Securing Sakai: Ensuring a Secure Sakai Instance Sean DeMonner Alan Berg Anthony White Ian Boston Matthew Jones 2010 Sakai Conference Denver, Colorado Tuesday, Jun 15 (15: :30)

11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Overview Sakai security policy Who is on the Security Working Group? [identifying by name/institution, or in person] What to do if you suspect a security issue Security related activities o Reactive development o Proactive investigation (U-M, Sakai Foundation) Top 10 list for Production instances Recap and Q&A 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Sakai Security Policy Issues restricted to Sakai security contacts and members of the Sakai Security Work Group Security advisories and security updates issued to the general public once existing Sakai installations have been notified and given time to patch their systems. Three levels of issue severity: Critical, Major, Minor 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Security Working Group Alan Berg, UvA Noah Botimer, UMich Matthew Buckett, Oxford Jon Gorrono, UC Davis Matt Jones, UMich Charles Hedrick, Rutgers David Horwitz, UCT Dawn Isabel, UMich Jean-Francois Leveque, UPMC Stephen Marquard, UCT Charles Severance, UMich Steve Swinsburg, ANU Seth Theriault, Columbia Anthony Whyte, Sakai Foundation / UMich 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Handling Security Issues NOTICE: If you uncover a security vulnerability in Sakai software please do not voice your concerns on any public listserv, blog or other open communication channel but instead notify the Sakai Foundation immediately at Please provide a callback telephone number so that we can contact you by telephone if it is deemed necessary. 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Security Activities: Reactive Over 150 issues in last 6 months(?) o Not always resolved as quickly as we'd like o Security coordinator, anyone? Many fixes in 2.7, some of which were U-M reported items that were responded to very quickly Other info on issue counts, turnaround times, etc. from Jiras? 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Security Activities: Proactive U-M Testing o Penetration testing summary; annual plan? Sakai Foundation Testing o Security Sweep 2.7  Review Jira  Simple penetration testing  Static code analysis Sakai 3 and security 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Sakai 3 and Security Changed security model was: All UI content from the server made secure, no chink now: Data is insecure UI must construct a secure UI (needs diagram here, I can talk to this slide: Ian 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

"Top 10 List" Have a rep on the security team; adopt need-to-know basis Admin Account management Admin Account passwords Separate daily driver and admin accounts Server & Database user passwords Code reviews with security emphasis Best practices System patches Independent audit of system and processes Secure the web services: o services-in-sakai-and.html 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Easy Reading OWASP Top 10 Lulu Website for OWASP books Google Caja Project 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Thank you for your interest! Recap & QA 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

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