Whitepaper Abstract
This white paper explains why application whitelisting is being rapidly adopted as a security and control solution for SCADA systems.
In three major sections, the paper:
Provides a detailed perspective on how application whitelisting technology works.
Discusses the use and benefits of whitelisting technologies in SCADA and Energy environments.
Explains how the technology is adapting to function in environments where controlled software changes are needed.
Whitepaper Abstract
This white paper explains why application whitelisting is being rapidly adopted as a security and control solution for control systems.
In three major sections, the paper:
Provides a detailed perspective on how application whitelisting technology works.
Discusses the use and benefits of whitelisting technologies in control system and Energy environments.
Explains how the technology is adapting to function in environments where controlled software changes are needed.
Building a Next-Generation Security Operation Center Based on IBM QRadar and ...IBM Security
Learn about Sogeti’s journey of creating a new Security Operation Center, and how and why we leveraged QRadar solutions. We explore the full program lifecycle, from strategic choices to technical analysis and benchmarking on the product. We explain how QRadar accelerates the go-to-market of the SOC, and how we embed IBM Security Intelligence offerings in our solution. Having a strong collaboration between different IBM stakeholders such as Software Group, Global Technology Services, as well as the Labs, was key to client satisfaction and operational effectiveness. We also show the value of integrating new QRadar features in our SOC roadmap, in order to constantly stay ahead in the cyber security game.
Use Exabeam Smart Timelines to improve your SOC efficiencyJonathanPritchard12
Exabeam uses common log sources to stitch together events in plain text to easily answer the important question: What happened before, during and after?
Whitepaper Abstract
This white paper explains why application whitelisting is being rapidly adopted as a security and control solution for control systems.
In three major sections, the paper:
Provides a detailed perspective on how application whitelisting technology works.
Discusses the use and benefits of whitelisting technologies in control system and Energy environments.
Explains how the technology is adapting to function in environments where controlled software changes are needed.
Building a Next-Generation Security Operation Center Based on IBM QRadar and ...IBM Security
Learn about Sogeti’s journey of creating a new Security Operation Center, and how and why we leveraged QRadar solutions. We explore the full program lifecycle, from strategic choices to technical analysis and benchmarking on the product. We explain how QRadar accelerates the go-to-market of the SOC, and how we embed IBM Security Intelligence offerings in our solution. Having a strong collaboration between different IBM stakeholders such as Software Group, Global Technology Services, as well as the Labs, was key to client satisfaction and operational effectiveness. We also show the value of integrating new QRadar features in our SOC roadmap, in order to constantly stay ahead in the cyber security game.
Use Exabeam Smart Timelines to improve your SOC efficiencyJonathanPritchard12
Exabeam uses common log sources to stitch together events in plain text to easily answer the important question: What happened before, during and after?
Talk that I gave in 2010 for the MIS Training Institute in Orlando. Two areas that garnered the most questions from the crowd were how to establish effective business objectives prior to implementing the SIEM in order to effectively manage expectations and of course vendor selection criteria. I could probably do a whole other talk on selecting a SIEM vendor.
The ultimate guide to cloud computing security-Hire cloud expertChapter247 Infotech
Cloud Computing Security is imperative for the smooth operation of businesses today. According to the latest statistics revealed by International Data Group, almost 70 percent of the businesses today resort to Cloud Computing for handling their crucial business data and manage their business processes. Today, vulnerabilities like data security and network security issues lead to grave business losses if not managed correctly through timely intervention. This is where cloud computing security plays an important role in safeguarding the business information and mitigating the major security risks like cyber-attacks, DDoS attacks, and other enterprise bugs.
An introduction to Security in Control Systems.
Includes a brief description of what a Control System is, and what the basic constraints that are encountered when attempting to secure these systems
Building a Product Security Practice in a DevOps WorldArun Prabhakar
This is a whitepaper on Product Security that largely focusses on building key security capabilities for products that are developed using DevOps methodology. It also consists of an effort to set up and accomplish the governance of Product Security in the DevOps world.
Don’t Drown in a Sea of Cyberthreats: Mitigate Attacks with IBM BigFix & QRadarIBM Security
view on demand: https://securityintelligence.com/events/dont-drown-in-a-sea-of-cyberthreats/
Security teams can be overwhelmed by a sea of vulnerabilities–without the contextual data to help them focus their efforts on the weaknesses that are most likely to be exploited. Cyberthreats need to be stopped before they cause significant financial and reputational damages to an organization. You need a security system that can detect an attack, prioritize risks and respond within minutes to shut down an attack or vulnerability that could compromise your endpoints and data.
Join this webinar and learn how IBM BigFix seamlessly integrates with IBM QRadar to provide accelerated risk prioritization and incident response to mitigate potential attacks giving you an integrated threat protection system to keep your corporate and customer data secure.
Cutting Through the Software License Jungle: Stay Safe and Control CostsIBM Security
View on demand webinar: http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1064153/E59BB80AC2DB08E80C183ADB948A4899
If you’ve ever tried to reconcile the number of software licenses issued in your company against the number of licenses that are actually being used, you know it’s a jungle out there. In fact, one study uncovered that 85% of organizations are “accidental” software pirates, meaning they’re using more software than they paid for. In addition, many enterprises are facing unplanned and unbudgeted software license “true-up” bills from their vendors – that can cost millions of dollars. But you don’t have to. Join this webinar to get the facts and hack through the software licence jungle with IBM BigFix. We give you a consolidated, holistic view of the software you’ve deployed to help ensure audit compliance–and at the same time, help mitigate the threat of malicious software while effectively managing overall software spend.
Join this live webinar to learn how to:
- Discover all licensed and unlicensed software to pass more audits.
- Decrease software license costs by reducing the amount of unused or redundant software.
- Manage assets on hundreds -or hundreds of thousands- of Windows, Mac OS, Unix and Linux endpoints.
- Mitigate risk from malicious software including whitelist/blacklist filtering of inventory data.
Project Quality-SIPOCSelect a process of your choice and creat.docxwkyra78
Project Quality-SIPOC
Select a process of your choice and create a SIPOC for this process. Explain the utility of a SIPOC in the context of project management.
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Application security in large enterprises (part 2)
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Instructor Name
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Detailed Description:
Large enterprises of a thousand persons or more often have distinctly distinct data security architectures than lesser businesses. Typically they treat their data security as if they were still little companies.
This paper endeavors to demonstrate that not only do large businesses have an entire ecology of focused programs, specific to large businesses and their needs, but that this software has distinct security implications than buyer or small enterprise software. identifying these dissimilarities, and analyzing the way this can be taken advantage of by an attacker, is the key to both striking and keeping safe a large enterprise.
The Web applications are the important part of your business every day, they help you handle your intellectual property, increase your sales, and keep the trust of your customers. But there's the problem that applications re fast becoming the preferred attack vector of hackers. For this you really need something that makes your application secure.
And, with the persistent condition of today's attacks, applications can easily be get infected when security is not considered and scoped into each phase of the software development life cycle, from design to development to testing and ongoing maintenance of the application. When you take a holistic approach to your application security, you actually enhance your ability to produce and manage stable, secure applications. Applications need training and testing from the leading team of ethical hackers, for this there should be an authentic plan to recover these issues that can help an organization to plan, test, build and run applications smartly and safely.
Large enterprises of a thousand people or even more have distinctly different information security architectures than many other smaller companies. Actually, they treat their information security as if they were still small companies.
We are going to discuss some attempts to demonstrate that not only do large companies have an entire ecology of specialized software, specific to large companies and their needs, but that this software has different security implications than consumer or small business software for the applications. Recognizing these differences, and examining the way this can be taken advantage of by an attacker, is the key to both attacking and defending a large enterprise. It’s really important to cover up the security procedures in the large enterprise.
Key Features:
· Web application security checking from development through output
· Security check web APIs and world wide web services that support your enterprise
· Effortlessly organize, view and share security-test outcomes and histories
· Endow broader lifecycle adoption th ...
Talk that I gave in 2010 for the MIS Training Institute in Orlando. Two areas that garnered the most questions from the crowd were how to establish effective business objectives prior to implementing the SIEM in order to effectively manage expectations and of course vendor selection criteria. I could probably do a whole other talk on selecting a SIEM vendor.
The ultimate guide to cloud computing security-Hire cloud expertChapter247 Infotech
Cloud Computing Security is imperative for the smooth operation of businesses today. According to the latest statistics revealed by International Data Group, almost 70 percent of the businesses today resort to Cloud Computing for handling their crucial business data and manage their business processes. Today, vulnerabilities like data security and network security issues lead to grave business losses if not managed correctly through timely intervention. This is where cloud computing security plays an important role in safeguarding the business information and mitigating the major security risks like cyber-attacks, DDoS attacks, and other enterprise bugs.
An introduction to Security in Control Systems.
Includes a brief description of what a Control System is, and what the basic constraints that are encountered when attempting to secure these systems
Building a Product Security Practice in a DevOps WorldArun Prabhakar
This is a whitepaper on Product Security that largely focusses on building key security capabilities for products that are developed using DevOps methodology. It also consists of an effort to set up and accomplish the governance of Product Security in the DevOps world.
Don’t Drown in a Sea of Cyberthreats: Mitigate Attacks with IBM BigFix & QRadarIBM Security
view on demand: https://securityintelligence.com/events/dont-drown-in-a-sea-of-cyberthreats/
Security teams can be overwhelmed by a sea of vulnerabilities–without the contextual data to help them focus their efforts on the weaknesses that are most likely to be exploited. Cyberthreats need to be stopped before they cause significant financial and reputational damages to an organization. You need a security system that can detect an attack, prioritize risks and respond within minutes to shut down an attack or vulnerability that could compromise your endpoints and data.
Join this webinar and learn how IBM BigFix seamlessly integrates with IBM QRadar to provide accelerated risk prioritization and incident response to mitigate potential attacks giving you an integrated threat protection system to keep your corporate and customer data secure.
Cutting Through the Software License Jungle: Stay Safe and Control CostsIBM Security
View on demand webinar: http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1064153/E59BB80AC2DB08E80C183ADB948A4899
If you’ve ever tried to reconcile the number of software licenses issued in your company against the number of licenses that are actually being used, you know it’s a jungle out there. In fact, one study uncovered that 85% of organizations are “accidental” software pirates, meaning they’re using more software than they paid for. In addition, many enterprises are facing unplanned and unbudgeted software license “true-up” bills from their vendors – that can cost millions of dollars. But you don’t have to. Join this webinar to get the facts and hack through the software licence jungle with IBM BigFix. We give you a consolidated, holistic view of the software you’ve deployed to help ensure audit compliance–and at the same time, help mitigate the threat of malicious software while effectively managing overall software spend.
Join this live webinar to learn how to:
- Discover all licensed and unlicensed software to pass more audits.
- Decrease software license costs by reducing the amount of unused or redundant software.
- Manage assets on hundreds -or hundreds of thousands- of Windows, Mac OS, Unix and Linux endpoints.
- Mitigate risk from malicious software including whitelist/blacklist filtering of inventory data.
Project Quality-SIPOCSelect a process of your choice and creat.docxwkyra78
Project Quality-SIPOC
Select a process of your choice and create a SIPOC for this process. Explain the utility of a SIPOC in the context of project management.
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Application security in large enterprises (part 2)
Student Name:
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Instructor Name
)
Detailed Description:
Large enterprises of a thousand persons or more often have distinctly distinct data security architectures than lesser businesses. Typically they treat their data security as if they were still little companies.
This paper endeavors to demonstrate that not only do large businesses have an entire ecology of focused programs, specific to large businesses and their needs, but that this software has distinct security implications than buyer or small enterprise software. identifying these dissimilarities, and analyzing the way this can be taken advantage of by an attacker, is the key to both striking and keeping safe a large enterprise.
The Web applications are the important part of your business every day, they help you handle your intellectual property, increase your sales, and keep the trust of your customers. But there's the problem that applications re fast becoming the preferred attack vector of hackers. For this you really need something that makes your application secure.
And, with the persistent condition of today's attacks, applications can easily be get infected when security is not considered and scoped into each phase of the software development life cycle, from design to development to testing and ongoing maintenance of the application. When you take a holistic approach to your application security, you actually enhance your ability to produce and manage stable, secure applications. Applications need training and testing from the leading team of ethical hackers, for this there should be an authentic plan to recover these issues that can help an organization to plan, test, build and run applications smartly and safely.
Large enterprises of a thousand people or even more have distinctly different information security architectures than many other smaller companies. Actually, they treat their information security as if they were still small companies.
We are going to discuss some attempts to demonstrate that not only do large companies have an entire ecology of specialized software, specific to large companies and their needs, but that this software has different security implications than consumer or small business software for the applications. Recognizing these differences, and examining the way this can be taken advantage of by an attacker, is the key to both attacking and defending a large enterprise. It’s really important to cover up the security procedures in the large enterprise.
Key Features:
· Web application security checking from development through output
· Security check web APIs and world wide web services that support your enterprise
· Effortlessly organize, view and share security-test outcomes and histories
· Endow broader lifecycle adoption th ...
HMI/SCADA 리스크 감소
돌발적인 가동중지를 최소화하고 조직을 보호할 수 있는 핵심 단계
Decrease your HMI/SCADA risk
Key steps to minimize unplanned downtime and protect your organization
CISA GOV - Seven Steps to Effectively Defend ICSMuhammad FAHAD
INTRODUCTION
Cyber intrusions into US Critical Infrastructure systems are happening with increased frequency. For many industrial control systems (ICSs), it’s not a matter of if an intrusion will take place, but when. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, 295 incidents were reported to ICS-CERT, and many more went unreported or undetected. The capabilities of our adversaries have been demonstrated and cyber incidents are increasing in frequency and complexity. Simply building a
network with a hardened perimeter is no longer adequate. Securing ICSs against the modern threat requires well-planned and well-implemented strategies that will provide network defense
teams a chance to quickly and effectively detect, counter, and expel an adversary. This paper presents seven strategies that can be implemented today to counter common exploitable
weaknesses in “as-built” control systems.
Seven recommendations for bolstering industrial control system cyber securityCTi Controltech
Recommendations from ICS-CERT, the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team, a division of Department of Homeland Security. Seven basic steps to follow that will substantially boost cyber security and generate awareness of the threat potential
Industrial control systems may be at least, or even more, vulnerable to intrusion and malicious attack than you desktop PC. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center outlines seven basic steps you can take to harden your industrial control system against intrusion and mischief.
This paper presents seven strategies that can be implemented today to counter common exploitable weaknesses in “as-built” control systems. Length is 6 pages.
NCCIC - Seven Steps for Achieving Cybersecurity for Industrial Control SystemsMiller Energy, Inc.
This paper presents seven strategies that can be implemented today to counter common exploitable weaknesses in “as-built” control systems for industrial processes and operations.
Defending Industrial Control Systems From CyberattackCTi Controltech
Industrial control systems of all types and vintages likely are exposed to some level of unauthorized intrusion. Individuals and organizations with nefarious intent will try to gain access to information or control elements, stealing data or causing a range of inappropriate operations.
Application security Best Practices FrameworkSujata Raskar
“Making web applications safe is in the best interest of all organizations and the general economy. Providing a clearly defined set of web application security best practices will advance security professionals’ ability to anticipate and rapidly address potential threats to their enterprise.” -Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO and Co-Founder KaVaDo
Part 1 List the basic steps in securing an operating system. Assume.pdffashiionbeutycare
Part 1: List the basic steps in securing an operating system. Assume that the O.S. is being
installed for the first time on new hardware.
Part 2: Name and briefly describe two ways that college students could be recruited into illegal
espionage.
Part 3: Explain the function of the trusted boot function of the trusted platform module (TPM.)
Tell how that is related to the current controversy between Apple and the FBI concerning
encryption. What could the FBI do in the absence of a trusted boot function?
Part 4: Define single loss exposure and annualized risk of occurrence. Explain in your own
words what these have to do with computer security.
Part 5: Explain why it is important to monitor outbound traffic as well as inbound traffic in a
corporate network. Give an example
Solution
Part1:-
There are three things that can enhance operating system security across an enterprise network:
First, provisioning of the servers on the network should be done once in one place, involving the
roughly tens of separate configurations most organizations require. This image, or set of images,
can then be downloaded across the network, with the help of software that automates this process
and eliminates the pain of doing it manually for each server. Moreover, even if you had an
instruction sheet for these key configurations, you wouldn\'t want local administrators to access
these key configurations for each server, which is very dangerous. The best way to do it is once
and for all.
Once the network has been provisioned, administrators need to be able to verify policy
compliance, which defines user access rights and ensures that all configurations are correct. An
agent running on the network or remotely can monitor each server continuously, and such
monitoring wouldn\'t interfere with normal operations.
Second, account management needs to be centralized to control access to the network and to
ensure that users have appropriate access to enterprise resources. Policies, rules and intelligence
should be located in one place—not on each box—and should be pushed out from there to
provision user systems with correct IDs and permissions. An ID life cycle manager can be used
to automate this process and reduce the pain of doing this manually.
Third, the operating system should be configured so that it can be used to monitor activity on the
network easily and efficiently—revealing who is and isn\'t making connections, as well as
pointing out potential security events coming out of the operating system. Administrators can use
a central dashboard that monitors these events in real time and alerts them to serious problems
based on preset correlations and filtering. Just as important, this monitoring system should be set
up so that administrators aren\'t overwhelmed by routine events that don\'t jeopardize network
security.
Part2:-
Two ways that college students could be recruited into illegal espionage:
First, the students may be trend before they sending out to the foreign .
Attacks on the enterprise are getting increasingly sophisticated. Current solutions available do not seem to be adequate given the innovativeness, precision and persistence of these attacks in different forms and of different dimensions. Organisations thus want to increase the sophistication of their employees and also of the solutions to be deployed given this backdrop.
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Discuss how a successful organization should have the following layers of security in place for the protection of its operations: information security management, data security, and network security.
Multiple Layers of Security
Marlowe Rooks posted Mar 13, 2020 9:54 AM
Looking at Vacca”s book chapter 1, “Information security management as a field is ever increasing in demand and responsibility because most organizations spend increasingly larger percentages of their IT budgets in attempting to manage risk and mitigate intrusions, not to mention the trend in many enterprises of moving all IT operations to an Internet-connected infrastructure, known as enterprise cloud computing (John R. Vacca, 2014)”. It is the organization responsibility to protect its business and its client information at all times. With that said I’m going to break down why companies need to have multiple layers of security and what types they should implement below.
The first layer is Information security management which can be from Physical Security, or Personnel Security. Physical Security can range from physical items, objects, or areas from unauthorized access and misuse. Personnel Security is to protect the individual or group of individuals who are authorized to access the organization and its operations. Some of the reason to implement Information Security is as follow:
· Decrease in downtime of IT systems
· Decrease in security related incidents
· Increase in meeting an organization's compliance requirements and standards
· Increase in customer satisfaction, demonstrating that security issues are tackled in the most appropriate manner
· Increase in quality of service
· Process approach adoption, which helps account for all legal and regulatory requirements
· More easily identifiable and managed risks
· Also covers information security (IS) (in addition to IT information security)
· Provides a competitive edge to an organization with the help of tackling risks and managing resources/processes
The second layer would be Data Security which can be refers to the process of protecting data from unauthorized access and data corruption throughout its lifecycle. Data security includes data encryption, tokenization, and key management practices that protect data across all applications and platforms. Some of the reason to implement Data Security is as follow:
· Cloud access security – Protection platform that allows you to move to the cloud securely while protecting data in cloud applications.
· Data encryption – Data-centric and tokenization security solutions that protect data across enterprise, cloud, mobile and big data environments.
· Web Browser Security - Protects sensitive data captured at the browser, from the point the customer enters cardholder or personal data, and keeps it protected through the ecosystem to the trusted host destination.
· Mobile App Security - Protecting sensitive data in native mobile apps while safeguarding the data end-to-end.
· eMai ...
Discuss how a successful organization should have the followin.docxsalmonpybus
Discuss how a successful organization should have the following layers of security in place for the protection of its operations: information security management, data security, and network security.
Multiple Layers of Security
Marlowe Rooks posted Mar 13, 2020 9:54 AM
Looking at Vacca”s book chapter 1, “Information security management as a field is ever increasing in demand and responsibility because most organizations spend increasingly larger percentages of their IT budgets in attempting to manage risk and mitigate intrusions, not to mention the trend in many enterprises of moving all IT operations to an Internet-connected infrastructure, known as enterprise cloud computing (John R. Vacca, 2014)”. It is the organization responsibility to protect its business and its client information at all times. With that said I’m going to break down why companies need to have multiple layers of security and what types they should implement below.
The first layer is Information security management which can be from Physical Security, or Personnel Security. Physical Security can range from physical items, objects, or areas from unauthorized access and misuse. Personnel Security is to protect the individual or group of individuals who are authorized to access the organization and its operations. Some of the reason to implement Information Security is as follow:
· Decrease in downtime of IT systems
· Decrease in security related incidents
· Increase in meeting an organization's compliance requirements and standards
· Increase in customer satisfaction, demonstrating that security issues are tackled in the most appropriate manner
· Increase in quality of service
· Process approach adoption, which helps account for all legal and regulatory requirements
· More easily identifiable and managed risks
· Also covers information security (IS) (in addition to IT information security)
· Provides a competitive edge to an organization with the help of tackling risks and managing resources/processes
The second layer would be Data Security which can be refers to the process of protecting data from unauthorized access and data corruption throughout its lifecycle. Data security includes data encryption, tokenization, and key management practices that protect data across all applications and platforms. Some of the reason to implement Data Security is as follow:
· Cloud access security – Protection platform that allows you to move to the cloud securely while protecting data in cloud applications.
· Data encryption – Data-centric and tokenization security solutions that protect data across enterprise, cloud, mobile and big data environments.
· Web Browser Security - Protects sensitive data captured at the browser, from the point the customer enters cardholder or personal data, and keeps it protected through the ecosystem to the trusted host destination.
· Mobile App Security - Protecting sensitive data in native mobile apps while safeguarding the data end-to-end.
· eMai.
Managing a large and growing PC estate is no simple matter, particularly if you are doing it manually. Keeping a close watch on a couple of PCs can be straightforward, and a diligent IT manager will manage to keep such machines fully patched and free of troublesome software. But what happens when your estate grows beyond one or two machines?
Similar to CoreTrace Whitepaper: Application Whitelisting And Energy Systems (20)
Microsoft has tacitly declared that the default ‘status-quo’ security model for Windows simply isn't enough. With Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced new technology, dubbed AppLocker, that further legitimizes application whitelisting as the anti-malware approach of the future.
But does the technology, as delivered from Microsoft, have what it takes for IT administrators to give it true enterprise-wide adoption?
This paper, written by Jeremy Moskowitz, MCSE, MCSA, Microsoft Group Policy MVP and Chief Propeller-Head for Moskowitz, Inc, helps IT Practitioners and IT Managers learn:
How to implement and leverage AppLocker to perform application whitelisting,
The limitations inherent within AppLocker, and
How other tools — like BOUNCER by CoreTrace — can fill in the gaps that AppLocker leaves.
Whitepaper Abstract
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) computer systems are continually under attack due to the importance of the information they protect. In response to this threat, the PCI has produced an excellent series of process and security tool requirements known as the Data Security Standard (DSS). The DSS identifies a series of principles and accompanying requirements that are critical to the integrity of the industry's computer systems.
This paper outlines relevant PCI DSS requirements and discusses how BOUNCER by CoreTrace provides an elegant solution for meeting many of the requirements — in any PCI environment with sensitive data, from large servers processing thousands of transactions to small kiosks in the mall.
Whitepaper Abstract
Any technology investment today must have an attractive ROI. This paper demonstrates the ROI associated with implementing the leading application whitelisting solution, BOUNCER by CoreTrace. Using a 500-server example, the paper outlines the various levers that generate a rapid and significant ROI. Not only does BOUNCER provide dramatically improved endpoint security, it does so at a significant savings of $938,085 over Endpoint Security 1.0 solutions — a savings of $846 per-server per-year. Moreover, the BOUNCER implementation is forecasted to pay for itself in less than 10 months.
Whitepaper Abstract
Some malware threats are simply nuisances, and then there are truly dangerous and malicious ones. In the latter category, buffer overflow attacks and rootkits are the favorites of professional hackers. Often they are used in tandem, with a buffer overflow providing the way in and a rootkit providing a highly stealthy way to stay in.
This whitepaper explains these two threats and why traditional security approaches have been largely ineffective against them. Then the paper outlines how Endpoint Security 2.0 solutions using kernel-level application whitelisting can effectively neutralize the threats and provide greater peace of mind.
CoreTrace Whitepaper: Application Whitelisting -- A New Security ParadigmCoreTrace Corporation
Whitepaper Abstract
Blacklist-based antivirus products and emergency security patches have traditionally been the core elements of Endpoint Security 1.0 strategies. Endpoint Security 1.0's failures have been well documented in the headlines: data breaches, identity theft, cyberextortion, etc. However, Endpoint Security 1.0 approaches continued for one very simple reason: the absence of a superior alternative.
Fortunately, highly secure and easily updated application whitelisting is now available to provide superior endpoint security. Application whitelisting is at the core of Endpoint Security 2.0 offerings. This whitepaper explains the fundamental motivations behind the movement to Endpoint Security 2.0 and outlines a means to compare alternatives.
NetSpi Whitepaper: Hardening Critical Systems At Electrical UtilitiesCoreTrace Corporation
Whitepaper Abstract
Securing our nation's critical power infrastructure has never been more important. Utilities systems are vulnerable to cyber threats, which can be malicious attacks from hackers or terrorists, as well as unintentional damage done by employees.
In response, industry regulators have implemented a number of regulations and standards to address these weaknesses and ensure the continued safe and reliable generation of electricity.
This NetSpi whitepaper discusses the options — including application whitelisting — that are available to harden critical systems and meet key regulatory requirements. In particular, the paper identifies options for addressing NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection standards CIP-002 through CIP-009.
Feldman-Encari: Malicious Software Prevention For NERC CIP-007 ComplianceCoreTrace Corporation
Whitepaper by Encari's co-founder and the Mid-West ISO's chairman.
Matthew Luallen, co-founder of Encari, and Paul Feldman, chairman of the Mid-West ISO, have written a whitepaper that explains how utilities attempting to meet the North American Electric Reliability Corporation "Critical Infrastructure Protection" (NERC CIP) requirements can meet both the spirit and the letter of the regulations.
The whitepaper provides insights and recommendations around the following topics:
Utilities should go beyond "checking the box" to meeting the true intention of the NERC CIP requirements: protecting the reliability and availability of the Bulk Electric System (BES).
Traditional security solutions (e.g., blacklist-based antivirus, emergency security patches) not only fail to protect reliability and availability, they may negatively impact the goals themselves.
In addition to superior protection against even zero-day attacks, application whitelisting is gaining a following because it addresses the operational realities associated with control system implementations that blacklist-based solutions cannot.
Application whitelisting simultaneously helps address NERC CIP-007, R3 (security patching); CIP-007, R4 (anti-malware); and even NERC CIP-003, R6 (change control and configuration management).
Matthew Luallen, Founder and CEO of Encari, and Paul Feldman, Chairman of the Mid-West ISO, have written a whitepaper that explains how utilities attempting to meet the North American Electric Reliability Corporation "Critical Infrastructure Protection" (NERC CIP) requirements can meet both the spirit and the letter of the regulations.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
CoreTrace Whitepaper: Application Whitelisting And Energy Systems
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White Paper:
Application Whitelisting and Energy Systems — A Good Match?
A new security technology has emerged that can provide a heightened degree of security for energy industry
information and control systems. Application whitelisting takes the traditional approach of the antivirus
vendors and turns it 180 degrees. Rather than constantly maintaining a blacklist of malicious software that
can get loaded onto a computer system, why not just maintain a whitelist of the authorized applications
that are installed and make sure it doesn’t change?
This white paper is broken into three basic sections. With any given security technology, the strength of the
solution is always in the implementation. The first section describes the short history of application white-
listing and provides detailed perspective on how the technology works. The second section discusses the
use of whitelist technologies in a SCADA and Energy environment and how it can help solve some unique
security challenges. The third and final section provides some perspective on how this technology is adapting
to function in a constantly changing environment where software changes are always needed.
The Technology
In the late 1990’s, the concept of application whitelisting began to emerge. It became evident that the antivirus
and anti-malware companies were having an increasingly difficult time keeping up with all the rogue soft-
ware appearing on the Internet. Their products began to bloat with larger and larger databases of bad
programs and the impact on the protected system became more intrusive consuming time and resources.
What if the IT staff could install known software on a system and somehow keep it in that tested, functional
configuration without allowing viruses and malware to run? The term applied to this security approach is
application whitelisting. Rather than look for bad software off of a list of ‘blacklisted’ applications and stop
it from running, this new technology looks at a list of good or ‘whitelisted’ software and allows only it to run.
The concept of tracking which software is installed on a given computer is fundamental to configuration
management. There have been many configuration management systems over the years that simply used
the file pathname and date to ensure the proper file was in the proper place on any given computer. Over
time, additional technologies surfaced to aide in identifying the files and ensuring they have not been
unintentionally corrupted. These began as simple checksums and have evolved into ever more complex
cryptographic algorithms to include MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-2 families. The first step toward application
whitelisting had begun, years before the concept was even introduced.
The Fundamentals
While there are many challenges to designing an application whitelisting solution, all solutions need to
enforce a list of approved applications and then enable an efficient, IT-friendly change process for the
addition of new and updated applications. Not including the management of the solution, which will be
discussed later, each whitelisting solution must have three fundamental capabilities. First and foremost,
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it requires a way to securely and efficiently enforce the whitelist on the computer. Second, it must have a
way of building or acquiring the whitelist of applications for any given computer. And third, it must have the
ability to report any attempts to violate the security policy it is enforcing. These three capabilities together
provide the security required to protect the computer, while at the same time reporting on system status.
In leading products, the whitelist enforcement mechanism is in the form of a tamper-proof client installed
on each computer. It is very important that the enforcement provided by this engine cannot be circum-
vented by either the local user or a malicious user or program with network access. To this end, the client
installed on the computer must function in the operating system kernel. Through tight integration with the
operating system, the solution is able to protect the system and have greatest efficiency — it essentially
functions as part of the operating system rather than an add-on security feature. From within the operating
system kernel, the client reads in the whitelist or policy, and ensures that only those applications on the
whitelist are allowed to run. This process begins during boot time when the operating system is starting.
The client is loaded as early as possible and then reads in the whitelist; it can then check all the execut-
ables that loaded before and after itself to ensure they are all authorized. Once the computer is up and
running, the client only performs checks when a new application or process attempts to start. From within
the operating system, this is very quick with no delay perceived by the user. And because the whitelist is
small compared to the massive blacklists in today’s antivirus products, the amount of memory, disk space,
and CPU consumed by the client is also small.
The application whitelist is what makes this security solution unique. There are many different approaches
to producing the list and also many different technologies that may be involved. Experience using this tech-
nology has shown that no two computers are exactly alike, so there is rarely a match of whitelists across
platforms. For example, orders placed with any major computer manufacturer for computers with identical
specifications will have slightly different executables due to variations in chipsets on motherboards, net-
work cards, video cards, memory, and so forth. Thus, the whitelist must be assembled for each computer
individually. Leading solutions perform this automatically, scanning the computer and building the whitelist.
As part of building the whitelist, the client collects a series of parameters to uniquely identify each execut-
able file. These can include the pathname, digital digest, size, digital certificate if it is signed by the vendor,
or other identifiers. As mentioned previously, it is the checking of some combination of these parameters
by the client during application startup that determines the file has not been modified and is allowed to run.
And finally, it is important the security of the whitelist itself is maintained. The whitelist is generally stored
in an encrypted and digitally signed file that only the client can decrypt and verify.
Although a good whitelisting solution will prevent unauthorized applications from running, it is important
to monitor and capture related activity from the computer. This activity can take a number of forms. The
whitelisting solution can log attempts to overwrite, possibly trojanizing, protected applications on the com-
puter. Likewise, it can log attempts to run unauthorized applications that may have been copied onto the
protected system. The whitelisting solution can provide insight into whether this is a local attack initiated
on the computer itself or if this is activity from across the network. In addition to basic policy or whitelist
violation attempts, the solution logs administrative activity related to the managing the whitelist itself.
Events here include administrative actions like modification to the whitelist, complete changing of the
whitelist, and even major events like uninstalling and reinstalling the client on the computer. All these
events can be used for compliance verification and reporting.
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Secure Management
Application whitelisting is designed and architected to be an enterprise solution. The fundamental capabilities
previously described for an individual computer must be centrally managed to make it cost effective for
deployment and long-term management. Fundamental to any enterprise management system today and
with limited IT resources to run it, the system must be secure, intuitive, and require minimal training. More
importantly, the system must be able to automatically — without requiring IT involvement — update the
whitelist whenever new applications are added or existing ones are upgraded. Application whitelisting
without the ability to handle change is simply lockdown.
Most application whitelisting systems use a dedicated central server or management appliance to maintain
information about and communications with the endpoint clients. Command and control of the protected
computers must be over a secure channel. This can be accomplished via SSL or a more secure and robust
IPSec connection. The communications between the client software and the management appliance must
provide some form of authentication, to ensure the client is not spoofed into communicating with a rogue
management system. This authentication is typically performed using some form of digitally signed certifi-
cates. In addition to management system-to-client authentication, the communications channel itself must
be encrypted for confidentiality of information. This prevents easy interception and analysis of configuration
changes, security events, and so forth, carried by the communications channel.
During the initial setup of the client, the vast majority of information exchanged will be whitelist related,
where the list is assembled and the overall protection policy built and applied on the client. Once the
policy is in place, the channel is mainly handling event information sent from the client and collected on the
management system. At the central point of the management system, events from all protected endpoints
are collected and compiled. Because configuration of all clients is conducted from the central system,
these events are easily logged as well. The management system can assemble both the security and con-
figuration related event information into reports for additional analysis or to meet compliance requirements.
Event or configuration information may also be distributed off of the management system in the form of
syslog messages for compilation and analysis on other third-party systems.
The management system provides checks and balances on the protected endpoint systems. It contains a
copy of the whitelist that is enforced by the client on the endpoint. It is constantly checking that the whitelist
has not been either accidentally corrupted or illegally modified. When a laptop or desktop computer leaves
the network for some length of time and then reconnects, the management system can verify the policy has
not been modified while offline. Changes to the policy are made from the management system and pushed
down to the client for enforcement on the endpoint. Good management systems allow policies to be built
and queued for systems that may be offline. Once they reconnect, the policies are immediately updated.
Policy changes are securely transmitted to the newly connected client, the whitelist is unencrypted, and
the policy is immediately loaded and enforced by the client without rebooting the system.
The user interface on application whitelisting management systems can take several forms. Some use a
web-based browser back to the system which can introduce security issues by itself. Dedicated console
appliances are available to interact with the management appliance or central server. And some solutions
offer remote desktop protocol (RDP), opening a secure channel between the management system and a
remote computer or laptop. This final option provides the greatest flexibility while maintaining security for
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the overall system. The interfaces themselves vary greatly in terms of look and feel, but all strive for ease
of use with an intuitive workflow.
Trusted Change
Application whitelisting solutions have been around for several years, but have had several hurdles to
overcome. The first was the generation and management of the whitelist itself, which has been effectively
solved. The second has been dealing with change. The descriptions provided this far in the paper have
focused on scanning a system and then locking it down to prevent any changes from occurring. With the
exception of some point-of-sale and other fixed purpose machines, computers are in constant need of
updating. Even in a controlled environment like SCADA and energy systems, the systems must eventually
be updated with newer applications or patches. Some of these requirements are driven by compliance and
company policies, while others are required just for employees to perform their job. Historically, application
whitelisting solutions have done an excellent job of locking down a system, but they were cumbersome
when regular changes to the systems were required.
Whitelisting solutions are evolving to allow for authorized change while still maintaining security on the system.
The term being applied to this process is “Trusted Change”. All Trusted Change is built on this simple
concept: IT establishes multiple “sources of trust” from which users and systems can install applications
or upgrades. As long as the users and systems receive the applications or upgrades from these trusted
sources, the applications or upgrades can be automatically added to the whitelisting without any additional
IT involvement. The additions are transparent and friction-free.
Trusted Change can take several forms. For example, the most common method to update systems in any
Windows-based enterprise is from an update or configuration manager server. These can be operating
system or application orientated, on periodic or infrequent basis. The application whitelisting client must
be able to recognize the trusted updater and allow it to make dynamic changes on the protected computer.
The whitelisting client must be able to update the application whitelist while monitoring the updates the
trusted application is making. This process is very complex as there are many ways the updates are installed
on the computer.
In a large enterprise, the IT staff may have approved applications on an internal server for installation on the
endpoint systems as required. The applications have been tested for compatibility and are from a trusted
source. In this configuration, the application whitelisting client must recognize the internal server share as
a trusted location. Again, the client must monitor the applications being installed and update the internal
whitelist accordingly so they may run.
A third example is that of a trusted user. For example, domain administrators or even local system admin-
istrators may need to make changes to a protected system from time to time. The client must be able to
recognize the domain administrator and track changes made to the system as per the trusted updater and
trusted share examples described. Although the changes can be made, they will be logged both in the
whitelist itself and in the event logging system to show what has been modified.
The application whitelisting solution must provide for all these options, while tracking and logging the
authorized changes within the context of the allowed action.
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Security Perspective
Now that a detailed understanding of how application whitelisting solutions are implemented, it is important
to ‘take a step back’ and understand where they fit into an overall security plan. The Gartner Group has
a created a security framework that effectively outlines the various approaches an enterprise can to take
to protect their systems. They take a two-dimensional approach, identifying the methodology of how an
activity is detected and at what level the detection takes place.
The ‘how’ Is based on three techniques — whitelisting, blacklisting, or behavioral. The security solution
makes a decision on whether to let an activity occur based on these the techniques. Blacklisting has the
drawbacks of resource consumption and inability to keep current as described earlier. Behavioral modeling
takes an extended period of time to set up and is only effective on systems that perform the same set of
functions day after day. These detection techniques do not work well in environments where the computer
is used for projects that vary and use different applications. Whitelisting techniques are rapidly emerging as
the most efficient and effective to use for maintaining both the configuration and security of the endpoint
computer.
The ‘level’ at which the detection takes place is also based on three categories — network, application,
or execution. Security solutions that make use of port, protocol, IP address and other network-based
parameters obviously fall into the network category. These solutions can make use of whitelists (e.g., only
communicate with these IP addresses), blacklists (e.g., don’t communicate with these IP addresses), or
even a behavioral-based list (e.g., IP addresses based on previous communications). Most application
whitelisting solutions straddle the application and execution levels. Because they have the ability to build
whitelists, and in some solutions remove unauthorized executables that are not on the whitelist, they exist
in the application category. But for the most part, their detection or enforcement of security occurs at
execution time when an application attempts to run and is compared to the whitelist.
From this perspective of detection technique versus detection level, application whitelisting technology
running at the execution level provides optimal real-time monitoring and security protection of the com-
puter. It is by no means a complete solution, but is complementary to other technologies. Network or
host-based firewalls will continue to protect systems from many kinds of attacks. Virtual private network
and disk encryption technologies provide data confidentiality and protection. But application whitelisting
fills a big hole in the overall security scheme, preventing unwanted system modification and unauthorized
applications from running as well.
A Good Match for SCADA and Other Energy Industry Systems
SCADA and other energy industry computer systems provide some unique security challenges. Many are iso-
lated and cannot access or download the latest antivirus / anti-spyware updates. Processing requirements
often dictate they cannot be rebooted or can only be rebooted at specific times, so unplanned installation
of operating system or application patches is not always feasible. Many of these systems are very old with
limited memory and hardware resources available, so layering resource-hungry security applications on top
is not an option. The ongoing stability of these systems is very important and they cannot be accessed
via unauthorized means nor have their configuration changed without authorization. Yet as mission critical
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