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How does Academia fare
in the realm of Web
Security?
Literature Review
Cryptography Across Industry Sectors
Investigation into HTTPS and HTTP header
adoption across industry sectors
Used Alexa categories for identify industry sector
Prof. Bill Buchanan
OBE
Prof. Alan
Woodward
Scott Helme
Our Key Findings
HTTPS
Highest share of HTTPS
adoption is 81% in the
Adult industry section
News and Recreation share
lowest share at 8%
Cipher Suite
ECDHE RSA w/ AES256
GCM SHA384 is the most
popular across the majority
of industry sectors
Certificate Authority
COMODO, GoDaddy and
Symantic podium across all
industry sectors
Let’s Encrypt appears in
Top 10 for Adult and
Games
TLS Version
TLSv1.2 is the
overwhelmingly most used
version.
TLSv1.0 is most used in
Recreation
HTTP Headers
Highest share of HTTPS
adoption is 81% in the
Adult industry section
Web Server
Apache was the most
popular across all industry
sectors
Adult, Arts, Business, Computers,
Games, Health, Home, Kids and
Teens, News, Recreation, Reference,
Regional, Science, Shopping,
Society, Sports, World
Methodology
Ask a Friend
I manage to rope Lloyd into writing a
scanner
● Written in Go
● Available upon request
● May need some tweaks
Creating a List of Academic Institutions
3
College mergers!
Go through college
mergers which don’t
have their own sites
and add each of the
individual colleges
Raises total to 490
1
National Student
Survey provides 438
institutions across UK
2
Upon inspection of the
dataset numerous
Scottish, Welsh and
Northern Irish
institutions are not
included on the list.
Adding these raised
the total to 475
Results
Key Findings
HTTPS
Of the 490 sites, 438
responded
Out of these 438 sites only
303 had HTTPS redirects
Cipher Suite
TLS ECDHE RSA w/ AES
256 CBC SHA is the most
used cipher suite
There was 251 unknown
results
Certificate Authority
QuoVadis is the most
popular CA at 140 sites
Let’s Encrypt was 2nd most
popular at 51
TLS Version
TLS 1.2 is the most popular
TLS version at 292
10 sites are using TLS 1.0
HTTP Headers
Total 420 HTTP headers
across 438 websites
X-Frame-Options is the
most common at 133
Only 16 sites have CSPs
Web Server
Apache is by far the most
popular web server used at
171 sites
Followed by Nginx and then
Microsoft IIS
Thanks!
Any questions?
thehairyj.github.com/websec
@TheHairyJ
@LloydLabs
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How does Academia fare in the realm of Web Security?

  • 1. How does Academia fare in the realm of Web Security?
  • 3. Cryptography Across Industry Sectors Investigation into HTTPS and HTTP header adoption across industry sectors Used Alexa categories for identify industry sector Prof. Bill Buchanan OBE Prof. Alan Woodward Scott Helme
  • 4. Our Key Findings HTTPS Highest share of HTTPS adoption is 81% in the Adult industry section News and Recreation share lowest share at 8% Cipher Suite ECDHE RSA w/ AES256 GCM SHA384 is the most popular across the majority of industry sectors Certificate Authority COMODO, GoDaddy and Symantic podium across all industry sectors Let’s Encrypt appears in Top 10 for Adult and Games TLS Version TLSv1.2 is the overwhelmingly most used version. TLSv1.0 is most used in Recreation HTTP Headers Highest share of HTTPS adoption is 81% in the Adult industry section Web Server Apache was the most popular across all industry sectors
  • 5. Adult, Arts, Business, Computers, Games, Health, Home, Kids and Teens, News, Recreation, Reference, Regional, Science, Shopping, Society, Sports, World
  • 7. Ask a Friend I manage to rope Lloyd into writing a scanner ● Written in Go ● Available upon request ● May need some tweaks
  • 8. Creating a List of Academic Institutions 3 College mergers! Go through college mergers which don’t have their own sites and add each of the individual colleges Raises total to 490 1 National Student Survey provides 438 institutions across UK 2 Upon inspection of the dataset numerous Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish institutions are not included on the list. Adding these raised the total to 475
  • 10. Key Findings HTTPS Of the 490 sites, 438 responded Out of these 438 sites only 303 had HTTPS redirects Cipher Suite TLS ECDHE RSA w/ AES 256 CBC SHA is the most used cipher suite There was 251 unknown results Certificate Authority QuoVadis is the most popular CA at 140 sites Let’s Encrypt was 2nd most popular at 51 TLS Version TLS 1.2 is the most popular TLS version at 292 10 sites are using TLS 1.0 HTTP Headers Total 420 HTTP headers across 438 websites X-Frame-Options is the most common at 133 Only 16 sites have CSPs Web Server Apache is by far the most popular web server used at 171 sites Followed by Nginx and then Microsoft IIS