Notes from OWASP Helsinki chapter meeting 36

OWASP Helsinki chapter meeting number 36 was held 12.2.2019 at Veikkaus premises in Pohjois-Haaga. The theme for this meeting was about software security and the topic was covered with two talks and with a card game. Here’s my short notes.

What Every Developer and Tester Should Know About Software Security

The event started with “What Every Developer and Tester Should Know About Software Security” by Anne Oikarinen from Nixu. The main point was that information security isn’t something you can sprinkle over your applications – security needs to be baked in. Take security into account in every step of your software development process, focusing on design and development.

The talk was a great overview to software security and covered the topic from three perspectives: security requirements, threat modeling and security testing. It was nicely practical and theoretical and gave good tips to tools and how to approach the issue. The presentation slides can be seen on SlideShare.

#OWASPHelsinki meeting 36 at @veikkaus_fi started with “What Every Developer and Tester Should Know About Software Security” by @Anne_Oikarinen. Good practical overview to security requirements, threat modeling and security testing. Build security in. #infosec@OWASPHelsinki

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Building security in: start with security requirements and threat modeling
Venn diagram of building security in
Follow standards and best practices
Use tools for improving software security yourself

Security in Agile Development

Joakim Tauren from Visma continued the event with “Security in Agile Development”and told how they manage security in large scale. The sofware security team provides security as a service to produc teams and utilize OWASP SAMM to empower teams. The in-house built system to manage security maturity matrix was cool.

Next up at @OWASPHelsinki meetup was “Security in Agile Development” by @JoakimTauren from @Visma. Security as a Service. Empower teams. Transparency. In-house tool for security maturity matrix. Effective leadership of self-managing work teams. #infosec#OWASPHelsinki

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Security as a Service
Empowering teams
In-house built tool for managing security maturity index
You have tools to help you on the way

OWASP Cornucopia

The event was wrapped up with OWASP Cornucopia – a live card game session. The idea behind Cornucopia is to help development teams, especially those using Agile methodologies, to identify application security requirements and develop security-based user stories.

#OWASPHelsinki meetup 36 came to conclusion with a live game session of #OWASP Cornucopia: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cornucopi …. Mechanism in game format to assist software development teams identify security requirements. @OWASPHelsinki had clever Star Wars themed system to audit. #infosec

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The game plays like card game with six suites and cards from one to ace like normal deck of cards. Cards have security themed questions and the players try to answer in the given context if the issue at hand is a problem to be look into. In this case the context was Death Star themed with given architecture diagram.

The card deck can be printed from OWASP site.

But what does cornucopia mean? In modern depictions, the cornucopia is typically a hollow, horn-shaped wicker basket filled with various kinds of festive fruit and vegetables. In this context it would relate to can of worms :)

OWASP Cornucopia in Death Star architecture

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