2024-04-04 Meeting notes

Owned by Craig McNally
Apr 04, 2024
2 min read

Date

Attendees

NamePresentPlanned Absences

Craig McNally 

Yes
Julian Ladisch 
Yes

Axel Dörrer 



Ryan Berger 
Yes

Chris Rutledge 

Yes

Jakub Skoczen 



John Coburn 


Skott Klebe 






Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
25-30 minAnything Urgent? Review the Kanban board?Team
  • SECURITY project workflow has been updated to allow transition from any state back to OPEN.
  • John shared an update on requesting CSP approval for XSS-related issues in slack:
    • CSP proposal draft for XSS stories...any thoughts about this? Thinking this could copy/paste across those tickets to help with the process... just a simple bit of technical speak that PO's might not be interested in formulating themselves...
      FOLIO ui-modules occasionally need to render mark-up fed directly from our data stores. It is possible for these strings to contain javascript commands that can be executed when the string is interpreted and run by the browser. This fix filters those strings before they are actually presented by the browser, preventing any commands or script tags present from executing.
Time permittingAdvice for handling of sensitive banking informationTeam

From slack conversation, I think I've gathered the following:

  • In this case (bank account and transit numbers), the information is highly sensitive.  
  • Highly sensitive information should:
    • Be stored in it's own table
    • Accessed via a dedicated API
    • Protected by a dedicated permission
    • Encrypted in the database, not only on disk.  

Let's review and discuss before providing this feedback to Raman.

Axel Dörrer also suggested that defining classes of sensitivity could help teams determine which techniques are applicable in various situations.  I agree having some general guidelines on this would be helpful.

  • regular data
  • low sensitive - permission based on same API
  • high sensitive - permission based on dedicated API

It would probably help to provide concrete examples of data in each class.  This can be a longer term effort, we don't need to sort out all the details today.

  • Next Steps:
    • Clearly define/formalize the various classes
      • Come up with concrete examples of each class
    • Build out guidance
      • Come up with concrete examples of how to protect each class of data.
    • Consider storing some classes of data outside of postgres altogether - e.g. in secret storage.
      • What would be the guidance we provide to teams for this so we don't end up with each team doing things differently?
      • SecretStore interface and existing implementations are currently only read-only.  They would need to be extended to allow for creation/mgmt of this information.
    • Craig to start a conversation in slack about this.
      • Seeking a volunteer to generate a draft document for us to review at a later meeting.

Today:

Axel Dörrer to do a first draft as a base for further discussions


Status on pentesting works within Network traffic control group

Axel Dörrer 

Due to some absences on different reasons the group stalled. Axel will try to reactivate the group.

Action items

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