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The document discusses a cyber defense competition called CyberPatriot that aims to inspire high school students to pursue careers in cybersecurity and STEM fields. It analyzes data from the competition to better understand which cybersecurity concepts were more or less understood by competitors. The competition involves fixing vulnerabilities on virtual machines within timed rounds. The results showed competitors excelled at fixing user and malware issues but struggled with updates and application security vulnerabilities. The authors recommend future curricula focus more on teaching the importance of updates and application security.
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The CISO says, "No one is above suspicion here. Our FVEY partners have been known to both collect intelligence and seek to embarrass other partners when it suited their strategic needs. It could have been anyone. Until we know for sure, though, we will continue to regard them as allies."
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The project will take 15 days to complete. After reading the scenario below, proceed to Step 1, where you will establish your team agreement plan.
The US reports data exfiltration has been detected in the IDS (intrusion detection system). All nations will perform forensic analysis and collect corroborating information to identify the bad actor.
Prior to the summit, your nation team was tasked with setting up its own independent secure comms network. Now, at 3 a.m., just hours before the summit begins, you receive a text message from your CISO that reads: "I need to meet with the team immediately about an urgent matter. Please come to the conference room next to my hotel room now so we can discuss it."
You quickly dress and head to the conference room. When you arrive, she breaks the news to your team: The nation hosting the summit has detected data exfiltration in its IDS (intrusion detection system). It is likely that this pattern of network traffic could also result in buffer overflows or other attacks such as denial of service. Each nation's server is at risk.
"The report shows that the pattern of network traffic is anomalous," says the CISO. "And the point of origin is internal. Someone at the summit is involved in this."
Given the nature of the summit, participants understand that all nations have a common goal. "None of the FVEY members would have done this," says a colleague. "It's got to be the Russians or the Chinese. Friends don't read each other's mail."
The CISO says, "No one is above suspicion here. Our FVEY partners have been known to both collect intelligence and seek to embarrass other partners when it suited their strategic needs. It could have been anyone. Until we know for sure, though, we will continue to regard them as allies."
Leaders of the nations at the summit agree they all need to perform forensic analysis on their respective systems to identify the bad actor.
Your CISO continues. "Let's get to the bottom of this. We’re all familiar with data exfiltration attacks; do you think that's part of what we're dealing with here? Or do you think there's more? Use our packet sniffing tools to a ...
Software security risk mitigation using object oriented design patterns
Abstract It is now well known that requirement and the design phase of software development lifecycle are the phases where security incorporation yields maximum benefits.In this paper, we have tried to tie security requirements, security features and security design patterns together in a single string. It is complete process that will help a designer to choose the most appropriate security design pattern depending on the security requirements. The process includes risk analysis methodology at the design phase of the software that is based on the common criteria requirement as it is a wellknown security standard that is generally used in the development of security requirements. Risk mitigation mechanisms are proposed in the form of security design patterns. Exhaustive list of most reliable and well proven security design patterns is prepared and their categorization is done on the basis of attributes like data sensitivity, sector, number of users etc. Identified patterns are divided into three levels of security. After the selection of security requirement, the software designer can calculate the percentage of security features contribution and on the basis of this percentage; design pattern level can be selected and applied.
Software security risk mitigation using object
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- 1. Eric Ficke, Keith Harrison PhD, Greg White PhD Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 What is CyberPatriot? (2013, January 1). Retrieved February 24, 2015, from http://www.uscyberpatriot.org/Pages/About/What-is-CyberPatriot.aspx CyberPatriot Participants Represent 49 States, Several Countries in CyberPatriot VII. (2013, September 30). Retrieved February 24, 2015, from https://www.uscyberpatriot.org/media/cyberpatriot-press-releases The CyberPatriot program, upon which this research is founded, was initiated by the Air Force Association to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The purpose of this particular research is to better understand which areas of cybersecurity are understood by high school competitors, in order to develop better competition compositions and related curricula in the future. The cyber defense competition consists of five timed, scored rounds, in a tiered- elimination style format, in addition to several unscored practice rounds. In each round, teams must work to fix security vulnerabilities and policy violations in order to score points. Each vulnerability category is ranked according to difficulty, which can then be used to judge which categories of vulnerabilities should be considered harder, and emphasized in future curricula. The purpose of this research is to better understand which areas of cybersecurity are better or worse understood by high school competitors, in order to develop better competitions and/or curriculum in the future. The CyberPatriot program was initiated by the Air Force Association to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation’s future. One component of the CyberPatriot program is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. This competition is designed to be a hands-on introduction to the intricate world of security in a way that is both engaging and educational. The competition is conducted through the use of Virtual Machines (VMs), which are built and configured with different operating systems (Windows 2K3, XP, 7, etc. and Linux distros), roles (Web Servers, DNS Servers, Workstations), and administrations (“company policy”, user lists, etc). The competition consists of five timed, scored rounds, in a tiered-elimination style format, in addition to several unscored practice rounds. Each VM has various security vulnerabilities and policy violations, which competitors must work to fix in order to score points, as granted by the CyberPatriot Competition System (CCS) scoring engine. Some VMs also include forensics questions, which are designed to introduce competitors to new security topics and encourage them to think critically about security implications. Each vulnerability checked gets categorized by the nature of the vulnerability and scored on the basis of the percentage of teams which correctly fixed that vulnerability within that round. Checks are then separated according to the biggest margin of difference between percentage of teams which passed each check on that round. Checks that were passed by a percentage higher than that above the biggest margin are marked as “easy checks”, while those below the biggest margin are marked as “hard checks”. Each vulnerability category is then marked according to how many checks of that category were marked “easy” and how many were marked “hard”. 1272 Teams from 52 US states and territories, Germany, South Korea and Canada competed in Round 2 of the competition. The VM from which we obtained these results had a total of 27 checks, of which 10 were named “easy” and 17 were named “hard”. The margin used to separate the difficulty of checks was from the 51st percentile to the 72nd, a difference of 21 percentage points. • Users checks: • 100% “Easy” (6/6 checks) • Malware checks: • 75% “Easy” (3/4 checks) • Policy checks: • 16.67% “Easy” (1/6 checks) • Updates checks: • 0.0% “Easy” (0/4 checks) • Services/Applications checks: • 0.0% “Easy” (0/4 checks) • Miscellaneous checks: • 0.0% “Easy” (0/3 checks) Competitors excelled in fixing vulnerabilities relating to system users and malware presence Vulnerabilities relating to running and configuring updates or specific applications were fixed much less often Future cybersecurity curricula should work to inform students about the importance of updates and application security Figure #1. Vulnerability Checks from a single VM from round 2, with vulnerability category and percentage passed CyberPatriot High School Cyber Defense Competition ABSTRACT BACKGROUND PURPOSE METHODOLOGY RESULTS SUMMARY REFERENCES Figure #2. Vulnerability Categories from a single VM from round 2, with percentage of checks in each difficulty and average percentage passed for checks in that category UTSA Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry Showcase 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Users Users Users Users Users Users Malware Malware Malware Policy Policy Misc Updates Updates Updates Policy Malware Misc Policy Services/Applications Services/Applications Services/Applications Misc Policy Policy Services/Applications Updates Individual Checks by Difficulty "Easy" Checks "Hard" Checks 0 20 40 60 80 100 Vulnerability Categories by Difficulty % "Easy" Checks Category Average % "Hard" Checks