Verify your software for security bugs

Verification is an important phase of developing secure software that is not always addressed in depth that includes dynamic analysis and fuzzing testing. This step allows checking that security has been built in the implementation phase: secure coding and using compilers mitigation correctly.

This video by Simon Roses Femerling from OWASP AppSec USA will cover the current state of verification technologies that developers can use to check the lack of security mitigations (ASLR, DEP, SafeSEH, Stack Guard, PIE, etc.) and vulnerabilities (Missing Code Signing, Insecure API, DLL planting, poor coding, etc.) and how to implement a battery of tests in their organization to verify their products are safe before releasing as required by an Application Assurance process.

Simon presents BinSecSweeper, a tool that performs security binary analysis. It’s open source and cross platform (Windows and Linux) and can scan PE & ELF file formats for x86-64 that can be used by developers to check their software. It includes security mitigations and is compliance with Application Assurance best practices or by IT pros to identify insecure applications in their networks.