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OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy  “Webification” of applications  Intelligent browsers and applications  Public awareness of data security  Increasing regulatory requirements  The next attackable frontier  Targeted attacks Application Security: Trends and Drivers

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Almost every web application is vulnerable!  70% of websites at immediate risk of being hacked! - Accunetix – Jan 2007 http :// ://  “8 out of 10 websites vulnerable to attack” - WhiteHat “security report – Nov 2006”  “75 percent of hacks happen at the application.” - Gartner “Security at the Application Level”  “64 percent of developers are not confident in their ability to write secure applications.” - Microsoft Developer Research

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Spreading Web Application Security  Groups:  Risk assessment group  Security officer  Application guys  Network guys  Segments  PCI compliance  SOX Compliance  Financials  Healthcare  E-Commerce

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Why this is important  Unique value to customers  Dramatically improve attach rate  Position bigger platforms  Position new and more services  Introduce to new groups within the organization  Security impacts the entire process

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Understand the customer’s Business Problem - not just the technical problem. Customer’s business problem isn’t always a security breach  Compliance  Business enabler  Extension  Acquisition or new partnership  Company security policy  Install WAF  Audit Code  Recurring pen testing  Monitoring layer 7

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Understand the customer’s Business Problem - not just the technical problem. Sometimes it is pure security  Failed security audit  Discovered vulnerability  Hacked  Critical/high profile application

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Who is responsible for application security? Network Security? Web developers? DBA? Engineering services?

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Know who we are talking with  Network guys – keep it simple !!! Talk about how easy/fast it is to deploy. Remember! They are in the network business since they don’t like applications...  Many times they are responsible for entire security and now they are expected to protect an application layer ? How can they do that ?  Application guys – show them policy – the application map

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Know who we are talking with  Security guys – They know a lot about network security but less about web application security  They are often isolated in the organization  Attached to General management  Show them how to inflate an application security message  Benefit from this knowledge  In front of developers for instance  New technology validation

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Speaking to execs  Protects stakeholders from regulatory violations  Increases and simplifies compliance  PCI  Sarbanes-Oxley  Brand protection  Provides insurance, assurance and accountability  Improves business agility  Provides risk insight and risk mitigation  Continuous improve of confidentiality, availability and accuracy of business information and process

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy PCI Awareness campaign in Italy  We ran a phoning campaign  75 companies contacted  Enormous awareness job still to complete  Huge business potential detected  Strong on Web Application Security

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance  Huge potential with SOX “The requirements for SOX compliance apply to any system that processes or maintains financial data”  Most of applications are moving to Web  Even those maintaining “financial data”  Impact numerous organizations  Execs are more than receptive

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy What customers want from Sarbanes-Oxley User Authentication Password Management Access controls Input validation Exception handling Secure data storage and transmission Logging Monitoring and alerting  System hardening Change management  Application development  Periodic security assesments and audits

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Polizia Postale Statistics for 2005

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy Polizia Postale Statistics for 2006

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy ApplicationsUsers International Data Center F5 Networks: Integrated & Modular Application Delivery Networking Architecture Enterprise Manager TMOS iControl BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager WANJet FirePass BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager TrafficShield Web Accelerator BIG-IP Link Controller Operational Efficiency through Intelligent Design

OWASP-Day – La Sapienza, 10 th Sep 07 OWASP Italy