Obfuscation
What is Obfuscation?
Techniques used to make code, data, or communications deliberately difficult to understand, used both defensively and by attackers to evade detection.
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What the standards actually require on obfuscation
Requirements naming obfuscation across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Effective, consistent obfuscation techniques are defined for data security concerns with criteria for choosing among them (data utility and referential integrity needs, sensitivity classification, location of the store, the perimeters at which elements must be...
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::4.1.3 · 4.1.3 Data obfuscation techniques are defined and applied →Per OWASP MASVS v2 MASVS-RESILIENCE: resilience against reverse engineering + tampering. Requirements include (a) understand resilience is defence in depth + not replacement for server-side controls + (b) implement anti-debugging + anti-tampering + anti-hookin...
OWASPMASVS-7 · MASVS-RESILIENCE: Resilience Against Reverse Engineering →Critical security parameters such as usernames and passwords, API keys or private keys are not hard-coded in the device software source code, since reverse engineering finds them readily and obfuscation is easily broken.
etsi-en-303-645::Provision 5.4-3 · No hard-coded critical security parameters in source code →Minimise the use of personally identifiable information for research, testing and training through data obfuscation, randomisation, anonymisation or synthetic data.
fbi-cjis-security-policy::SI-12(2) · SI-12(2) Information Management and Retention | Minimize Personally Identifiable Information in Testing, Training, and Research →Interpretation depends on knowing how each item came to exist, which may need information from people who run the systems day to day; its reliability is tested and the probative weight given reflects it.
iso-iec-27042-2015::8.3 · 8.3 Factors affecting interpretation →Interpretation: building an explanation, inside agreed limits, of the facts that examination and analysis produced (3.9). ISO/IEC 27042 clause 8 (held) sets out how: derive meaning by evaluating the evidence in its context;
iso-iec-27043-2015::10.4 · 10.4 Digital evidence interpretation process →Questions people ask about obfuscation
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