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Summary

Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) is a cybersecurity checklist baseline that lists controls to ensure minimally viable security posture of a product.

Definitions

DefinitionRequirements
1_6. Business controls - Compliance
331. Guarantee legal compliance
1_8. Business controls - Data handling
173. Discard unsafe inputs
2_1. Application design controls - Single Sign-On
228. Authenticate using standard protocols
2_2. Application design controls - HTTPS only
029. Cookies with security attributes
324. Control redirects
336. Disable insecure TLS versions
349. Include HTTP security headers
2_3. Application design controls - Security Headers
062. Define standard configurations
175. Protect pages from clickjacking
266. Disable insecure functionalities
349. Include HTTP security headers
2_4. Application design controls - Password policy
122. Validate credential ownership
127. Store hashed passwords
129. Validate previous passwords
132. Passphrases with at least 4 words
133. Passwords with at least 20 characters
134. Store passwords with salt
238. Establish safe recovery
332. Prevent the use of breached passwords
334. Avoid knowledge-based authentication
2_5. Application design controls - Security libraries
155. Application free of malicious code
158. Use a secure programming language
160. Encode system outputs
173. Discard unsafe inputs
302. Declare dependencies explicitly
2_7. Application design controls - Logging
075. Record exceptional events in logs
085. Allow session history queries
376. Register severity level
2_8. Application design controls - Encryption
147. Use pre-existent mechanisms
224. Use secure cryptographic mechanisms
336. Disable insecure TLS versions
338. Implement perfect forward secrecy
351. Assign unique keys to each device
3_3. Application implementation controls - Vulnerability prevention
029. Cookies with security attributes
030. Avoid object reutilization
031. Discard user session data
062. Define standard configurations
141. Force re-authentication
173. Discard unsafe inputs
174. Transactions without a distinguishable pattern
266. Disable insecure functionalities
273. Define a fixed security suite
4_2. Operational controls - Logical access
034. Manage user accounts
095. Define users with privileges
096. Set user's required privileges
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