Building an Open Source AppSec Pipeline - 2015 Texas Linux Fest
- 1. Building an Open Source AppSec Pipeline: Keeping your program, and your life, sane.
- 2. 6 months with Pearson Senior Software Security Engineer Prior to Pearson ● Rackspace - Lead Engineer, Product Security ● AppSec consulting o VP Services, Praetorian o Consultant Trustwave’s Spiderlabs ● TEA - Senior Security Engineer ● DIR - Penetration Tester ● Texas A&M University o Systems Analyst, Sys Admin, Developer, DBA o Lecturer in MIS department ● Viatel - Internet App Developer Who am I?
- 3. Other professional experience ● OWASP Live CD / OWASP WTE o Project lead 2008 to present o Over 300K downloads o http://appseclive.org ● OWASP Foundation Board of Directors o International charity focused on improving software security ● Multiple speaking engagements internationally at AppSec, DHS, ISC2, SANS… conferences ● Application Security Training internationally ● B.S. Economics, M.S. in MIS o Strong believer in the value of cross- discipline study Who am I?
- 6. The Phoenix Project 3 Ways of DevOps Strategies for Improving Operations
- 7. AppSec Pipelines Figuring out your workflow
- 10. Key Features of AppSec Pipelines ● Designed for iterative improvement ● Provides a reusable path for AppSec activities to follow ● Provides a consistent process for both the team and our constituency ● One way flow with well-defined states ● Relies heavily on automation ● Has the ability to grow in functionality organically over time ● Gracefully interconnects with the development process
- 11. Spending time optimizing anything other than the critical resource is an illusion.
- 12. Key Goals of AppSec Pipelines • Optimize the critical resource - AppSec personnel ● Automate all the things that don’t require a human brain ● Drive up consistency ● Increase tracking of work status ● Increase flow through the system ● Increase visibility and metrics ● Reduce any dev team friction with application security
- 13. Pipeline - Intake • “First Impression” • Major categories of Intake • Existing App • New App • Previously tested App • App to re-test findings • Key Concepts • Ask for data about Apps only once • Have data reviewed when an App returns • Adapt data collected based on broad categories of Apps
- 14. Pipeline – the Middle ● Inbound request triage ● Ala Carte App Sec ● Dynamic Testing ● Static Testing ● Re-Testing mitigated findings ● Mix and match based on risk ● Key Concepts ● Activities can be run in parallel ● Automation on setup, configuration, data export ● People focus on customization rather than setup
- 15. Pipeline – the End ● Source of truth for all AppSec activities ● ThreadFix is used to ● Dedup / Consolidate findings ● Normalize scanner data ● Generate Metrics ● Push issues to bug trackers ● Report and metrics automation ● REST + tfclient ● Source of many touch points with external teams
- 16. Why we like AppSec Pipelines ● Allow us to have visibility into WIP ● Better understand/track/optimize flow of engagements ● Average static test takes ... ● Great increase in consistency ● Easier re-allocation of engagements between staff ● Each step has a well defined interface ● Knowing who has what allows for more informed “cost of switching” conversations ● Flexible enough for a range of skills and app maturity
- 17. Bag of Holding aka BOH
- 18. What does BoH do? • Manages our Application Security Program • Application Inventory/ Meta data Repository • Engagement Tracking • Report Repository • Comments on any application, engagement or activity • Data Classification and PII data • Time taken on secure software activities • Historical knowledge of past assessments • Credential repository • Environment details
- 26. Security Tool Vendors: If I can do it with the UI, I want to do it with an API. - Matt Tesauro
- 28. Your new command line where you have your conversations. Will Bot
- 29. AppSec Help
- 30. AppSec Advice
- 31. Threadfix Integration And more: • Create an Application • Get Summary Metrics for AppSec Program
- 32. BOH/Threadfix/Static Integration Setup recurring static analysis in about 1 minute!
- 34. Experimentation kick things up a notch
- 35. "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times."
- 36. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison
- 37. Findings directly to bug trackers • PDFs are great, bugs are better • Work with developer teams to submit bugs • Security category needs to exist • Bonus points if the bug tracker has an API • Security issues are now part of the normal work flow • Beware of death by backlog - do security sprints • Learn how the team treats issues •ThreadFix is nice for pumping issues into defect trackers - http://code.google.com/p/threadfix/
- 38. For the reticent: nag, nag, nag • Attach a SLA to each severity level for findings • Remediation plan vs Fixed • “Age” all findings against these SLAs • Politely warn when SLA dates are close • Walk up the Org chart as things get older • Bonus points for dashboards and defect tracker APIs • Get management sold first
- 39. Agent – one mole to rule them all •Add an agent to the standard deploy • Read-only helps sell to Ops • Looks at the state of the system • Reports the state to the “mothership” • Add a dashboard to visualize state of infrastructure • Change policy, servers go red • Watch the board go green as patches roll-out • Roll your own or find a vendor Mozilla MIG
- 40. Turn Vuln scanning on its head • Add value for your Ops teams • Subscribe and parse vuln emails for key software • Get this info during threat models or config mgmt • Provide an early warning and remove panic from software updates • Roll your own or find a vendor • Gmail + filters can work surprisingly well • Secunia VIM covers 40K+ products • Reverse the scan then report standard
- 41. • Automate, automate, automate • Look for “paper cuts” and fix those first • Finding workflow – your AppSec Pipeline • Figure this out and standardize / optimize • Create systems which can grow organically • App is never done, its just created to easily be added to over time • e.g. Finding blocks become templates for next report • Learn to talk “dev” Key Take Aways
- 42. Resources Exercises left to the student...
- 43. Orchestration • Integrate Security Tools and Workflow • Example: • Generic API for dynamic scanning • URL • Credentials • Profile • Call any Dynamic Scanner: • OWASP ZAP • BurpSuite • AppScan
- 44. Gauntlt ●Open source, MIT License ●Gauntlt comes with pre-canned steps that hook security testing tools ●Gauntlt does not install tools ●Gauntlt wants to be part of the CI/CD pipeline ●Be a good citizen of exit status and stdout/stderr http://gauntlt.org/
- 45. Tiaga • Project Management Software – focused on usability and speed ● Kanban / Scrum ● Backlog ● Tasks ● Sprints ● Issues ● Wiki • Open Source – Python / Django app • Entire functionality is driven by a REST API !! https://taiga.io/
- 48. Defect Dojo DefectDojo is a tool created by the Security Engineering team at Rackspace to track testing efforts. It attempts to streamline the testing process by offering features such as templating, report generation, metrics, and baseline self- service tools. Though it was designed with security folks in mind, there is nothing keeping QA/QE testers, or any other testers for that matter, from using it productively. https://github.com/rackerlabs/django-DefectDojo
- 50. Related Presentations ● AppSec EU 2015 – Ops Track Keynote ● Deck: http://www.slideshare.net/mtesauro/mtesauro- keynote-appseceu ● Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDnyFitE0y4
- 51. Related Presentations ● AppSec EU 2015 – Building an AppSec Pipeline ● Deck: http://www.slideshare.net/weaveraaaron/building- an-appsec-pipeline-keeping-your-program-and- your-life-sane ● Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CDSOSl4DQU
- 52. The Phoenix Project The Practice of Cloud System Administration Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford Books to read Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan
- 53. Thank you ! Keep in touch @matt_tesauro [email protected] [email protected] /in/matttesauro github.com/mtesauro
- 54. Image References Henry Ford in a field: http://henryfordgiantdifferenceaward.weebly.com/works-cited.html Assembly Lines: http://www.pictofcar.website/henry-ford-assembly-line-diagram/ http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/burns/Unit_3_Industry/U3_Ford.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line http://actionspeaksradio.org/tag/henry-ford/ http://blogs.internetautoguide.com/6582595/manufacturing/henry-ford-didnt-invent-the W. Edward Deming http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/1005_30_who_count/photo_04.html Japan's Post War Miracle http://www2.fultonschools.org/teacher/robertsw1/thursday.nov1.htm http://dylewski.com.pl/menu-boczne/iluzja-pieniadza/usa-vs-japonia/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_post-war_economic_miracle
- 55. Image References Thomas Edison: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Thomas-Edison-Posters_i1859026_.htm Food line: http://www.slideshare.net/weaveraaaron/building-an-appsec-pipeline-keeping-your-pr Phoenix Project Book Cover: https://puppetlabs.com/blog/why-we-need-devops-now