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+# Ghaymah Security Audit Checklist (15 Items)
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+## 1. Container Security
+1. **Minimal Base Images**: Use distroless or minimal Alpine images from trusted registries to reduce attack surface.
+2. **Non-Root Execution**: Configure `securityContext.runAsNonRoot: true` in deployment manifests to prevent container privilege escalation.
+3. **Container Image Scanning**: Integrate vulnerability scanners (e.g., Trivy/Grype) into the CI/CD pipeline before pushing to Ghaymah Container Registry.
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+## 2. Network Security
+4. **Kubernetes Network Policies**: Enforce strict ingress/egress rules allowing inter-service communication only on required ports.
+5. **TLS Encryption in Transit**: Mandate TLS 1.3 / mTLS for all microservices communication managed via Ghaymah Ingress Controller.
+6. **Port & Interface Restriction**: Close unneeded open ports (e.g., SSH, DB ports) on public IPs, exposing only 80/443 via reverse proxy.
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+## 3. OWASP Top 5 Mitigation
+7. **Broken Access Control**: Enforce RBAC at API Gateway layer and validate JWT claims on every endpoint.
+8. **Cryptographic Failures**: Encrypt data at rest on Ghaymah Block Storage using AES-256 with automated KMS key rotation.
+9. **Injection Protection**: Deploy Ghaymah Web Application Firewall (WAF) to filter SQLi, Command Injection, and XSS payloads.
+10. **Insecure Design**: Implement threat modeling and adhere to Least Privilege access policies during architecture design.
+11. **Security Misconfiguration**: Disable verbose stack traces/debug modes and obscure Server/OS headers.
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+## 4. Data & Storage Security
+12. **Secrets Management**: Retrieve API keys and DB credentials dynamically using Ghaymah Secrets Manager instead of hardcoding.
+13. **Immutable Backups**: Utilize Ghaymah Backup to create WORM (Write Once Read Many) encrypted snapshots.
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+## 5. Identity & Access Management (IAM)
+14. **Enforce MFA**: Require Multi-Factor Authentication for all Ghaymah Cloud console and CLI management accounts.
+15. **Privilege Auditing**: Perform automated 30-day reviews to revoke stale credentials and unused service accounts.