Don’t Teach Developers Security Caleb Sima Armorize Technologies

Who am I? : Ex-ISSer from X-Force : Founder and CTO of SPI Dynamics : CTO of Application Security at HP Current…: CEO of Armorize Technologies Old Man in Security Now…

Yes I Know..

Can you fix this Spike?... Can you? Can we do it quick? Can we Spike?

Training is Important But.. We focus on the wrong method (Top 10) We focus on the wrong people (developers) Security is a PIA. Turnover sucks Don’t rely on it

2010 OWASP Top 10 1.Injection 2.Cross Site Scripting (XSS) 3.Broken Authentication and Session Management 4.Insecure Direct Object References 5.Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) 6.Security Misconfiguration 7.Insecure Cryptographic Storage 8.Failure to Restrict URL Access 9.Insufficient Transport Layer Protection 10. Un-validated Redirects and Forwards

Training is Important But.. We focus on the wrong method (Top 10) We focus on the wrong people (developers) Security is a PIA. Turnover sucks Don’t rely on it

What is wrong with this code?

Training is Important But.. We focus on the wrong method (Top 10) We focus on the wrong people (developers) Security is a PIA. Turnover sucks Don’t rely on it Note on PCI

Step 1 Start with a security assessment

Step 2 Assign and train QA on your 2 issues

Step 3 Assign 1 developer on each app team to be the security controller

Step 4 Automate this process

Future Code Analyses + Remediation Libraries = Code Verification

Security, Accuracy and Privacy in Computer Systems - James Martin

Reasonableness Test: For example. a charge of $500 might be reasonable on a corporations electricity bill but not on an individuals bill. Consistency Test: In an airline booking to Chicago the trans action may be checked to ensure that the flight number in it does in fact go to Chicago. Special Tests: Dates may be checked to ensure that the month is between I and l2. that the day is between l and 28, 29, 30, or 31. depending upon the month. Self Checking Numbers: The extra digit is derived arithmetically from the other digits.

Written in 1973!

“To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything *else* that is also important!” - Linus

Caleb Sima Download Trial of CodeSecure at Google: “OWASP ESAPI”, “BSIMM”, “Armorize”,”James Martin” REFERENCES