Build a Security Portfolio That Strengthens Your Security PostureSplunk
All data is security relevant – whether you are an IT or security professional, it is important to gain context into all your data to understand your environment, quickly hunt for and investigate potential threats in your environment, and take action to remediate.
This document outlines an agenda for a training on threat hunting with Splunk. It discusses threat hunting basics and data sources for threat hunting including network, endpoint, threat intelligence and security information. It provides log in credentials for the hands-on portion and covers topics like the cyber kill chain framework, conducting searches on endpoint data with Sysmon, mapping network communications to processes, and walking through a demo attack scenario across multiple data sources.
Threat Hunting with Deceptive Defense and Splunk Enterprise SecuritySatnam Singh
Threat hunting has been primarily a playground for security experts in surfacing unknown threats. It is a proactive security approach where the hunt starts with a hypothesis about a hidden threat that may be already in the enterprise network. According to 2017 survey on threat hunting by the SANS Institute, nearly 45% of organizations hunt on an ad hoc basis. The ad hoc approach is ineffective and does not yield sufficient results to cover the cost of threat hunting. Considering the scarcity of security analysts, the ad hoc threat hunting becomes a costly and expensive process. Also, threat hunting is typically performed by doing outlier detection of the data. For example, analysts usually do outlier detection to find suspicious processes out of Windows process logs. The outlier detection can be done using simple box plots, control charts, or using more sophisticated unsupervised machine learning techniques. However, the output of all the outlier detection techniques is outliers/anomalies that still need to be audited/investigated by the security analysts. This adds more workload to the already overwhelmed security analyst.
The fusion of data science and deceive security provides an opportunity to validate many alerts automatically and therefore provides an automated approach from threat hunting. Deceptive defense system offers a way to confirm an adversary presence with nearly 0% false alarms when the adversary bumps onto one of the deceptions. The modern set of deceptions is the reincarnation of honeypots, honeytokens, honeynets, and honey files that blends well within the network and can dynamically change their configurations. When an adversary access a deception, it raises a positive affirmation of a threat. In this approach, one needs to use alerts and contextual security events along with deceptive security to rank the existing alerts. It takes away a lot of manual verification of various security alerts.
.conf2016: Splunking the Endpoint: “Hands on!” Ransomware EditionSplunk
Agenda:
Ransomware overview
How do we log in?
Hands-On: Detection by watching the endpoints
Hands-On: A diversion over to forensics
Hands-On: Ideas for prevention
Ransomware detection, cybersecurity, data analytics and application.
Wie Sie Ransomware aufspüren und was Sie dagegen machen könnenSplunk
Ransomware ist nicht mehr nur ein auf Privatanwender ausgerichtetes Ärgernis, sondern hat sich zu einer ernstzunehmenden Bedrohung für Unternehmen und Regierungseinrichtungen entwickelt.
In unserem Webinar können Sie mehr darüber herausfinden, was Ransomware genau ist und wie es funktioniert. Anschliessend zeigen wir Ihnen das Ganze in einer Live Demo mit Daten aus einer Windows Ransomware Infektion.
Detailliert zeigen wir Ihnen:
- wie Sie mit Splunk Enterprise Ransomware IOCs "jagen"
- wie Sie Malicious Endpoint Verhalten aufdecken
- Abwehrstrategien
Splunk GDPR Security Roundtable: Zurich - 22 Nov 2017 PT2Splunk
Slides from the GDPR Security Roundtable hosted in Zurich. Part 2 of 2.
“The aim of the GDPR is to protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly data-driven world" - Goal of the General Data Protection Regulation.
SplunkLive! Stockholm 2015 breakout - Analytics based securitySplunk
This document discusses how Splunk can be used for security analytics and threat detection. It describes how Splunk allows organizations to centrally gather and correlate security-related data from various sources like networks, endpoints, applications and threat intelligence feeds. This enables use cases like monitoring for known threats, detecting unknown threats, incident investigation and user behavior analytics. Advanced techniques like machine learning and user/entity behavior analytics are also discussed to help identify anomalous activity that could indicate security incidents or threats.
- The Security Posture dashboard provides a near real-time overview of an organization's security posture by displaying notable security events.
- The analyst can pivot from this dashboard to the Incident Review dashboard to begin investigating critical notable events.
- Drilling into a notable event on the Incident Review dashboard provides important context about the event such as the affected systems, compliance data, and location to assist the analyst's investigation.
Build a Security Portfolio That Strengthens Your Security PostureSplunk
All data is security relevant – whether you are an IT or security professional, it is important to gain context into all your data to understand your environment, quickly hunt for and investigate potential threats in your environment, and take action to remediate.
This document outlines an agenda for a training on threat hunting with Splunk. It discusses threat hunting basics and data sources for threat hunting including network, endpoint, threat intelligence and security information. It provides log in credentials for the hands-on portion and covers topics like the cyber kill chain framework, conducting searches on endpoint data with Sysmon, mapping network communications to processes, and walking through a demo attack scenario across multiple data sources.
Threat Hunting with Deceptive Defense and Splunk Enterprise SecuritySatnam Singh
Threat hunting has been primarily a playground for security experts in surfacing unknown threats. It is a proactive security approach where the hunt starts with a hypothesis about a hidden threat that may be already in the enterprise network. According to 2017 survey on threat hunting by the SANS Institute, nearly 45% of organizations hunt on an ad hoc basis. The ad hoc approach is ineffective and does not yield sufficient results to cover the cost of threat hunting. Considering the scarcity of security analysts, the ad hoc threat hunting becomes a costly and expensive process. Also, threat hunting is typically performed by doing outlier detection of the data. For example, analysts usually do outlier detection to find suspicious processes out of Windows process logs. The outlier detection can be done using simple box plots, control charts, or using more sophisticated unsupervised machine learning techniques. However, the output of all the outlier detection techniques is outliers/anomalies that still need to be audited/investigated by the security analysts. This adds more workload to the already overwhelmed security analyst.
The fusion of data science and deceive security provides an opportunity to validate many alerts automatically and therefore provides an automated approach from threat hunting. Deceptive defense system offers a way to confirm an adversary presence with nearly 0% false alarms when the adversary bumps onto one of the deceptions. The modern set of deceptions is the reincarnation of honeypots, honeytokens, honeynets, and honey files that blends well within the network and can dynamically change their configurations. When an adversary access a deception, it raises a positive affirmation of a threat. In this approach, one needs to use alerts and contextual security events along with deceptive security to rank the existing alerts. It takes away a lot of manual verification of various security alerts.
.conf2016: Splunking the Endpoint: “Hands on!” Ransomware EditionSplunk
Agenda:
Ransomware overview
How do we log in?
Hands-On: Detection by watching the endpoints
Hands-On: A diversion over to forensics
Hands-On: Ideas for prevention
Ransomware detection, cybersecurity, data analytics and application.
Wie Sie Ransomware aufspüren und was Sie dagegen machen könnenSplunk
Ransomware ist nicht mehr nur ein auf Privatanwender ausgerichtetes Ärgernis, sondern hat sich zu einer ernstzunehmenden Bedrohung für Unternehmen und Regierungseinrichtungen entwickelt.
In unserem Webinar können Sie mehr darüber herausfinden, was Ransomware genau ist und wie es funktioniert. Anschliessend zeigen wir Ihnen das Ganze in einer Live Demo mit Daten aus einer Windows Ransomware Infektion.
Detailliert zeigen wir Ihnen:
- wie Sie mit Splunk Enterprise Ransomware IOCs "jagen"
- wie Sie Malicious Endpoint Verhalten aufdecken
- Abwehrstrategien
Splunk GDPR Security Roundtable: Zurich - 22 Nov 2017 PT2Splunk
Slides from the GDPR Security Roundtable hosted in Zurich. Part 2 of 2.
“The aim of the GDPR is to protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly data-driven world" - Goal of the General Data Protection Regulation.
SplunkLive! Stockholm 2015 breakout - Analytics based securitySplunk
This document discusses how Splunk can be used for security analytics and threat detection. It describes how Splunk allows organizations to centrally gather and correlate security-related data from various sources like networks, endpoints, applications and threat intelligence feeds. This enables use cases like monitoring for known threats, detecting unknown threats, incident investigation and user behavior analytics. Advanced techniques like machine learning and user/entity behavior analytics are also discussed to help identify anomalous activity that could indicate security incidents or threats.
- The Security Posture dashboard provides a near real-time overview of an organization's security posture by displaying notable security events.
- The analyst can pivot from this dashboard to the Incident Review dashboard to begin investigating critical notable events.
- Drilling into a notable event on the Incident Review dashboard provides important context about the event such as the affected systems, compliance data, and location to assist the analyst's investigation.
This document summarizes a presentation about operationalizing advanced threat defense. It discusses how advanced threat actors have established a mature economy of cyber threats with global reach. It then outlines an approach to combat these threats by connecting all security and operational data sources to gain comprehensive visibility, and leveraging threat intelligence and security analytics to detect threats across the entire kill chain. The presentation also demonstrates Enterprise Security 3.x software for continuous monitoring and advanced threat detection.
The 3 Generations of Security Operations Centres
Follow the Bank of England’s journey with Splunk and discover how the UK’s central bank is transitioning its security operations centre towards a more automated future
The Security Industry is Suffering from Fragmentation, What Can Your Organiza...ThreatConnect
This presentation discusses why and how security programs are dying. The fragmentation of people, processes, and technology. How to defrag people, processes, and technology. Then what your organization can do to resolve this.
Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
The document is a presentation on threat hunting with Splunk. It discusses threat hunting basics and data sources, the cyber kill chain model, and conducting a hands-on attack scenario investigation using Splunk. It also covers advanced threat hunting techniques and tools, applying machine learning and data science to security, and increasing an organization's threat hunting maturity. The presentation includes examples of using Splunk to investigate a hypothetical attack spanning multiple stages of the cyber kill chain using various security data sources.
This document provides an overview of threat hunting using Splunk. It begins with an introduction to threat hunting and why it is important. The presentation then discusses key building blocks for driving threat hunting maturity, including search and visualization, data enrichment, ingesting data sources, and applying machine learning. It provides examples of internal data sources that can be used for hunting like IP addresses, network artifacts, DNS, and endpoint data. The presentation demonstrates hunting using the Microsoft Sysmon endpoint agent, walking through an example attack scenario matching the Cyber Kill Chain framework. It shows how to investigate a potential compromise by searching across web, DNS, proxy, firewall, and endpoint data in Splunk to trace suspicious activity back to a specific user.
Republic Services uses Splunk Cloud to aggregate security logs from multiple sources and gain visibility into security events across their enterprise. Their small information security team leverages Splunk Cloud for log collection, event analysis, and investigations. Splunk Cloud has provided faster response times to threats, ease of use through a single search interface, enhanced visibility, and has helped the team gain internal allies by assisting others with their data questions. Managing and integrating data into Splunk is an ongoing process that requires communication across teams.
Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely solely on alerts from point solutions to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Splunk Enterprise for Information Security Hands-On Breakout SessionSplunk
This document provides information about detecting various web attacks and lateral movement in a Splunk environment. It includes examples of searches to detect SQL injection and pass the hash attacks in event data, as well as how to identify lateral movement by analyzing changes in network traffic patterns. DNS exfiltration techniques are also discussed, along with using Shannon entropy and subdomain length to identify potential data exfiltration in DNS query logs.
SplunkLive! Utrecht - Splunk for Security - Monzy MerzaSplunk
The document discusses transforming security through new approaches like adaptive response, machine learning, and centralized monitoring and command centers. It summarizes new features being added to Splunk Enterprise Security like improved threat detection, user behavior analytics, adaptive response capabilities, and enhanced visual analytics. The presentation highlights how these new Splunk security solutions help optimize security operations centers and augment or replace security information and event management systems.
You’re a CIO, CISO or DPO - and you’ve been woken up in the middle of the night because personal data held by your organization has been discovered for sale on the dark web. This disclosure puts the privacy of your customers at risk. What do you do next?
Join this session to learn about the impact of GDPR and go through a breach investigation and response scenario as it would be after GDPR comes into effect in May 2018. You’ll hear from Splunk’s Data Privacy Officer Elizabeth Davies and Splunk’s Security Ninja Matthias Maier.
What you will learn:
- What breach response will look like under the GDPR
- What tools and processes a data privacy officer will rely on in case of a breach
- What departments and entities will be involved beyond IT
- What activities are currently happening within organizations to prepare for the GDPR
- What the consequences of the breach could be
Watch the webinar: http://explore.splunk.com/GDPR_Webinar_EN
Sie haben viel Geld für Ihre Security Infrastruktur ausgegeben. Wie führen Sie nun all die verschiedenen Systeme zusammen, damit Sie Ihre Ziele erreichen: Bedrohungen schnelle entdecken, darauf reagieren und sie zukünftig zu verhindern. Gleichzeitg soll es Ihrem Security Team natürlich möglich sein, im Sinne Ihre Geschäftstätigkeit und Strategie zu handeln. Erfahren Sie hier, wie Sie Ihre Security Ressources am effektivsten einsetzen. Wir zeigen Ihnen das Ganze in einer Live Demo.
Splunk live nyc_2017_sec_buildinganalyticsdrivensocRene Aguero
The document is a presentation by Rene Aguero on building an analytics-driven security operations center (SOC) using Splunk solutions. It discusses challenges with traditional SOCs, emerging trends like threat hunting and automation, and the key components of a SOC technology stack including log management, asset tracking, threat intelligence, and case management. It then outlines how Splunk solutions can help address these issues by providing a platform for centralized data collection, correlation with threat intelligence, and advanced analytics including machine learning.
This document discusses the importance of building quality and security into software from the beginning through practices like DevSecOps. It notes that while many organizations deploy code multiple times per week, many are still downloading outdated or vulnerable open source components. Automating security processes and having complete visibility into software supply chains is key to reducing vulnerabilities and speeding up remediation times. The document advocates for prioritizing the performance of the entire system over any individual part and never passing defects downstream.
Learn how to use an Analytics-Driven SIEM for your Security OperationsSplunk
Join our Security Experts and learn about our Analytics-Driven SIEM, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) in a live, hands-on session. You will start off with a hands-on tour of Splunk's award-winning SIEM, Splunk Enterprise Security and understand its key frameworks and its unique capabilities. Then, you will work on hands-on exercises that involve threat detection, incident investigation and how to take rapid responses using data from a range of sources such as threat list intelligence feeds, endpoint activity logs, e-mail logs, and web logs. This session is a must session for all security practitioners.
An insider threat is a malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization's security practices, data and computer systems. The threat may involve fraud, the theft of confidential or commercially valuable information, the theft of intellectual property, or the sabotage of computer systems.
The document is a presentation on threat hunting with Splunk. It discusses threat hunting basics, data sources for threat hunting, knowing your endpoint, and the cyber kill chain model. It provides an agenda that includes a hands-on walkthrough of an attack scenario using Splunk's core capabilities. It also covers advanced threat hunting techniques and tools, enterprise security walkthroughs, and applying machine learning and data science to security.
Who should attend? Anyone that works in security and wants to leverage their machine data to detect internal and advanced threats, monitor activities in real time, and improve their organization's security posture.
Description: Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Splunk for Enterprise Security featuring User Behavior Analytics Splunk
This session will review Splunk’s two premium solutions for information security organizations: Splunk for Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA). Splunk ES is Splunk's award-winning security intelligence solution that brings immediate value for continuous monitoring across SOC and incident response environments – allowing you to quickly detect and respond to external and internal attacks, simplifying threat management while decreasing risk. Splunk UBA is a new technology that applies unsupervised machine learning and data science to solving one of the biggest problems in information security today: insider threat. You’ll learn how Splunk UBA works in tandem with ES, or third-party data sources, to bring significant automated analytical power to your SOC and Incident Response teams. We’ll discuss each solution and see them integrated and in action through detailed demos.
Splunk Discovery Dusseldorf: September 2017 - Security SessionSplunk
The Splunk experience came to Dusseldorf on September 20th 2017! Attendees learnt how to bring together all their different systems to help achieve their security goals.
Are NIST standards clouding the implementation of HIPAA security risk assessm...David Sweigert
The HIPAA Security Rule (at 45 C.F.R. §164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)) requires an initial security risk analysis according to risk analysis guidance issued by HHS/OCR based on NIST standards.
OCR Audit Protocols for Risk Analysis are clear! CMS, as planned, has launched audits of organizations who have attested to Meaningful Use Objectives and Risk Analyses will be audited. Have you completed a bona fide HIPAA Security Risk Analysis?
1) The security landscape has changed dramatically in recent years as threats grow at alarming rates and existing security solutions become quickly outdated.
2) The article investigates the changes in security and compliance driven by increased regulatory requirements, the need to align security strategies with business needs, a growing focus on information over infrastructure, and new threats like social media and cloud computing.
3) Interviews with security leaders from three organizations reveal how they are addressing these changes through initiatives like deploying Symantec solutions for centralized security and compliance management and adhering to standards like ISO 27001.
This document summarizes a presentation about operationalizing advanced threat defense. It discusses how advanced threat actors have established a mature economy of cyber threats with global reach. It then outlines an approach to combat these threats by connecting all security and operational data sources to gain comprehensive visibility, and leveraging threat intelligence and security analytics to detect threats across the entire kill chain. The presentation also demonstrates Enterprise Security 3.x software for continuous monitoring and advanced threat detection.
The 3 Generations of Security Operations Centres
Follow the Bank of England’s journey with Splunk and discover how the UK’s central bank is transitioning its security operations centre towards a more automated future
The Security Industry is Suffering from Fragmentation, What Can Your Organiza...ThreatConnect
This presentation discusses why and how security programs are dying. The fragmentation of people, processes, and technology. How to defrag people, processes, and technology. Then what your organization can do to resolve this.
Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
The document is a presentation on threat hunting with Splunk. It discusses threat hunting basics and data sources, the cyber kill chain model, and conducting a hands-on attack scenario investigation using Splunk. It also covers advanced threat hunting techniques and tools, applying machine learning and data science to security, and increasing an organization's threat hunting maturity. The presentation includes examples of using Splunk to investigate a hypothetical attack spanning multiple stages of the cyber kill chain using various security data sources.
This document provides an overview of threat hunting using Splunk. It begins with an introduction to threat hunting and why it is important. The presentation then discusses key building blocks for driving threat hunting maturity, including search and visualization, data enrichment, ingesting data sources, and applying machine learning. It provides examples of internal data sources that can be used for hunting like IP addresses, network artifacts, DNS, and endpoint data. The presentation demonstrates hunting using the Microsoft Sysmon endpoint agent, walking through an example attack scenario matching the Cyber Kill Chain framework. It shows how to investigate a potential compromise by searching across web, DNS, proxy, firewall, and endpoint data in Splunk to trace suspicious activity back to a specific user.
Republic Services uses Splunk Cloud to aggregate security logs from multiple sources and gain visibility into security events across their enterprise. Their small information security team leverages Splunk Cloud for log collection, event analysis, and investigations. Splunk Cloud has provided faster response times to threats, ease of use through a single search interface, enhanced visibility, and has helped the team gain internal allies by assisting others with their data questions. Managing and integrating data into Splunk is an ongoing process that requires communication across teams.
Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely solely on alerts from point solutions to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Splunk Enterprise for Information Security Hands-On Breakout SessionSplunk
This document provides information about detecting various web attacks and lateral movement in a Splunk environment. It includes examples of searches to detect SQL injection and pass the hash attacks in event data, as well as how to identify lateral movement by analyzing changes in network traffic patterns. DNS exfiltration techniques are also discussed, along with using Shannon entropy and subdomain length to identify potential data exfiltration in DNS query logs.
SplunkLive! Utrecht - Splunk for Security - Monzy MerzaSplunk
The document discusses transforming security through new approaches like adaptive response, machine learning, and centralized monitoring and command centers. It summarizes new features being added to Splunk Enterprise Security like improved threat detection, user behavior analytics, adaptive response capabilities, and enhanced visual analytics. The presentation highlights how these new Splunk security solutions help optimize security operations centers and augment or replace security information and event management systems.
You’re a CIO, CISO or DPO - and you’ve been woken up in the middle of the night because personal data held by your organization has been discovered for sale on the dark web. This disclosure puts the privacy of your customers at risk. What do you do next?
Join this session to learn about the impact of GDPR and go through a breach investigation and response scenario as it would be after GDPR comes into effect in May 2018. You’ll hear from Splunk’s Data Privacy Officer Elizabeth Davies and Splunk’s Security Ninja Matthias Maier.
What you will learn:
- What breach response will look like under the GDPR
- What tools and processes a data privacy officer will rely on in case of a breach
- What departments and entities will be involved beyond IT
- What activities are currently happening within organizations to prepare for the GDPR
- What the consequences of the breach could be
Watch the webinar: http://explore.splunk.com/GDPR_Webinar_EN
Sie haben viel Geld für Ihre Security Infrastruktur ausgegeben. Wie führen Sie nun all die verschiedenen Systeme zusammen, damit Sie Ihre Ziele erreichen: Bedrohungen schnelle entdecken, darauf reagieren und sie zukünftig zu verhindern. Gleichzeitg soll es Ihrem Security Team natürlich möglich sein, im Sinne Ihre Geschäftstätigkeit und Strategie zu handeln. Erfahren Sie hier, wie Sie Ihre Security Ressources am effektivsten einsetzen. Wir zeigen Ihnen das Ganze in einer Live Demo.
Splunk live nyc_2017_sec_buildinganalyticsdrivensocRene Aguero
The document is a presentation by Rene Aguero on building an analytics-driven security operations center (SOC) using Splunk solutions. It discusses challenges with traditional SOCs, emerging trends like threat hunting and automation, and the key components of a SOC technology stack including log management, asset tracking, threat intelligence, and case management. It then outlines how Splunk solutions can help address these issues by providing a platform for centralized data collection, correlation with threat intelligence, and advanced analytics including machine learning.
This document discusses the importance of building quality and security into software from the beginning through practices like DevSecOps. It notes that while many organizations deploy code multiple times per week, many are still downloading outdated or vulnerable open source components. Automating security processes and having complete visibility into software supply chains is key to reducing vulnerabilities and speeding up remediation times. The document advocates for prioritizing the performance of the entire system over any individual part and never passing defects downstream.
Learn how to use an Analytics-Driven SIEM for your Security OperationsSplunk
Join our Security Experts and learn about our Analytics-Driven SIEM, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) in a live, hands-on session. You will start off with a hands-on tour of Splunk's award-winning SIEM, Splunk Enterprise Security and understand its key frameworks and its unique capabilities. Then, you will work on hands-on exercises that involve threat detection, incident investigation and how to take rapid responses using data from a range of sources such as threat list intelligence feeds, endpoint activity logs, e-mail logs, and web logs. This session is a must session for all security practitioners.
An insider threat is a malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization's security practices, data and computer systems. The threat may involve fraud, the theft of confidential or commercially valuable information, the theft of intellectual property, or the sabotage of computer systems.
The document is a presentation on threat hunting with Splunk. It discusses threat hunting basics, data sources for threat hunting, knowing your endpoint, and the cyber kill chain model. It provides an agenda that includes a hands-on walkthrough of an attack scenario using Splunk's core capabilities. It also covers advanced threat hunting techniques and tools, enterprise security walkthroughs, and applying machine learning and data science to security.
Who should attend? Anyone that works in security and wants to leverage their machine data to detect internal and advanced threats, monitor activities in real time, and improve their organization's security posture.
Description: Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Splunk for Enterprise Security featuring User Behavior Analytics Splunk
This session will review Splunk’s two premium solutions for information security organizations: Splunk for Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA). Splunk ES is Splunk's award-winning security intelligence solution that brings immediate value for continuous monitoring across SOC and incident response environments – allowing you to quickly detect and respond to external and internal attacks, simplifying threat management while decreasing risk. Splunk UBA is a new technology that applies unsupervised machine learning and data science to solving one of the biggest problems in information security today: insider threat. You’ll learn how Splunk UBA works in tandem with ES, or third-party data sources, to bring significant automated analytical power to your SOC and Incident Response teams. We’ll discuss each solution and see them integrated and in action through detailed demos.
Splunk Discovery Dusseldorf: September 2017 - Security SessionSplunk
The Splunk experience came to Dusseldorf on September 20th 2017! Attendees learnt how to bring together all their different systems to help achieve their security goals.
Are NIST standards clouding the implementation of HIPAA security risk assessm...David Sweigert
The HIPAA Security Rule (at 45 C.F.R. §164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)) requires an initial security risk analysis according to risk analysis guidance issued by HHS/OCR based on NIST standards.
OCR Audit Protocols for Risk Analysis are clear! CMS, as planned, has launched audits of organizations who have attested to Meaningful Use Objectives and Risk Analyses will be audited. Have you completed a bona fide HIPAA Security Risk Analysis?
1) The security landscape has changed dramatically in recent years as threats grow at alarming rates and existing security solutions become quickly outdated.
2) The article investigates the changes in security and compliance driven by increased regulatory requirements, the need to align security strategies with business needs, a growing focus on information over infrastructure, and new threats like social media and cloud computing.
3) Interviews with security leaders from three organizations reveal how they are addressing these changes through initiatives like deploying Symantec solutions for centralized security and compliance management and adhering to standards like ISO 27001.
For more course tutorials visit
www.tutorialrank.com
CSEC 610 Project 1 Information Systems and Identity Management
CSEC 610 Project 2 Operating Systems Vulnerabilities (Windows and Linux)
CSEC 610 Project 3 Assessing Information System Vulnerabilities and Risk
This document discusses ethical hacking and provides details about the process. It begins with an introduction to hacking and defines ethical hacking as hacking into a system to evaluate and improve security rather than for criminal purposes.
It then outlines the 6 main steps in the ethical hacking process: 1) Planning, 2) Reconnaissance, 3) Vulnerability Analysis, 4) Exploitation, 5) Final Analysis, and 6) Deliverables. For each step, it provides a brief description of the goals and tasks.
Finally, it discusses different types of ethical hacking including remote network, remote dial up network, local network, stolen equipment, social engineering, and physical entry hacking. The overall document provides a high-level
What Is Security Risk Analysis? By: MedSafeMedSafe
What exactly is a Security Risk Analysis? Most practices ask, we deliver. This presentation covers all you should be concerned with. Go to www.MedSafe.com for more information!
Computer Forensics in the Age of ComplianceAnton Chuvakin
This document summarizes a paper on computer forensics in the age of compliance. It discusses how computer forensics aims to establish factual information for legal review by following scientific methods. Regulations like FISMA, HIPAA, and PCI DSS require organizations to preserve forensic evidence by securely logging activities and establishing incident response programs. The goal is to ensure compliance while facilitating computer forensic investigations.
This document outlines 6 projects for a CSEC 610 course. Project 1 involves assessing the security of a hospital's information systems after a security breach. Project 2 involves assessing operating system vulnerabilities in a company. Project 3 involves assessing vulnerabilities and risks after a security breach at the Office of Personnel Management. Project 4 involves threat analysis and exploitation of financial systems. Project 5 involves cryptography strategies. Project 6 involves digital forensics analysis. Each project provides a scenario and details deliverables such as reports and presentations.
For more course tutorials visit
www.newtonhelp.com
CSEC 610 Project 1 Information Systems and Identity Management
CSEC 610 Project 2 Operating Systems Vulnerabilities (Windows and Linux)
CSEC 610 Project 3 Assessing Information System Vulnerabilities and Risk
CSEC 610 Project 4 Threat Analysis and Exploitation
Csec 610 Education is Power/newtonhelp.comamaranthbeg72
For more course tutorials visit
www.newtonhelp.com
CSEC 610 Project 1 Information Systems and Identity Management
CSEC 610 Project 2 Operating Systems Vulnerabilities (Windows and Linux)
CSEC 610 Project 3 Assessing Information System Vulnerabilities and Risk
For more course tutorials visit
www.newtonhelp.com
CSEC 610 Project 1 Information Systems and Identity Management
CSEC 610 Project 2 Operating Systems Vulnerabilities (Windows and Linux)
CSEC 610 Project 3 Assessing Information System Vulnerabilities and Risk
PYA Principal Barry Mathis presented “The IT Analysis Paralysis,” in which attendees:
Received a compressive review of the many IT frameworks that can be used to develop effective internal audit programs.
Learned the differences between commercial, federal, and industry frameworks.
Received tips, tools, and techniques for creating an effective framework based on risk assessment and identified risks.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ComplianceControlCase
The majority of changes to HIPAA have been introduced and strengthened by the recent passage of the HITECH and Omni-bus rules.
ControlCase HIPAA Compliance as a Service (CaaS)
is an Integration of services, software and compliance management and reporting for HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001/2, SSAE16 and SAP through our cloud-based GRC.
This document outlines 6 projects for a cybersecurity course (CST 610). Project 1 involves assessing an organization's information systems infrastructure and identity management. Project 2 involves evaluating operating system vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux. Project 3 involves assessing vulnerabilities and risks after a security breach at the Office of Personnel Management. Project 4 involves threat analysis and exploitation. Project 5 involves cryptography. Project 6 involves digital forensics analysis. Each project provides details on required deliverables and evaluation criteria.
For more course tutorials visit
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CST 610 Project 1 Information Systems and Identity Management
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Computer Security
Incident Handling Guide
Recommendations of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology
Paul Cichonski
Tom Millar
Tim Grance
Karen Scarfone
Special Publication 800-61
Revision 2
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NIST Special Publication 800-61
Revision 2
Computer Security Incident Handling
Guide
Recommendations of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul Cichonski
Computer Security Division
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
Tom Millar
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
National Cyber Security Division
Department of Homeland Security
Tim Grance
Computer Security Division
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
Karen Scarfone
Scarfone Cybersecurity
C O M P U T E R S E C U R I T Y
August 2012
U.S. Department of Commerce
Rebecca Blank, Acting Secretary
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Patrick D. Gallagher,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology
and Director
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COMPUTER SECURITY INCIDENT HANDLING GUIDE
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Reports on Computer Systems Technology
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation’s
measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of
concept implementations, and technical analyses to advance the development and productive use of
information technology. ITL’s responsibilities include the development of management, administrative,
technical, and physical standards and guidelines for the cost-effective security and privacy of other than
national security-related information in Federal information systems. The Special Publication 800-series
reports on ITL’s research, guidelines, and outreach efforts in information system security, and its
collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations.
COMPUTER SECURITY INCIDENT HANDLING GUIDE
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Authority
This publication has been developed by NIST to further its statutory responsibilities under the Federal
Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Public Law (P.L.) 107-347. NIST is responsible for
developing information security standards and guidelines, including minimum requirements for Federal
information systems, but such standards and guidelines shall not apply to national security systems
without the express approval of appropriate Federal officials exercising policy authority over such
systems. This guideline is consistent with the requirements of the Office of Management and Budget
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2. “The Scary Slide” HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey
Protenus Breach Barometer
Health IT
News
3. So what’s going on??
Insider Threats!
E-mail!
Avg. 308 days
to discover the
breach! 1,037 days
to contain!
HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey
Protenus Breach Barometer Report
Global statistics in the most recent Ponemon report on the cost of a data
breach show dwell time for malicious attacks has stretched to an average
of 229 days. As most IT pros know, dwell time is the period between when a
malicious attack enters your network and when it is discovered.
The average amount of time it took
organizations in the sample to contain a data
breach was 69 days. In healthcare,
organizations took an average of
1,037 days to contain a data breach.
Ponemon Institute 2018.
Avg. number of days from breach to discovery - 2017
Protenus Breach Barometer Report
4. For Healthcare Entities - HIPAA points to NIST for best
security practices
https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework
6. Where is Healthcare still falling short?
• Not Performing Thorough Risk
Assessments
• Focusing on wrong risks
• Focusing on wrong assets
• Not detecting network activity
• High “Dwell time”
• Insider threats not discovered
• Lack of response planning
• Long Avg. days to respond and
contain
.
Healthcare’s
Focus is Here – on Protect
7. What should they be doing?
Create a Cybersecurity Framework and process based on
NIST CSF
Train personnel on cybersecurity awareness
Continuously!
Conduct a true security risk assessment
NOT a checklist!
Focus on ePHI assets
Asset inventory with technical details
You can’t protect what you don’t know about!
8. …..and more…
Implement a Security Operations Center
Either in-house or as a service
Need “eyes on glass” to monitor the network
Develop incident response plans
BEFORE the incident!
Implement next generation endpoint protection
Detect and Respond to threats proactively
Cyber-Security is not a “one and done” type of project, but is instead and ongoing effort. To assist firms in this sometimes large and daunting process, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was published in response to Presidential Executive Order 13636, “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity,” which called for a standardized security framework for critical infrastructure in the United States.
The NIST CSF is recognized by many as an excellent resource to help improve the security operations and governance for public and private organizations. The NIST CSF is organized into five core Functions also known as the Framework Core. The functions are organized concurrently with one another to represent a security lifecycle. Each function is essential to a well-operating security posture and successful management of cybersecurity risk. Definitions for each Function are as follows:
• Identify: Develop the organizational understanding to manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities.
• Protect: Develop and implement the appropriate safeguards to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services.
• Detect: Develop and implement the appropriate activities to identify the occurrence of a security event.
• Respond: Develop and implement the appropriate activities when facing a detected security event.
• Recover: Develop and implement the appropriate activities for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a security event.
Organizations wishing to increase their overall Cyber-security posture would be well served in investigating and implementing the NIST CSF. (More information on the NIST CSF can be found at: https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework)