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Building Security In: January 2009 Workshop

Building Security In: January 2009 Workshop. Harry Hochheiser Towson University Department of Computer and Information Sciences 410 704 3090 http://triton.towson.edu/~hhochhei/. Today's Goals. Review Project Discuss specifics: CS0, CS1, CS2, CIS0

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Building Security In: January 2009 Workshop

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  1. Building Security In: January 2009 Workshop Harry Hochheiser Towson University Department of Computer and Information Sciences 410 704 3090 http://triton.towson.edu/~hhochhei/

  2. Today's Goals • Review Project • Discuss specifics: CS0, CS1, CS2, CIS0 • How to use materials, how to assess, etc.. • Plan, revise, brainstorm, etc...

  3. Project Goals and Motivations • Students need better background in computer security • Or, any background? • Can't just add required classes • “too little, too late” • Security track and classes limited in impact • Too few students • How to add security earlier without detracting from other material?

  4. Approach: Security Injections • Self-contained modules • Based on labs from traditional sciences • “Drop-in” to existing classes • Minmally-invasive: no class time necessary.

  5. Past and Future Work • Past: successful deployment in CS 0 and CS1 at Towson • Taylor & Azadegan, SIGCSE 2008 • Future: Expand • Depth: add numerous new classes • CS2, CIS0, Web, DB, networks. • Others? • Breadth: Deploy to • Anne Arundel, Baltimore County, Harford, Bowie State • Others?

  6. Process • Towson, Bowie State develop materials, pilot and train • Community colleges deploy and assist with assessment • TU and BSU assess and revise • MAISA recreates

  7. Current Status • Draft materials for CS0, CS1, CS2 available on Wiki • Integer Overflow, Buffer Overflow, Input Validation • Modules • Learning objectives (with mappings to assignments) • Sample Assessment exercises • CIS0 under development • phishing

  8. Timeline: Short term • January 2009 Training • Spring 2009 • CS0, CS1 deployed at TU, pilot at BSU, partners? • CS2 Pilot at TU • CIS0 Pilot @ BSU • Develop Materials for Database • Summer 2009 • Train BSU and partners on CS2 • Train TU,BSU on CIS0 and DB • Analyze Data

  9. Assessment • Success: • Lots of students learn more about security • Many institutions adopt our materials • How do we document pedagogical success? • Awareness and interest surveys • Faculty responses • Specific exercises on quizzes/exams for content.

  10. Security Injections: Contents • Background • Description • Risk – how can it happen? • Example of occurrence • Example in Code • How can I avoid? • lab/homework assignment • security checklist • discussion questions • security scorecard – use checklist to grade any code.

  11. Security Awareness Survey • “ What are the possible consequences of insufficient computer security?” • “Integer overflow occurs...” • Which programming mistake is one of the major vulnerabilities in today's applications” • “Which of the following should your well-designed program do before processing user input?” • 7 demographic questions • Nothing asking about previous exposure to security concerns in courses – should we add it? • Online – through studentvoice.com

  12. The Process • Start of semester – give awareness survey • Online, via link to be provided • Assign modules when appropriate – it's up to you • Use checklists as grading scorecards • Possibly retain some for our research • Assess student learning • Example exercises for quizzes/exams given in assessment docs • Repeat awareness survey at end of semester.

  13. Questions • What will it take to make this work well? • How can we get colleagues to adopt? • What project support is needed? • What institutional support is needed? • Are there issues specific to your context that we should know about?

  14. The wiki • http://triton.towson.edu/~cssecinj/dokuwiki • http://www.dokuwiki.org/manual • Demonstration...

  15. CS0, CS1, CS2 • Integer Overflow • Input Validation • Buffer Overflow • Other topics? • General introduction to vulnerabilities? • C++ and Java versions

  16. Objectives

  17. Example: Buffer Overflow for CS2 • Example in Code public class BufferOverflow { public static void main(String[] args) { int[] vals = new int[10]; for (int i = 0; i <20; i++) { vals[i] = i; } } } • Tips for avoiding: validate indices, don't allocate storage until needs are known, etc.. • Assignment: Write a procedure that will copy an arbitrary subrange of one array of integers into an other array.

  18. Thoughts, reactions? • Breakout into groups by topic or class • Discuss in details • What works, what doesn't • Download from wiki, revise • upload

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