DevSecCon Seattle 2019: Containerizing IT Security Knowledge

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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.

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Containerizing IT Security
Knowledge
KRISTÓF TÓTH

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Something is wrong with security
• 3 billion Yahoo accounts hacked (2016)
• Marriott breach leaks data of 500 million guests (2018)
• Facebook hack leaves 540 million accounts exposed (2019)
• This doesn’t seem right...

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Why are we failing?
• The amount of programmers is doubling every few years
• ITSec training is still a curiosity at many universities
• Generations of engineers without a proper background in security
• Education is the missing link

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Tutorial Framework – What?
• Helps you creating interactive learning environments
• Automatically guide the user through topics ...
• ... by making them interact with real software
• A hybrid of training videos and hacking labs
• Accessible through a browser
• Package & ship the whole thing in containers
• TL;DR hacking labs on crack

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Tutorial demo

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What is the value?
• ”Smart security sandboxes”
• Self-guided learning without previous knowledge
• Learn by experimenting with real software
• Hands-on experience without a learning curve

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It’s for you!
• For trainers & teachers
• For students & professionals
• For the community
• Fast & easy development
• No proprietary software involved, all open source
• Independent of the Avatao platform, but allows easy integration

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You get a set of useful components
• State tracking
• An IDE, console and terminal
• Chat to communicate with user
• Process management, live logs
• And more ...

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How it works
• Multiple processes running in a container (tini + supervisord)
• Nginx serving an Angular SPA
• Custom IPC daemon
• Used for RPC and event advertisement
• Connected to processes over ZeroMQ
• Connected to frontend over WebSockets

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IPC daemon
• Simple JSON based message format
• Used for RPC and event advertisement
• Routes messages between ZeroMQ & WebSockets
• Processes can connect to it via:
• ZeroMQ sockets
• POSIX named pipes
• ...

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IPC daemon

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How do you use it?
• Built in components use our messaging daemon to communicate
• You can control them via a simple JSON API
• They broadcast relevant events
• Fill a container with the software you need and instrument TFW

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Framework demo

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Giving back to the community
• Where can I get it?
• Licensed under the GNU LGPLv3
• Available on GitHub:
• github.com/avatao-content/baseimage-tutorial-framework
• github.com/avatao-content/frontend-tutorial-framework
• github.com/avatao-content/test-tutorial-framework

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Thank you for listening!
Questions?

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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

DevSecCon Singapore 2019: Workshop - Burp extension writing workshop

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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 landscape

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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: The journey of digital transformation through DevSe...

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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 Kubernetes

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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: Get rid of these TLS certificates

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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.

DevSecCon London 2018: Open DevSecOps

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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.

DevSecCon London 2018: Building effective DevSecOps teams through role-playin...

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MIKE SHEMA Effective appsec emerges from DevSecOps tactics like feedback loops, automation, and the flexibility to respond to situations quickly. These tactics emphasize process and tools, sometimes neglecting the knowledge and skills of working with others to build and maintain apps. And the solutions they strive for don’t always catch the importance of how different users can have different threat models. On the technology side of appsec we have clouds, top 10 lists, and tools. But we haven’t built up equivalent resources, references, or models for the people we build apps with and who we build them for. This presentation dives into specific techniques and references for working with people and building threat models that go beyond basic technical concerns. Tabletop role-playing games are a great model for understanding and building skills that are important to DevSecOps teams. They encourage communication, collaboration, and the achievement of shared goals. And they also face the same challenges in solving conflicts, avoiding derailing behaviors, and ensuring everyone participates. Come discover how RPGs can positively influence your security teams. Security is an integral part of DevSecOps. And, yes, it’s made of people.

DevSecCon London 2018: Variant Analysis – A critical step in handling vulnera...

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KEVIN BACKHOUSE With the increasing awareness and adoption of DevSecOps, organisations are beginning to fully understand the crucial role that security plays, integrating it into every part of the development and deployment process, from start to finish. New processes such as vulnerability disclosures & bug bounty programs, red team exercises, pen-testing initiatives and static & dynamic code analysis are putting security front and center. These initiatives are proving to be an incredible source for discovering previously unknown vulnerabilities, and fixes are generally implemented and deployed pretty quickly. However, this response is often not quite enough. In software development, we frequently see the same logical coding mistakes being made repeatedly over the course of a project’s lifetime, and sometimes across multiple projects. Sometimes there are a number of simultaneously active instances of these mistakes, and sometimes there’s only ever one active instance at a time, but it keeps reappearing. When these mistakes lead to security vulnerabilities, the consequences can be severe. With each vulnerability discovered or reported, if the root cause was a bug in the code, we’re presented with an opportunity to investigate how often this mistake is repeated, whether there are any other unknown vulnerabilities as a result, and implement a process to prevent it reappearing. In this talk, I’ll be introducing Variant Analysis, a process for doing just this, and discuss how it can be integrated into your development and security operations. I’ll also be sharing real-world stories of what has happened when variant analysis was neglected, as well as stories of when it’s saved the day.

DevSecCon London 2018: Lessons from the legion (the DevSecCon London Remix)

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NICK DRAGE The popularity of DevSecCon, and the enthusiasm for DevSecOps as a concept, shows that there is a desire for significant change within the IT industry – that merely improving our abilities, and our tooling, hasn’t provided the gains we expected and hoped for. This presentation will demonstrate the value of ideas from diverse areas, providing a range of examples where others have faced similar situations regarding conflict, training, adversaries, or complexity, and showing how we can use those ideas to improve our own processes and practice.

DevSecCon London 2018: Security in the serverless world

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YAN CUI AWS has taken over the responsibilities of patching the OS and securing the underlying physical infrastructure that runs your serverless application, so what’s left for you to secure? Quite a bit it turns out. The OWASP top 10 is as relevant to you as ever; DOS attacks are still a threat even if you can probably brute force your way through it as AWS auto-scales Lambda functions automatically; and did you know attackers can easily steal your AWS credentials via your application dependencies? In addition to the traditional threats, serverless applications have more granular deployment units and therefore there are more things to configure and secure, and the tools and practices are still catching up with this fast changing world. Join us in this talk to learn more about the security threats that will affect your serverless application and some leading practices that help you combat these threats.

DevSecCon London 2018: Enabling shift-left for 12k banking developers from sc...

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ERNESTO BETHENCOURT At BBVA we are developing the Bank’s Next Global Banking Platform for building, deploying and running banking services of any kind, leveraging on cloud technologies. Security is one of the main components for this new platform and is expected to be self-service and easy to use. But it’s not only technology we are building, it’s a new culture based mainly on DevOps. So, what better opportunity to shift-left and offer developers the tools that they need to easily change their (and security teams) mindsets regarding security? In this talk we will walk you through the strategy that we have adopted to expose security services for enabling secure development but at the same time automating security processes needed by security teams. All this trying to keep it in a low budget (at least for now) by levering on vendors and open-source solutions.

DevSecCon London 2018: Whatever happened to attack aware applications?

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MATTHEW PENDLEBURY Today’s security detection and response capabilities are usually focused on endpoints and network devices. Applications are often considered a distant cousin, more of a potential liability whose logs should be ingested into remote monitoring solutions such as SIEMs. Projects such as OWASP AppSensor however have loads of promise, putting the application back at the heart of attack detection and response, plus offering a really exciting opportunity to development teams. But these ideas have been around for more than 10 years, and AppSensor itself is getting close to this age, yet they still aren’t commonplace, why might this be? An attack aware application is one that can detect and report suspected malicious events, evaluate a series of events and take action if it suspects that series of events, that when considered together are malicious in nature. Examples of events may be a high number of login attempts over a period, a forceful browsing attempt or an obvious XSS string. Many of these events are routinely intercepted today by inline security appliances such as a Web Application Firewall (WAF). However, suspicious events may also be a lot more contextual to the application such as a change to a parameter that should not be changed. This context may not be available to an external device such as a WAF but it is to the application and this leads to the ability to generate very high-fidelity security alerting and opens the possibility of the application itself making pragmatic defensive choices.

DevSecCon London 2018: A Journey to Continuous Cloud Compliance

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PAUL SCHWARZENBERGER Access keys in GitHub, open security group rules, misconfigured Identity and Access Management roles, private SSL certificate keys kept in code repositories and open S3 buckets. Just some of the security issues which led to a journey towards automated compliance solutions for cloud infrastructure and applications. Paul describes a framework for Continuous Cloud Compliance, and demonstrates some of the techniques and tools he has used while working on cloud migration projects and operational cloud applications for both public and private sector organisations.

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