Enable High Security Plugin [Updated in Security Center 1.3]

  • Release version: Washingtondc
  • Updated February 1, 2024
  • 1 minute to read
  • When you activate the High Security plugin, it creates or updates hundreds of different configurations to control the level of security on your instance. These configurations mitigate many of the top OWASP attacks by enabling strict access control, input validation, and output encoding.

    These configurations include:
    • Access Control
    • Business rules
    • System properties
    • UI policy action
    • script actions
    • script includes

    Example

    Refer to the examples for the following properties:

    Property Topic
    glide.ui.escape_all_script Escape Jelly
    glide.security.strict.actions Check UI action before execution
    glide.security.csrf_previous.allow Anti-CSRF token
    glide.security.csrf.strict.validation.mode CSRF strict validation

    More information

    Attribute Description
    Plugin Name com.glide.high_security
    Configuration type System Definition > Plugins - Development
    Category Access control
    Purpose It is mandatory to activate this plugin. It increases the security level of an instance, which reduces the attack surface by mitigating owasp top 10 attacks, including CSRF, XSS, Securing Session Cookies, and File uploads.
    Recommended value Active
    Security risk rating 9.8
    Functional impact This plugin enables several system security configurations, which may impact UI and functionality as well.
    Security risk (High) Many security configurations are unintentionally left open, which may open the door for some of the critical vulnerabilities.
    References

    Activating High Security Settings

    High Security Settings

    To learn more about activating a plugin, see Activate a plugin