Steve Kosten
Security Consultant @ Cypress Data Defense
Steve Kosten is a security consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor for the SANS DEV541 Secure Coding in Java/JEE: Developing Defensible Applications course. He's previously performed security work in the defense and financial sectors and headed up the security department for a financial services firm. He is currently the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Denver chapter leader and is on the board for the OWASP AppSec USA conference. He has presented security talks before numerous conferences. He is experienced in secure code review, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, risk management. He holds a bachelor of science in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Science in Information Security from James Madison University. He currently maintains GSSP-JAVA, GWAPT, CISSP, and CISM certifications. Steve resides in Golden, Colorado. In his spare time, Steve enjoys attending his childrens' sporting events with his wife, road and mountain biking, snowboarding, golfing, volleyball, and paragliding.
Presentations
While developers and testers use Selenium and other suites to test web application functionality, security often falls to the wayside because it's either too time consuming or they just don't know HOW to test for these issues. In this talk we'll discuss some basic OWASP TOP 10/CWE 25 vulnerabilities and how to discover them.
We'll use Selenium in conjunction with tools, such as ZAP and Burp, to identify vulnerabilities in our applications.
Exposing applications over the web continues to allow attackers to compromise an organization’s clients, customers and employees. These applications are often deployed with compressed development timelines, and as a result often contain several common security vulnerabilities. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate exploitations of the most common vulnerabilities identified during a security review, using tools such as Burp Suite, BeEF, and sqlmap. Most importantly this presentation will also demonstrate how to remediate and eliminate these vulnerabilities from your applications.
In this presentation, we will be discussing the following vulnerabilities from the OWASP Top 10:
A1: Injection
A3: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A8: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
The Agile and DevOps software development lifecycles present interesting challenges for application security. How can security keep up with the rapid development cycles, constantly changing code base, and continuous deployment schedules? The answer lies within an automated security framework that is integrated into the development lifecycle.
This presentation will demonstrate how to integrate a new application security testing framework into your build environment. Popular open-source vulnerability scanners, such as the Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), will be leveraged to provide real-time feedback to development teams, allowing them to remediate vulnerabilities before they reach production.
DevOps is changing the way that organizations design, build, deploy, and operate online systems. Engineering teams are making hundreds or even thousands of changes per day, and traditional approaches to security are struggling to keep up. Security must be reinvented in a DevOps world to take advantage of the opportunities provided by continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
In this talk, we start with a case study of an organization trying to leverage the power of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) to improve its security posture. After identifying the key security checkpoints in the pre-commit, commit, acceptance, and deployment lifecycle phases, we will explore how unit testing and static analysis fit into SecDevOps. Live demonstrations will show how to enforce
security unit tests and static analysis in a Jenkins CI build pipeline. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how security fits into DevOps to help secure their organization’s applications.