Outpost24 webinar - Protecting Cezanne HR’s cloud web application with continuous assessment
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We discuss the importance of data protection in HR, and how a hybrid continuous assessment approach has helped secure their business critical apps and maintain ISO certification standards at scale.
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Outpost24 webinar - Protecting Cezanne HR’s cloud web application with continuous assessment
- 1. Outpost24 Template 2019 Protecting Cezanne HR’s cloud web application with continuous assessment Simon Roe, Outpost24 & John Hixon, Cezanne HR 30th September 2020
- 2. Full stack cybersecurity assessment Helping customers improve security posture since 2001 Over 2,000 customers in all regions of the world Really good at breaking technology 2
- 3. 3Application Security in the news…..
- 4. 4 HR & Security go hand-in-hand • Security automation to protect fast growing Saas business • Protecting customer data is #1 priority • ISO certification and prevent data leakage • Reduce security stress on resources & budget • Release with speed and confidence with secure SDLC
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- 12. 12 SWAT for Business-Critical Applications • Delivery through portal • Findings published once reviewed • Zero false positives • Generate reports on demand • Liaise with testers • Integrate into SDLC through RestAPI • Crest approved methodology • Managed by O24 • Daily assessment • DAST scanning • Change detection • Regular manual assessment • Web application assessment • Quarterly • Findings • Manual review of ALL findings
- 13. Brief service description SWAT offers a combination of a state- of-art web application scanning technology and Security Consultants to provide an accurate and continuous web application assessments for a 12- month period. 13 What it is not • A network and host layer penetration test. Instead it focuses on up to four manual tests of the web application. • ‘A scanner’. We provide zero false- positives, something that is not feasible with just a scanner. SWAT at a glance Day <1 Scoping Day 1-30 Onboarding, review & manual test Day 30-365 Daily monitoring Scoping Submit a SWAT scoping request via either the Appsec UI or through the Sales representative. On receipt the request is reviewed by the AppSec team. Once approved the team returns a final scoping document including the number of applications/instances within two days. Daily monitoring After discovery, findings are verified by the AppSec team and published within 5-7 days of initial discovery. With a further 3 manual tests per year. Questions asked, and verification tests requested through the portal are answered within 5 business days. Onboarding, review & manual testing On license start date, each application is setup in the portal, initial scanning is setup, and the first manual test is scheduled to commence within the first 30 days. After 30 days, continuous assessments are performed including: Daily scanning and manual review of changes for any new risks. Service lifecycle What it is • Continuous security monitoring of web applications. • Guaranteed zero false positives. • A fully managed service perfect for applications that undergo many development changes/releases or applications that are business critical.
- 14. Takeaways • Application security hygiene – shift left for continuous assessment & secure SDLC • Education – understand your attack surface to protect customer data & prove compliance • Risk assessment – do your homework when stepping into new growth areas • Stay current – strive to understand latest attacker and industry trends 14
- 15. Outpost24 Template 2019 Simon Roe Application Security Product Manager sro@outpost24.com Q & A
Editor's Notes
- Application security trends pre/post covid discussion
- How the needs of HR personnel and HR management has evolved (from offline spreadsheets to secure online platform) Brief intro to Cezanne HR and John’s role How transformaion in HR management has facilited the growth of the Cezanne HR in the mid-tier market globally Key challenges with security within HR sector (Single sign on and authentication)
- How Cezanne HR customer demands have changed since introduction of GDPR and importance of data protection Creating a security lead culture and ensuring security is a top priority throughout Cezanne HR and across different functions How the increase in customer demands has meant the need to grow the product and roadmap to include new features i.e to support new business and retention rates for Cezanne HR (new training modules etc) without impacting security
- How Cezanne HR came to the decison to move away from manual testing to automated contiuous assessment and how our relationship has developed How John’s team are measured and how SWAT helps them achieve their goals as a team – continuous scanning means we can focus on the top priorities
- ISO271001 certification and what it means for the business and Cezanne clients (we can speak from our perspective here as a Cezanne customer)
- Improved speed to market as app is tested every time there is a new update Economics of pen testing from business and security sense (Simon) how it helps achieve/ prove compliance more easily More efficient development to production cycle – John knows the app is secure before its released Access to Swat team and reporting
- How application security slots into John’s strategy and workflow and how Outpost24 enables Cezanne to deliver new versions to market on time and in budget How security testing can boost sales process and RFP’s
- John’s view of being a security professional and how having awareness of commercial success is important for his role Using continuous assessment for quality assurance testing before product is ready to go to market (speed to market and supporting SDLC) AWS and Cloud and how everything fits together