OWASP Developer Guide

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OWASP Developer Guide

A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services

Release version 4.1.5

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 OpenCRE
3.4 SecurityRAT
3.5 Application Security Verification Standard
3.6 Mobile Application Security
3.7 Security Knowledge Framework

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

6 Verification
6.1 Guides
6.1.1 Web Security Testing Guide
6.1.2 MAS Testing Guide
6.1.3 Application Security Verification Standard
6.2 Tools
6.2.1 DAST tools
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

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 OWASP CRS

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

12 Appendices
12.1 Implementation Do’s and Don’ts
12.1.1 Container security
12.1.2 Secure coding
12.1.3 Cryptographic practices
12.1.4 Application spoofing
12.1.5 Content Security Policy (CSP)
12.1.6 Exception and error handling
12.1.7 File management
12.1.8 Memory management
12.2 Verification Do’s and Don’ts
12.2.1 Secure environment
12.2.2 System hardening
12.2.3 Open Source software