Matrix

OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model
Dimension	Sub-Dimension	Level 1: Basic understanding of security practices	Level 2: Adoption of basic security practices	Level 3: High adoption of security practices	Level 4: Advanced deployment of security practices at scale
Build and Deployment	Build	Defined build process		Signing of artifacts Signing of code	Building and testing of artifacts in virtual environments
Build and Deployment	Deployment	Defined deployment process	Backup before deployment Environment depending configuration parameters Usage of trusted images	Handover of confidential parameters Inventory of running artifacts Rolling update on deployment Same artifact for environments Usage of feature toggles	Blue/Green Deployment
Build and Deployment	Patch Management	A patch policy is defined Automated PRs for patches	Nightly build of images Reduction of the attack surface Usage of a maximum lifetime for images		Usage of a short maximum lifetime for images
Culture and Org.	Education and Guidance	Ad-Hoc Security trainings for software developers Security consulting on request	Each team has a security champion Regular security training for all Regular security training of security champions Reward of good communication	Conduction of build-it, break-it, fix-it contests Conduction of collaborative security checks with developers and system administrators Regular security training for everyone Security-Lessoned-Learned	Aligning security in teams Conduction of collaborative team security checks Conduction of war games
Culture and Org.	Design	Conduction of simple threat modelling on technical level	Conduction of simple threat modelling on business level Creation of simple abuse stories	Conduction of advanced threat modelling	Creation of advanced abuse stories
Culture and Org.	Process	Definition of simple BCDR practices for critical components		Approval by reviewing any new version Definition of a change management process Prevention of unauthorized installation
Hardening	Infrastructure Hardening	Segmented networks for virtual environments Simple access control for systems Usage of test and production environments	Applications are running in virtualized environments Checking the sources of used libraries Filter outcoing traffic The cluster is hardened Usage of security by default for components Virtual environments are limited	2FA Immutable Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code Role based authentication and authorization versioning	Limitation of system calls in virtual environments Microservice-Architecture Production near environments are used by developers Usage of a chaos monkey
Hardening	Application Hardening	Application Hardening Level 1	Application Hardening Level 2		Application Hardening Level 3
Information Gathering	Monitoring	Simple application metrics Simple system metrics	Alerting Visualized metrics	Advanced availablity and stability metrics Advanced webapplication metrics Deactivation of unused metrics Grouping of metrics Targeted alerting	Coverage and control metrics Defence metrics Metrics are combined with tests Screens with metric visualization
Information Gathering	Logging	Centralized system logging Logging of security events PII logging concept	Visualized logging	Centralized application logging	Correlation of security events
Test and Verification	Dynamic depth for applications	Simple Scan	Coverage of client side dynamic components Usage of different roles	Coverage of hidden endpoints Coverage of more input vectors Coverage of sequential operations Usage of multiple scanners	Coverage analysis Coverage of service to service communication
Test and Verification	Static depth for applications	Test of server side components with known vulnerabilities	Static analysis for important server side components	Static analysis for important client side components Test of client side components with known vulnerabilities	Exclusion of source code duplicates Static analysis for all components/libraries Static analysis for all self written components Stylistic analysis Usage of multiple analysers
Test and Verification	Test-Intensity	Default settings for intensity High test intensity	Deactivating of unneeded tests Regular tests	Creation and application of a testing concept
Test and Verification	Consolidation	Definition of quality gates Simple false positive treatment Treatment of defects with severity high or higher	Simple visualization of defects	Integration of vulnerability issues into the development process Treatment of defects with severity middle	Advanced visualization of defects Reproducible defect tickets Treatment of all defects Usage of a vulnerability management system
Test and Verification	Application tests		Security unit tests for important components	Security integration tests for important components	High coverage of security related module and integration tests Smoke Test
Test and Verification	Dynamic depth for infrastructure	Test for exposed services	Test network segmentation Test of the configuration of cloud environments	Weak password test	Load tests
Test and Verification	Static depth for infrastructure	Stored Secrets	Test cluster deployment resources Test of virtualized environments Test the clould configuration Test the definition of virtualized environments	Check for image lifetime Check for malware Check for new image version	Check for known vulnerabilities Correlate known vulnerabilities in infrastructure with new image versions Test of infrastructure components for known vulnerabilities

Activtities per Dimension

Build: 4
Deployment: 10
Patch Management: 6
Education and Guidance: 13
Design: 6
Process: 4
Infrastructure Hardening: 18
Application Hardening: 3
Monitoring: 13
Logging: 6
Dynamic depth for applications: 9
Static depth for applications: 9
Test-Intensity: 5
Consolidation: 10
Application tests: 4
Dynamic depth for infrastructure: 5
Static depth for infrastructure: 11

Activity Count: 136