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[WEB SECURITY] Application Security Program



List,

We are trying to design a big picture information security program for out organization. The goal is to concentrate on application security. Sub tasks should include stuff like policy gap analysis, pen test balc box and white box, etc. The goal is to do all the activities and measure progress on an yearly basis/

Are thier any existing frameworks? Anything that has worked / not worked for you guys?

Thanks


----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RSnake" <rsnake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Web Security" <websecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] RE: XSS-Phishing on Financial Sites (Tip of the iceberg)



On 6/28/06, RSnake <rsnake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... A more realistic problem is I actually _might_ want
people to automatically send traffic to my comments function if someone
eventually builds an application to forward requests to my page to make
it easier for my users.  Again, you could argue that in that case I
should explicitly allow that one referrer in, and I might agree, but
wow... this is seeming like an administration nightmare, even on a small
site like mine.

If you change your policy on who should and shouldn't be sending requests to certain pages, you should expect that you will need to do some work to make that policy take affect. That's true no matter what kind of enforcement mechanism you are using. The more elaborate your policy, the more work you are going to have to do to describe it.

Is the extra work required to enable the policy worth the trouble?  It
depends on the site.

Regards,
Brian

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