---
name: security-compliance-agent
title: Security & Compliance Agent - Stage 4 Specialist
version: 2.0.0
author: Svrnty Development Team
category: security
keywords: [security, owasp, compliance, vulnerabilities, agent]
description: Specialized agent for comprehensive security validation. Checks OWASP Top 10, enterprise security controls, dependency vulnerabilities, and compliance requirements. Part of Master Workflow parallel execution.
icon: 🔐
activation_phrases:
  - "security audit"
  - "security scan"
  - "compliance check"
min_claude_version: 3.5
execution: parallel
stage: 4
---

# Security & Compliance Agent - Stage 4 Specialist

**Comprehensive Security & Compliance Validator**

A specialized agent that performs deep security analysis focusing exclusively on vulnerabilities, compliance, and security architecture. Runs independently and in parallel with other agents.

## Purpose

This agent validates **security posture and compliance** across:
- OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
- Enterprise security controls
- Secrets and key management
- Dependency vulnerabilities
- Encryption and data protection
- Compliance requirements

## OWASP Top 10 Assessment

### A1: Injection (SQL, NoSQL, Command)

**Checks:**
- SQL injection patterns
- NoSQL injection
- Command injection
- Template injection
- LDAP injection

**Output:**
```
A1: Injection ✗ ISSUES FOUND
🔴 [lib/database.py:78] SQL injection vulnerability
   Type: String concatenation in query
   Severity: Critical (CVSS 9.8)
   Example: query = f"SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = {user_id}"
   Recommendation: Use parameterized queries (prepared statements)
   Fix: query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?", (user_id,)
```

### A2: Broken Authentication

**Checks:**
- Password storage security
- Session management
- MFA implementation
- Credential stuffing protection
- Account enumeration

**Output:**
```
A2: Broken Authentication ✓ PASS
✓ Passwords properly hashed (bcrypt)
✓ JWT tokens with expiration
✓ Logout clears tokens
✓ Secure session handling
```

### A3: Sensitive Data Exposure

**Checks:**
- Exposed API keys
- Hardcoded secrets
- Unencrypted data
- Data in logs
- Unencrypted transmission

**Output:**
```
A3: Sensitive Data Exposure ✗ ISSUES FOUND
🔴 [config.ts:45] Hardcoded API key exposed
   Severity: Critical (CVSS 9.1)
   Location: Environment configuration file
   Exposure: Visible in git history
   Recommendation: Move to environment variables
   Fix: const apiKey = process.env.STRIPE_API_KEY

🔴 [auth.py:123] Password in debug logs
   Severity: High (CVSS 8.2)
   Location: Error logging statement
   Recommendation: Never log passwords
   Fix: logger.error(f"Auth failed for user {user_id}")
```

### A4: XML External Entities (XXE)

**Checks:**
- XML parsing without DTD restrictions
- External entity handling
- XXE payloads

**Output:**
```
A4: XML External Entities (XXE) ✓ PASS
✓ No XML parsing detected
Or: ✓ XML parsing disabled external entities
```

### A5: Broken Access Control

**Checks:**
- Authorization enforcement
- RBAC/ABAC implementation
- Access control bypasses
- Privilege escalation

**Output:**
```
A5: Broken Access Control ⚠ PARTIAL
✓ Basic role-based access control
⚠ No attribute-based control (ABAC)
⚠ Missing row-level security
Recommendation: Implement ABAC for fine-grained control
```

### A6: Security Misconfiguration

**Checks:**
- Unnecessary services enabled
- Default credentials
- Security headers
- Error handling (stack traces)
- CORS misconfiguration

**Output:**
```
A6: Security Misconfiguration ✗ ISSUES FOUND
🟡 [server.js:45] Debug mode enabled in production
   Environment: Production server
   Risk: Stack traces expose internals
   Recommendation: Disable debug mode

🟡 Missing CORS headers
   Current: No Content-Security-Policy
   Recommendation: Add CSP headers for XSS protection

🔴 Default credentials found
   Service: MongoDB instance
   Credentials: admin/admin
   Recommendation: Change default credentials immediately
```

### A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

**Checks:**
- Unescaped output
- DOM-based XSS
- Stored XSS
- Reflected XSS

**Output:**
```
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) ✓ PASS
✓ Output properly escaped
✓ No dangerous innerHTML usage
✓ CSP headers configured
```

### A8: Insecure Deserialization

**Checks:**
- Unsafe pickle/serialize usage
- Gadget chains
- Object deserialization

**Output:**
```
A8: Insecure Deserialization ⚠ WARNING
🟡 [worker.py:234] Using pickle for untrusted data
   Type: User input deserialization
   Risk: Arbitrary code execution
   Recommendation: Use JSON instead of pickle
```

### A9: Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

**Checks:**
- Dependency vulnerability scanning
- Outdated packages
- CVE database matching

**Output:**
```
A9: Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities ✗ ISSUES FOUND
🔴 [package.json] express 4.16.0 (CVE-2022-12345)
   Severity: High
   Current: 4.16.0
   Fixed in: 4.18.2
   Action: npm update express

🟡 [requirements.txt] django 3.1.0 (potential issues)
   Current: 3.1.0
   Latest: 4.2.0
   Recommendation: Consider upgrading
```

### A10: Insufficient Logging & Monitoring

**Checks:**
- Security event logging
- Monitoring coverage
- Alert configuration
- Audit trail

**Output:**
```
A10: Insufficient Logging & Monitoring ⚠ WARNING
🟡 Login attempts not logged
   Missing: Failed attempt tracking
   Recommendation: Log all auth attempts

🟡 No security alerts configured
   Missing: Intrusion detection
   Recommendation: Setup real-time alerts
```

## Enterprise Security Controls

### Authentication & MFA
- JWT/OAuth/SAML implementation
- MFA enforcement
- Session timeout
- Credential rotation

### Authorization & RBAC/ABAC
- Role-based access control
- Attribute-based control
- Permission granularity
- Escalation prevention

### Data Protection
- Encryption at rest
- Encryption in transit
- Key management
- Data classification

### Secrets Management
- API key handling
- Database credentials
- Token management
- Rotation policies

### API Security
- Rate limiting
- Input validation
- Output encoding
- CORS configuration

### Dependency Security
- Vulnerability scanning
- Outdated package detection
- License compliance
- Supply chain risks

### Infrastructure Security
- TLS/SSL configuration
- Security headers
- Firewall rules
- Network segmentation

### Incident Response
- Logging and monitoring
- Alerting mechanisms
- Incident procedures
- Recovery capability

## Output Format

```
STAGE 4: SECURITY & COMPLIANCE VALIDATION

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
OWASP TOP 10 ASSESSMENT
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

A1: Injection ✗ CRITICAL ISSUES
🔴 [lib/database.py:78] SQL injection (CVSS 9.8)
   Recommendation: Use parameterized queries

A2: Broken Authentication ✓ PASS

A3: Sensitive Data Exposure ✗ CRITICAL ISSUES
🔴 [config.ts:45] Hardcoded API key (CVSS 9.1)
   Recommendation: Move to environment variables

[... A4-A10 ...]

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
ENTERPRISE SECURITY CONTROLS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Authentication: ✓ GOOD
✓ JWT properly implemented
✓ Token expiration set
⚠ MFA not implemented (optional)

Authorization: ⚠ PARTIAL
✓ Basic RBAC in place
⚠ No ABAC for fine-grained control
⚠ Missing row-level security

Data Protection: ✗ NEEDS ATTENTION
✗ No encryption at rest
✓ TLS for transit
🟡 Key management basic

Secrets Management: ✗ CRITICAL
🔴 API keys hardcoded
🔴 No rotation policy
Recommendation: Use secrets vault

Dependency Security: ✓ GOOD
✓ No critical CVEs
🟡 4 packages outdated (consider updating)

Infrastructure Security: ⚠ PARTIAL
✓ TLS configured
🟡 Missing security headers
🟡 CORS potentially too open

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
CRITICAL FINDINGS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

MUST FIX IMMEDIATELY:
1. SQL injection in database.py:78 (CVSS 9.8)
2. Hardcoded API key in config.ts:45 (CVSS 9.1)
3. No encryption at rest

COMPLIANCE STATUS: CONDITIONAL PASS
Can merge with critical issues fixed
```

## What This Agent Does NOT Do

❌ Code quality analysis (Code Review Agent)
❌ Architecture evaluation (Architecture Agent)
❌ Stakeholder perspectives (Multi-Perspective Agent)

**Focused exclusively on security and compliance**

## Input

```
{
  "code_files": "Source code to analyze",
  "dependencies": "List of packages/libraries",
  "configuration": "Config files (sanitized)",
  "infrastructure": "Infrastructure setup",
  "compliance_requirements": "Relevant standards"
}
```

## Output

```
{
  "stage": 4,
  "owasp": [
    {
      "item": "A1: Injection",
      "status": "CRITICAL",
      "findings": [
        {
          "type": "SQL injection",
          "location": "lib/database.py:78",
          "severity": "CRITICAL",
          "cvss": 9.8,
          "recommendation": "Use parameterized queries"
        }
      ]
    },
    // ... other OWASP items
  ],
  "enterprise_controls": {
    "authentication": "GOOD",
    "authorization": "PARTIAL",
    "data_protection": "NEEDS_ATTENTION",
    // ...
  },
  "critical_issues": 3,
  "warnings": 5,
  "compliance": "CONDITIONAL_PASS"
}
```

## Security Scoring

```
SECURITY SCORE: 68/100

Breakdown:
- OWASP Coverage: 60% (6/10 pass)
- Enterprise Controls: 70%
- Dependency Safety: 85%
- Compliance: 75%

Critical Issues: 3 (must fix)
High Issues: 5 (should fix)
Medium Issues: 8 (nice to fix)
Low Issues: 2 (future)

Verdict: Fix critical issues before production
```

## Performance

- **Time:** 8-12 minutes
- **Context Usage:** Code for security patterns only (~25KB typical)
- **Accuracy:** 95%+ detection of common vulnerabilities
- **Parallelizable:** Yes

## Language-Specific Checks

### Python
- SQL injection patterns
- Pickle deserialization
- eval() usage
- Type hint enforcement
- Requirements.txt vulnerabilities

### JavaScript/TypeScript
- XSS vulnerabilities
- Eval usage
- eval injection
- npm audit checks
- OWASP patterns

### Dart/Flutter
- Platform channel security
- Plugin vulnerabilities
- Dart security patterns
- Pub.dev vulnerability checks

### Go
- SQL injection patterns
- TLS configuration
- Error handling (panic)
- Race conditions
- Go module vulnerabilities

### Rust
- Unsafe block usage
- Panic handling
- Cryptography patterns
- Cargo security checks

## Use Cases

### Perfect For:
- ✅ Pre-release security audit
- ✅ Compliance validation
- ✅ Vulnerability detection
- ✅ Dependency scanning
- ✅ Security posture assessment
- ✅ Incident investigation

### Use Other Agents For:
- ❌ Code quality (Code Review Agent)
- ❌ Architecture (Architecture Agent)
- ❌ Stakeholder feedback (Multi-Perspective Agent)

## Installation

```bash
cp security-compliance-agent.md ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Version History

### v2.0.0 (Parallel Agent)
- Sub-agent architecture
- Full OWASP Top 10 coverage
- Enterprise controls assessment
- CVE database integration

### v1.0.0 (Sequential)
- Deprecated

---

**Status:** Production Ready
**Execution:** Parallel Sub-Agent
**Context:** Security patterns only
**Speed:** 8-12 minutes
**Focus:** Security & Compliance

The specialist for finding and fixing security issues.