Daniel Kefer from 1&1 Internet AG presented on 1&1's secure software development lifecycle (SDLC). He began by introducing himself and 1&1. He then discussed the motivation for a secure SDLC, noting the higher costs of fixing bugs later in development. Kefer outlined the common approaches to application security as intuitive, reactive, or proactive. 1&1 aims to take the proactive approach through their SDLC methodology. He described their methodology, including classifying systems based on risk level and assigning different security requirements at each level across both the development lifecycle and technical categories. Kefer finished by discussing 1&1's plans to expand usage and continuous improvement of their SDLC methodology.

1. Daniel Kefer, Information Security, 1&1 Internet AG
SECURE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE

2.  Who Am I, Who Is 1&1
 Motivation For Secure SDLC
 What the World Does
 What 1&1 Does
 Future Plans
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3.  Who Am I, Who Is 1&1
 Motivation For Secure SDLC
 What the World Does
 What 1&1 Does
 Future Plans
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4. Who Am I
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 Daniel Kefer
 Originally from the Czech Republic
 Working in IT-Security since 2005
 Security in development since 2008
 2011 moved to Germany to work for 1&1
 Focus on application security

5. 1&1 – Member of United Internet AG
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1&1
Telecommunication
AG
100 %
United Internet
Ventures AG
100 %
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Goldbach 14.96 %
Hi-media 10.50 %
fun 49 %
Virtual Minds 48.65 %
ProfitBricks 30.02 %
Open-Xchange 28.36 %
ePages 25.10 %
Uberall 25 %
Rocket Internet 8.18 %
Stand: 27. März 2014
SEDO
Holding GmbH
100 %
1&1
Internet AG
100 %
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6. Locations
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7. Motivated team
 Around 7,800 employees, thereof approx.
2,000 in product management, development
and data centers
Sales strength
 Approx. 3 million new customer contracts
p.a.
 50,000 registrations for free services on a
daily basis
Operational excellence
 46 million accounts in 11 countries
7 data centers
 70,000 servers in Europe and USA
1&1: Internet services of United Internet AG
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Access Applications
Networks
User
equipment
Content
Standard
software
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Stand: 19. November 2013
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8.  Who Am I, Who Is 1&1
 Motivation For Secure SDLC
 What the World Does
 What 1&1 Does
 Future Plans
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9. Three Common Approaches to Develop Applications (Security View)
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 Intuitive approach
 Reactive approach
 Proactive approach

10. Intuitive Approach
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 Pure best-effort approach
 Relying on individual knowledge and experience of the team members
 No security gates during the development
 Typically leads to higher occurence of security incidents and negative PR

11. Reactive Approach
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 Typically one security gate before the application rollout
 Penetration test
 Code review
 Infrastructure configuration audit
 A big step forward from the security point of view, but…
 How effective it is to say „you‘ve done it wrong“ when the development is finished?
 Typically increases the project costs and length
 Security bugs: mistakes in the source code, „quite easy“ to fix
 Security flaws: mistakes in the application design, very expensive to fix
 The world gets more agile all the time… at what point should you test?
 You don‘t usually find everything during a security audit!

12. Proactive Approach (Secure SDLC)
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 You try to prevent security bugs before they‘re created
 Cost of a bug during the development lifecycle:

13.  Who Am I, Who Is 1&1
 Motivation For Secure SDLC
 What the World Does
 What 1&1 Does
 Future Plans
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14. What the World Does
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 Overall Concepts
 Process models: What should I do what at which point?
 Maturity models: Do I do enough for security in the development?
 Supportive Methodologies and Tooling
 How do I perform architecture review?
 Penetration testing tools
 Checklists, cheat sheets
 Development guides, testing guides
 …

15. Process Models - Example
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 Microsoft SDL
 Development divided into 7 phases
 Within every phase you should perform a couple of security-related
activities

16. 2004: Microsoft SDL 1.0 Launch
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 2005 Microsoft published first results they achieved using their SDL
Methodology

17. Maturity Models - Example
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 Building Security Into Maturity Model (www.bsimm.com)
 Project comparing regularly companies from different verticals and
measuring their security activities in software development in 112
activities
 2013 (5th version) results – out of 67 firms:
 44 have internal secure SDLC officially published
 57 track results reached at previously defined security gates
 36 require owner‘s security sign-off before deployment
 31 enforce security gates (project not continuing until security requirements are met)

18. Supportive Methodologies and Tooling
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 OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – www.owasp.org
 The biggest resource regarding application security nowadays
 Everything is open-source
 Everybody can start his/her own security project
 Examples:
 OWASP Top Ten: The most widespread application vulnerabilities
 OWASP Testing Guide: Methodology for penetration testing of applications
 OWASP ASVS: Application Security Verification Standard
 OWASP ESAPI: Security Library for JAVA, .NET, PHP…
 OWASP Zed Attack Proxy: Testing tool

19.  Who Am I, Who Is 1&1
 Motivation For Secure SDLC
 What the World Does
 What 1&1 Does
 Future Plans
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20. Main Goals
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 We spend budget for security according to the real risk
 Project teams shall have a trusted contact person guiding them through
security challenges
 We actively learn from our mistakes steadily and also give the
opportunity to others to learn from our mistakes
 KISS (Keep it simple stupid)! – build on currently lived processes and
tools as much as possible

21. System Classification – 3 Security Levels
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 Low:
 Systems not likely to be target of professional attackers
 Mainly reputation risk in case of finding vulnerabilities
 Requirements should target mainly quality of code and be aimed at quick wins
 Medium:
 Possible abuse of client personal data (incidents have to be reported to authorities)
 We should have a solid confidence that security has been addressed and assessed
consistently and reasonably
 High:
 Systems essential for 1&1’s business and the ones with high compliance requirements
 These systems should be ready to withstand also sophisticated attacks
 Most focus on architectural and functional security

22. SDLC Requirements
 Two types of requirements:
 Lifecycle: Activities to be done during the lifecycle (e.g. penetration test)
 Technical: Properties of the target system (e.g. login brute-force protection)
 The concept:
 Ever higher category inherits requirements from the lower one and adds new ones
 Total counts of requirements:
Lifecycle req. Technical req.
Low 6 42
Medium 12 72
High 16 84

23. Lifecycle Requirements (vs. The 1&1 Project Lifecycle)
Low
Medium
High
The 1&1
Project
Lifecycle
Secure
SDLC
Classification
Security
guide
Security
trainings
Select
requirements
Automated
scan
Yellow Pages
Record
Security
workshop
Doc. review
3rd party
code
Penetration
test
Vulnerability
management
Lessons
learned
Threat model
Tailor
requirements
Code review
Configuration
review

24. Technical Requirements - Categories
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 Based on OWASP Application Security Verification Standard
Authentication
Session
Management
Access Control
Input Validation
Output
Encoding
Cryptography
Error Handling
and Logging
Data Protection
Communication
Security

25. Technical Requirements – Example (Brute-Force Protection)
ID AU-07
Criticality Low
Category Authentication
Technology Web Applications, Web Services
Description Brute force protection is provided after a system configurable number of invalid
login attempts occur against an account within a configurable period of time.
Specification
/Best Practise
More information on best practise:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Blocking_Brute_Force_Attacks
Reasoning Preventing successful brute force attacks on user credentials.
Functional Yes
Responsible Requirement Engineer
Deadline T2 (end of the design phase)
QA Responsible Test Manager
QA Activity Black box
QA Scenario https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Brute_Force_(OWASP-AT-004)
QA Deadline T3 (before rollout)

26. Requirement States
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 Relevant:
 Yes/No
 Does it make sense to implement the particular requirement?
 In Scope:
 Yes: The development team has to (or mustn‘t) do something
 3rd party: The application relies on another service (e.g. authentication service)
 Refused: It was decided not to implement the requirement
 No: If not relevant.

27.  Who Am I, Who Is 1&1
 Motivation For Secure SDLC
 What the World Does
 What 1&1 Does
 Future Plans
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28. Future Plans
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 Continue increasing the coverage of SDLC-guided projects
 Train and establish a satellite of Security Guides
 Continuous enhancement of the methodology
 Agile methodologies, continuous integration/continuous delivery
 Lessons learned from projects
 Creation of an SDLC Tool
 Department-specific project management methodologies
 Different technologies
 Transparency of common security measures

29. Thank You For Your Attention!
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daniel.kefer@1und1.de