☁️ Cloud Security Web App Challenge: Secure-Pass-Sentinel 🔐
Project Overview 📂
This cloud challenge focuses on enhancing and deploying “Secure-Pass-Sentinel”, a password strength checker web application, using serverless cloud technologies. Participants will improve the existing application and deploy it on either Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Cloud Run or Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Lambda and API Gateway.
Challenge Objective 🎯
Enhance the Secure-Pass-Sentinel application and deploy it as a serverless web app using either Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS). The goal is to improve functionality, security, and performance of the web app while ensuring it’s correctly deployed and functioning in a serverless cloud environment.
Key Requirements 🗝️
- Enhance/Modify the App: Make significant improvements or add new features to the provided password strength checker.
- Cloud Deployment: Deploy the modified app using the services outlined below for either GCP or AWS.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate GitHub Actions (or similar tool) to automatically deploy updates to your cloud environment when you push to your repository.
Cloud Provider Requirements
GCP Requirements:
- Compute Engine or Cloud Run: Host the web application.
- Cloud Storage: Store the common_passwords.txt file (if needed).
- IAM: Set up appropriate roles and permissions.
- Cloud Build: Integrate for CI/CD.
AWS Requirements:
- EC2 or Lambda: Host the web application.
- S3: Store the common_passwords.txt file (if needed).
- IAM: Set up appropriate roles and permissions.
- CodePipeline: Integrate for CI/CD.
Getting Started 🚀
Step 1: Clone the Repository
Git Clone https://github.com/JQCVSC/Secure-Pass-Sentinel
cd Secure-Pass-Sentinel
Step 2: Set Up Locally
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py
Step 3: Implement Enhancements ( Optional)
Enhance the web app. For example:
Improve the user interface
Add password generation functionality
Implement password history checking
Step 4: Deploy to the Cloud
Choose either GCP or AWS for deployment.
To submit your project:
Create a pull request to this repository. Add your name, GitHub repo URL, and deployed app URL to the submissions.md file. Provide a summary of your enhancements and any additional features in your pull request.
Submissions 📥
This is the place to add your submissions for the Cloud Security Web App Challenge!
AWS
| Name | Deployed App URL | GitHub Repo URL |
|---|---|---|
| Participant 1 | [Deployed App URL] | [GitHub Repo URL] |
| Participant 2 | [Deployed App URL] | [GitHub Repo URL] |
| Participant 3 | [Deployed App URL] | [GitHub Repo URL] |
GCP
| Name | Deployed App URL | GitHub Repo URL |
|---|---|---|
| Participant 1 | [Deployed App URL] | [GitHub Repo URL] |
| Participant 2 | [Deployed App URL] | [GitHub Repo URL] |
| Participant 3 | [Deployed App URL] | [GitHub Repo URL] |
Acknowledgements 👏
Thank you for participating! We look forward to seeing your innovative enhancements and deployments of the Secure-Pass-Sentinel project.