There is a serious misalignment of interests between Application Security vulnerability assessment vendors and their customers. Vendors are incentivized to report everything they possible can, even issues that rarely matter. On the other hand, customers just want the vulnerability reports that are likely to get them hacked. Every finding beyond that is a waste of time, money, and energy, which is precisely what’s happening every day.
10 Ways to Guarantee At Data Security Breach in 12-MonthsBlue Trumpet Group
A crippling security incident is really the only way to find holes in your system. So here are 10 ways to ensure a major lapse in data security so you can demonstrate to your manager how vital you are in a crisis.
If you’re the kind professional who insists on preventing a security lapse ahead of time, there are simple solutions and experts that can help.
An exploration of the cyber security market factors that lend to pervasive issues with hyperbole and feelings of broken trust across the various participants. Much is left off the slide & was covered in narrative at a recent OWASP LA meetup, original done for B-Sides LV.
Uncovering Fraud in Key Financial Accounts using Data AnalysisFraudBusters
Webinar series from FraudResourceNet LLC on Preventing and Detecting Fraud Using Data Analytics. Recordings of these Webinars are available for purchase from our Website fraudresourcenet.com
This Webinar focused on fraud detection using data analytic software (Excel, ACL, IDEA)
FraudResourceNet (FRN) is the only searchable portal of practical, expert fraud prevention, detection and audit information on the Web.
FRN combines the high quality, authoritative anti-fraud and audit content from the leading providers, AuditNet ® LLC and White-Collar Crime 101 LLC/FraudAware.
The two entities designed FRN as the “go-to”, easy-to-use source of “how-to” fraud prevention, detection, audit and investigation templates, guidelines, policies, training programs (recorded no CPE and live with CPE) and articles from leading subject matter experts.
FRN is a continuously expanding and improving resource, offering auditors, fraud examiners, controllers, investigators and accountants a content-rich source of cutting-edge anti-fraud tools and techniques they will want to refer to again and again.
10 Ways to Guarantee At Data Security Breach in 12-MonthsBlue Trumpet Group
A crippling security incident is really the only way to find holes in your system. So here are 10 ways to ensure a major lapse in data security so you can demonstrate to your manager how vital you are in a crisis.
If you’re the kind professional who insists on preventing a security lapse ahead of time, there are simple solutions and experts that can help.
An exploration of the cyber security market factors that lend to pervasive issues with hyperbole and feelings of broken trust across the various participants. Much is left off the slide & was covered in narrative at a recent OWASP LA meetup, original done for B-Sides LV.
Uncovering Fraud in Key Financial Accounts using Data AnalysisFraudBusters
Webinar series from FraudResourceNet LLC on Preventing and Detecting Fraud Using Data Analytics. Recordings of these Webinars are available for purchase from our Website fraudresourcenet.com
This Webinar focused on fraud detection using data analytic software (Excel, ACL, IDEA)
FraudResourceNet (FRN) is the only searchable portal of practical, expert fraud prevention, detection and audit information on the Web.
FRN combines the high quality, authoritative anti-fraud and audit content from the leading providers, AuditNet ® LLC and White-Collar Crime 101 LLC/FraudAware.
The two entities designed FRN as the “go-to”, easy-to-use source of “how-to” fraud prevention, detection, audit and investigation templates, guidelines, policies, training programs (recorded no CPE and live with CPE) and articles from leading subject matter experts.
FRN is a continuously expanding and improving resource, offering auditors, fraud examiners, controllers, investigators and accountants a content-rich source of cutting-edge anti-fraud tools and techniques they will want to refer to again and again.
What Small Business Can Do To Protect Themselves Now in CybersecurityReading Works Detroit
On October 16, Daniel Cherrin spoke at the Wall Street Journal PRO Cybersecurity Small Business Academy at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Park, California. You can find an excerpt from his remarks on Incident Response on a Budget at http://www.northcoaststrategies.com/blog/steps-you-can-take-now-to-prepare-for-the-next-data-breach-that-wont-cost-a-lot-of-money.
Protect your Business from Crime, Here are ten ways you can reduce the risks your businesses face on a day to day basis. Visit http://www.tag-guard.com/
Business Risks discussed: #1 Claim/Problem, Telecommuting, Signage, Age of Connectivity, OSHA Visit, IT Firm Insurance, Power Failure: Spoilage, Business Auto Policies
Everybody decries the state of the industry. Everyone hates the over-hyped headlines, the obvious FUD and the shameless snake-oil.
So why do we have so much of it?
This talk aims to examine several of the dark-patterns that have become perfectly acceptable in infosec and then aims to drill down to their root causes. With any luck, we will also get to discuss some options to chart our way out of this mess.
Benford's Law: How to Use it to Detect Fraud in Financial DataFraudBusters
Webinar series from FraudResourceNet LLC on Preventing and Detecting Fraud Using Data Analytics. Recordings of these Webinars are available for purchase from our Website fraudresourcenet.com
This Webinar focused on fraud detection using data analytic software (Excel, ACL, IDEA)
FraudResourceNet (FRN) is the only searchable portal of practical, expert fraud prevention, detection and audit information on the Web.
FRN combines the high quality, authoritative anti-fraud and audit content from the leading providers, AuditNet ® LLC and White-Collar Crime 101 LLC/FraudAware.
The two entities designed FRN as the “go-to”, easy-to-use source of “how-to” fraud prevention, detection, audit and investigation templates, guidelines, policies, training programs (recorded no CPE and live with CPE) and articles from leading subject matter experts.
FRN is a continuously expanding and improving resource, offering auditors, fraud examiners, controllers, investigators and accountants a content-rich source of cutting-edge anti-fraud tools and techniques they will want to refer to again and again.
In This Issue:
1. Your #1 MUST-DO Resolution For 2017
2. Free Report: What Every Small Business Owner Must Know About Protecting And Preserving their Company’s Critical Data And Computer Systems
3. 3 Ways Smart People Blow The Close
4. STAYING ON TOP
Slides to the online event "Creating an effective cybersecurity strategy" by ...Berezha Security Group
Slides to the online event "Creating an effective cybersecurity strategy" by Berezha Security Group, where we debunked myths about cybersecurity and recommended some easy-to-use practical steps to build an effective cybersecurity strategy for your small business.
Meeting plan:
1. Widespread misconceptions about the cybersecurity of small and medium-sized businesses.
2. 10 steps to combat cyber threats. How to protect business effectively within a limited budget?
About the speakers
-Vlad Styran, CISSP CISA, Co-founder & CEO, BSG
Vlad is an internationally known cybersecurity expert with over 15+ years of experience in Penetration Testing, Social Engineering, and Security Awareness.
He is a BSG Co-founder & CEO and responsible for business and cybersecurity strategies. He could help businesses with consulting services in software security, cybersecurity awareness, strategy, and investment. Also, he acts as a speaker, blogger, podcaster in his volunteer activities.
- Andriy Varusha, CISSP, Co-founder & CSO, BSG
Andriy is an experienced top manager in IT-audit, consulting, and IT project management by leading outsourcing teams in Ukraine, Poland, and the USA. He also is keen on building customer relationships within the US, UK, and Western Europe geographies. At BSG, he leads the BSG advisory practice and consults development teams in all aspects of cybersecurity.
About BSG
Berezha Security Group (BSG) is a Ukrainian consulting company focused on application security and penetration testing. Our job is to help companies in all aspects of cybersecurity. We complete more than 50 Penetration Testing and Application Security projects yearly to know the business security vulnerabilities across the verticals. We help our customers address their future security challenges: prevent data breaches and achieve compliance.
Our contacts: hello@bsg.tech ; https://bsg.tech
1.5 Pages are required
You have been hired as a security specialist by a company to provide methods and recommendations to create a more secure environment for company data.
Write a 1- to 2-page recommendation paper outlining methods the company should consider to protect access to data, including recommendations for policies to be enacted that will increase data security.
Submit your assignment using the Assignment Files tab.
Security Policies
Investing time and money needed to work on developing security policies to better protect information systems is a crucial aspect of business continuity, yet many companies attempt to cut corners and spend little time on this until a critical event occurs. In this scenario, data is compromised while key stakeholders begin to point fingers and blame others for lack of a solid security plan. Implementing security policies and procedures can increase data security thereby decreasing the threat of potential security breaches. This paper will highlight security policies that can help protect data and information systems.
Security Policy #1
The first recommended Security Policy to help protect access to data is to implement a requirements-based access control policy. Requirements-based access control helps specify the level of access a user has, and can control what he/she has access to. The easiest way of doing this for example, would be to create groups/group policies in Active Directory Domain Services that will specify the groups level of access. This way, when new employees are hired, once they are added in Active Directory, they can be assigned to the department or group they are in to have a basic level of access. Moving forward, a user can be modified to gain or have access removed on a user level, but will at least have a baseline of what they can access. This is a very important concept as this helps with keeping lower level users from accessing more confidential documents that they have no business accessing. The users will be able to login to the workstations by using a provided username and require that a complex passphrase be set up to gain access to the system.
Security Policy #2
To help better our data security, there will be limited access to the main server and equipment room. Access by key card will only be given to approved Network Engineers. This allows for better security rather than allowing all users with a card key the ability to access the room. Implementing a system that allows us to control user’s individual access to certain rooms from their card keys allows for better all-around security. This also helps prevent unauthorized users gaining access to rooms without a key card. Currently, the main server room remains unlocked during and after business hours. It is too accessible to unauthorized employees, visitors, vendors, and customers. While we do have video surveillance inside and outside of the building, the cameras currently do not record footage of any.
How to Determine Your Attack Surface in the Healthcare SectorJeremiah Grossman
Do you know what an asset inventory is, why it's important, and how it can protect you from cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
In this webinar, you can expect to learn:
- How to prepare yourself and your staff against cybersecurity threats
- What an asset inventory is and why it's the next big thing in information security
- How to identify all your company's Internet-connected assets and which need to be defended
- Why keeping an up-to-date asset inventory is important
- How to obtain your own attack surface map
What Small Business Can Do To Protect Themselves Now in CybersecurityReading Works Detroit
On October 16, Daniel Cherrin spoke at the Wall Street Journal PRO Cybersecurity Small Business Academy at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Park, California. You can find an excerpt from his remarks on Incident Response on a Budget at http://www.northcoaststrategies.com/blog/steps-you-can-take-now-to-prepare-for-the-next-data-breach-that-wont-cost-a-lot-of-money.
Protect your Business from Crime, Here are ten ways you can reduce the risks your businesses face on a day to day basis. Visit http://www.tag-guard.com/
Business Risks discussed: #1 Claim/Problem, Telecommuting, Signage, Age of Connectivity, OSHA Visit, IT Firm Insurance, Power Failure: Spoilage, Business Auto Policies
Everybody decries the state of the industry. Everyone hates the over-hyped headlines, the obvious FUD and the shameless snake-oil.
So why do we have so much of it?
This talk aims to examine several of the dark-patterns that have become perfectly acceptable in infosec and then aims to drill down to their root causes. With any luck, we will also get to discuss some options to chart our way out of this mess.
Benford's Law: How to Use it to Detect Fraud in Financial DataFraudBusters
Webinar series from FraudResourceNet LLC on Preventing and Detecting Fraud Using Data Analytics. Recordings of these Webinars are available for purchase from our Website fraudresourcenet.com
This Webinar focused on fraud detection using data analytic software (Excel, ACL, IDEA)
FraudResourceNet (FRN) is the only searchable portal of practical, expert fraud prevention, detection and audit information on the Web.
FRN combines the high quality, authoritative anti-fraud and audit content from the leading providers, AuditNet ® LLC and White-Collar Crime 101 LLC/FraudAware.
The two entities designed FRN as the “go-to”, easy-to-use source of “how-to” fraud prevention, detection, audit and investigation templates, guidelines, policies, training programs (recorded no CPE and live with CPE) and articles from leading subject matter experts.
FRN is a continuously expanding and improving resource, offering auditors, fraud examiners, controllers, investigators and accountants a content-rich source of cutting-edge anti-fraud tools and techniques they will want to refer to again and again.
In This Issue:
1. Your #1 MUST-DO Resolution For 2017
2. Free Report: What Every Small Business Owner Must Know About Protecting And Preserving their Company’s Critical Data And Computer Systems
3. 3 Ways Smart People Blow The Close
4. STAYING ON TOP
Slides to the online event "Creating an effective cybersecurity strategy" by ...Berezha Security Group
Slides to the online event "Creating an effective cybersecurity strategy" by Berezha Security Group, where we debunked myths about cybersecurity and recommended some easy-to-use practical steps to build an effective cybersecurity strategy for your small business.
Meeting plan:
1. Widespread misconceptions about the cybersecurity of small and medium-sized businesses.
2. 10 steps to combat cyber threats. How to protect business effectively within a limited budget?
About the speakers
-Vlad Styran, CISSP CISA, Co-founder & CEO, BSG
Vlad is an internationally known cybersecurity expert with over 15+ years of experience in Penetration Testing, Social Engineering, and Security Awareness.
He is a BSG Co-founder & CEO and responsible for business and cybersecurity strategies. He could help businesses with consulting services in software security, cybersecurity awareness, strategy, and investment. Also, he acts as a speaker, blogger, podcaster in his volunteer activities.
- Andriy Varusha, CISSP, Co-founder & CSO, BSG
Andriy is an experienced top manager in IT-audit, consulting, and IT project management by leading outsourcing teams in Ukraine, Poland, and the USA. He also is keen on building customer relationships within the US, UK, and Western Europe geographies. At BSG, he leads the BSG advisory practice and consults development teams in all aspects of cybersecurity.
About BSG
Berezha Security Group (BSG) is a Ukrainian consulting company focused on application security and penetration testing. Our job is to help companies in all aspects of cybersecurity. We complete more than 50 Penetration Testing and Application Security projects yearly to know the business security vulnerabilities across the verticals. We help our customers address their future security challenges: prevent data breaches and achieve compliance.
Our contacts: hello@bsg.tech ; https://bsg.tech
1.5 Pages are required
You have been hired as a security specialist by a company to provide methods and recommendations to create a more secure environment for company data.
Write a 1- to 2-page recommendation paper outlining methods the company should consider to protect access to data, including recommendations for policies to be enacted that will increase data security.
Submit your assignment using the Assignment Files tab.
Security Policies
Investing time and money needed to work on developing security policies to better protect information systems is a crucial aspect of business continuity, yet many companies attempt to cut corners and spend little time on this until a critical event occurs. In this scenario, data is compromised while key stakeholders begin to point fingers and blame others for lack of a solid security plan. Implementing security policies and procedures can increase data security thereby decreasing the threat of potential security breaches. This paper will highlight security policies that can help protect data and information systems.
Security Policy #1
The first recommended Security Policy to help protect access to data is to implement a requirements-based access control policy. Requirements-based access control helps specify the level of access a user has, and can control what he/she has access to. The easiest way of doing this for example, would be to create groups/group policies in Active Directory Domain Services that will specify the groups level of access. This way, when new employees are hired, once they are added in Active Directory, they can be assigned to the department or group they are in to have a basic level of access. Moving forward, a user can be modified to gain or have access removed on a user level, but will at least have a baseline of what they can access. This is a very important concept as this helps with keeping lower level users from accessing more confidential documents that they have no business accessing. The users will be able to login to the workstations by using a provided username and require that a complex passphrase be set up to gain access to the system.
Security Policy #2
To help better our data security, there will be limited access to the main server and equipment room. Access by key card will only be given to approved Network Engineers. This allows for better security rather than allowing all users with a card key the ability to access the room. Implementing a system that allows us to control user’s individual access to certain rooms from their card keys allows for better all-around security. This also helps prevent unauthorized users gaining access to rooms without a key card. Currently, the main server room remains unlocked during and after business hours. It is too accessible to unauthorized employees, visitors, vendors, and customers. While we do have video surveillance inside and outside of the building, the cameras currently do not record footage of any.
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How to Determine Your Attack Surface in the Healthcare SectorJeremiah Grossman
Do you know what an asset inventory is, why it's important, and how it can protect you from cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
In this webinar, you can expect to learn:
- How to prepare yourself and your staff against cybersecurity threats
- What an asset inventory is and why it's the next big thing in information security
- How to identify all your company's Internet-connected assets and which need to be defended
- Why keeping an up-to-date asset inventory is important
- How to obtain your own attack surface map
Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms used in Ransomware Splash ScreensJeremiah Grossman
The present study examined a selection of 76 ransomware splash screens collected from a variety of sources. These splash screens were analysed according to surface information, including aspects of visual appearance, the use of language, cultural icons, payment and payment types. The results from the current study showed that, whilst there was a wide variation in the construction of ransomware splash screens, there was a good degree of commonality, particularly in terms of the structure and use of key aspects of social engineering used to elicit payment from the victims. There was the emergence of a sub-set of ransomware that, in the context of this report, was termed ‘Cuckoo’ ransomware. This type of attack often purported to be from an official source requesting payment for alleged transgressions.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
Ransomware is Here: Fundamentals Everyone Needs to KnowJeremiah Grossman
If you’re an IT professional, you probably know at least the basics of ransomware. Instead of using malware or an exploit to exfiltrate PII from an enterprise, bad actors instead find valuable data and encrypt it. Unless you happen to have an NSA-caliber data center at your disposal to break the encryption, you must pay your attacker in cold, hard bitcoins—or else wave goodbye to your PII. Those assumptions aren’t wrong, but they also don’t tell the whole picture.
During this event we’ll discuss topics such as:
Why Ransomware is Exploding
The growth of ransomware, as opposed to garden-variety malware, is enormous. Hackers have found that they can directly monetize the data they encrypt, which eliminates the time-consuming process of selling stolen data on the Darknet. In addition, the use of ransomware requires little in the way of technical skill—because attackers don’t need to get root on a victim’s machine.
Who the Real Targets Are
Two years ago, the most newsworthy victims of ransomware were various police departments. This year, everyone is buzzing about hospitals. Is this a deliberate pattern? Probably not. Enterprises are so ill-prepared for ransomware that attackers have a green field to wreak havoc. Until the industry shapes up, bad actors will target ransomware indiscriminately.
Where Ransomware Stumbles
Although ransomware is nearly impossible to dislodge when employed correctly, you may be surprised to find that not all bad actors have the skill to do it. Even if ransomware targets your network, you may learn that your attackers have used extremely weak encryption—or that they’ve encrypted files that are entirely non-critical.
As far as ransomware is concerned, forewarned is forearmed. Once you know how attackers deliver ransomware, who they’re likely to attack, and the weaknesses in the ransomware deployment model, you’ll be able to understand how to protect your enterprise.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
Where Flow Charts Don’t Go -- Website Security Statistics Report (2015)Jeremiah Grossman
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they
can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into
the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights
is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well- known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
No More Snake Oil: Why InfoSec Needs Security GuaranteesJeremiah Grossman
Ever notice how everything in InfoSec is sold “as is”? No guarantees, no warrantees, no return policies. For some reason in InfoSec, providing customers with a form of financial coverage for their investment is seen as gimmicky, but the tides and times are changing. This talk discusses use cases on why guarantees are a must have and how guarantees benefit customers as well as InfoSec as a whole.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
http://blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Grossman
Online advertising networks can be a web hacker’s best friend. For mere pennies per thousand impressions (that means browsers) there are service providers who allow you to broadly distribute arbitrary javascript -- even malicious javascript! You are SUPPOSED to use this “feature” to show ads, to track users, and get clicks, but that doesn’t mean you have to abide. Absolutely nothing prevents spending $10, $100, or more to create a massive javascript-driven browser botnet instantly. The real-world power is spooky cool. We know, because we tested it… in-the-wild.
With a few lines of HTML5 and javascript code we’ll demonstrate just how you can easily commandeer browsers to perform DDoS attacks, participate in email spam campaigns, crack hashes and even help brute-force passwords. Put simply, instruct browsers to make HTTP requests they didn’t intend, even something as well-known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. With CSRF, no zero-days or malware is required. Oh, and there is no patch. The Web is supposed to work this way. Also nice, when the user leaves the page, our code vanishes. No traces. No tracks.
Before leveraging advertising networks, the reason this attack scenario didn’t worry many people is because it has always been difficult to scale up, which is to say, simultaneously control enough browsers (aka botnets) to reach critical mass. Previously, web hackers tried poisoning search engine results, phishing users via email, link spamming Facebook, Twitter and instant messages, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, publishing rigged open proxies, and malicious browser plugins. While all useful methods in certain scenarios, they lack simplicity, invisibility, and most importantly -- scale. That’s what we want! At a moment’s notice, we will show how it is possible to run javascript on an impressively large number of browsers all at once and no one will be the wiser. Today this is possible, and practical.
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2012/
Recorded Webinar: https://www.whitehatsec.com/webinar/whitehat_webinar_march2713.html
Every year the security community produces a stunning amount of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivilents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, here we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now it its seventh year, The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work. Past Top Tens and the number of new attack techniques discovered in each year:
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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JEREMIAH GROSSMAN
ALL THESE VULNERABILITIES, RARELY MATTER
FOUNDER & CEO
U.S. BANK STRENGTH IN SECURITY (OCT 10, 2018)
@jeremiahg
https://www.jeremiahgrossman.com/
https://bitdiscovery.com/
2. BIO
▸20 years in InfoSec / AppSec
▸Professional Hacker
▸Founder of WhiteHat Security
▸Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
WHO I AM…
3. THE PROBLEM I’M WORKING ON
YOU CAN’T SECURE WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW YOU OWN
Strange as it sounds, the vast majority of organizations with
more than a handful of websites do not know what they are,
what they do, or who is responsible for them. If a company
doesn't know what websites they own, they have little hope
of protecting their most important business assets.
An asset inventory is recommended by
every expert and ever industry standard.
ASSET INVENTORY
4. A complete portfolio of your company's websites.
Instantly created.
Automatically updated.
5. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT INDUSTRY
MISALIGNMENT OF INTERESTS
▸ Vendors are incentivized to report everything
they possible can, even issues that rarely matter.
▸ Customers just want the vulnerability reports that
are likely to get them hacked.
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of time, money, and energy.
6. VULNERABILITY LIKELIHOOD
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7. TOP 10 VULNERABILITY CATEGORIES
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VERACODE: STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT VOL 6, FALL 2015
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Frequently Vulnerable (271-364 days a year)!
Regularly Vulnerable (151-270 days a year)!
Occasionally Vulnerable (31-150 days a year)!
Rarely Vulnerable (30 days or less a year)!
12. VERACODE: STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT VOL 6, FALL 2015
REMEDIATION RATES
13. WHY ALL THOSE ‘SERIOUS’
WEBSITE VULNERABILITIES
ARE NOT EXPLOITED?
14. PLAUSIBLE THEORIES
1.These ‘vulnerabilities’ are not really vulnerabilities in the
directly exploitable sense.
2.The vulnerabilities are too difficult for the majority of
attackers to find and exploit.
3.The vulnerabilities are only exploitable by insiders.
4.There aren’t enough attackers to exploit all or even most of
the vulnerabilities.
5.There are more attractive targets or exploit vectors for
attackers to focus on.
6.They are being exploited, but no one knows it (yet).
15. 9 OUT OF 10 TIMES, THE VENDOR WHO PRODUCES THE BEST
RESULTS IN TERMS OF HIGH-SEVERITY VULNERABILITIES WITH
LOW FALSE-POSITIVES WILL WIN THE DEAL. AS SUCH, EVERY
VENDOR IS HEAVILY INCENTIVIZED TO IDENTIFY AS MANY
VULNERABILITIES AS THEY CAN TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR SKILL
AND OVERALL VALUE.
Top vulnerability assessment vendors invest millions upon millions
of dollars each year in R&D to improve their scanning technology
and assessment methodology to uncover every possible issue.
WINNING A SALES BAKE-OFF
16. WHEN IT COMES TO DYNAMIC APPLICATION SECURITY
TESTING (DAST), SPECIFICALLY TESTING IN PRODUCTION,
THE WHOLE POINT IS TO FIND AND FIX VULNERABILITIES
BEFORE AN ATTACKER WILL FIND AND EXPLOIT THEM.
WHY DO WE DO DAST?
Technically, exploiting just 1 vulnerability for the
attacker to succeed.
17. IF ATTACKERS REALLY AREN’T FINDING, EXPLOITING, OR
EVEN CARING ABOUT THESE VULNERABILITIES AS WE CAN
INFER FROM THE SUPPLIED DATA — THE VALUE IN
DISCOVERING THEM, OR EVEN LOOKING, IN THE FIRST
PLACE BECOMES QUESTIONABLE.
If so, then all those vulnerabilities that DAST is finding rarely
matter much and we’re collectively wasting precious time and
resources focusing on them.
WHERE ARE ALL THE BREACH THAT COULD OR SHOULD BE HAPPENING?
18. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF STATIC APPLICATION SECURITY
TESTING (SAST) IS TO FIND VULNERABILITIES DURING THE
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BEFORE THEY LAND
IN PRODUCTION WHERE THEY’LL EVENTUALLY BE FOUND
BY DAST AND/OR EXPLOITED BY ATTACKERS.
WHY DO WE DO SAST?
What’s the overlap between SAST and DAST?
19. VULNERABILITY OVERLAP
BETWEEN THE ADVERSARY, DAST, AND SAST
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But, does it really? 5-15% of the vulnerabilities reported by
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20. THIS IS ALSO WHY CYBER-INSURANCE FIRMS FEEL
COMFORTABLE WRITING POLICIES ALL DAY LONG,
EVEN IF THEY KNOW FULL WELL THEIR CLIENTS ARE
TECHNICALLY RIDDLED WITH VULNERABILITIES,
BECAUSE STATISTICALLY THEY KNOW THOSE ISSUES
ARE UNLIKELY TO BE EXPLOITED OR LEAD TO CLAIMS.
WHAT THE CYBER-INSURANCE CARRIERS ALREADY KNOW
Exploitation of a vulnerability does not automatically result in a
‘breach,’ which does not necessarily equate to a ‘material
business loss,’ and loss is the only thing the business or their
insurance carrier truly cares about.
21. LESSONS LEARNED
▸We’re wasting huge amounts of time, money, and energy finding
and fixing vulnerabilities that rarely matter.
▸We need a better way to prioritize and justify remediation, or not,
of the vulnerabilities we already know exist and should care about.
▸We must more efficiently invest our resources in the application
security testing process.
LOOKING FORWARD
22. RISK MODELING
▸ Assumptions: SQL Injection vulnerability in a non-authenticated
portion of the application. A 50% likelihood of being exploited
over a year period. If exploitation results in a material breach, the
expected loss is $1,000,000 for incident handling and clean up.
▸$1,000,000 (expected loss) x 0.5 (probability of breach) =
$500,000 (risk)
▸If the vulnerability costs less than $500,000 to fix, then that’s the
reasonable choice. If remediation costs more than $500,000, then
leave it as is.
PROBABILITY (OF BREACH) X LOSS (EXPECTED) = RISK
23. RISK MODELING
▸$500,000 (expected loss) x 1% (probability of breach) = $5,000 (risk)
▸If vulnerability remediation costs less than $5,000, it makes sense to
fix it. If more, or far more, then one could argue it makes business
sense not to.
THE OTHER EXTREME
24. IF YOUR POSITION IS RECOMMENDING THAT THE
BUSINESS SHOULD FIX EACH AND EVERY
VULNERABILITY IMMEDIATELY REGARDLESS OF THE
COST, THEN YOU’RE REALLY NOT ON THE SIDE OF THE
BUSINESS AND YOU WILL CONTINUE BEING IGNORED.
PLEASE, DON’T BE THAT GUY
25. MODERN VULNERABILITY REMEDIATION DECISION-MAKING
This light is green, because in most places
where we put this light it makes sense to be
green, but we're not taking into account
anything about the current street’s situation,
location or traffic patterns.
Should you trust that light has your best interest
at heart? No.
Should you obey it anyway? Yes. Because once
you install something like that you end up
having to follow it, no matter how stupid it is.
26. REMEDIATION ALTERNATIVES
▸Web Application Firewalls (WAF)
▸Run-Time Application Security Protection (RASP)
ANYTHING TO LOWER THE COST AND DIFFICULT OF FIXING VULNERABILITIES
27. THE EDGE OF KNOWLEDGE
▸Matrix must take into account each vulnerability class,
assigns a likelihood of actual exploitation using whatever
available data, and contain an expected loss range.
▸Take into account the authentication status of the
vulnerability, mitigating controls, the industry, resident
data volume and type, insider vs external threat actor, etc.
INNOVATION IN VULNERABILITY REMEDIATION DECISION-MAKING
28. IF WE HAD A BETTER VULNERABILITY REMEDIATION DECISION-MAKING
▸We’ll know what types of vulnerabilities we care about
in terms of actual business risk and financial loss.
▸Investment can be prioritized to only look for those
and ignore all the other worthless junk.
▸Bulky vulnerability assessment reports would likely
dramatically decrease in size and increase in value.
SOLUTION TO THE LACK OF EFFICIENCY IN THE APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING PROCESS.