OWASP Cyber Defense Matrix

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The OWASP Security Principles
An in-depth breakdown of security capabilities using the Cyber Defense Matrix. - A mapping of security vendors to the Cyber Defense Matrix. - Metrics that capture the efficacy, longevity, and other qualities of the various capabilities represented in the Cyber Defense Matrix - Assorted use cases for the Cyber Defense Matrix Inevitably applications are designed with security principles architects knew about, security folks included. However, as this project demonstrates there are far more than just a 'few' principles, most of which never make it into the design.For example, security design happens with perhaps a handful of principles:


 * Least Privilege
 * Perimeter Security
 * Defense in Depth

However, we regularly see designs without separation of privilege!

Think about that, most web applications today have all their eggs in a single basket. The business logic, the identities, passwords, products, policy enforcement, security rules are all found in the same application database that makes up the typical website! It is little wonder then, that attacks on the database have been so completely devastating, since there is no separation of privilege!

The aim of this project, is to identify and describe a minimum functional set of principles that must be present in a secure design.

Description
Over the course of my career, I have come across and collected a number of security aphorisms. These aphorisms constitute the fundamental principles of information security.

None of the ideas or truths are mine, and unfortunately, I did not collect the citations. Initially, I would like to identify the correct citations for each aphorism.

Additionally, many are re-statements of the same idea; thus, the 'collection of ideas' defines a fundamental principle. As such, I would also like to reverse engineer the principles from the aphorisms where appropriate, as well.

Licensing
The OWASP Security Principles are licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license], so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.


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What is OWASP Security Principles Project?
The end goal is to identify, cite, and document the fundamental principles of information security. Once this is well organised, I think it would be great to publish this through the OWASP Press. Of course, it will always remain freely available, and any money collected will go directly into the project to absorb costs with any remaining funds going to the OWASP Foundation.

This document should serve as a guide to technical architects and designers outlining the fundamental principles of security.

Presentation
Coming Soon

Project Leader

 * Sounil Yu
 * Tom Brennan

Related Projects

 * OWASP_CISO_Survey

Openhub

 * OWASP Project Openhub


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News and Events

 * [01 May 2017] Project updated

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= Acknowledgements =

Contributors
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The OWASP Security Principles project is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. A live update of project contributors is found here.

The first contributors to the project were:


 * Dennis Groves
 * Andrew Martin
 * Josh Thomas
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= Road Map and Getting Involved =

A project roadmap is the envisioned plan for the project. The purpose of the roadmap is to help others understand where the project is going. It gives the community a chance to understand the context and the vision for the goal of the project. Additionally, if a project becomes inactive, or if the project is abandoned, a roadmap can help ensure a project can be adopted and continued under new leadership.

Roadmaps vary in detail from a broad outline to a fully detailed project charter. Generally speaking, projects with detailed roadmaps have tended to develop into successful projects. Some details that leaders may consider placing in the roadmap include: envisioned milestones, planned feature enhancements, essential conditions, project assumptions, development timelines, etc. You are required to have at least 4 milestones for every year the project is active.

As a starting point for the project, we want to align the wide range of security products capabilities into the Cyber Defense Matrix. Because we as cybersecurity practitioners do not use consistent terminology to describe what we need, there is much confusion with the uninitiated. Marketers take advantage of this by bombarding us with overused, trendy jargon that creates further confusion. The Cyber Defense Matrix will help us understand what we need organized through a logical construct so that when we go into the security vendor marketplace, we can quickly discern what products solve what problems and be informed on what is the core function of a given product. In addition, the Cyber Defense Matrix provides a mechanism to ensure that we have capabilities across the entire spectrum of options to help secure our environments. This effort will establish specific subcategories of capabilities within each part of the Cyber Defense Matrix and then work towards identifying the specific vendor products and capabilities that align. Since vendors tend to over exaggerate what capabilities their products have, we will need to be clear and precise in our definitions and unwavering (as possible) in how products are aligned.

Subsequently, the project roadmap can cover other areas that provide greater insight and illumination in our field of practice. This includes:

- Defining concrete measurements of efficacy and coverage

- Defining shelf life for capabilities and skill sets

- Identifying design patterns for suites of capabilities based on various business needs

- Identifying optimal organizational alignments and hand offs across internal and external entities

- Defining common interface specification for technologies in specific categories and subcategories

As of October 2013, the priorities are:
 * Finish the referencing for each principle.
 * Update the Project Template.
 * Use the OWASP Press to develop a book.
 * Finish and publish the book on Lulu.

Involvement in the development and promotion of the OWASP Security Principles Project is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute. Some of the ways you can help:
 * Helping find references to some of the principles.
 * Project administration support.
 * Wiki editing support.
 * Writing support for the book.

=Project About=

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