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Tour of OWASP Projects

Tour of OWASP Projects. Jason Li jason.li@owasp.org. AppSec India Conference August 20 th , 2008. About Me. Senior Application Security Engineer, Aspect Security OWASP Involvement: OWASP AntiSamy Core Developer OWASP JSP Testing Tool Project Lead. Talk Outline. OWASP Project Structure

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Tour of OWASP Projects

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  1. Tour of OWASP Projects Jason Li jason.li@owasp.org AppSec India Conference August 20th, 2008

  2. About Me • Senior Application Security Engineer,Aspect Security • OWASP Involvement: • OWASP AntiSamy Core Developer • OWASP JSP Testing Tool Project Lead

  3. Talk Outline • OWASP Project Structure • OWASP Seasons of Code • Brief Overview of Selected OWASP Projects • Discussion of Validating Rich User Content Using OWASP AntiSamy

  4. OWASP Project Structure • Projects divided into two categories: • Tools • Documentation • Projects are free and open source • Projects have a designated project leader, mailing list, and documentation page • Projects have rated criteria assessments

  5. OWASP Project Assessment Criteria • Alpha Quality Tools & Documentation • Approved open source license • Code repository at GoogleCode or SourceForge (tools) • Article content in OWASP Wiki (documentation) • Project page with purpose, roadmap, and mailing list • Reviewed by at least one community member

  6. OWASP Project Assessment Criteria (cont) • Beta Quality Tools: • All alpha criteria • Easy to use installer • User documentation • Build instructions • Reviewed by at least two community members • Beta Quality Documentation: • All alpha criteria • Sufficiently complete • Reviewed for grammar, correctness, etc • Reviewed by at least two community members

  7. OWASP Project Assessment Criteria • Release Quality Tools: • All Beta Criteria • Complete online documentation • Public bug tracking system • Passes static analysis tools • Additionally reviewed by one board member • Release Quality Documentation: • All Beta Criteria • Reviewed against OWASP Writing Style guide • Documentation is made print-ready (long docs only) • Additionally reviewed by one board member

  8. OWASP Seasons of Code • Goal is to sponsor projects that are innovative and beneficial to the security community at large • Past Seasons of Code • Autumn of Code 2006 • $20,000 budget • 8 projects sponsored • Spring of Code 2007 • $117,500 budget • 21 projects sponsored

  9. OWASP Seasons of Code (cont) • Summer of Code 2008 • $126,000 budget • 31 projects sponsored including: • AppSensor • Teachable Static Analysis Workbench • XML/WS Testing Tool • Positive Security Project • JSP TagLib Tester • Online Code Signing Service • Access Control Rules Tester • Projects to be presented at OWASP EU Summit 2008

  10. Brief Overview of Selected OWASP Projects • Top Ten • Guides • WebGoat • WebScarab • ESAPI

  11. OWASP Top Ten • Awareness document that describes the top ten web application security vulnerabilities

  12. OWASP Guides • Several Guides available: • Application Security Desk Reference (beta)http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_ASDR_Project • Code Review Guide (beta)http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Code_Review_Project • Developer’s Guidehttp://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Guide_Project • Testing Guidehttp://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Testing_Project • Many more... • All guides available free from OWASP website • Many guides available in PDFs or print form

  13. OWASP Guides (cont) • Print versions available from:http://stores.lulu.com/owasp • Books are sold at cost • No profit is made by OWASP through these sales • For more info, see:http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Books

  14. OWASP WebGoat • Online training environment for hands-on learning about application security

  15. OWASP WebGoat (cont) • Deliberately insecure Java EE web application • Built-in lesson plans, exercises and hints • Extensive documentation and solutions available • Actively updated with new exercises • OWASP Release Quality Project

  16. OWASP WebScarab • Tool for performing all types of security testing on web applications and web services

  17. OWASP WebScarab (cont) • Security tools include: • HTTP/HTTPS intercepting proxy • Session ID Analysis • Parameter Fuzzer • Transcoder • Web Service testing • BeanShell scripting • Actively maintained by Rogan Dawes • OWASP Release Quality Project

  18. OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) • Free and open collection of all the security methods that a developer needs to build a secure web application.

  19. OWASP ESAPI (cont) • Provides common, consistent interface to security related mechanisms and functions • Saves development time, adds security and simplifies code review • Includes reference Java implementation • Actively maintained by Jeff Williams • Beta Quality Project

  20. Questions?

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