How to Overcome the 5 Barriers to Production App Security Testing

How To Overcome the
5 Barriers To Production App
Security Testing
Chris Harget -
Product Marketing
Sameer Dixit -
Managed Services

Or…
5 Reasons You’re Not
Monitoring Production Apps For
Vulnerabilities…
…and 7 Reasons You Really Should

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Agenda
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Why You’re Not Scanning
Why You Should
Overcoming Barriers
How Cenzic Managed Services Can

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1. You Use SAST Tools In Development
• Good first step
• Efficient for some remediations
• Teaches Developers best practices
• Commonly accepted method
• Insufficient = False sense of security

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2. Production Team Afraid of Down Time
• Production Team measured by up time
• If it’s not broke, don’t fix it
• Security Analyst needs Production Buy-
In to actively monitor production
environments

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3. Production Team May Not Have Skill Set
• Depends on team
• Mostly made up of guys who plan
and manage patches, maintain
hardware, and rollout new
systems.
• If they’re not comfortable…they will
resist

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4. Confusion Over Whose Budget Pays
• Is this Developers’ budget?
• They built it, unless it’s outsourced
• Is it Security Analysts’ budget?
• It’s security…and development and
production…
• Is it Production budget?
• They run it.

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5. You Haven’t Gotten Around To it Yet
• Even if everyone agrees it should be
done…it has to become a priority
• Like brushing teeth…you can skip it,
but eventually there’ll be a hole.
• Gets deferred.

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5 Barriers To Monitoring Production Apps
1. You use SAST tools in Development
2. Production team afraid of down time
3. Production team may not have skill
set
4. Confusion over whose budget pays
5. You haven’t gotten around to it yet

…And 7 Reasons You Really
Should

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1. Some Vulnerabilities Can't Be Found by SAST
• Search Strings might miss them
• May only appear in run-time environment
• May be on web server or framework
• QA & Production environment may not
be identical (especially DBs)

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2. New Vulnerabilities Discovered Daily
• >5,200 Web app vulnerabilities
discovered…so far
• ~1,090 discovered last year
• Odds are, hundreds more will be
discovered while your apps are in
production.

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3. Production Apps Are The Biggest Risk
600+ Million Web Sites <10% of the
applications in
development
or in QA stage
>90%
applications are
in production
and deployed
At Greatest Risk!
Vulnerability Testing Must Monitor Run-Time Environments

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4. Some Vulnerabilities Cause Downtime
• Buffer Overflow
• Downs app & can give shell access
• XSS
• Can insert javascript to the web server
100's of times for each user and
spread like a virus
• SQL injection
• Drop tables, remove users, dump
database
• About 110 other types of attacks that can
lead directly to production downtime

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5. Effective Automated Attacks
• Blackbox testing + Cenzic experts
• Designed to emulate what attackers do on your
site, but safer
• Cenzic has 10+ years helping enterprises
and SMB’s protect Production Apps
• Tools and services can find vulnerabilities
with minimized risk to application uptime
and data

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6. Tightly Integrate WAF to Monitoring
• Cenzic integrates with leading Web App
Firewalls
• As few as two-clicks to approve/enact a
policy & virtually patch app vulnerability
• Faster remediation => More Secure
+
Identify Risk
Mitigate
Risk
=
=

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7. Managed Services For Key Apps
• Production Team = Security Team
• Priority Apps deserve specialists
• Frees Production Team To:
• Receive results
• Manage patches (virtual or code
refresh)
• Maximize uptime

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Overcoming Barrier 1
1. You use SAST tools in Development
• But that’s not a complete solution
• Some vulnerabilities require real-
time scanning
• New vulnerabilities discovered all
the time

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2. Production team afraid of down time
• …and vulnerable apps can increase
downtime.
• You patch other bugs in Production
• Monitoring can be done fairly safely

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3. Production team may not have skill set
• Cenzic Managed Service can cover it
until your team gets the skills
• Cenzic takes care of F100 customers
for Production Monitoring

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4. Confusion Over Who Pays
• Whoever has the most budget
• Production…probably

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5. You haven’t Got Around To It Yet
• It’s important
• It’s relatively safe
• It’s easy
• Production can probably afford it

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A Few…

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What's Best Form Factor For You?
Low-Risk Apps High Priority Apps
Under-resourced,
broad-duties Security
Analysts
Cloud (self-service)
Production Scanning
Managed Service
Production Scanning
Sizeable, Focused
Security Analyst
Group
Cloud or Software
Production Scanning
Software or Managed
Service Production
Scanning

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What's Important To Success
• Consistent Detection Accuracy
• Erratic technicians or ad hoc tools
can mask changes in security
posture
• Quality of Service
• Production Teams benefit from
vulnerability monitoring managed
services that meet high standards

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Monitoring Available 24x7
• Frequent Assessments = shorter
vulnerability windows
• Reports should include trend data
and ranking of vulnerabilities for
easy response
• Vulnerabilities should be time-
stamped so you know report was
actually run that week.

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What's Important To Success?
• Options To Evolve
• Managed Service might be great
way to start. Self-service Saas,
software, or service/software hybrid
might make sense in the long run.
• Scalability
• Start with key apps, scale to all
apps

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Choosing Vendor By References
• Services harder to rate than
software.
• (People)*(Software)= Results
• Talent doesn’t scale well
• Look for best-in-class software
• Look for excellent customer survey
results

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Cenzic Can Help
• Cenzic is a leading provider of Web
Application Production Scanning as a
Managed Service.
• 10+ Years
• Leverages patented Hailstorm™
engine for more consistently accurate
and efficient results
• Large and happy customers

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How Cenzic Can Help
• We Do It All
• Cenzic is the only vendor who
offers you excellent software, or
excellent managed services
leveraging our excellent solutions
• Evolve wherever you want with
Cenzic

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Customers Rate Cenzic Higher
• 2013 Gartner surveyed App
Security Testing Customers
• ONLY Cenzic scored high marks
from customers in Accuracy,
Service, Support and Overall
Satisfaction
• Cenzic provides the best services!

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