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OWASP Developer Guide (draft)

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Developer Guide (draft)

1. Introduction
2. Foundations
2.1 Security fundamentals
2.2 Secure development and integration
2.3 Principles of security
2.4 Principles of cryptography
2.5 OWASP Top 10
3. Requirements
3.1 Requirements in practice
3.2 Risk profile
3.3 Security Knowledge Framework
3.4 SecurityRAT
3.5 Application Security Verification Standard
3.6 Mobile Application Security
4. Design
4.1 Threat modeling
4.1.1 Threat modeling in practice
4.1.2 pytm
4.1.3 Threat Dragon
4.1.4 Cornucopia
4.1.5 LINDDUN GO
4.1.6 Threat Modeling toolkit
4.2 Web application checklist
4.2.1 Checklist: Define Security Requirements
4.2.2 Checklist: Leverage Security Frameworks and Libraries
4.2.3 Checklist: Secure Database Access
4.2.4 Checklist: Encode and Escape Data
4.2.5 Checklist: Validate All Inputs
4.2.6 Checklist: Implement Digital Identity
4.2.7 Checklist: Enforce Access Controls
4.2.8 Checklist: Protect Data Everywhere
4.2.9 Checklist: Implement Security Logging and Monitoring
4.2.10 Checklist: Handle all Errors and Exceptions
4.3 Mobile application checklist
5. Implementation
5.1 Documentation
5.1.1 Top 10 Proactive Controls
5.1.2 Go Secure Coding Practices
5.1.3 Cheatsheet Series
5.2 Dependencies
5.2.1 Dependency_Check
5.2.2 Dependency_Track
5.2.3 CycloneDX
5.3 Secure Libraries
5.3.1 Enterprise Security API library
5.3.2 CSRFGuard library
5.3.3 OWASP Secure Headers Project
5.4 Implementation Do's and Don'ts
5.4.1 Container security
5.4.2 Secure coding
5.4.3 Cryptographic practices
5.4.4 Application spoofing
5.4.5 Content Security Policy (CSP)
5.4.6 Exception and error handling
5.4.7 File management
5.4.8 Memory management
6. Verification
6.1 Guides
6.1.1 Web Security Testing Guide
6.1.2 Mobile Application Security
6.1.3 Application Security Verification Standard
6.2 Tools
6.2.1 Zed Attack Proxy
6.2.2 Amass
6.2.3 Offensive Web Testing Framework
6.2.4 Nettacker
6.2.5 OWASP Secure Headers Project
6.3 Frameworks
6.3.1 secureCodeBox
6.4 Vulnerability management
6.4.1 DefectDojo
6.5 Verification Do's and Don'ts
6.5.1 Secure environment
6.5.2 System hardening
6.5.3 Open Source software
7. Training and Education
7.1 Vulnerable Applications
7.1.1 Juice Shop
7.1.2 WebGoat
7.1.3 PyGoat
7.1.4 Security Shepherd
7.2 Secure Coding Dojo
7.3 Security Knowledge Framework
7.4 SamuraiWTF
7.5 OWASP Top 10 project
7.6 Mobile Top 10
7.7 API Top 10
7.8 WrongSecrets
7.9 OWASP Snakes and Ladders
8. Culture building and Process maturing
8.1 Security Culture
8.2 Security Champions
8.2.1 Security champions program
8.2.2 Security Champions Guide
8.2.3 Security Champions Playbook
8.3 Software Assurance Maturity Model
8.4 Application Security Verification Standard
8.5 Mobile Application Security
9. Operations
9.1 DevSecOps Guideline
9.2 Coraza Web Application Firewall
9.3 ModSecurity Web Application Firewall
9.4 ModSecurity Core Rule Set
10. Metrics
11. Security gap analysis
11.1 Guides
11.1.1 Software Assurance Maturity Model
11.1.2 Application Security Verification Standard
11.1.3 Mobile Application Security
11.2 Bug Logging Tool

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