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Security Signals - A framework to scale web security

Video and handoutsSecAppDev 2024

Web security

Abstract

Ensuring the security of web applications developed by many different engineers requires a solid understanding of security details and can be quite hard to scale. Thus, a web security team should also own the rollouts of security features. This requires a mindset shift, and high-quality metrics and tools to perform such changes.

In this session, we’ll explore Security Signals, a framework for collecting and processing aggregated and de-identified traffic logs across all Google web properties. Using the adoption of strict CSP as an example, we will take a closer look at how all components work.

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Chapters

  1. Intro
  2. Introduction to Web Security
  3. Signal Collection Fundamentals
  4. Organic Security Signals
  5. Synthetic Security Signals
  6. Processing Signals
  7. Using Data to Improve Security
  8. Security Signals Framework Goals
  9. Use Case: Research and Remediations
  10. Use Case: Adoption of Mitigations
  11. Example: Cross-Site Request Forgery
  12. Security Signals Infrastructure
  13. Q & A

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Slawomir Goryczka taught at a previous edition of SecAppDev

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