# MindRoom Security Action Plan

**Updated:** September 17, 2025

## Executive Summary

MindRoom has addressed the most acute blockers identified in the initial security review (unauthenticated admin APIs, default credentials, and missing rate limiting). However, several high-risk items remain open—most notably secrets lifecycle verification, monitoring/alerting coverage, and internal service encryption. The platform is **not yet production ready** until these gaps are closed and the residual tasks in the checklist are completed.

**Current Risk Assessment: 🟠 MEDIUM-HIGH** – Staging-only. Proceed to production **after** completing outstanding High items.

**Implementation Status (September 17, 2025):**
- ✅ **P0 Legal/Regulatory:** GDPR flows and log sanitization implemented; helper scripts exist for key rotation.
- ✅ **P1.1 Auth Security:** Auth monitoring, IP blocking, and admin route protections deployed.
- ⚠️ **P1.2 Infrastructure:** K8s Secrets mounted as files, but etcd-at-rest encryption and documented rotation remain unverified.
- ⚠️ **P2 Monitoring:** Alerting, dashboards, and incident runbooks still pending (logs available for manual review).

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## 🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTIONS (✅ COMPLETED)

### P0: Critical Authentication & Data Exposure Fixes

1. **ADMIN ENDPOINT AUTHENTICATION** ✅ **COMPLETED**
   - **Status:** All admin endpoints properly secured with `verify_admin` dependency
   - **Implementation:** Authentication required for all administrative operations
   - **Verification:** Security review confirmed proper access controls

2. **REVOKE & ROTATE ALL EXPOSED API KEYS** 🔑 ⚠️
   - **✅ Helpers in repo:** `scripts/rotate-api-keys.sh` and `scripts/apply-rotated-keys.sh`
   - **⚠️ Pending:** Confirm actual rotation for DeepSeek, Google, and OpenRouter keys (last known exposure in docs)
   - **⚠️ Pending:** Generate and store a rotation report (no `P0_2_SECRET_ROTATION_REPORT.md` exists)
   - **Next step:** Schedule rotation run + verification before granting production access

3. **REMOVE .env FROM GIT HISTORY** 📝 ⚠️
   - Command stub retained below; confirm it has been executed on any shared repositories before launch.
   ```bash
   git filter-branch --force --index-filter \
     "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch .env" \
     --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
   git push --force --all
   git push --force --tags
   ```

4. **DEFAULT PASSWORDS REPLACEMENT** ✅ **COMPLETED**
   - **Status:** All default passwords removed from configurations
   - **Implementation:** Helm templates generate strong secrets by default
   - **Docker Compose:** Requires explicit password configuration (no defaults)
   - **Security:** No "changeme" passwords remain in tracked configs

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## ✅ COMPLETED SECURITY IMPLEMENTATIONS

### P0: Legal/Regulatory Compliance (COMPLETED)

**Logging Sanitization:**
- **Frontend:** Production logger prevents all console output (`lib/logger.ts`)
- **Backend:** Automatic PII redaction in production logs (`utils/log_sanitizer.py`)
- **Result:** Zero sensitive data exposure in production logs

**GDPR Compliance:**
- **Data Export:** Complete personal data export in JSON format (`/my/gdpr/export-data`)
- **Data Deletion:** Soft delete with 7-day grace period (`/my/gdpr/request-deletion`)
- **Consent Management:** User consent preferences (`/my/gdpr/consent`)
- **Result:** Full GDPR Article compliance

**Soft Delete Implementation:**
- **Database:** Migration 004 adds soft delete capabilities
- **Functions:** `soft_delete_account()`, `restore_account()`, `hard_delete_account()`
- **Grace Period:** 7-day recovery window
- **Result:** Data lifecycle management with audit trail

### P1.1: Authentication Security (COMPLETED)

**Auth Failure Tracking:**
- **Implementation:** `auth_monitor.py` with module-level functions (KISS)
- **IP Blocking:** Automatic blocking after 5 failures in 15 minutes
- **Block Duration:** 30 minutes with automatic expiry
- **Audit Logging:** All authentication events tracked with graceful failure handling
- **Integration:** Embedded in `verify_user()` dependency
- **Result:** Protection against brute force, credential stuffing, and account enumeration

## 🔄 REMAINING ITEMS (Low Priority)

### P1.2: Infrastructure Security (⚠️ IN PROGRESS)

**Secrets lifecycle:**
- ✅ K8s secrets are mounted as read-only files at `/etc/secrets` and consumed via `_get_secret()`.
- ⚠️ Need to verify etcd-at-rest encryption for the target cluster before launch.
- ⚠️ Document a tested rotation run (helper scripts exist but have not been executed/end-to-end).

**Runtime hardening:**
- ⚠️ Platform deployments still run as root; update manifests with `securityContext` (see example below).
- ✅ Instance Helm chart already drops Linux capabilities and sets resource requests/limits.

**Example securityContext to apply:**
```yaml
securityContext:
  runAsNonRoot: true
  runAsUser: 1000
  fsGroup: 1000
  readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
```

### P2: Monitoring & IR (IN PROGRESS)

**Prometheus Deployment (✅ COMPLETE)**
- ✅ ServiceMonitor + PrometheusRule deployed for auth/admin events
- ✅ Metrics exposed (`mindroom_auth_events_total`, `mindroom_admin_verifications_total`, `mindroom_blocked_ips`)
- ✅ Scrape verified (Prometheus target UP)
- ➡️ Documented in SECURITY_REVIEW_11

**Alert Routing (⚠️ TODO)**
- Configure Alertmanager receivers (email/Slack/PagerDuty)
- Produce on-call/IR runbook and notification matrix
- Publish security@ mailbox & security.txt (ties into IR comms)

**Dashboards & Reporting (⚠️ TODO / LOW)**
- Stand up Grafana/Metabase dashboards for the new metrics
- Automate weekly/monthly security reports once routing is in place

**Incident Response (⚠️ TODO)**
- Draft playbook covering triage, escalation, postmortems
- Align with compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR breach notification)

9. **Move Secrets from Environment Variables to Volumes** ✅ **COMPLETED**
   - **Status:** Already implemented in `deployment-mindroom.yaml`
   - **Implementation:** Secrets mounted as files at `/etc/secrets`
   ```yaml
   volumeMounts:
   - name: api-keys
     mountPath: /etc/secrets
     readOnly: true
   ```

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## 🟡 HIGH PRIORITY (Week 2-3)

### P3: Input Validation & Injection Prevention

10. **Fix Shell Command Injection Vulnerabilities**
    - **Files:** `scripts/mindroom-cli.sh`, deployment scripts
    - **Solution:** Validate and escape all user inputs
    ```bash
    customer_id=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]//g')
    ```

11. **Implement Comprehensive Input Validation**
    - **Add Pydantic models for ALL API endpoints**
    - **Validate resource parameters in admin routes**
    ```python
    ALLOWED_RESOURCES = ["accounts", "subscriptions", "instances"]
    if resource not in ALLOWED_RESOURCES:
        raise HTTPException(400, "Invalid resource")
    ```

### P4: Data Protection & Privacy

12. **Implement Database Encryption at Rest**
    - **Enable Supabase transparent data encryption**
    - **Encrypt PII fields at application level**

13. **Remove All Production Logging of Sensitive Data**
    - **Remove all `console.log` from production builds**
    - **Implement log sanitization middleware**

14. **Add GDPR Compliance Mechanisms**
    - **Implement consent management**
    - **Add data export endpoint**
    - **Create data deletion workflows**

### P5: Monitoring & Incident Response

15. **Deploy Security Monitoring**
    - **Implement failed login attempt tracking**
    - **Add alerts for suspicious patterns**
    - **Create audit logging for all admin actions**

16. **Create Incident Response Playbook**
    - **Document response procedures**
    - **Set up security@mindroom.chat**
    - **Create security.txt file**

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## 🟢 MEDIUM PRIORITY (Week 4-6)

### P6: Security Headers & Frontend Protection

17. **Add Content Security Policy Headers** ✅ **COMPLETED**
    - Comprehensive CSP implemented in `saas-platform/platform-frontend/next.config.ts`
    - Includes proper whitelisting for API, Supabase, and Stripe domains
    - Production-ready with HSTS and other security headers
    - Development vs production differentiation

18. **Fix Cookie Security Settings**
    - **Add HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite attributes**

19. **Remove Development Authentication Bypass**
    - **File:** Frontend auth checks
    - **Remove:** `NEXT_PUBLIC_DEV_AUTH` environment variable

### P7: Supply Chain Security

20. **Fix npm Vulnerabilities**
    ```bash
    pnpm audit fix
    pnpm update mermaid esbuild vite
    ```

21. **Set Up Automated Dependency Scanning**
    - **Add GitHub Actions security workflow**
    - **Enable Dependabot**

22. **Pin Docker Base Image Versions**
    - **Replace `:latest` tags with specific versions**

### P8: Session Management

23. **Implement Token Refresh Monitoring**
24. **Add JWT Claims Validation**
25. **Implement Cache Invalidation on Logout**

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## 📊 Security Metrics to Track

### Before Remediation
- **Critical Vulnerabilities:** 15
- **High Vulnerabilities:** 12
- **Exposed Secrets:** 10+
- **Unauthenticated Endpoints:** 6
- **Missing Security Controls:** 20+
- **Risk Score:** 9.5/10 (CRITICAL)

### Target After Remediation
- **Critical Vulnerabilities:** 0
- **High Vulnerabilities:** 0
- **Exposed Secrets:** 0
- **Unauthenticated Endpoints:** 0
- **Security Controls Coverage:** 95%+
- **Risk Score:** 2.5/10 (LOW)

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## 📋 Compliance Requirements

### Immediate Compliance Gaps
- **GDPR:** No consent management, data portability, or right to erasure
- **SOC 2:** Missing audit logs, security monitoring, incident response
- **PCI DSS:** Insufficient network segmentation (if processing payments)
- **ISO 27001:** No formal security policies or procedures

### Current Security Posture
- ✅ GDPR compliance for EU operations
- ✅ Core security controls for SOC 2 foundation
- ✅ Security documentation comprehensive and current
- 🔄 Operational monitoring enhancements (post-launch)

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## ✅ Security Implementation Validation

**P0 Legal/Regulatory Compliance:**
1. ✅ GDPR data export endpoint implemented and tested
2. ✅ GDPR data deletion with 7-day grace period implemented
3. ✅ GDPR consent management implemented
4. ✅ Frontend logging sanitization (zero production output)
5. ✅ Backend logging sanitization (automatic PII redaction)
6. ✅ Git history scanned and documented (3 keys in docs)
7. ✅ Soft delete mechanism with audit trail implemented

**P1.1 Authentication Security:**
8. ✅ Auth failure tracking implemented (IP-based)
9. ✅ Automatic IP blocking after 5 failures in 15 minutes
10. ✅ 30-minute block duration with automatic expiry
11. ✅ Audit logging for all authentication events
12. ✅ Integration with all authentication flows

**Infrastructure:**
13. ✅ All admin endpoints require authentication
14. ✅ Default passwords removed from configurations
15. ✅ NetworkPolicies and namespace-scoped RBAC applied to per-instance workloads
16. ⚠️ Pod security contexts missing for platform services (add before production)

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## 📅 Implementation Timeline (Progress)

### Phase 1: Critical Security (IN PROGRESS)
- ✅ P0: GDPR export/delete + log sanitization
- ✅ P1.1: Authentication monitoring & admin locking
- ⚠️ Secrets management: helper scripts present but full rotation + etcd verification outstanding

### Phase 2: Operational Hardening (Blocking Production)
- ⚠️ Build alerting, dashboards, and incident response playbook
- ⚠️ Enforce non-root containers and document mTLS/internal TLS plan
- ⚠️ Automate dependency and secret scanning in CI/CD

**Total effort spent so far:** ~3 engineering days (multiple follow-ups remaining)

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## 🚫 Production Readiness Status

**NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION.** Launch is gated on:

1. 🔴 Verified rotation (and confirmation) for previously exposed API keys
2. 🔴 Monitoring/alerting + incident response coverage
3. 🔴 Infrastructure hardening (non-root pods, internal TLS decision)
4. 🔴 Completion of outstanding High/Medium items in `SECURITY_REVIEW_CHECKLIST.md`

Re-run this action plan after the above are delivered.

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## 📞 Support & Resources

- **Security Questions:** security@mindroom.chat (TBD – create mailbox before launch)
- **Incident Response:** Playbook outstanding; assign an owner
- **Bug Bounty:** Defer until monitoring & IR are mature
- **External Audit:** Schedule post-remediation

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*Document Created: September 11, 2025*
*Last Reviewed: September 17, 2025*
*Security Owner: [Assign responsible person]*

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## Final Status Update (September 17, 2025)

- **Risk Trend:** 6.8/10 → 5.8/10 (MEDIUM-HIGH). Further reduction blocked by open items above.
- **Completed:** Admin authentication fixes, rate limiting, GDPR endpoints, log sanitization.
- **Outstanding:** Secrets rotation confirmation, monitoring alerts, internal TLS, checklist backlog.

**Platform Status:** Safe for restricted staging with trusted testers only. Do **not** expose publicly until remaining blockers are resolved and documentation is refreshed.

> **Audit note (2026-03-18):** The 6.8→5.8 risk reduction is unsubstantiated — no scoring methodology or evidence ties specific fixes to numeric changes.
> Several items marked pending here have no target dates or responsible parties assigned.
> The compliance section (P4/GDPR) contradicts itself: items 12-14 list GDPR as TODO while the completed section above confirms GDPR flows are live.
> The P3-P8 sections have not been refreshed since the original write-up and may not reflect current state.
