Leveraging AI for Enhanced Web and API Security - OWASP

The Security Dimension 

1. OWASP Top 10: A common framework for identifying and mitigating web application security risks.

2. Authentication & Authorization: Verifying user identity and controlling access to resources.

3. Secure Communication: Encrypting data in transit and at rest to prevent eavesdropping.

4. DDoS Mitigation: Protecting against Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks that overwhelm systems.

Security Strategy

1. Shift Left Approach: Integrating security earlier in the development lifecycle.

2. Secure Coding Practices: Writing code that is resistant to vulnerabilities.

3. CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Automating security checks throughout the development process.

Security Shift Left with Secure Coding Practices

OWASP Issue evaluation in  Application Layer(L7)

Security Rules Integrated with Developer IDE

Pre-Commit Stage Gate

Advantages:

Identifying security issues early in development

Enforcing secure best practices

Less vulnerable code in shared repository

Explore:

Availability of security plugins for developer IDEs

Synk, Checkmarx one with VSCode

OWASP IDEVulScanner – integration available with VSCode and intellij

AI-powered Security in the CI Pipeline

AI-enabled Security Tools: Leverage AI algorithms to identify vulnerabilities during the pre-merge stage of the CI pipeline.

Pre Merge Stage Gate

Benefits:

Proactive identification of vulnerabilities.

Faster remediation process.

Less vulnerable code in the codebase master

AI-powered Security tools that can be integrated in the CI Pipeline

AI-powered Security in the CD Pipeline

Pre-deployment Stage Gate: Analyse security posture before deployment.

Security Sandbox: Simulate real-world attacks in a controlled environment.

OWASP L4 Evaluation: Assess vulnerabilities related to network security.

GenAI for Analysis: Leverage AI to analyze security data from the sandbox environment.

Go/No-Go Decision: Make informed deployment decisions based on security assessment results.

AI enabled CD Security Scan tool

Monitoring and logging

Post-Deployment Stage

Continuous automated Monitoring and logging

User GenAI tool to analyze and report any security threat

AI-enabled security tools that can help analyze and report security threats - Splunk, IBM QRadar,Securonix,Rapid7 InsightIDR, Exabeam

AI enabled monitoring tool