SSE-LECTURE2-TRUESEC

Validation

  • always prefer white listing, before black listing
  • always prefer strict validation
  • normaliztion and sanitation is for edge cases only!

Untrusted Pattern

  • highlight the trust boundary
  • less intrusive to existing code

Implementation - Immutability

  • Drastically reduce the risk of TOCTTOU problems
  • Increases readability
  • Increases parallelism
  • Increases event sourcing

Implementation - Pessimistic Strategy

Implementation - Isolate risks

  • compartmentalize sensitive operations
  • Risk separation: Parsing of certain formats(XML), consider external dependencies
  • Security testing