I discuss how you can track your network assets, perform vulnerability assessments, prevent attacks with intrusion prevention systems, and even deploy HIDS. We will also jump into finding sensitive data and PII in your network, as well as incident response tools and automation. All it costs is your time (and maybe a VM or two). You really can drastically improve the security posture of your network with little to no budget, and you’ll have fun doing it! OK, maybe it won’t be fun, but at least you’ll learn something, right?
Outpost24 webinar - Why security perfection is the enemy of DevSecOpsOutpost24
The chase for security perfection is not uncommon. The idea of ‘shift left’ - locating defects from the beginning of SDLC and rectifying them early is a well-founded approach. But in a competitive business landscape, companies must balance the tradeoff between speed and quality to keep their business moving. Join our application security webinar and learn how to implement an agile DevSecOps to carry out the necessary security checks without compromising on time-to-market.
In this session Aaron will uncover the importance of using Chaos Engineering in developing a learning culture in a DevSecOps world. Aaron will walk us through how to get started with Chaos Engineering for security and how it can be practically applied to enhance system performance, resilience and security.
Security focused Chaos Engineering allows engineering teams to derive new information about the state of security within their distributed systems that was previously unknown. This new technique of instrumentation attempts to proactively inject security turbulent conditions or faults into our systems to determine the conditions by which our security will fail so that we can fix it before it causes customer pain.
During this session we will cover some key concepts in Safety & Resilience Engineering and how new techniques such as Chaos Engineering are making a difference in improving our ability to learn from incidents proactively before they become destructive.
VMWare Tech Talk: "The Road from Rugged DevOps to Security Chaos Engineering"Aaron Rinehart
This session will cover the foundations DevSecOps and the application of Chaos Engineering for Cyber Security. We will cover how the craft has evolved by sharing some lessons learned driving digital transformation at the largest healthcare company in the world, UnitedHealth Group. During the session we will talk about DevSecOps, Rugged DevOps, Open Source, and how we pioneered the application of Chaos Engineering to Cyber Security.
We will cover how DevSecOps and Security Chaos Engineering allows for teams to proactively experiment on recurring failure patterns in order to derive new information about underlying problems that were previously unknown. The use of Chaos Engineering techniques in DevSecOps pipelines, allows incident response and engineering teams to derive new information about the state of security within the system that was previously unknown.
As far as we know Chaos Engineering is one of the only proactive mechanisms for detecting systemic availability and security failures before they manifest into outages, incidents, and breaches. In other words, Security focused Chaos Engineering allows teams to proactively, safely discover system weakness before they disrupt business outcomes.
[Webinar] Building a Product Security Incident Response Team: Learnings from ...bugcrowd
Kymberlee Price's Black Hat 2016 talk in a live webcast. This presentation will address some best practices and templates to help security teams build or scale their incident response practices.
Shifting Security Left - The Innovation of DevSecOps - ValleyTechConTom Stiehm
DevSecOps adds on the DevOps by making Application Security part of the daily workflow of the team in order to improve the quality and security of a product. Shift AppSec practices left is the key enabler to making AppSec a first-class citizen in the development effort rather than an afterthought with limited ability to be successful.
Blameless Retrospectives in DevSecOps (at Global Healthcare Giants)DJ Schleen
Join us at Agile+DevOps East's DevSecOps Summit on November 18th to check out our new presentation: https://agiledevopseast.techwell.com/program/devsecops-summit-sessions/blameless-retrospectives-devsecops-global-healthcare-giants-agile-devops-virtual-2020
OWASP AppSec Global 2019 Security & Chaos EngineeringAaron Rinehart
Security today is customarily a reactive and chaotic exercise.
In this session, we will introduce a new concept known as Security Chaos Engineering and how it can be applied to create highly secure, performant, and resilient distributed systems.
Endpoint threats have entered a new era, and the security industry has been rushing to catch up. The result is a highly fragmented and confusing market that has doubled in size to over 70 vendors in the last four years. We're in the midst of the second great endpoint security consolidation and will discuss precisely what that means. We'll discuss six progressive stages endpoint security will work through as this market continues to mature over the next five years or so.
Getting to Know Security and Devs: Keys to Successful DevSecOpsFranklin Mosley
In the past, security was seen as function of the ‘security’ organization. With DevOps, we aim to break down these silos, and make security a shared responsibility. What do Security and Development teams need know about each other to work together more effectively?
The reactionary state of the industry means that we quickly identify the ‘root cause’ in terms of ‘human-error’ as an object to attribute and shift blame. Hindsight bias often confuses our personal narrative with truth, which is an objective fact that we as investigators can never fully know. The poor state of self-reflection, human factors knowledge, and the nature of resource constraints further incentivize this vicious pattern. This approach results in unnecessary and unhelpful assignment of blame, isolation of the engineers involved, and ultimately a culture of fear throughout the organization. Mistakes will always happen.
Rather than failing fast and encouraging experimentation, the traditional process often discourages creativity and kills innovation. As an alternative to simply reacting to failures, the security industry has been overlooking valuable chances to further understand and nurture ‘accidents’ or ‘mistakes’ as opportunities to proactively strengthen system resilience. Expose the failures, build resilient systems, and develop an "Applied security" model to minimize the impact of failures. In this session we will cover discuss the role of ‘human-error’, root cause, and resilience engineering in our industry and how we can use new techniques such as Chaos Engineering to make a difference.
Security focused Chaos Engineering proposes that the only way to understand this uncertainty is to confront it objectively by introducing controlled signals. During this session we will cover some key concepts in Safety & Resilience Engineering work based on Sydney Dekker’s 30 years of research into airline accident investigations and how new techniques such as Chaos Engineering are making a difference in improving our ability to learn from incidents proactively before they become destructive
Cloud, DevOps and the New Security PractitionerAdrian Sanabria
First presented at Cloud Security World in Boston on June 15th, 2016.
Once upon a time, walls were erected between the Linux/UNIX crowd, Windows admins and the mainframers. Each architecture had its place and its experts, and they rarely mixed. This time around, we didn’t just get a new domain, we got a new way of doing IT and running businesses. Cloud has created new opportunities and DevOps has capitalized on them. The result of this combination is so unrecognizable that it isn’t uncommon to see IT organizations split down the middle by the new and old approaches. As DevOps continues to gain in popularity, the same split is occurring in the security workforce. Will the traditional security practitioner be in danger of becoming obsolete?
Security DevOps - Free pentesters' time to focus on high-hanging fruits // Ha...Christian Schneider
In this session I will present best practices of how open source tools (used in the DevOps and security communities) can be properly chained together to form a framework that can - as part of an agile software development CI chain - perform automated checking of certain security aspects. This does not remove the requirement for manual pentests, but tries to automate early security feedback to developers. Ultimately the aim is to free pentesters’ time by continuously reducing the amount of
recurring (easy to find) default findings, so that pentesters can use
that time to focus on the really high-hanging fruits.
Based on my experience of applying SecDevOps techniques to projects, I will present the glue steps required on every commit and at nightly builds to achieve different levels of depth in automated security testing during the CI workflow.
I will conclude with a "SecDevOps Maturity Model" of different stages of automated security testing and present concrete examples of how to achieve each stage with open source security tools.
Threat modeling is a way of viewing the world, and so what's changing in threat modeling reflects that. There's a global pandemic. The ways we build software are changing. The threats are evolving, and attacks through systems are growing in importance.
Social Engineering 101: Don't Get Manipulated by AttackersNetSquared
Nonprofits - This security-focused educational webinar will be presented by Erich Kron, a Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4!
Abstract:
Social Engineering is a practice we use almost every day of our lives. It is apparent in how we interact with our families, our friends, strangers and even those coworkers we don't really like. It's really just the practice of dealing with other humans.
By studying these interactions, attackers can become very adept at using these skills to manipulate people into actions that benefit them. Phishing, smishing, vishing are all tools of the trade that attackers use. The psychology used in these attacks to bypass critical thinking is becoming more and more advanced. By leveraging techniques like focus redirection and exploiting the way our brain filters can be tricked in to perceiving a different reality, attackers are outpacing our best efforts to defend ourselves. We do know that throwing money at a problem doesn’t make it go away. Social engineering methods and the cyber criminals behind the attacks are furiously innovating.
Fear, anxiety and outrage are all being used to spread ransomware and other types of malware, scam people and organizations out of money and disrupt business. It’s no wonder that social engineering and phishing are the most common way that successful breaches get started.
This session will look at the things social engineers use to trick users into performing the kinds of actions that lead to security breaches and ways to identify and counteract these attacks. It will also discuss recent real-world attacks and the social engineering tricks that made them effective.
Topics include:
- The Perception vs. Reality Dilemma
- Focus redirection
- Psychology behind the attacks
- Identifying and developing defensive practices
This talk will demo one threat modeling methodology and how an engineering team is appending it to their Secure Software Development Life Cycle. The goal is to create a single platform for communicating architectural risk and planning mitigations within sprints. This will not only address security concerns sooner in a product's lifecycle but establish a trusting relationship between engineering and security teams. As an ever-evolving space, to reduce risk and deploy products to market, this is one additional step any software-focused team can quickly adapt to their practices.
Michael Edson, Resource Sharing RemixedMichael Edson
Presentation for the 2009 Rethinking Resource Sharing IV forum at the Online Computer Library Consortium (OCLC) campus in Dublin, OH. Focuses on ways to catalyze change -- particularly in regard to digital strategy and asset sharing -- in large organizations. (The slideshow as a compilation is in the public domain, though individual assets may be under copyright as noted.)
The Journey to Cyber Resilience in a World of Fear, Uncertainty and DoubtJohn D. Johnson
This presentation was given at CampIT. It motivated the need for a high level of maturity of the enterprise security program, by striving for cyber resiliency.
Bug bounty program offer numerous benefits to the sponsoring companies. Government organizations as well as private organizations will benefit if they have bug hunters sniffing around on their network.
"make secure" securing the development supply chain All Things Open 2019Wes Widner
In this presentation I present ways software engineers can incrementally secure the software development supply chain.
Slides with speaker notes that include relevant URLs:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1atmuG420iuIKRh5LJX-N4SPTD8uuGbX5Htggxa8nMS8/edit?usp=sharing
Shadow IT: The CISO Perspective on Regaining ControlCipherCloud
In this on-demand webinar, we've discussed:
- Key takeaways on Shadow IT you need to know to protect your data in the cloud.
- Surprising Shadow IT statistics are disclosed and how to proactively take charge.
- Recommendations on cloud management strategies.
The panelists include renowned security experts Chenxi Wang - former Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Rob McGillen - CIO for Grant Thornton, and Paul Simmonds - former Global CISO for AstraZeneca.
***Please Note: The link to the recorded on-demand webinar is on the last slide.
DevSecCon London 2019: Workshop: Cloud Agnostic Security Testing with Scout S...DevSecCon
Xavier Garceau-Aranda
Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group
With the steady rise of cloud adoption, a number of organizations find themselves splitting their resources between multiple cloud providers. While the readiness to deal with security in cloud native environments has been improving, the multi-cloud paradigm poses new challenges.
The workshop will aim to familiarize attendees with Scout Suite (https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite), a key component of NCC Group’s cloud agnostic approach to security assurance.
Scout Suite is an open source multi-cloud security-auditing tool, which enables security posture assessment of cloud environments. Using the APIs exposed by cloud providers, Scout Suite gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights risk areas. Rather than pouring through dozens of pages on the web consoles, Scout Suite provides a clear view of the attack surface automatically.
The following cloud providers are currently supported:
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Alibaba Cloud
During the workshop, attendees will leverage Scout Suite to assess a number of cloud environments designed to simulate typical flaws. We will display how the tool can be leveraged to quickly identify and help with remediation of security misconfigurations.
DevSecCon London 2019: Are Open Source Developers Security’s New Front Line?DevSecCon
Mitun Zavery
Senior Engineer at Sonatype
Bad actors have recognized the power of open source and are now beginning to create their own attack opportunities. This new form of assault, where OSS project credentials are compromised and malicious code is intentionally injected into open source libraries, allows hackers to poison the well. In this session, Mitun will explain how both security and developers must work together to stop this trend. Or, risk losing the entire open source ecosystem.
Analyze, and detail, the events leading to today’s “all-out” attack on the OSS industry
Define what the future of open source looks like in today’s new normal
Outline how developers can step into the role of security, to protect themselves, and the millions of people depending on them
DevSecCon London 2019: How to Secure OpenShift Environments and What Happens ...DevSecCon
Jan Harrie
Security Analyst at ERNW GmbH
OpenShift by Red Hat is one of the major Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions on the market. It is used to automatically deploy Kubernetes clusters and provides useful extensions for cluster management mixed with some magic under the hood.
Instantiating a Kubernetes cluster is often a crucial step in setting up a modern application stack. But be aware – a lot of configuration parameters are awaiting you. And here several misconfigurations may occur that can lead up to a compromise of the cluster. Privileged containers, tainting of masters and executing workloads on them, missing role-based access controls, and misconfigured Service Accounts are part of the problem.
In this talk, I will explain which configuration parameters of an OpenShift environment are critical to ensure the overall security of the deployed Kubernetes clusters. Implications of misconfigurations will be demonstrated during live demos. Finally, recommendations for a secure configuration are provided.
DevSecCon London 2019: A Kernel of Truth: Intrusion Detection and Attestation...DevSecCon
Matt Carroll
Infrastructure Security Engineer at Yelp
"Attestation is hard" is something you might hear from security researchers tracking nation states and APTs, but it's actually pretty true for most network-connected systems!
Modern deployment methodologies mean that disparate teams create workloads for shared worker-hosts (ranging from Jenkins to Kubernetes and all the other orchestrators and CI tools in-between), meaning that at any given moment your hosts could be running any one of a number of services, connecting to who-knows-what on the internet.
So when your network-based intrusion detection system (IDS) opaquely declares that one of these machines has made an "anomalous" network connection, how do you even determine if it's business as usual? Sure you can log on to the host to try and figure it out, but (in case you hadn't noticed) computers are pretty fast these days, and once the connection is closed it might as well not have happened... Assuming it wasn't actually a reverse shell...
At Yelp we turned to the Linux kernel to tell us whodunit! Utilizing the Linux kernel's eBPF subsystem - an in-kernel VM with syscall hooking capabilities - we're able to aggregate metadata about the calling process tree for any internet-bound TCP connection by filtering IPs and ports in-kernel and enriching with process tree information in userland. The result is "pidtree-bcc": a supplementary IDS. Now whenever there's an alert for a suspicious connection, we just search for it in our SIEM (spoiler alert: it's nearly always an engineer doing something "innovative")! And the cherry on top? It's stupid fast with negligible overhead, creating a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than the kernels firehose-like audit subsystems.
This talk will look at how you can tune the signal-to-noise ratio of your IDS by making it reflect your business logic and common usage patterns, get more work done by reducing MTTR for false positives, use eBPF and the kernel to do all the hard work for you, accidentally load test your new IDS by not filtering all RFC-1918 addresses, and abuse Docker to get to production ASAP!
As well as looking at some of the technologies that the kernel puts at your disposal, this talk will also tell pidtree-bcc's road from hackathon project to production system and how focus on demonstrating business value early on allowed the organization to give us buy-in to build and deploy a brand new project from scratch.
DevSecCon Seattle 2019: Containerizing IT Security KnowledgeDevSecCon
Kristóf Tóth
Software Engineer at Avatao
The world is getting eaten alive by software. At this point, almost nothing can be done without interacting with some sort of software system. Not even buying your groceries.
As we keep dumping out huge piles of code like there is no tomorrow, our far from perfect systems keep getting worse and worse from a security standpoint.
What could possibly go wrong?
We believe that education is the missing link.
As appsec is still a curiosity topic on top universities, freshly graduated engineers simply have no clue. And how could they?
The number of programmers keeps on doubling every few years and generations of software professionals are stuck without a proper background in ITSec.
As this trend continues, our responsibility to do something about this is on the rise.
In hopes of fighting this trend, we, at Avatao, have decided to share some of our dreams with the community.
Our Tutorial Framework allows you to easily create interactive learning environments running inside Docker containers.
These environments are capable of automatically guiding users through a set of topics by allowing them to interact with real software through a simple web browser.
Users can attack webservices, write code to fix them or use a terminal to deploy websites by creating and pushing git tags.
Nothing here is a mock-up: Every software component is real.
In this talk, I am going to demonstrate the capabilities of the framework, talk about the technology behind it and explore some use cases for it.
During the session we will open source the framework with the hope of creating a better, secure future together.
DevSecCon Seattle 2019: Decentralized Authorization - Implementing Fine Grain...DevSecCon
Sitaraman Lakshminarayanan
Sr Security Architect at Pure Storage
Authorization has two components – Policy Definition and Policy Enforcement. Traditionally both used to be centralized and we spent all the time Integrating products- Built or Bought with Centralized Access Management. This typically led to increased cycle time to change any access policy or change software/deployment to fit into one particular authorization model. When that doesn’t fit, we would end up with multiple authorization enforcements written in different languages with or without any adherence to any standards such as XACML or others.
Imagine building few different or hundreds of products or services or micro services and you have to centrally manage all possible access policies. It’s definitely not a scalable solution in fast moving CI/CD world.
Now imagine a way where every developers or products can externalize its authorization and we can modify authorization enforcement in a consistent manner? Imagine where developers can write their own implementation of how authorization should be enforced for their environment? Remember there is no one size fits all authorization policy. A policy that works for your environment does not work for my environment – for any number of reasons from Risk management to type of business applications.
Open Policy Agent provides a consistent way to write authorization logic and expose it as REST API. Applications can easily integrate with OPA and can also write their own authroziation logics. Whether you are shipping products to customers or integrating a Product or Service into your environment, how awesome it would be to enforce your own authorization rules instead of changing your business process of who can gain access to what features.
In this talk we will explore the benefits of Decentralized Authorization and how to use Open Policy Agent to achieve decentralized authorization. A closer look at few applications /integrations whether it is REST API /Micro Services, or Kubernetes to control various authorization policies as to who can deploy/what can you deploy. We will also look at how to build Integration tests to check our authorization policies.
DevSecCon Seattle 2019: Fully Automated production deployments with HIPAA/HIT...DevSecCon
Matt Lavin
Software Architect at LifeOmic
It's possible to have rapid feature delivery and happy developers without sacrificing high security and compliance. At LifeOmic, we've built an automated change management system that allows production deployments without slow human approval. We maintain HIPAA and HITRUST compliance while still allowing continuous delivery. I'll show how to collect data from BitBucket, Jenkins, and security scan tools to ensure that the approved processes have been followed.
You'll hear how fast production approval incentivizes developers to follow good practices, and become advocates for following the process instead of pushing against it. Automating process checks as a gate to deployments is a great framework for promoting the behavior you want in your organization. Don't give up on rapid feature delivery just because you work in a regulated industry.
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: Four years of reflection: How (not) to secure Web A...DevSecCon
Julian Berton
Preventing a company from becoming the newest data breach statistic can be a daunting prospect. Especially working within a company that employs hundreds of engineers pushing code to production daily, it often feels like everything is on fire and the holy grail of producing a security inspired product is but a dim light growing further and further away. The same feeling is true for security aware engineers being pushed to develop products quickly but also expected to consider quality assurance, operations, security and the reliability of their application or service.
To help reduce the bleeding and build more security aware applications at scale, a balance of firefighting, preventative initiatives, automation and "JIT" education is required. So strap yourself in while we take you on a journey through 4 years of security successes and epic failures:
* Automation - Implementing a secure-by-default build system (Buildkite) that makes detecting vulnerable dependencies (Snyk), storing secrets (AWS Secrets Manager) and scanning Docker containers, an effortless process.
* Prevention - Eradicate several classes of bugs by selecting secure architectural patterns and using automated scripts to detect operational misconfigurations like dangling DNS entries, open S3 buckets, secrets checked into source code and repositories that have been made accidentally public.
* "JIT” Education - Changing a companies security culture with RFC's for security standards, security integrated PIR via bug bounty program reports, visibility through security maturity frameworks (BSIMM).
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: crypto jacking: An evolving threat for cloud contai...DevSecCon
Rahul Kumar & Rupali Dash
In the current era of blockchain technology, mining crypto currency is one of the biggest hit. The talk covers how the attackers use the insecure containers to mine crypto currency and earn million dollar profits. Cryptojacking activity surged to its peak in December 2017, when more than 8 million cryptojacking events were blocked by many intrusion detection companies. While there have seen a slight fall in activity in 2018, it is still at an elevated level, with total cryptojacking events blocked in July 2018 totalling just less than 5 million.
The talk will cover how the mining activities has been done using browsers as well as cloud containers. We will also discuss how the cloud provides like amazon, azure and go are detecting such kind of activities and how minor misconfigurations leads to million dollar currency mining. The talk will also cover how 3rd party security providers like symantec and z-scalar and other intrusion detection system has configured signatures to block such kind of attacks. As well as from a sec-ops prospective what configuration checks should be done to prevent against such kind of attacks as well as detection of attacks. It will also cover some case studies and attack scenarios of mining Monero and the huge financial losses because of this attacks.
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: Can "dev", "sec" and "ops" really coexist in the wi...DevSecCon
Trinh Tran & Dennis Stötzel
Are you trying to stay secure while developing and running a bunch of services and applications every day? So are we and it’s a huge pain in the… pipeline. We have been juggling these aspects while working with one of the biggest insurance companies in the world.
In this talk, we will share our experiences of the last three years: Trinh, as a software engineer in Vietnam and Dennis, as a security engineer in Germany. We will present our experiences of making "dev", "sec" and "ops" coexist – without sparing any dirty details. Our goal has always been fast delivery and secure applications using pipelines, containers, orchestration, and the cloud. Let us explain which of these goals we have met and which remain goals, where we messed up and where we found glory.
We will cover the following topics in our talk:
* Evolution of our project, from beginning with four engineers running in one office, to expanding to fifty engineers coming from three continents and different backgrounds,
* Development, delivery and security as a requirement in an agile project,
* The good, the bad and the ugly in technology, architecture and infrastructure.
Sanoop Thomas & Samandeep Singh
Burp suite is the de-facto proxy application for web security testers. This hands-on workshop will explore the different capabilities of burp proxy application, also dive into the extensions and tooling options to perform improved application security test cases.
The workshop will start with a quick overview of burp usage, different settings, features, some commonly useful extensions and then explore deep into its extension APIs to build your own custom extensions. We will provide a suitable development environment in Java and Python platforms. This will be a hands-on workshop and participants will learn how to automate different application security test scenarios and build burp extensions with the help of templates.
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: Embracing Security - A changing DevOps landscapeDevSecCon
Cameron Townshend
Today’s pace of innovation and need to out “innovate” competitors can often cause developers to bypass key portions of Gene Kim’s Three Ways of DevOps - specifically to never pass a known defect downstream and emphasize performance of the entire system.
As we embrace movements like CI, CD and Devops to cut down on release cycles - and innovate faster, we as developers must also embrace the reality that the risk landscape is too complex to leave “security” to just those with security in their title. Traditional methods do not cut it anymore – it’s time for DevSecOps.
Instinctively, we understand how critical this is. In Sonatype’s recent 2018 DevSecOps Community report, where 2,076 IT professionals were surveyed, 48% of respondents admitted that developers know application security is important, but they don’t have the time to spend on it.
Done properly, DevSecOps practices shouldn’t interrupt the DevOps pipeline - but instead aid it - preventing costly rebuilds and build breaks, down the road. By creating automated governance and compliance guardrails that are embedded early and throughout the software development lifecycle, developers have transparent access to digital guardrails integrated within our native tools — an approach that ensures security is being built in without slowing us down. These instant feedback loops detailing good or bad components have been shown to increase developer productivity by as much as 48%.
Over time, this approach ensures developers procure the best components from the best suppliers, while continuously tracking components across the entire lifecycle.
Attendees of this session will walk away with:
Real-world examples of how large and small companies are implementing DevSecOps practices in their own delivery pipelines, and increasing developer awareness to risks
Key insights from 2,076 of their peers who participated in the 2018 DevSecOps community report - including where most mature DevOps practices are focusing their security efforts
A walkthrough of how security principles have been embedded in a CICD pipeline and what standards for implementation are beginning to follow suite
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: Web Services aren’t as secure as we thinkDevSecCon
Tilak T
Web-Services are taking over the world. Rest-framework is accelerating this development, because of its ease and flexibility. Developers often use and develop REST-based applications because it's exciting to work with. But they forget about security which leads to compromised and exploited applications. For instance, in more recent security tests against Web Services that my team executed, we found that vulnerabilities like Insecure Deserialization, XML External Entities, Server-Side Template Injection and Authorization Flaws are quite prevalent. I have found some simple steps that engineering teams can take towards finding and fixing such vulnerabilities with Web Services. This talk is offering a holistic perspective on finding and fixing some uncommon flaws that will be replete with anecdotes and examples of secure and insecure code. I will also delve into automating SAST and DAST tools using Robot-Framework to identify such flaws in Web-Services.
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: An attacker's view of Serverless and GraphQL apps S...DevSecCon
Sharath Kumar Ramadas
Serverless Technology (Functions as a Service) is fast becoming the next "big thing" in the world of distributed applications. Organizations are investing a great deal of resources in this technology as a force-multiplier, cost-saver and ops-simplification cure-all. Especially with widespread support from cloud vendors, this technology is going to only become more influential. However, like everything else, Serverless apps are subject to a wide variety of attack possibilities, ranging from attacks against access control tech like JWTs, to NoSQL Injection, to exploits against the apps themselves (deserialization, etc) escalating privileges to other cloud components.
On the other hand GraphQL (API Query Language) is the natural companion to serverless apps, where traditional REST APIs are replaced with GraphQL to provide greater flexibility, greater query parameterization and speed. GraphQL is slowly negating the need for REST APIs from being developed. Combined with Serverless tech/Reactive Front-end frameworks, GraphQL is very powerful for distributed apps. However, GraphQL can be abused with a variety of attacks including but not limited to Injection Attacks, Nested Resource Exhaustion attacks, Authorization Flaws among others.
This talk presents a red-team perspective of the various ways in which testers can discover and exploit serverless and/or GraphQL driven applications to compromise sensitive information, and gain a deeper foothold into database services, IAM services and other other cloud components. The talk will have some demos that will demonstrate practical attacks and attack possibilities against Serverless and GraphQL applications. The author will release an intentionally vulnerable Serverless and GraphQL app at the end of the talk for the benefit of the audience and the security community at large.
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: The journey of digital transformation through DevSe...DevSecCon
Nadira Bajrei
IT Continuous Improvement and Knowledge Management at Bank Mandiri Tbk
We all know that the Banking industry is highly regulated. But due to recent changing factors, we had to trigger something we call transformation. Two of the most important reasons why we need transformation are firstly digital disruption, a wave our industry is hard pushed to follow, and secondly the evolving customer expectation and competitive environment, which are impacting the way organisations are delivering value. We need a new way of working to help us stay relevant in the market.
This session will focus on our journey as one of the biggest banks in Indonesia to do digital transformation into DevOps while maintaining security compliance requirements. I will elaborate on the main reason why we need transformation, our journey roadmap, the step by step adoption of CALMS Values in our organisation and how we faced challenges from internal and external site.
DevSecCon Singapore 2019: Preventative Security for KubernetesDevSecCon
Liz Rice
The latest Kubernetes version provides many security-related enhancements and controls, but it is far from being secure by default. Kubernetes is a complex orchestration platform with many different implementations, across multi-cloud/hybrid environments. Configuring it to comply with security best practices and specific security requires time and expertise that most organizations don’t possess.
Aqua’s open source tools arm Kubernetes administrators and developers with an easy way to identify weaknesses in their deployments so that they can address those issues before they are exploited by attackers.
During this presentation, we’ll review how these open source tools offer preventive security for Kubernetes:
Kube-Bench: checks a Kubernetes cluster against 100+ checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
Kube-Hunter: conducts penetration tests against Kubernetes clusters that hunt for exploitable vulnerabilities and misconfiguration - both from outside the cluster as well as inside it (running as a pod)
DevSecCon London 2018: Is your supply chain your achille's heelDevSecCon
COLIN DOMONEY
The advent of DevOps and large scale automation of software construction and delivery has elevated the software supply chain – and its underpinning delivery pipeline – to mission critical status in any modern enterprise. The increased velocity of modern pipelines and the removal of manual checks and balances has meant that modern pipelines are potential single points of failure in the delivery of secure software.
Automotive and consumer electronics industries have long understood the need for both provenance (understanding the origin of materials) and veracity (ensuring the integrity of their manufacturing processes) in their supply chains; this presentation will address threats to software supply chains and practical approaches to reducing the fragility of your supply chain. Several examples of software supply chain failures will be presented and deconstructed to understand the typical failure modes.
At the most elementary level many pipelines are poorly constructed with low levels of repeatability and poor test coverage, in other organisations there is a lack of governance over the supply chain allowing careless or willingly negligent actors to subvert or bypass controls or testing within the pipeline. There is also no standard mechanism to ensure a ‘chain of custody’ within a pipeline due to a lack common interchange format between tools, or a standard manner to represent the steps within a pipeline build process.
This presentation will cover approaches (using ‘people and process’) in enforcing governance within a supply chain by describing best practices used in large-scale AppSec programmes. Several emerging technology initiatives will be presented: Google’s Grafeas is a means to ensure vulnerability information is represented in a uniform manner across all steps of a pipeline process, while In-Toto is a project to formally enforce the integrity of a pipeline process. A reference secure pipeline will be presented demonstrating both tools working in symphony, along with standard open source and commercial AppSec tools.
Finally the pipeline itself may become the Achille’s Heel in an organisation – many pipelines are not sufficiently hardened and are themselves open to attack by use of vulnerable components and their extensible nature, often along with very wide open permissions. Guidance will be given on hardening of typical pipelines, and a fully secured ephemeral Jenkins pipeline will be demonstrated.
Benefits of this Session: The attendee will gain an increased awareness of the pivotal importance of the software supply chain, and gain an understanding of some common failure modes and weaknesses. Most importantly the attendee will come away with practical guidance on enforcing higher levels of governance on their supply chain without reducing delivery velocity, as well as how to harden the pipeline infrastructure itself.
DevSecCon London 2018: Get rid of these TLS certificatesDevSecCon
Paweł Krawczyk
Most network services and daemons now offer TLS transport protection and their managing certificates and TLS configuration for server farms may use more resources than actual configuration of these services. What if you could get rid of all this complexity and replace it by single transport protection protocol, securing all of the traffic between your servers trasparently and with single centralized key and configuration management? This will be a story of a successful implementation of IPSec protocols, largely and undeservedly forgotten in that purpose, for securing a farm of production cloud servers, with configuration centrally managed with Ansible.
PETKO D. PETKOV
Thanks to the DevSecOps philosophy a growing number of organisations around the world are ensuring their businesses are set up with the security in mind from the get-go. DevSecOps is taking the world by storm. This talk is about how to introduce DevSecOps in your organisation with ready-made, zero-cost, open source templates accessible to everyone. The talk will introduce the OpenDevSecOps project and show many practical examples of how to easily deploy security testing infrastructure on top of existing and well-established development tools.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
4. Our Storyboard
• Building a Security Team
• How Not to Engage with Development and Operations
• Developers are from Mars, Security are from Venus
• What We Did Differently
5. What I Thought I Needed …
Name: Crash “I void warranties” OveRide
6. What My Human Resources Brought Me …
Name: Jordan Belfort CISSP, CSSLP, CISM, CISA,
CIPT, CIPM, CEH, OSCP, PTO …
14. PROACTIVE
“Let’s discuss a remediation plan”
“Here’s a Wiki page on dealing with that”
“You’re using a vulnerable component”
“Here’s a code sample that shows you how”
“There’s a new version of that library”
“You should do a new static scan”
“You’ve fixed all your flaws”
15. PRAGMATIC
Don’t do ”check box compliance
Negotiate a timescale for remediation
Appreciate not all flaws need to be fixed
Prioritise remediation activity
End goal is risk reduction, not compliance
16. • Able to communicate with the Developers
• Understood their release cycles, environments, challenges
• Identified common ‘anti-patterns’ in their software
• Provided code snippets and remediation guidance
• Identified ’second party’ components and their owners
• Identified vulnerable OSS and COTS packages
• Pragmatic approach to remediation
• Use new technology when relevant
What Did We Do Differently
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Editor's Notes
I recognize that my code will be used in ways I cannot anticipate, in ways it was not designed, and for longer than it was ever intended.
I recognize that my code will be attacked by talented and persistent adversaries who threaten our physical, economic and national security.
I am rugged, not because it is easy, but because it is necessary and I am up for the challenge.
