The document outlines a webinar presented by Steven Turner and Alan Cottom, focusing on identifying, preventing, and securing against advanced evasion techniques (AETs) in cyber attacks. It details the nature of AETs, which allow attackers to evade detection by security systems, and emphasizes the need for comprehensive security solutions that can address these threats. The presentation includes a demonstration of Stonesoft's security solutions, showcasing their efficacy in detecting and mitigating AETs.

1. Identify, prevent and secure against
the unidentifiable attacks
Presented by:
Dr Steven Turner, VP of Optimisation, Intergence
Alan Cottom, CISSP, Solutions Architect, Stonesoft

2. Optimising your connected world.
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Agenda
The webinar has three parts
Alan Cottom; Advanced Evasion Techniques; are you
protected?
Steve Turner; Hyperglance live demo
Q&A section

4. Advanced Evasion
Techniques (AET)
Are you protected?
Alan Cottom – Solutions Architect, Stonesoft

5. Physical & Virtual Security Appliances

6. Evasion (definition)
Evasion techniques are a means to disguise and/or
modify cyber attacks to avoid detection and blocking by
information security systems. Evasions enable advanced and
hostile cyber criminals to deliver any malicious content,
exploit or attack to a vulnerable system without
detection, that would normally be detected and stopped.
Security systems are rendered ineffective against such
evasion techniques. (In the same way a stealth fighter can attack without
detection by radar and other defensive systems)

7. Evasion timeline
• First papers appeared detailing attacks against or
ways to bypass network intrusion detection.
1997-98
• Possibility to combine evasions suggested
2004
• 12 (or so) known “traditional” evasion methods
• Stonesoft R&D begin research
2007

8. Evasion timeline
• Stonesoft share findings on new evasion threat
• Stonesoft deliver 23 STACKABLE AETs to CERT
2010
• February – Stonesoft deliver 124 new AETs
• October – Stonesoft deliver further 160 new AETs
2011
• Approx. 2^300 Advanced Evasion Techniques
Today

9. Advanced Evasion Techniques (AET)
What are they?
Any technique used to implement network based attacks in order to
evade and bypass security detection
What makes them advanced?
Combination of evasions working simultaneously on multiple protocol
layers
Combination of evasions that can change during the attack
Carefully designed to evade inspection
Typically, AETs are used as part of Advanced
Persistent Threats (APT)
APT = Motivation – i.e. we want to target you or your organisation
AET = Method – i.e. the way in which we will attempt to gain entry

10. Surely my current IPS/IDS/NGFW
can stop them?
Stonesoft have run tests against all of the highest ranked security devices
from the Gartner Magic Quadrant
It is possible to effortlessly evade most market-leading security solutions by
using one or more advanced evasion techniques (AETs).
All products are running the latest versions and updates.
StoneGate products were originally vulnerable but now include
comprehensive protection against AETs as standard.

11. AETs in action
AET Test Environment
Untrusted Network Security Device(s) Protected Network
[Exploit with AETs]
Predator Target
[AET Attack] [Vulnerable]
Tool Host
Gartner Magic
Quadrant
IPS/IDS/NGFW
Solutions

12. AETs in action…
AET Demonstration

13. Protection Against AETs
Multi-layer Traffic Normalization
• StoneGate IPS decodes and normalizes traffic
for inspection on all protocol layers.
• Fingerprints detect exploits in the normalized
data stream.
Dynamic Protection
• StoneGate IPS software upgrades update the
Layered Normalization on all protocol layers.
• When new Anti-Evasion updates are available,
the StoneGate Management Center can
upgrade IPS engines remotely.

14. Vertical Inspection of the data traffic
Packet, segment or pseudo -packet based inspection process
Maximum Inspection Space
Data Traffic
Application
Protocol layers 3
(Streams)
2
TCP level
Segments,
pseudo packets
1
IP level
Packets
Limited Protocol Partial or No Evasion Removal Detect and Block Exploits
1 decoding and inspection 2 Majority of the traffic is left without 3 Unreliable or impossible exploit detection
capability to gain speed. evasion removal and inspected with when evasion are not removed on all layers.
limited context information available.

15. Horizontal
Data stream based, full Stack normalization and inspection process
Data Traffic
…Continuous Inspection Space…
Application
Protocol level
(Streams) 1 2 3 4
TCP level
Segments, 1
pseudo packets
IP level
Packets 1
Normalize traffic on all Advanced Evasion Detect exploits from the fully Alert and report
4 Evasion attacks
1 protocol layers as a 2 removal process makes the 3 evasion free data stream.
continious process. traffic evasion free and through management
exploits detectable. system

16. Stonesoft AET Differentiators
Stonesoft FW / IPS Description
Full-stack visibility Stonesoft decodes and normalizes traffic on all protocol layers
Normalization based evasion removal Normalization process remove the evasions before the data
stream inspection
Horizontal data stream-based inspection Vulnerability based fingerprints detect exploits in the
normalized data stream
Inhouse evasion research and tools Evasion-proof product quality assured with automated evasion
fuzzing tests (PREDATOR)
Built-in evasion recognition and logging Anomaly and evasion information included into threat context
Dynamic updates & upgrades Antievasion technology automatically updated to Next-
Generation IPS and Firewall engines

17. AERT - Advanced Evasion Readiness Test

18. AETs - Comment
“Advanced Evasion “If the network security “Recent research indicates
Techniques can evade system misses any type of that Advanced Evasion
many network security evasion it means a hacker Techniques are real and
systems. We were able to can use an entire class of credible – not to mention
validate Stonesoft’s exploits to circumvent growing –a growing threat
research and believe that security products, against the network security
these Advanced Evasion rendering them virtually infrastructure that protects
Techniques can result in useless. Advanced Evasion governments, commerce and
lost corporate assets with Techniques increase the information-sharing
potentially serious potential of evasion success worldwide. Network security
consequences for breached against the IPS, which vendors need to devote the
organizations.” creates a serious concern research and resources to
for today’s networks.” finding a solution.“
– Jack Walsh, Program
Manager – Rick Moy, President – Bob Walder, Research
Director

19. alan.cottom@stonesoft.com
www.stonesoft.com

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DEMONSTRATION

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Q&A
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