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Documentation: testing guide #21

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voltone opened this issue Nov 21, 2021 · 7 comments
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Documentation: testing guide #21

voltone opened this issue Nov 21, 2021 · 7 comments

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voltone commented Nov 21, 2021 •
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Create a 'testing guide' aimed at security professionals with little or no experience with the BEAM platform. The document should provide both background information, with links to relevant resources, and concrete examples of verification tests that show necessary hardening is in place.

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voltone commented Nov 21, 2021

Erlang distribution protocol: overview, risks, EPMD, network interface binding, security mechanisms, TLS transport, ...

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voltone commented Nov 21, 2021 •
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Interaction with the host OS executables/processes: ports, os:cmd, NIFs, erl_child_setup, erlsrv, heart, ...

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voltone commented Nov 21, 2021

Introspection: observer, crash dumps, remote console, to_erl

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voltone commented Nov 21, 2021

Code loading: interactive vs. embedded, load paths, executable config files in Elixir releases, code_server

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Where to find config files. What files need restricted read/write permissions.

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Erlang/OTP profiling: fprof, eprof, cprof, dbg, lcnt, perf.

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Load testing - Tsung.

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