Application Security:Bake In or Add (Sometime) Later?

Jeff KalweriskySecurity Evangelist for Alpha Tech

and VP, Information Security & Technical Training

CPEinteractive, Inc.

Famous Quote• “Who am I and Why Am I Here?”

Admiral James Stockdale, Vietnam war hero & Ross Perot’s V-P candidate in 1992

• A recovering software developer• Not an Alpha developer• Sole focus: Information Security– AKA Keeping “them” away from the crown jewels

• Security Evangelist for Alpha for many years

• The $64K question: Should security be baked into all apps or can it be added on later?

• The answer is Yes!• In fact, attention to security begins on that very

first design whiteboard• It then continues into prototyping, development,

testing, live deployment, and maintenance– Whether Alpha Anywhere©, Xbasic, Java, even COBOL

The Title of This Short Talk

Thinking About Security Starts Here

Information Security

“Just the Facts, Ma’am”

Of popular mobile apps have security baked in and use tools to defend against hack attacks

Of the top 100 Android & iOS apps have been successfully hacked

Why Should I Care?

Revenue Loss Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data Intellectual Property Theft

Fraud Altered user Experience Brand Damage

• COMPLIANCE!• With an alphabet soup of regulations and

standards

What Really Keeps CxOs Up at Night

PA-DSS 3.0PCI-DSS 3.0

(GLBA)

The Men in Black: Auditors

• CIO and CEO of Target fired after embarrassing security breach which compromised 40-million(!) customer credit and debit cards

Not to Mention Career-Limiting

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Not All (Mobile) Apps Are Equal

High Risk Apps . . .

Location-Aware

Collect Personal Info

Use remote servers tohandle user data

Access sensitive databases

Low(er) Risk Apps . . .

Alarm Clock

To-Do List with no connection

Apps that never talk to the Web or Corporate databases

• Basic security is built into the tool– Unlike many other development tools – We’re looking at ya, MS-Access . . .!

• But it’s getting much more complex– BYOD, BYOA, COPE*, Cloud, Big Data Analytics,

social media, the Internet of Things, . . .

The Way

* Corporate-Owned, Personally-Enabled

• Alpha Anywhere© Security University• A series of focused, online sessions• Touching on many aspects of “real” security

C-I-A: Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability The myriad virtues of Encryption Everywhere Threat Modeling – finding those pesky security

vulnerabilities BEFORE they bite you From Design, through Development, into Production

Announcing . . .

The Ponemon Institute’s (Sad) Finding*

*Exposing the Cybersecurity Cracks, July 2014

Another Ponemon Finding, July 2014

This is What We Want. Right?

Contact Me

Jeff KalweriskyCPE Interactive, Inc.

Jeff@CPEinteractive.com

Mobile 404-641-0634