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Security issues, tooling, innovations and education within OpenStack are the responsibility of the Security project. The Security project is a horizontal effort within OpenStack that is comprised of what was previously referred to as the OpenStack Security Group and the Vulnerability Management Team. The Security project undertakes both technical and governance activities within OpenStack, aiming to provide guidance, information and code that enhances the overall security of the OpenStack ecosystem.
 
Security issues, tooling, innovations and education within OpenStack are the responsibility of the Security project. The Security project is a horizontal effort within OpenStack that is comprised of what was previously referred to as the OpenStack Security Group and the Vulnerability Management Team. The Security project undertakes both technical and governance activities within OpenStack, aiming to provide guidance, information and code that enhances the overall security of the OpenStack ecosystem.
  
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== Organization and Contribution  ==
 
== Organization and Contribution  ==

Revision as of 18:54, 5 August 2015


Security issues, tooling, innovations and education within OpenStack are the responsibility of the Security project. The Security project is a horizontal effort within OpenStack that is comprised of what was previously referred to as the OpenStack Security Group and the Vulnerability Management Team. The Security project undertakes both technical and governance activities within OpenStack, aiming to provide guidance, information and code that enhances the overall security of the OpenStack ecosystem.

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Organization and Contribution

The security group is built up primarily of two groups of people; those who write OpenStack code and those who try to secure OpenStack code! We have contributors from over 30 different companies involved in OpenStack. If you're interested in helping to make OpenStack more secure, either through writing better code, writing documentation or inventing cool new features and tooling - we want to hear from you!

Organization

The Security project was recently incorporated into OpenStack under the big-tent model for collaboration. That means we're recognised by the OpenStack foundation and we govern ourselves in the same way that every other official project does. We have a Project Technical Lead (PTL), Cores and Regular members just like other projects do. The PTL is elected every six months, we meet up at each OpenStack Summit and hold our own mid-cycle meet-ups too. More regularly we meet on IRC each week to discuss progress on multiple activities. We use the [Security] tag on the standard [developer mailing list] when things warrant wider discussion.

Contribution

The process of becoming a member of the group is described on the OSSG Launchpad page. At the moment of writing, there is no defined "procedure" to get involved into the OSSG and a suggested set of steps follows. Each described steps might or not be relevant depending on the individual member's background and familiarity with the OpenStack project.

Some steps to get started are:

  • Read the OpenStack documentation and understand the most common deployment scenarios.
  • Go through the OpenStack installation guide and create a deployment (either a native one or in a virtualized environment), in order to get a basic understanding of the interaction of the different OpenStack services. Some installation scripts such as Devstack and Packstack are readily available. However, you should not underestimate the educational benefits of spending some quality time to install OpenStack manually.
  • Read the newly released OpenStack security guide in order to dive into the security aspects of setting up and running an OpenStack deployment.
  • Getting acquainted to some degree with the rest of the OpenStack manuals is highly encouraged.
  • The next step is to choose one of the OpenStack components in order to become closely familiarized with it and eventually be able to use the combined expertise of the OSSG in order to make thoughtful contributions to the component (code reviews, direct code contribution, architectural aspects) and improve its security. It is of course important to chose a component that would closely match your interests; given the size of OpenStack, becoming closely familiar with the chosen component's code base, deployment and administration practices might require significant time investments. Once you have chosen a component, send an email on the OSSG email list to let others know about your intentions.

See https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/How_To_Contribute for more details on how you can improve OpenStack security.

Software Activities

The OpenStack Security Project has a number of ongoing activities that aim to enhance security of the OpenStack cloud ecosystem. These predominantly break down into three groups; Advisory, Guidance and Software.

Advisory Activities

The Security project issues Security Advisories (OSSA) and Security Notes (OSSN) both are targetted at OpenStack Users and Vendors who either run or package OpenStack for use by downstream consumers.

Security Advisories - OSSA

Security Advisories, handled by the VMT

Security Notes - OSSN

Security Notes, handled by the wider Security Project

Guidance Activities

We produce security guidance for developers and consumers of OpenStack technologies.

Security Guide

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This book was written by a close community of security experts from the OpenStack Security Project in a short, intense week-long effort at an undisclosed location. One of the goals for this book is to bring together interested members to capture their collective knowledge and give it back to the OpenStack community.

See http://docs.openstack.org/sec/

Security Aware Development

Please use the resource below to help you develop more securely for OpenStack.

See https://github.com/openstack-security/Developer-Guidance

Security Blog

We're going to have a blog soon!

Vulnerability Management Team

The OpenStack Vulnerability Management team is the first point of contact for OpenStack security issues. They are responsible for the vulnerability handling and disclosure process.

See http://wiki.openstack.org/VulnerabilityManagement