Security Validation

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Summary

Introduce a security validation layer to the Health Engine that continuously verifies ReactEdge features and their surrounding platform meet a minimum security baseline.

The goal is not to replace security platforms, but to integrate with established security standards and validation tools to provide continuous health assessment.

Objectives

• Validate project dependencies for known vulnerabilities.
• Detect security regressions during deployment.
• Produce a structured security health report.
• Record validation results using OpenTelemetry.
• Identify security issues requiring remediation.
• Integrate with existing security tools and standards where possible instead of implementing custom security validation.

Validation

Examples include:

• Dependency vulnerability audit.
• Outdated packages.
• Known CVEs.
• Security header validation.
• TLS configuration.
• Content Security Policy (CSP).
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).
• Cookie security attributes.
• Public endpoint validation.
• API security assessment.

Observability

Record security validation as part of the Health Engine, including:

• Components validated.
• Security score.
• Number of issues detected.
• Severity of findings.
• Validation timestamp.

Future Enhancements

• Integration with OWASP security tooling.
• Integration with dependency vulnerability scanners.
• Continuous security monitoring.
• Security policy validation.
• Automatic security remediation suggestions.
• Configurable security policies.

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Implementation Notes

The Health Engine is not intended to implement security validation itself.

Instead, it should orchestrate existing security capabilities through a pluggable architecture.

The table below captures candidate integrations that should be investigated as the project evolves.

Validation	Candidate Systems	Notes
Dependency vulnerabilities	npm audit, Composer audit	Basic validation during deployment.
Known CVEs	GitHub Dependabot, Snyk	Consume existing vulnerability databases.
Container security	Trivy	Validate deployment artefacts.
HTTP Security	OWASP ZAP	Validate runtime configuration.
CSP / CORS	OWASP tools	Detect insecure browser configuration.
Security standards	OWASP	Investigate interoperability opportunities.

This table is intentionally non-prescriptive and should evolve as additional security providers and standards are identified.