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Chapter 2 — Instructions: Language of the Computer
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Chapter 2 — Instructions: Language of the Computer
C y b e r A t t a c k s
“Dr. Amoroso’s fi fth book Cyber Attacks: Protecting National
Infrastructure outlines the chal-
lenges of protecting our nation’s infrastructure from cyber
attack using security techniques
established to protect much smaller and less complex
environments. He proposes a brand
new type of national infrastructure protection methodology and
outlines a strategy presented
as a series of ten basic design and operations principles ranging
from deception to response.
The bulk of the text covers each of these principles in technical
detail. While several of these
principles would be daunting to implement and practice they
provide the fi rst clear and con-
cise framework for discussion of this critical challenge. This
text is thought-provoking and
should be a ‘must read’ for anyone concerned with
cybersecurity in the private or government
sector.”
— Clayton W. Naeve, Ph.D. ,
10. Senior Vice President and Chief Information Offi cer,
Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics,
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
Memphis, TN
“Dr. Ed Amoroso reveals in plain English the threats and
weaknesses of our critical infra-
structure balanced against practices that reduce the exposures.
This is an excellent guide
to the understanding of the cyber-scape that the security
professional navigates. The book
takes complex concepts of security and simplifi es it into
coherent and simple to understand
concepts.”
— Arnold Felberbaum ,
Chief IT Security & Compliance Offi cer,
Reed Elsevier
“The national infrastructure, which is now vital to
communication, commerce and entertain-
ment in everyday life, is highly vulnerable to malicious attacks
and terrorist threats. Today, it
is possible for botnets to penetrate millions of computers around
the world in few minutes,
and to attack the valuable national infrastructure.
“As the New York Times reported, the growing number of
threats by botnets suggests that
this cyber security issue has become a serious problem, and we
are losing the war against
these attacks.
11. “While computer security technologies will be useful for
network systems, the reality
tells us that this conventional approach is not effective enough
for the complex, large-scale
national infrastructure.
“Not only does the author provide comprehensive
methodologies based on 25 years of expe-
rience in cyber security at AT&T, but he also suggests ‘security
through obscurity,’ which
attempts to use secrecy to provide security.”
— Byeong Gi Lee ,
President, IEEE Communications Society, and
Commissioner of the Korea Communications Commission
(KCC)
C y b e r A t t a c k s
Protecting National
Infrastructure
Edward G. Amoroso
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21. PREFACE ix
PREFACE
Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was
before,
nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those
rights better secured.
Thomas Paine in Common Sense
Before you invest any of your time with this book, please take
a
moment and look over the following points. They outline my
basic philosophy of national infrastructure security. I think that
your reaction to these points will give you a pretty good idea of
what your reaction will be to the book.
1. Citizens of free nations cannot hope to express or enjoy
their freedoms if basic security protections are not provided.
Security does not suppress freedom—it makes freedom
possible.
2. In virtually every modern nation, computers and
networks
power critical infrastructure elements. As a result, cyber
attackers can use computers and networks to damage or ruin
the infrastructures that citizens rely on.
3. Security protections, such as those in security books,
were
22. designed for small-scale environments such as enterprise
computing environments. These protections do not extrapo-
late to the protection of massively complex infrastructure.
4. Effective national cyber protections will be driven
largely by
cooperation and coordination between commercial, indus-
trial, and government organizations. Thus, organizational
management issues will be as important to national defense
as technical issues.
5. Security is a process of risk reduction, not risk removal.
Therefore, concrete steps can and should be taken to
reduce, but not remove, the risk of cyber attack to national
infrastructure.
6. The current risk of catastrophic cyber attack to national
infra-
structure must be viewed as extremely high, by any realistic
measure. Taking little or no action to reduce this risk would be
a foolish national decision.
The chapters of this book are organized around ten basic
principles that will reduce the risk of cyber attack to national
infrastructure in a substantive manner. They are driven by
x PREFACE
experiences gained managing the security of one of the largest,
most complex infrastructures in the world, by years of learning
from various commercial and government organizations, and by
years of interaction with students and academic researchers in
the security fi eld. They are also driven by personal experiences
dealing with a wide range of successful and unsuccessful cyber
23. attacks, including ones directed at infrastructure of considerable
value. The implementation of the ten principles in this book will
require national resolve and changes to the way computing and
networking elements are designed, built, and operated in the
context of national infrastructure. My hope is that the sugges-
tions offered in these pages will make this process easier.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The cyber security experts in the AT&T Chief Security Offi
ce, my
colleagues across AT&T Labs and the AT&T Chief Technology
Offi ce, my colleagues across the entire AT&T business, and my
graduate and undergraduate students in the Computer Science
Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology, have had
a profound impact on my thinking and on the contents of this
book. In addition, many prominent enterprise customers of
AT&T with whom I’ve had the pleasure of serving, especially
those in the United States Federal Government, have been great
infl uencers in the preparation of this material.
I’d also like to extend a great thanks to my wife Lee, daugh-
ter Stephanie (17), son Matthew (15), and daughter Alicia (9)
for
their collective patience with my busy schedule.
Edward G. Amoroso
Florham Park, NJ
September 2010
25. essential to one nation might include infrastructure support that
is controlled by organizations from another nation. This global
interdependency is consistent with the trends referred to collec-
tively by Thomas Friedman as a “fl at world.” 2
National infrastructure, especially in the United States, has
always been vulnerable to malicious physical attacks such as
equipment tampering, cable cuts, facility bombing, and asset
theft. The events of September 11, 2001, for example, are the
most prominent and recent instance of a massive physical attack
directed at national infrastructure. During the past couple of
decades, however, vast portions of national infrastructure have
become reliant on software, computers, and networks. This reli-
ance typically includes remote access, often over the Internet, to
1
1 E.W. Dijkstra, Selected Writings on Computing: A
Personal Perspective , Springer-Verlag,
New York, 1982, pp. 212–213.
2 T. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the
Twenty-First Century , Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2007. (Friedman provides a
useful economic backdrop to
the global aspect of the cyber attack trends suggested in this
chapter.)
2 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
the systems that control national services. Adversaries thus
can
initiate cyber attacks on infrastructure using worms, viruses,
leaks, and the like. These attacks indirectly target national
infra-
26. structure through their associated automated controls systems
(see Figure 1.1 ).
A seemingly obvious approach to dealing with this national
cyber threat would involve the use of well-known computer
security techniques. After all, computer security has matured
substantially in the past couple of decades, and considerable
expertise now exists on how to protect software, computers, and
networks. In such a national scheme, safeguards such as fi re-
walls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus software,
passwords,
scanners, audit trails, and encryption would be directly embed-
ded into infrastructure, just as they are currently in small-scale
environments. These national security systems would be con-
nected to a centralized threat management system, and inci-
dent response would follow a familiar sort of enterprise process.
Furthermore, to ensure security policy compliance, one would
expect the usual programs of end-user awareness, security train-
ing, and third-party audit to be directed toward the people
build-
ing and operating national infrastructure. Virtually every
national
infrastructure protection initiative proposed to date has
followed
this seemingly straightforward path. 3
While well-known computer security techniques will certainly
be useful for national infrastructure, most practical experience
to date suggests that this conventional approach will not be suf-
fi cient. A primary reason is the size, scale, and scope inherent
in
complex national infrastructure. For example, where an enter-
prise might involve manageably sized assets, national
infrastruc-
ture will require unusually powerful computing support with
the ability to handle enormous volumes of data. Such volumes
28. U.S. White House,
Washington, D.C., 2009 (
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA501541 ).
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 3
will easily exceed the storage and processing capacity of
typical
enterprise security tools such as a commercial threat manage-
ment system. Unfortunately, this incompatibility confl icts with
current initiatives in government and industry to reduce costs
through the use of common commercial off-the-shelf products.
In addition, whereas enterprise systems can rely on manual
intervention by a local expert during a security disaster, large-
scale national infrastructure generally requires a carefully
orches-
trated response by teams of security experts using
predetermined
processes. These teams of experts will often work in different
groups, organizations, or even countries. In the worst cases,
they will cooperate only if forced by government, often sharing
just the minimum amount of information to avoid legal conse-
quences. An additional problem is that the complexity
associated
with national infrastructure leads to the bizarre situation where
response teams often have partial or incorrect understand-
ing about how the underlying systems work. For these reasons,
seemingly convenient attempts to apply existing small-scale
security processes to large-scale infrastructure attacks will ulti-
mately fail (see Figure 1.2 ).
As a result, a brand-new type of national infrastructure protec-
tion methodology is required—one that combines the best ele-
29. ments of existing computer and network security techniques
with
the unique and diffi cult challenges associated with complex,
large-
scale national services. This book offers just such a protection
methodology for national infrastructure. It is based on a quarter
century of practical experience designing, building, and
operating
Small-Scale
Small Volume
Possibly Manual
Local Expert
High
Focused
High Volume
Large-Scale
Process-Based
Distributed Expertise
Partial or Incorrect
Broad
Collection
Emergency
30. Expertise
Knowledge
Analysis
Large-Scale
Attributes
Complicate
Cyber Security
Figure 1.2 Differences between small- and large-scale cyber
security.
National infrastructure
databases far exceed the
size of even the largest
commercial databases.
4 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
cyber security systems for government, commercial, and con-
sumer infrastructure. It is represented as a series of protection
principles that can be applied to new or existing systems.
Because
of the unique needs of national infrastructure, especially its
mas-
sive size, scale, and scope, some aspects of the methodology
will
be unfamiliar to the computer security community. In fact,
certain
elements of the approach, such as our favorable view of
“security
31. through obscurity,” might appear in direct confl ict with
conven-
tional views of how computers and networks should be
protected.
National Cyber Threats, Vulnerabilities,
and Attacks
Conventional computer security is based on the oft-repeated
tax-
onomy of security threats which includes confi dentiality,
integrity,
availability, and theft. In the broadest sense, all four diverse
threat
types will have applicability in national infrastructure. For
example,
protections are required equally to deal with sensitive
information
leaks (confi dentiality ), worms affecting the operation of some
criti-
cal application (integrity), botnets knocking out an important
system
(availability), or citizens having their identities compromised
(theft).
Certainly, the availability threat to national services must be
viewed
as particularly important, given the nature of the threat and its
rela-
tion to national assets. One should thus expect …