The WhiteHat Sentinel Plugin for JIRA®

Select a US, EU, or Other server and enter your API key; click on "Authenticate" to validate your connection. Note that a valid API key must be entered before the plugin can be used.

Next, you will configure your tickets, vulnerability content, and notification settings. You can also configure advanced settings.

Use the radio buttons to indicate whether or not your JIRA® tickets should be automatically reopened or closed your when the status of the vulnerability in the WhiteHat Portal changes.

If you want to add a pre-set comment for any closed or re-opened tickets, check the "Add default comment" box and indicate the text you want to use (or use the default text).

Use the radio buttons to indicate whether you want to see any responses from the Synopsys Threat Research Center, retest status for a vulnerability, or any notes or tags associated with the vulnerability.

Enter a comma-delimited list of the emails that should receive alerts; below that, select when alerts should be received (if the plugin fails to create a JIRA® ticket or if there are issues with the Sentinel API).

If you want to use the advanced configurations, select the "Advanced Configurations" checkbox.

Set Synching Interval (in minutes) allows you to set the interval at which Sentinel and JIRA® will be synched.

Pause Synching for time interval allows you to set one or two daily time intervals during which synching will be paused.

If you select the "Pause syncing for time interval 1" checkbox, you will see the start and end time boxes for the first and, optionally, second period during which you want to pause synchronization.

Each start and end time should be entered in hours (0-23) and minutes (0-59). For instance, to pause synchronization between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. and between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m., your entry should look like this:

Set Maximum Number of Worker Threads allows you to cap the number of API requests that can be in process at once.

Ignore Certification for Sentinel API allows you to ignore any certificates installed on your server.

Set Limit on Total Pages Returned per API Request limits the number of tickets that can be created from a single request.

Set Time Interval Between Ticket Updates allows you to set the minimum interval (in milliseconds) between ticket updates from the Sentinel API.

When you have completed the global configuration process, click on "Save" and then click on "Next" to go to the next section. If you are not confident of your choices, you can also click on "Cancel."

Select the default reporter from the listed users. The default reporter will be listed as the reporter for all the JIRA® tickets created by the plugin.

Next, you can set the default JIRA® assignee for a given asset or group of assets.

Set the default JIRA® assignee for a given asset (site or application) and associated JIRA® project. (Note that this will map these assets to the JIRA® project(s) in question.)

To set default assignees by group rather than asset, select the "Sentinel Groups" radio button. In this case, all assets in a group will be associated to the JIRA® project selected. (Only one Group can be utilized in this way.)

To add additional asset mappings, click on "Add."

Vulnerability ratings for Source (SAST) Vulnerabilities will all automatically use the WhiteHat Advanced Rating Methodology, which is based on OWASP ratings. Vulnerability ratings for Dynamic (DAST) Vulnerabilities may use either the WhiteHat Advanced Rating Methodology or the Legacy Methodology.

For DAST configuration, use the radio buttons to indicate whether you are mapping Legacy Ratings or Advanced Ratings to your JIRA® priorities. (Please see Understanding Your Rating Methodology for more information on ratings.)

The default mapping will associate the most severe rating with the highest JIRA® priority, and run down from there. You can change this mapping using the drop-down lists to the right. If you do not select a given rating mapping, no JIRA® ticket will be created for it.

In the example above, JIRA® tickets will be created for vulnerabilities with any rating; Critical vulnerabilities will receive the highest JIRA® priority, High risk vulnerabilities will receive a JIRA® priority of High, and Medium risk vulnerabilities will receive a JIRA® priority of Medium. Vulns with a rating of "Low" will receive a JIRA® priority of Low, and vulns with a rating of "Note" will receive a JIRA® priority of Lowest.

In addition to limiting what vulnerabilities result in JIRA® tickets based on risk, it is also possible to limit vulnerabilities that will result in JIRA® tickets based on the Sentinel tags associated to the vulnerability. To do this, click on "Add" under "Allow vulnerabilities that have these tags:"

Once you click on "Add," you will see a checkbox for "Remove item" and a text field where you can enter the vuln tag name. Enter one vuln tag name in that text field; if there are other tags that should be used to create JIRA® tickets, click "Add" again to list additional tags. To remove tags, click on the checkbox next to the tag in question.

You can authorize JIRA® groups to view vulnerability content for vulnerabilities discovered via dynamic (DAST) testing, including retest status, tags, and Synopsys Threat Research Center engineers' responses to questions. This information will be made available in the JIRA® ticket under "WhiteHat Sentinel Vulnerability Management."

You can choose to import closed vulnerabilities by checking the
"Import Closed Vulnerabilities" checkbox:

You can also choose to customize the ticket summary, as shown above, and/or the description, as shown below:

To see customization parameters (which can be used in either the summary or the description, or in the JIRA® custom fields in the XML Workflow configuration), check the checkbox next to "See Customization Parameters".

When you have completed the DAST or SAST configuration process, click on "Save" and then click on "Next" to go to the next section. If you are not confident of your choices, you can also click on "Cancel."