Talk that Prof. Mustaque Ahamad from GaTech gave at Global Cybersecurity Leaders Program http://www.cisoacademy.com/gclp2-prof-mustaque-ahamad-april-2015/
Talk that Prof. Mustaque Ahamad from GaTech gave at Global Cybersecurity Leaders Program http://www.cisoacademy.com/gclp2-prof-mustaque-ahamad-april-2015/
Science of Security: Cyber Ecosystem Attack Analysis MethodologyShawn Riley
Shawn Riley presented on the science of security and cyber intelligence analysis. He discussed analyzing the cyber attack lifecycle using the cyber ecosystem model, which views cybersecurity as an interacting system of people, processes, and technology. Riley's threat intelligence method uses the OODA loop to observe attacks, orient on threat actors, decide on indicators, and act by disseminating intelligence reports. His active defense method applies the PDCA cycle to plan defenses based on intelligence, implement countermeasures, check their effectiveness, and provide feedback to improve security over time.
Cyber Resilience presented at the Malta Association of Risk Management (MARM) Cybercrime Seminar of 24 June 2013 by Mr Donald Tabone. Mr Tabone, Associate Director and Head of Information Protection and Business Resilience Services at KPMG Malta, presented a six-point action plan corporate entities can follow in order to reach a sustainable level of cyber resilience.
The digital age provides all organisations with opportunities to grow and innovate. But it also brings a new world of risk, especially to our most precious information. The information that’s critical to our future success. All organisations are at risk and cyber resilience is no longer a ‘nice to have’. But many organizations continue to struggle to define what good cyber resilience looks like.
Good starts with a strategy. A strategy built around your business objectives and knowing what the cyber risks are to those objectives. It’s about having the right people, skills, awareness and culture to deliver the strategy. It’s also about understanding that you will never be bullet-proof – to support your prevention and detection activities it’s now as important to know how you will effectively respond and recover to a cyber-attack.
In June 2015 AXELOS Global Best Practice are launching a new Cyber Resilience Best Practice portfolio. This webinar with Nick Wilding, Head of Cyber Resilience at AXELOS, outlines:
- what cyber resilience is and why it is so important to any organisation;
- why all of us are on the cyber front line and how we all have a role to play;
- why cyber resilience best practice is so vital to help define and manage what good looks like in your organisation;
- how you can get involved in the development and launch of this exciting new initiative from AXELOS.
As attacks have become more sophisticated, the need for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) has grown to address challenges like botnets, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The presentation discusses best practices for creating a CSIRT, including obtaining management support, determining a strategic plan, designing a vision, implementation, and evaluating effectiveness. It also covers Security Operations Centers (SOCs), their mission to prevent, monitor, detect, respond to, and report on cybersecurity incidents, and best practices for establishing an SOC.
This document discusses the Honeynet Project and cyber security governance frameworks. It provides an overview of Honeynet, a non-profit focused on computer security research. It then discusses the importance of cyber security governance and introduces the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The framework consists of five functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover), categories within each function, and implementation tiers that describe an organization's cybersecurity risk management practices. The document emphasizes that effective cyber security requires leadership and continuous risk management to address evolving threats.
Talk that Prof. Mustaque Ahamad from GaTech gave at Global Cybersecurity Leaders Program http://www.cisoacademy.com/gclp2-prof-mustaque-ahamad-april-2015/
Science of Security: Cyber Ecosystem Attack Analysis MethodologyShawn Riley
Shawn Riley presented on the science of security and cyber intelligence analysis. He discussed analyzing the cyber attack lifecycle using the cyber ecosystem model, which views cybersecurity as an interacting system of people, processes, and technology. Riley's threat intelligence method uses the OODA loop to observe attacks, orient on threat actors, decide on indicators, and act by disseminating intelligence reports. His active defense method applies the PDCA cycle to plan defenses based on intelligence, implement countermeasures, check their effectiveness, and provide feedback to improve security over time.
Cyber Resilience presented at the Malta Association of Risk Management (MARM) Cybercrime Seminar of 24 June 2013 by Mr Donald Tabone. Mr Tabone, Associate Director and Head of Information Protection and Business Resilience Services at KPMG Malta, presented a six-point action plan corporate entities can follow in order to reach a sustainable level of cyber resilience.
The digital age provides all organisations with opportunities to grow and innovate. But it also brings a new world of risk, especially to our most precious information. The information that’s critical to our future success. All organisations are at risk and cyber resilience is no longer a ‘nice to have’. But many organizations continue to struggle to define what good cyber resilience looks like.
Good starts with a strategy. A strategy built around your business objectives and knowing what the cyber risks are to those objectives. It’s about having the right people, skills, awareness and culture to deliver the strategy. It’s also about understanding that you will never be bullet-proof – to support your prevention and detection activities it’s now as important to know how you will effectively respond and recover to a cyber-attack.
In June 2015 AXELOS Global Best Practice are launching a new Cyber Resilience Best Practice portfolio. This webinar with Nick Wilding, Head of Cyber Resilience at AXELOS, outlines:
- what cyber resilience is and why it is so important to any organisation;
- why all of us are on the cyber front line and how we all have a role to play;
- why cyber resilience best practice is so vital to help define and manage what good looks like in your organisation;
- how you can get involved in the development and launch of this exciting new initiative from AXELOS.
As attacks have become more sophisticated, the need for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) has grown to address challenges like botnets, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The presentation discusses best practices for creating a CSIRT, including obtaining management support, determining a strategic plan, designing a vision, implementation, and evaluating effectiveness. It also covers Security Operations Centers (SOCs), their mission to prevent, monitor, detect, respond to, and report on cybersecurity incidents, and best practices for establishing an SOC.
This document discusses the Honeynet Project and cyber security governance frameworks. It provides an overview of Honeynet, a non-profit focused on computer security research. It then discusses the importance of cyber security governance and introduces the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The framework consists of five functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover), categories within each function, and implementation tiers that describe an organization's cybersecurity risk management practices. The document emphasizes that effective cyber security requires leadership and continuous risk management to address evolving threats.
Dealing with Information Security, Risk Management & Cyber ResilienceDonald Tabone
The document discusses approaches to information security, risk management, and cyber resilience. It recommends taking a three-pronged approach to information security that includes awareness, technical controls, and periodic reviews. It also suggests adopting a framework for cyber risk management that is appropriate for the organization's needs and risk appetite. Finally, it outlines six key points to achieving cyber resilience: organizational readiness, situational awareness, detection, cyber defense, mitigation and containment, and recovery.
Some 2.4 billion global Internet users—34 percent of
the world’s population—spend increasing amounts
of time online.1 As our online activity expands,
it isn’t just creating new ways to do business. It’s
revolutionizing business. However, like any mass
movement with significant ramifications, the
Internet-enabled life has risks as well as benefits.
Some are willing to accept those risks without much
consideration. Others want to take the time for a
more contemplative response, but events are moving
too quickly for long debate. What we really need is
a Call to Action that addresses the risks demanding
urgent attention.
To balance the benefits of the digital life,
management needs to understand and grapple
with four equally powerful forces:
Democratization – The way customers insist
on interacting via the channels they prefer,
rather than the channels the organization
imposes.
Consumerization – The impact of the many
devices and applications that span work and
play in our digital lives.
Externalization – The ways in which cloud
computing slashes capital expenditure and
shakes up how data moves in and out of
organizations.
Digitization – The exponential connectivity
created when sensors and devices form the
“Internet of Things.” These forces interact in ways
that make eradicating Cyber Risk impossible;
eliminating it in one area simply shifts it to the
others.
However, by following best practices, it is possible
to reduce your organization’s exposure to Cyber
Risk across the board. By addressing the real and
growing risks we face as individuals, businesses, and
governments, we can begin to create an optimal
environment of Cyber Resilience. This Manifesto sets
out a road map for that process.
The Journey to Cyber Resilience in a World of Fear, Uncertainty and DoubtJohn D. Johnson
This presentation was given at CampIT. It motivated the need for a high level of maturity of the enterprise security program, by striving for cyber resiliency.
This document discusses the need for a new approach to cyber security given the growing number of devices, data, and connections that need protection. It proposes using big data analytics to collect security information from across an organization's network, devices, and servers to detect anomalies and indicators of compromise. By correlating this enterprise-wide data and applying intelligence from multiple customers, it aims to gain an asymmetric advantage over attackers. The approach also involves making security easier for the growing number of mobile and IoT devices by focusing protection on apps and data through containerization and reputation services to secure connections. Finally, it argues for moving past passwords to single biometric authentication and brokered trust models.
With more than 50,000 new malware created every day organisations can no longer afford to risk the financial and reputational impacts of a security or data breach, which can be too much for a business to recover from. Because of this, IT managers face increasing scrutiny and pressure from CEOs, managing directors and boards to prove that they are keeping the organisation secure.
The changing threat landscape means organisations need to be vigilant and smarter about security. While businesses still face threats from infected devices and malware, attackers have also moved beyond that. For example, there is an increasing number of targeted email attacks with cyber criminals spending time to monitor communications so they can imitate emails that are so sophisticated that even relatively savvy users will open them.
This webinar will explore the building blocks required to ensure you have the roadmap required to best protection against cyber attacks. We will provide you with a high level view of the following topics:
· Audit and discovery – What are your weaknesses and are you compliant?
· Education – Do your employees know when not to open that attachment?
· Policy – Do you have the right policies for your industry?
· Technology – Where to start and what has changed?
This document discusses cyber resilience and provides guidance on developing a cyber resilience strategy. It defines cyber resilience as an organization's ability to continue operations despite adverse cyber events. The document recommends that organizations implement the five pillars of cyber resilience: prepare/identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. For each pillar, it provides examples of specific activities organizations can undertake such as conducting risk assessments, implementing security controls, establishing incident response plans, and developing disaster recovery processes. The overall message is that cyber resilience requires a strategic, comprehensive approach across people, processes, and technologies to withstand various cyber threats.
The document discusses cybersecurity incident response and preparation. It notes that two-thirds of surveyed executives ranked cybersecurity as a top risk, but only 19% expressed high confidence in their ability to respond to an incident. It then discusses defining incidents, typical attack timelines, preparing a response team and plan, minimizing impact during an incident through best practices, and conducting recovery preparations through training exercises.
1) Risk assessment is the foundation of any security program and can help organizations avoid significant fines and penalties in the event of a data breach or audit findings.
2) A risk analysis involves identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and risks; assessing current security measures; determining the likelihood and impact of risks; and identifying security measures to address risks.
3) Tools and frameworks like NIST, HIPAA, OCTAVE, and those from CompTIA, DHS, and HHS can help organizations conduct thorough and effective risk analyses.
Ted Gruenloh, Director of Operations, ECONET
The Role of Threat Intelligence and Layered Security for Intrusion Prevention
The term 'Threat Intelligence' is getting a lot of buzz these days, but what does it mean? And, more importantly, how can it help protect your network? In this presentation, we will attempt to answer these questions within the context of a layered security approach that integrates Threat Intelligence with existing security methodologies. We also attempt to demonstrate how Threat Intelligence can improve a network's defenses at the perimeter and allow administrators to gain more visibility on the inside.
Mitigating Risk from Cyber Security AttacksTripwire
This document discusses strategies for mitigating risks from cyber security attacks. Traditional security controls like firewalls and antivirus software are ineffective against targeted attacks. To combat cyber threats, organizations must define a security baseline and monitor for any changes, detect abnormalities as early as possible to minimize damage, and implement automated solutions along with security processes and expertise, as manual auditing alone is not scalable for most organizations. Continuous monitoring that identifies and correlates changes can help quickly detect breaches and threats while providing intelligence to security teams.
The document provides an introduction to setting up a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). It discusses the history of CERTs and internet security incidents. The document outlines the key components of establishing a CSIRT, including developing an overall strategy, business plan, operational procedures, training, and project plan. It also covers defining the CSIRT's services, organizational structure, and information security policies. The goal is to provide guidance on effectively planning and implementing a CSIRT to respond to cybersecurity incidents.
DHS Cybersecurity Services for Building Cyber ResilienceDawn Yankeelov
DHS Cybersecurity Analyst details the US Department of Homeland Security Services for all businesses to build cyber resilience at the Technology Association of Louisville's CyberSecurity Summit on June 14, 2019.
Ponemon Report: Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we th...Lancope, Inc.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted by Ponemon Institute on the state of cyber incident response programs. Some key findings from the survey include: organizations are ill-prepared to respond to cyber threats, cybersecurity budgets dedicate a low percentage to incident response preparedness, and network audit trails are seen as the most effective tool for detecting security breaches. The document recommends that organizations build dedicated incident response teams, assess team readiness, use metrics to measure effectiveness, and foster information sharing.
1. MyCERT was established in 1997 as Malaysia's national computer emergency response team to handle cybersecurity incidents and coordinate responses.
2. It launched the Cyber999 service in 2008 to provide a central reporting point for all cyber incidents.
3. MyCERT operates the Malware Research Centre, set up in 2009, to analyze malware samples and issue advisories to improve the country's cyber defenses.
PwC industry expert, Josh McKibben, helps us break down what a breach is truly comprised of, analyze key breaches as examples, and look for lessons you can bring back to your organization to avoid being the next headline.
Meet Me in the Middle: Threat Indications and Warning in Principle and PracticeDragos, Inc.
From #CTISUMMIT.
More info here: https://dragos.com/blog/industry-news/meet-me-in-the-middle-threat-indications-and-warning-in-principle-and-practice/
Video here: https://youtu.be/79RdB3aj2vA
Discussions on threat intelligence often get bogged down between “machine speed” ingestion of atomic indicators and in-depth analysis of activity taking weeks (or months) to produce. Left in the cold in such debates is a very important but seldom considered middle ground: time-sensitive and incomplete but enriched threat intelligence. In the U.S. Navy and similar services, this is referred to as threat “indications and warning” (I&W) – a step beyond a simple observable refined to ensure accuracy and timely receipt.
The goal of I&W is to get actionable, important information to those in need of it most as quickly, efficiently, and accurately as possible, even if as a result some context or other insights are lost. As a result of this activity, consumers are better armed and equipped to deal with and counter threats as they emerge, rather than either reacting to items with no context whatsoever or only reading about their challenges weeks after the fact in a complete intelligence report. This discussion explores the concept of threat I&W within the context of network security generally and threat intelligence specifically to identify this topic as a shamefully ignored middle ground between extremes. The presentation explores the conceptual background behind this idea, then transition to real-life examples of I&W drawn from the speaker’s past activity in threat intelligence, incident response, and military operations.
Cyber Security Landscape: Changes, Threats and Challenges Bloxx
- Bloxx is a cyber security company that provides content filtering and protection solutions using patented Tru-View technology.
- The cyber security landscape has changed significantly, with security breaches increasing in both scale and cost while organizations decrease security spending. Insider threats and BYOD policies pose challenges.
- Adopting a comprehensive security approach including awareness training, robust policies, and the right tools is important given the "not if but when" reality of breaches. Moving operations to the cloud also requires careful planning and security measures.
- Bloxx offers solutions to help organizations securely enable flexibility and mobility through real-time filtering, encryption, authentication, and centralized management across hardware, virtual, and cloud deployments.
This document provides guidelines for organizations to prevent and respond to ransomware attacks. It recommends joining an information sharing organization and engaging with CISA to receive critical threat information and services. The document includes best practices for ransomware prevention, such as regularly backing up data offline, maintaining system images, patching software, securing remote access, and conducting phishing awareness training. It also provides tips to address infection vectors like internet-facing vulnerabilities, phishing emails, and precursor malware infections.
This document discusses a potential cybersecurity assessment for a customer by a SAM and cloud partner. It provides an overview of what a cybersecurity assessment entails and the benefits it could provide to both partners and customers. For partners, it is an opportunity to strengthen relationships with customers and discuss additional cloud and software opportunities. For customers, an assessment establishes good security practices, prepares their environment to respond to threats, and helps minimize cyber risks and their related costs. The document then outlines UnifyCloud's tools and services that can help customers assess, remediate, and monitor their environment as they migrate workloads to the cloud with Microsoft solutions like Office 365 and Azure.
Dealing with Information Security, Risk Management & Cyber ResilienceDonald Tabone
The document discusses approaches to information security, risk management, and cyber resilience. It recommends taking a three-pronged approach to information security that includes awareness, technical controls, and periodic reviews. It also suggests adopting a framework for cyber risk management that is appropriate for the organization's needs and risk appetite. Finally, it outlines six key points to achieving cyber resilience: organizational readiness, situational awareness, detection, cyber defense, mitigation and containment, and recovery.
Some 2.4 billion global Internet users—34 percent of
the world’s population—spend increasing amounts
of time online.1 As our online activity expands,
it isn’t just creating new ways to do business. It’s
revolutionizing business. However, like any mass
movement with significant ramifications, the
Internet-enabled life has risks as well as benefits.
Some are willing to accept those risks without much
consideration. Others want to take the time for a
more contemplative response, but events are moving
too quickly for long debate. What we really need is
a Call to Action that addresses the risks demanding
urgent attention.
To balance the benefits of the digital life,
management needs to understand and grapple
with four equally powerful forces:
Democratization – The way customers insist
on interacting via the channels they prefer,
rather than the channels the organization
imposes.
Consumerization – The impact of the many
devices and applications that span work and
play in our digital lives.
Externalization – The ways in which cloud
computing slashes capital expenditure and
shakes up how data moves in and out of
organizations.
Digitization – The exponential connectivity
created when sensors and devices form the
“Internet of Things.” These forces interact in ways
that make eradicating Cyber Risk impossible;
eliminating it in one area simply shifts it to the
others.
However, by following best practices, it is possible
to reduce your organization’s exposure to Cyber
Risk across the board. By addressing the real and
growing risks we face as individuals, businesses, and
governments, we can begin to create an optimal
environment of Cyber Resilience. This Manifesto sets
out a road map for that process.
The Journey to Cyber Resilience in a World of Fear, Uncertainty and DoubtJohn D. Johnson
This presentation was given at CampIT. It motivated the need for a high level of maturity of the enterprise security program, by striving for cyber resiliency.
This document discusses the need for a new approach to cyber security given the growing number of devices, data, and connections that need protection. It proposes using big data analytics to collect security information from across an organization's network, devices, and servers to detect anomalies and indicators of compromise. By correlating this enterprise-wide data and applying intelligence from multiple customers, it aims to gain an asymmetric advantage over attackers. The approach also involves making security easier for the growing number of mobile and IoT devices by focusing protection on apps and data through containerization and reputation services to secure connections. Finally, it argues for moving past passwords to single biometric authentication and brokered trust models.
With more than 50,000 new malware created every day organisations can no longer afford to risk the financial and reputational impacts of a security or data breach, which can be too much for a business to recover from. Because of this, IT managers face increasing scrutiny and pressure from CEOs, managing directors and boards to prove that they are keeping the organisation secure.
The changing threat landscape means organisations need to be vigilant and smarter about security. While businesses still face threats from infected devices and malware, attackers have also moved beyond that. For example, there is an increasing number of targeted email attacks with cyber criminals spending time to monitor communications so they can imitate emails that are so sophisticated that even relatively savvy users will open them.
This webinar will explore the building blocks required to ensure you have the roadmap required to best protection against cyber attacks. We will provide you with a high level view of the following topics:
· Audit and discovery – What are your weaknesses and are you compliant?
· Education – Do your employees know when not to open that attachment?
· Policy – Do you have the right policies for your industry?
· Technology – Where to start and what has changed?
This document discusses cyber resilience and provides guidance on developing a cyber resilience strategy. It defines cyber resilience as an organization's ability to continue operations despite adverse cyber events. The document recommends that organizations implement the five pillars of cyber resilience: prepare/identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. For each pillar, it provides examples of specific activities organizations can undertake such as conducting risk assessments, implementing security controls, establishing incident response plans, and developing disaster recovery processes. The overall message is that cyber resilience requires a strategic, comprehensive approach across people, processes, and technologies to withstand various cyber threats.
The document discusses cybersecurity incident response and preparation. It notes that two-thirds of surveyed executives ranked cybersecurity as a top risk, but only 19% expressed high confidence in their ability to respond to an incident. It then discusses defining incidents, typical attack timelines, preparing a response team and plan, minimizing impact during an incident through best practices, and conducting recovery preparations through training exercises.
1) Risk assessment is the foundation of any security program and can help organizations avoid significant fines and penalties in the event of a data breach or audit findings.
2) A risk analysis involves identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and risks; assessing current security measures; determining the likelihood and impact of risks; and identifying security measures to address risks.
3) Tools and frameworks like NIST, HIPAA, OCTAVE, and those from CompTIA, DHS, and HHS can help organizations conduct thorough and effective risk analyses.
Ted Gruenloh, Director of Operations, ECONET
The Role of Threat Intelligence and Layered Security for Intrusion Prevention
The term 'Threat Intelligence' is getting a lot of buzz these days, but what does it mean? And, more importantly, how can it help protect your network? In this presentation, we will attempt to answer these questions within the context of a layered security approach that integrates Threat Intelligence with existing security methodologies. We also attempt to demonstrate how Threat Intelligence can improve a network's defenses at the perimeter and allow administrators to gain more visibility on the inside.
Mitigating Risk from Cyber Security AttacksTripwire
This document discusses strategies for mitigating risks from cyber security attacks. Traditional security controls like firewalls and antivirus software are ineffective against targeted attacks. To combat cyber threats, organizations must define a security baseline and monitor for any changes, detect abnormalities as early as possible to minimize damage, and implement automated solutions along with security processes and expertise, as manual auditing alone is not scalable for most organizations. Continuous monitoring that identifies and correlates changes can help quickly detect breaches and threats while providing intelligence to security teams.
The document provides an introduction to setting up a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). It discusses the history of CERTs and internet security incidents. The document outlines the key components of establishing a CSIRT, including developing an overall strategy, business plan, operational procedures, training, and project plan. It also covers defining the CSIRT's services, organizational structure, and information security policies. The goal is to provide guidance on effectively planning and implementing a CSIRT to respond to cybersecurity incidents.
DHS Cybersecurity Services for Building Cyber ResilienceDawn Yankeelov
DHS Cybersecurity Analyst details the US Department of Homeland Security Services for all businesses to build cyber resilience at the Technology Association of Louisville's CyberSecurity Summit on June 14, 2019.
Ponemon Report: Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we th...Lancope, Inc.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted by Ponemon Institute on the state of cyber incident response programs. Some key findings from the survey include: organizations are ill-prepared to respond to cyber threats, cybersecurity budgets dedicate a low percentage to incident response preparedness, and network audit trails are seen as the most effective tool for detecting security breaches. The document recommends that organizations build dedicated incident response teams, assess team readiness, use metrics to measure effectiveness, and foster information sharing.
1. MyCERT was established in 1997 as Malaysia's national computer emergency response team to handle cybersecurity incidents and coordinate responses.
2. It launched the Cyber999 service in 2008 to provide a central reporting point for all cyber incidents.
3. MyCERT operates the Malware Research Centre, set up in 2009, to analyze malware samples and issue advisories to improve the country's cyber defenses.
PwC industry expert, Josh McKibben, helps us break down what a breach is truly comprised of, analyze key breaches as examples, and look for lessons you can bring back to your organization to avoid being the next headline.
Meet Me in the Middle: Threat Indications and Warning in Principle and PracticeDragos, Inc.
From #CTISUMMIT.
More info here: https://dragos.com/blog/industry-news/meet-me-in-the-middle-threat-indications-and-warning-in-principle-and-practice/
Video here: https://youtu.be/79RdB3aj2vA
Discussions on threat intelligence often get bogged down between “machine speed” ingestion of atomic indicators and in-depth analysis of activity taking weeks (or months) to produce. Left in the cold in such debates is a very important but seldom considered middle ground: time-sensitive and incomplete but enriched threat intelligence. In the U.S. Navy and similar services, this is referred to as threat “indications and warning” (I&W) – a step beyond a simple observable refined to ensure accuracy and timely receipt.
The goal of I&W is to get actionable, important information to those in need of it most as quickly, efficiently, and accurately as possible, even if as a result some context or other insights are lost. As a result of this activity, consumers are better armed and equipped to deal with and counter threats as they emerge, rather than either reacting to items with no context whatsoever or only reading about their challenges weeks after the fact in a complete intelligence report. This discussion explores the concept of threat I&W within the context of network security generally and threat intelligence specifically to identify this topic as a shamefully ignored middle ground between extremes. The presentation explores the conceptual background behind this idea, then transition to real-life examples of I&W drawn from the speaker’s past activity in threat intelligence, incident response, and military operations.
Cyber Security Landscape: Changes, Threats and Challenges Bloxx
- Bloxx is a cyber security company that provides content filtering and protection solutions using patented Tru-View technology.
- The cyber security landscape has changed significantly, with security breaches increasing in both scale and cost while organizations decrease security spending. Insider threats and BYOD policies pose challenges.
- Adopting a comprehensive security approach including awareness training, robust policies, and the right tools is important given the "not if but when" reality of breaches. Moving operations to the cloud also requires careful planning and security measures.
- Bloxx offers solutions to help organizations securely enable flexibility and mobility through real-time filtering, encryption, authentication, and centralized management across hardware, virtual, and cloud deployments.
This document provides guidelines for organizations to prevent and respond to ransomware attacks. It recommends joining an information sharing organization and engaging with CISA to receive critical threat information and services. The document includes best practices for ransomware prevention, such as regularly backing up data offline, maintaining system images, patching software, securing remote access, and conducting phishing awareness training. It also provides tips to address infection vectors like internet-facing vulnerabilities, phishing emails, and precursor malware infections.
This document discusses a potential cybersecurity assessment for a customer by a SAM and cloud partner. It provides an overview of what a cybersecurity assessment entails and the benefits it could provide to both partners and customers. For partners, it is an opportunity to strengthen relationships with customers and discuss additional cloud and software opportunities. For customers, an assessment establishes good security practices, prepares their environment to respond to threats, and helps minimize cyber risks and their related costs. The document then outlines UnifyCloud's tools and services that can help customers assess, remediate, and monitor their environment as they migrate workloads to the cloud with Microsoft solutions like Office 365 and Azure.
The CISO Problems Risk Compliance Management in a Software Development 030420...lior mazor
Join us virtually for our upcoming meetup to learn:
- Why adopt a fresh approach and redefine how you view critical risks within your software supply chain?
- How can we deal with the paradox of enhancing protection for expanding attack surfaces and the dynamic nature of threat actors, especially in the world of the Generative Code AI amidst budget constraints?
Information Technology Security BasicsMohan Jadhav
The document discusses various topics related to IT security basics. It begins by providing two examples of security breaches to illustrate why security is important. It then discusses the four virtues of security and the nine rules of security. The document also defines information security, its goal of ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, and the potential impacts of security failures. Additionally, it outlines common security definitions, 10 security domains, and provides an overview of access control and application security.
Cyber Threat Intelligence is a process in which information from different sources is collected, then analyzed to identify and detect threats against any environment. The information collected could be evidence-based knowledge that could support the context, mechanism, indicators, or implications about an already existing threat against an environment, and/or the knowledge about an upcoming threat that could potentially affect the environment. Credit: Marlabs Inc
Cyber Defense - How to be prepared to APTSimone Onofri
This document provides an overview of a presentation on cyber defense and cyber attack simulations. It begins with an agenda and introductions. It then discusses the evolving threats landscape, with attacks increasing in scale, scope and sophistication. It outlines the cyber attack simulation methodology, including researching the target, infiltrating networks, establishing footholds, moving laterally and exfiltrating data. It describes three scenario examples - a web attack, phishing email, and exploiting physical access. Each scenario provides the rules of engagement, attack overview and lessons learned. It concludes with quotes emphasizing the importance of preparation and deception in warfare.
Cyber-Espionage: Understanding the Advanced Threat LandscapeAaron White
Sophisticated cyber espionage operations currently present the biggest threat to small and medium sized businesses. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) ranging from nation-states to organized crime use zero-day exploits, customized malware, and social engineering to infiltrate networks, remain undetected for long periods, and steal valuable data. This presentation aims to explain APT attacks and provide recommendations on prevention, detection, and mitigation. It describes the typical four stages of an APT attack - reconnaissance, intrusion and infection, lateral movement within the network, and data exfiltration - and challenges of implementing security information and event management systems to detect such threats. Managed security services that provide 24/7 monitoring, threat analysis and response
Presentacion realizada en Argentina y Paraguay Durante Marzo 2014.
En Argentina por Faustino Sanchez. En Paraguay por Santiago Cavanna.
Trata sobre el problema de la presencia de vulnerabilidades en aplicaciones, el impacto que tiene en las organizaciones y la forma que se encuentra disponible para descubrirlas en forma temprana y facilitar su remediacion
Links disponibles en
http://www.santiagocavanna.com/segurinfo-2014-el-costo-oculto-de-las-aplicaciones-vulnerables/
You have spent a ton of money on your security infrastructure. But how do you string all those things together so you can achieve your goals of reducing time to response, detecting, preventing threats. And most importantly, having your security team serve your business and mission. Learn how to organize your security resources to get the best benefit. See a live demonstration of operationalizing those resources so your security teams can do more for your organization.
Company Introduction provides an overview of Security On-Demand's focus on dynamic threat detection using machine learning and analytics to find threats that cannot be detected through static means. The document outlines the challenges of shrinking detection windows and increasingly dynamic attacks like ransomware. It also summarizes Security On-Demand's AQ technology which uses unsupervised machine learning and rough set theory to analyze all available data and detect unknown threats that evade traditional security solutions.
The document discusses the McAfee Network Security Platform (NSP), an intrusion prevention system. The NSP uses techniques like stateful traffic inspection, signature detection, anomaly detection, and advanced malware detection to protect networks from attacks. It can detect threats inside and outside the network and respond according to security policies. The NSP consists of sensors deployed at key points in the network and a manager to configure and manage the sensors.
Evolving technologies and business models have led to advanced network security threats that never existed a few years back. Moreover, enterprises are also relying on outdated security solutions to shut out such threats and this is leading to bigger and frequent data breaches. So if your company recognizes the need for a reliable IT security solution, then you should join our webinar to learn the following:
- An overview of the prevalent enterprise security threats
- The evolving security landscape and the obsolete security mechanisms
- What Seqrite does to ensure enterprise security and network compliance
Guide to high volume data sources for SIEMJoseph DeFever
The document discusses the need for security teams to have access to more data from a variety of sources to address evolving security challenges. As adversaries become more motivated by lucrative opportunities and employ more evasive and patient attack methods, security teams need more context from diverse data sources to identify unknown threats, investigate long dwell times, and combat evasion techniques. Both basic attacks exploiting misconfigurations and advanced attacks require security teams to maintain visibility across on-premises and cloud environments and access security-relevant data for detections, investigations, and responses. High-profile examples that illustrate the need for more data include cloud-based data breaches, sophisticated supply chain attacks, and evolving ICS/SCADA and IoT attacks.
Looking to understand how hackers and other attackers use cyber technology to attack your network and your executives? This slide set provides an overview and details the anatomy of a cyber attack, and the strategies you can use to manage and mitigate risk.
The document discusses upcoming security challenges for the Internet of Things (IoT) and introduces Warden, an autonomous security solution developed by Delve Labs. Current security strategies are insufficient for IoT due to a shortage of security professionals and incomplete asset visibility. Warden uses artificial intelligence to autonomously perform continuous vulnerability assessments without human supervision, scaling to cover all IoT assets. It aims to mimic expert methodology while reducing false positives through deep learning. Warden generates data to help prioritize issues and integrate with other tools via APIs.
The document describes the Blueliv cyber threat intelligence platform. It detects cyber threats from outside an organization's network by monitoring the open, dark and deep web for stolen credentials, compromised credit cards, infected devices, rogue apps, leaked documents and phishing sites targeting the organization. The platform provides threat intelligence and monitoring from a single dashboard, reduces response times for incidents, and is easy to deploy and use. It collects data from multiple sources, processes and enriches it, and delivers targeted and actionable intelligence to help organizations protect their networks, data and brands from external cyber threats.
The document describes the Blueliv cyber threat intelligence platform. It detects cyber threats from outside an organization's network by monitoring the open, dark and deep web for stolen credentials, compromised credit cards, infected devices, rogue apps, leaked documents and phishing sites targeting a company. The platform provides threat intelligence and monitoring from a single dashboard. It uses algorithms to deliver actionable threat data from various sources to help identify real threats and manage incident response. The solution aims to help organizations detect and respond to cyber threats faster and more effectively.
Insight Brief: Security Analytics to Identify the 12 Indicators of Compromise21CT Inc.
In this security insight brief, 21CT researchers look at the malicious network behaviors that concern organizations the most, and how to use security analytics to find them before damage is done. Understanding these 12 indicators of compromise are critical to identifying a network breach.
With cybercrime (like denial of service, malware, phishing, and SQL injection) looming large in our digitized world, penetration testing - and code and application level security testing (SAST and DAST) - are essential for organizations to identify security loopholes in applications and beyond. We provide a guide to the salient standards and techniques for full-spectrum testing to safeguard your data - and reputation.
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Today, more than two hundred Online Social Networks (OSNs) exist where each OSN extends to offer distinct services to its users such as eased access to news or better business opportunities. To enjoy each distinct service, a user innocuously registers herself on multiple OSNs. For each OSN, she defines her identity with a different set of attributes, genre of content and friends to suit the purpose of using that OSN. Thus, the quality, quantity and veracity of the identity varies with the OSN. This results in dissimilar identities of the same user, scattered across Internet, with no explicit links directing to one another. These disparate unlinked identities worry various stakeholders. For instance, security practitioners find it difficult to verify attributes across unlinked identities; enterprises fail to create a holistic overview of their customers.
Research that finds and links disconnected identities of a user across OSNs is termed as identity resolution. Accessibility to unique and private attributes of a user like ‘email’ makes the task trivial, however in absence of such attributes, identity resolution is challenging. In this dissertation, we make an effort to leverage intelligent cues and patterns extracted from partially overlapping list of public attributes of compared identities. These patterns emerge due to consistent user behavior like sharing same mobile number, content or profile picture across OSNs. Translating these patterns into features, we devise novel heuristic, unsupervised and supervised frameworks to search and link user identities across social networks. Proposed search methods use an exhaustive set of public attributes looking for consistent behavior patterns and fetch correct identity of the searched user in the candidate set for an additional 11% users. An improvement on the proposed search mechanisms further optimizes time and space complexity. Suggested linking method compares past attribute value sets and correctly connect identities of an additional 48% users, earlier missed by literature methods that compare only current values. Evaluations on popular OSNs like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook prove significance and generalizability of the linking method.
Various Open Source Cryptographic Libraries are being used these days to implement the
general purpose cryptographic functions and to provide a secure communication channel over
the internet. These libraries, that implement SSL/TLS, have been targeted by various side
channel attacks in the past that result in leakage of sensitive information flowing over the
network. Side channel attacks rely on inadvertent leakage of information from devices
through observable attributes of online communication. Some of the common side channel
attacks discovered so far rely on packet arrival and departure times (Timing Attacks), power
usage and packet sizes. Our research explores novel side channel attack that relies on CPU
architecture and instruction sets. In this research, we explored such side channel vectors
against popular SSL/TLS implementations which were previously believed to be patched
against padding oracle attacks, like the POODLE attack. We were able to successfully extract
the plaintext bits in the information exchanged using the APIs of two popular SSL/TLS
libraries.
In recent years due to advancement in video and image editing tools
it has become increasingly easy to modify the multimedia content. The
doctored videos are very difficult to identify through visual
examination as artifacts left behind by processing steps are subtle
and cannot be easily captured visually. Therefore, the integrity of
digital videos can no longer be taken for granted and these are not
readily acceptable as a proof-of-evidence in court-of-law. Hence,
identifying the authenticity of videos has become an important field
of information security.
In this thesis work, we present a novel approach to detect and
temporally localize video inpainting forgery based on optical flow
consistency. The proposed algorithm comprises of two stages. In the
first step, we detect if the given video is inpainted or authentic and
in the second step we perform temporal localization. Towards this, we
first compute the optical flow between frames. Further, we analyze the
goodness of fit of chi-square values obtained from optical flow
histograms using a Guassian mixture model. A threshold is then applied
to classify between authentic and inpainted videos. In the next step,
we extract Transition Probability Matrices (TPMs) by modelling the
optical flow as first order Markov process. SVM based classification
is then applied on the obtained TPM features to decide whether a block
of non-overlapping frames is authentic or inpainted thus obtaining
temporal localization. In order to evaluate the robustness of the
proposed algorithm, we perform the experiments against two popular and
efficient inpainting techniques. We test our algorithm on public
datasets like PETS and SULFA. The results show that the approach is
effective against the inpainting techniques. In addition, it detects
and localizes the inpainted frames in a video with high accuracy and
low false positives.
With approximately 250 million Internet users, India stands amongst the top 5 Internet using nations of the world. India’s network space is made up of 789 Autonomous Systems (ASes), that route all the network traffic of India. On the other hand, US has approximately 300 million users, whose traffic is routed over 22K ASes. Thus, a relatively small network routes the traffic of large number of Indian users. Failures and attacks in such networks could impact large number of users. However, being a relatively small number, it becomes easy to generate maps presenting the connectivity of ASes in the networks and the routers that make up the ASes. Such information could be used for various purposes such as diagnosing network failures and attacks, large scale network surveillance and bypassing such surveillance, load balancing,
efficient content distribution and delivery.
We present, a first effort to our knowledge, the topological information of India’s entire Internet space representing the connectivity between all 789 ASes and intra-domain routers. Our research presents information of routers and ASes that transport relatively large fraction of traffic for vital
network installations like popular ISP users, important organizations like financial institutions, educational institutions, research organizations etc.
This document provides an overview of research efforts to identify and analyze malicious content on Facebook. It discusses data collection techniques including snowball sampling and convenient sampling. Identification techniques covered include unsupervised learning via clustering of posts based on message similarity using Markov Clustering, as well as supervised learning. Evaluation metrics discussed are precision, recall, true positives, false negatives, purity, and manual verification. The document also outlines gaps in current research and opportunities.
Programs are susceptible to malformed data coming from untrusted sources. Occasionally the programming logic or constructs used are inappropriate to handle all types of constraints that are imposed by legal and well-formed data. As a result programs produce unexpected results or even worse, they may crash. Program behavior in both of these cases would be highly undesirable.
In this thesis work, we present a novel hybrid approach that saves programs from crashing when the failures originate from malformed strings or inappropriate handling of strings. Our approach statically analyses a program to identify statements that are vulnerable to failures related to associate string data. It then generates patches that are likely to satisfy constraints on the data, and in case of failures produce program behavior which would be close to the expected. The precision of the patches is improved with the help of a dynamic analysis. The patches are activated only after a failure is detected, and the technique incurs no runtime overhead during normal course of execution, and negligible overhead in case of failures.
We have experimented with Java String API, and applied Clotho to several hugely popular open-source libraries to patch 30 bugs, several of them rated either critical or major. Our evaluation shows that Clotho is both practical and effective. The comparison of the patches generated by our technique with the actual patches developed by the programmers in the later versions shows that they are semantically similar.
The document discusses the role and responsibilities of the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) in India. It provides examples of past cyber attacks on critical information infrastructures around the world, such as Stuxnet and Flame malware. It also outlines international efforts to protect critical infrastructure and discusses India's initiatives to enhance information security and protect critical government organizations from cyber attacks.