Tag: OWASP 2010 A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management
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OWASP A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management Defenses with PHP Part 5
We are finishing up OWASP A3 today. Yay! I haven’t decided which section I will cover next, probably something fun like XSS or SQLi mitigations. Picking up where we left off, we are at ASVS 2.7… ASVS 2.7 Requirement: Verify that the strength of any authentication credentials are sufficient to withstand attacks that are typical…
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OWASP A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management Defenses with PHP Part 4
This week we will cover the authentication portion of OWASP A3. I’m not following any particular order, just going in the direction I feel like. So if it seems out of order, it probably is. This section will begin covering ASVS 2.x. ASVS 2.1 Requirement: Verify that all pages and resources require authentication except those…
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OWASP A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management Defenses with PHP Part 3
I took last week off due to the holiday and what not. So this week we will pick back up where we left off, and hopefully continue adding a post a week. Two weeks ago we stopped at ASVS 3.9, this week we will start with ASVS 3.10 and finish up ASVS section 3. ASVS…
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OWASP A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management Defenses with PHP Part 2
We covered OWASP ASVS 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 in our previous post. I will continue where we left off, beginning this week’s post with ASVS 3.4. ASVS 3.4 Requirement: Verify that sessions timeout after an administratively-configurable maximum time period regardless of activity (an absolute timeout). I am not sure that this is a security requirement…
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Inaugural Post: OWASP A3 – Broken Authentication and Session Management Defenses with PHP Part 1
I have finally gotten around to starting a blog and this will be my first post in what is hopefully a long running series of useful secure development posts. Given that I am in the business of application security, specifically web applications, I have decided to do a series on OWASP protections. I will try…