The document outlines best practices for ensuring security in system integration, emphasizing the importance of protecting data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Key practices include threat modeling, strong authentication, secure communication, API security, data validation, and employee training. Additionally, it highlights the need for logging, monitoring, secure coding, data encryption, vendor assessments, and incident response planning.

1. Security Best Practices in
System Integration
Hiezel Anne Libreas, Erika Mullet.

2. Introduction
1. Threat Modeling
2. Authentication and
Authorization
3. Secure Communication
4. API Security
5. Data Validation and Sanitization
6. Secure Configuration
Management
7. Logging and Monitoring
8. Secure Code Development
9. Data Encryption
10. Vendor Security Assessment
11. Incident Response Plan
12. Employee Training and
Awareness
System Integration Security Best Practices involve implementing measures to
safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data and systems
across interconnected environments. These practices include:

3. Threat Modeling
- Identify potential threats and
Vulnerabilities in the integration
process to prioritize security
measures effectively.

4. Authentication & Authorization
- Implement strong authentication
mechanisms such as multi-factor
authentication (MFA) and role-based access
control (RBAC) to ensure that only
authorized users and systems can acces
integrated resources.

5. Secure Communication
- Use encryption protocols such as
TLS/SSL for data transmission
between integrated systems to
prevent eavesdropping and
tampering.

6. API Security
- Secure APIs with proper authentication,
access controls, input validation, and rate
limiting to protect against unautorized
access, injection attacks, and denial-of-
services (DoS) attacks.

7. Data Validation & Sanitization
- Validate and sanitize input data to
prevent injection attacks such as
SQL injection, XML injection, and
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

8. Logging & Monitoring
- Implement comprehensive logging and
monitoring mechanisms to detect and
respond to security incidents in real-time,
including unauthorized access, attemps,
abnormal behavior, and system failures.

9. Secure Code Development
- Follow secure coding practices and
conduct regular security code reviews
to identify and remediate vulnirabilities
in custom integration code.

10. Data Encryption
- Encrypt sensitive data at rest using
strong encryption algorithms to
prevent unauthorized access in case of
data breaches or unauthorized access to
storage system.

11. Vendor Security Assessment
- Assess the security posture of third-party
vendors and service prociders involved in
the integration procesto ensure they meet
security standards and complience
requirements.

12. Incident Response Plan
- Develop and maintain an incident plan
outlining procedures for detecting,
responding to, and recovering from
security incidents related to system
integration.

13. Employee Training and Awareness
- Provide regular training and awareness
programs to employees involved in system
integration to educate them about security
best practices, common threats, and their
roles in maintaining system security.

14. Thankyou