@Craig McNally 

@Julian Ladisch 

Sep 19, 2024 time collision

@Axel Dörrer 

@Ryan Berger 

@Chris Rutledge 

@Jakub Skoczen 

@John Coburn 

@Skott Klebe 

@Kevin Day

@Jens Heinrich

Out next week Aug 29, 2024 

5 min

Proxy for Dev-Setup

• How do we want to handle local HTTPS for devs

  • Self Signed Certificates?

  • Options:

    • A) Create Certificates in tooling

    • B) Document how to create certificates

• Idea: Setup a spike for the HTTPS in the proxy

Today:

• John has been discussing this with Zak/Jason - doing this in stripes-cli.  It sounds like they're coming around to this idea.

• A spike is still needed

  • @John Coburn will create the spike and ask for input/help from the rest of the Security team as needed.

5 min

Cookie SameSite topic raised in Slack

Team + Zak

• Production systems should be setup with SameSite = Strict or Lax

  • Bugfest should be setup in this way, but it's currently set to none.

  • Julian will continue to try to get Kitfox to move this back to Strict/Lax

• Hosted reference envs, and other envs (e.g. rancher envs, etc.) which UI devs might develop against (point a local UI build at) should either:

  • Use SameSite = none OR

  • UI devs should use a proxy like NGINX (running locally)

    • Action: @Julian Ladisch to work on a PoC of this.

• Generally speaking it's better to user SameSite=Strict/Lax when possible to help identify issues earlier

• Consider setting the default to Strict instead of Lax.  See https://github.com/folio-org/mod-login

• Zak:  Lax doesn't really buy us anything, we should use either none or strict.  This is because stripes is an SPA.  It's the backend that cares/uses the cookies, the frontend doesn't know anything about these since they're http-only cookies.

  • This comes up when using deep links, e.g. to other domains

• Update from Zak (6/13):

  • WRT LOGIN_COOKIE_SAMESITE env variable in mod-login, Steve Ellis and I chatted and confirmed we could default to Strict instead of Lax without any downside.

  • He will create JIRAs for mod-login and mod-login-keycloak to adjust the default, and if needed we can create another story for devops if they're overriding the default for hosted reference envs.

• Action:  @Craig McNally to touch base with Zak on progress of the Jira creation.

• Some feel that the hosted reference envs should be setup like production (e.g. SAMESITE=Strict).  However that interferes with UI developer's ability to point a local build of the UI at these envs.

  • Potential compromise:  configure one of the snapshot envs to have Strict, and the other to have None.

• A new PR (https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/STCLI-246, https://github.com/folio-org/stripes-cli/pull/350) introduced a proxy server to assist front-end developers with the samesite issue should they need to work against the Bugfest environment.

• Action: John to try out the new functionality – check on this Jul 25, 2024 

• @John Coburn tried this out in stripes-cli and it worked well.  Another developer is going to give this a go as well (Jason S.). 

• What are the next steps?

  • This is documented in the stripes-cli, but not in onboarding

  • Maybe we should raise awareness amongst UI devs

  • Still outstanding.  This will be communicated along with other things.

• This is looking good, can probably remove from future agendas.

• Only remaining gotcha is how this will work with STSH

• @John Coburn created a ticket to include CORS in the proxy

  • https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/STCLI-247

  • @Kevin Day will test something by Zak here

Today:

• TAMU is using an older version of Okapi which is making things more complicated, Kevin is making due.

1 min

Update on SECURITY-159 / FOLIO-4012

Craig

We're on track here.  Ian H. applied mitigation.  Upgrade will happen when John Malconian returns from vacation.

• @Jakub Skoczen to circle back and check in with John M.

• Craig posted a reminder in #devops

• Check in on this next week Aug 1, 2024 

• @Jakub Skoczen informed that the devops team will pick this up soon.

• @Craig McNally reached out to @John Malconian and @Jakub Skoczen for an update today.  

  • Response from John: 'I’ll be starting this soon.  Typically will need to be done during “off hours” so I just need to find a good time.'

Today

• @Craig McNally will nudge John Malconian again.

0 min

Jira Group and Security Level review

Team

From Craig in slack:

I've been in communication with David Crossley, Wayne Schneider, John Malconian and Peter Murray about the issue above.  They apparently didn't have access to these embargoed issues (SysOps and Core Team).  Peter shared this screenshot with me, which doesn't look right.  I'd like to review this at one of our meetings and come up with a list of changes/improvements for Peter to make.  A few ideas off the top of my head:

1. Add descriptions to each of the security groups, like we have for "FOLIO Security Group"

2. Maybe add a new security group and level for FOLIO devops

3. Review membership of each of these groups and remove users no longer on the project

4. Review the Security Level -> Group mappings.  Some of these don't look quite right to me.

https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T1EPYQDAQ-F075P5YMBJQ/image.png

• If it makes this easier, we could invite Peter to a meeting so we can see the groups/levels interactively and makes adjustments as we go

TODO:

• Create a new group:  devops, and assign Wayne, John, Ian, David, Peter.  Also create a new security level for "folio devops"

• Remove Johannes Drexl from the SysOps group, he's not longer involved in Folio.

• Action: Craig to look into how security level configuration works to gain a better understanding of why it behaves the way it does.  

  • Why do we have All Folio Developers in the "Sys Ops and Core Team" security level?

Today:

• No update today- Check in on this Aug 22, 2024 

< 5 min

https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/FOLIO-3896

Team

• We need to determine if DevOps can work on  or if they don't have bandwidth, and the debian packages aren't used anymore, archive them.  It sounds like some SysOps do use this, but we know that DevOps has very little bandwidth these days.

25 min

Anything Urgent?
Review Mike's Kanban board?
Review Security board?

Under Review Filter: https://folio-org.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=filter%3D12879+

Team

• Action:  Create a Jira for folio devops to set Strict Transport Security header in hosted reference environments.  Then link the story tohttps://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/SECURITY-170

  • @Craig McNally will create the story and link it up.

Today:

• Unembargoed several issues which were rejected/completed (SECURITY-171-178

  • https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/SECURITY-177 remains open.  See also https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/SECURITY-182

    • Action:  Craig will provide updates via slack as Taras digs into this.

• Closed out https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/SECURITY-101

• Rejected https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/SECURITY-181

• Discussed https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/SECURITY-171.  Will keep on the board for tracking purposes.

  • Action: @Julian Ladisch to create a brief wiki page listing 3rd party dependencies/frameworks/etc. which are out of support.  Maybe we should link to this from the flower release notes?

Time permitting

Advice for handling of sensitive banking information

Team

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.  

      • This could mean either:

        • Explicitly encrypting/decrypting in the application layer and storing the encrypted data in postgres

        • Utilizing postgres extensions/modules to encypt certain columns, e.g. via pgcrypto (see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/encryption-options.html)

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.