This document discusses Zero Trust security and how to implement a Zero Trust network architecture. It begins with an overview of Zero Trust and why it is important given limitations of traditional perimeter-based networks. It then covers the basic components of a Zero Trust network, including an identity provider, device directory, policy evaluation service, and access proxy. The document provides guidance on designing a Zero Trust architecture by starting with questions about users, applications, conditions for access, and corresponding controls. Specific conditions discussed include user/device attributes as well as device health and identity. Benefits of the Zero Trust model include conditional access, preventing lateral movement, and increased productivity.
Presentation on Zero Trust model, used for the Codecademy Manipal Chapter event. Covers basic information about the Zero trust model, implementation, and benefits.
The Zero Trust Model of information #security simplifies how #information security is conceptualized by assuming there are no longer “trusted” interfaces, applications, traffic, networks, or users. It takes the old model— “trust but verify”—and inverts it, because recent breaches have proven that when an organization trusts, it doesn’t verify
The Zero Trust Model of Information Security Tripwire
In today’s IT threat landscape, the attacker might just as easily be over the cubicle wall as in another country. In the past, organizations have been content to use a trust and verify approach to information security, but that’s not working as threats from malicious insiders represent the most risk to organizations. Listen in as John Kindervag, Forrester Senior Analyst, explains why it’s not working and what you can do to address this IT security shortcoming.
In this webcast, you’ll hear:
Examples of major data breaches that originated from within the organization
Why it’s cheaper to invest in proactive breach prevention—even when the organization hasn’t been breached
What’s broken about the traditional trust and verify model of information security
About a new model for information security that works—the zero-trust model
Immediate and long-term activities to move organizations from the "trust and verify" model to the "verify and never trust" model
Zero Trust, Zero Trust Network, or Zero Trust Architecture refer to security concepts and threat model that no longer assumes that actors, systems or services operating from within the security perimeter should be automatically trusted, and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access.
A Zero Trust approach should extend throughout the entire digital estate and serve as an integrated security philosophy and end to end strategy.
Identities. Identities whether they represent people, services, or IOT devices define the Zero Trust control plane. When an identity attempts to access a resource, we need to verify that identity with strong authentication, ensure access is compliant and typical for that identity, and follows least privilege access principles.
Devices. Once an identity has been granted access to a resource, data can flow to a variety of different devices From IoT devices to smartphones, BYOD to partner managed devices, and on premises workloads to cloud hosted servers. This diversity creates a massive attack surface area, requiring we monitor and enforce device health and compliance for secure access.
Applications. Applications and APIs provide the interface by which data is consumed. They may be legacy on premises, lift and shifted to cloud workloads, or modern SaaS applications. Controls and technologies should be applied to discover Shadow IT, ensure appropriate in-app permissions, gate access based on real-time analytics, monitor for abnormal behavior, control of user actions, and validate secure configuration options.
Data. Ultimately, security teams are focused on protecting data. Where possible, data should remain safe even if it leaves the devices, apps, infrastructure, and networks the organization controls. Data should be classified, labeled, and encrypted, and access restricted based on those attributes.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure (whether on premises servers, cloud based VMs, containers, or micro services) represents a critical threat vector. Assess for version, configuration, and JIT access to harden defense, use telemetry to detect attacks and anomalies, and automatically block and flag risky behavior and take protective actions.
Networks. All data is ultimately accessed over network infrastructure. Networking controls can provide critical “in pipe” controls to enhance visibility and help prevent attackers from moving laterally across the network. Networks should be segmented (including deeper in network micro segmentation) and real time threat protection, end to end encryption, monitoring, and analytics should be employed.
Each of these six foundational elements serves as a source of the signal, a control plane for enforcement, and a critical resource to defend. You should appropriately spread your investments across each of these elements for maximum protection.
Presentation on Zero Trust model, used for the Codecademy Manipal Chapter event. Covers basic information about the Zero trust model, implementation, and benefits.
The Zero Trust Model of information #security simplifies how #information security is conceptualized by assuming there are no longer “trusted” interfaces, applications, traffic, networks, or users. It takes the old model— “trust but verify”—and inverts it, because recent breaches have proven that when an organization trusts, it doesn’t verify
The Zero Trust Model of Information Security Tripwire
In today’s IT threat landscape, the attacker might just as easily be over the cubicle wall as in another country. In the past, organizations have been content to use a trust and verify approach to information security, but that’s not working as threats from malicious insiders represent the most risk to organizations. Listen in as John Kindervag, Forrester Senior Analyst, explains why it’s not working and what you can do to address this IT security shortcoming.
In this webcast, you’ll hear:
Examples of major data breaches that originated from within the organization
Why it’s cheaper to invest in proactive breach prevention—even when the organization hasn’t been breached
What’s broken about the traditional trust and verify model of information security
About a new model for information security that works—the zero-trust model
Immediate and long-term activities to move organizations from the "trust and verify" model to the "verify and never trust" model
Zero Trust, Zero Trust Network, or Zero Trust Architecture refer to security concepts and threat model that no longer assumes that actors, systems or services operating from within the security perimeter should be automatically trusted, and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access.
A Zero Trust approach should extend throughout the entire digital estate and serve as an integrated security philosophy and end to end strategy.
Identities. Identities whether they represent people, services, or IOT devices define the Zero Trust control plane. When an identity attempts to access a resource, we need to verify that identity with strong authentication, ensure access is compliant and typical for that identity, and follows least privilege access principles.
Devices. Once an identity has been granted access to a resource, data can flow to a variety of different devices From IoT devices to smartphones, BYOD to partner managed devices, and on premises workloads to cloud hosted servers. This diversity creates a massive attack surface area, requiring we monitor and enforce device health and compliance for secure access.
Applications. Applications and APIs provide the interface by which data is consumed. They may be legacy on premises, lift and shifted to cloud workloads, or modern SaaS applications. Controls and technologies should be applied to discover Shadow IT, ensure appropriate in-app permissions, gate access based on real-time analytics, monitor for abnormal behavior, control of user actions, and validate secure configuration options.
Data. Ultimately, security teams are focused on protecting data. Where possible, data should remain safe even if it leaves the devices, apps, infrastructure, and networks the organization controls. Data should be classified, labeled, and encrypted, and access restricted based on those attributes.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure (whether on premises servers, cloud based VMs, containers, or micro services) represents a critical threat vector. Assess for version, configuration, and JIT access to harden defense, use telemetry to detect attacks and anomalies, and automatically block and flag risky behavior and take protective actions.
Networks. All data is ultimately accessed over network infrastructure. Networking controls can provide critical “in pipe” controls to enhance visibility and help prevent attackers from moving laterally across the network. Networks should be segmented (including deeper in network micro segmentation) and real time threat protection, end to end encryption, monitoring, and analytics should be employed.
Each of these six foundational elements serves as a source of the signal, a control plane for enforcement, and a critical resource to defend. You should appropriately spread your investments across each of these elements for maximum protection.
Zero Trust: the idea that all access to corporate resources should be restricted until the user has proven their identity and access permissions, and the device has passed a security profile check. A core concept for Okta.
Adopting A Zero-Trust Model. Google Did It, Can You?Zscaler
Based on 6 years of creating zero trust networks at Google, the BeyondCorp framework has led to the popularization of a new network security model within enterprises, called the software-defined perimeter.
In 2018, Zero Trust Security gained popularity due to its simplicity and effectiveness. Yet despite a rise in awareness, many organizations still don’t know where to start or are slow to adopt a Zero Trust approach.
The result? Breaches affected as many as 66% of companies just last year. And as hackers become more sophisticated and resourceful, the number of breaches will continue to rise.
Unless organizations adopt Zero Trust Security. In 2019, take some time to assess your company’s risk factors and learn how to implement Zero Trust Security in your organization.
This Deck, gives you an overview of the zero trust security posture, considerations you should have while looking to adopt that posture, and the advantages of doing so.
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The purpose of the session is to ensure security on the rapidly scaled work from Home situations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The objective is to ensure that they can securely and rapidly connect to all of their applications, including SaaS, cloud, and data-center applications.
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5 Steps to a Zero Trust Network - From Theory to PracticeAlgoSec
A Zero Trust network abolishes the quaint idea of a “trusted” internal network demarcated by a corporate perimeter. Instead it advocates microperimeters of control and visibility around the enterprise’s most sensitive data assets and the ways in which the enterprise uses its data to achieve its business objectives.
In this webinar, guest speaker John Kindervag, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and Nimmy Reichenberg, VP of Strategy at AlgoSec will explain why a Zero Trust network should be the foundation of your security strategy, and present best practices to help companies achieve a Zero Trust state.
The webinar will cover:
• What is a Zero Trust network, and why it should be a core component of your threat detection and response strategy
• Turning theory into practice: Five steps to achieve Zero Trust information security
• How security policy management can help you define and enforce a Zero Trust network
Understand the concepts of the NIST Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). We will use a parenting analogy and show how it applies to protecting file as an enterprise resource.
Cloud Security is critical to Data Security and Application Resilience against CyberAttacks. This talk looks at Security Best Practices that need to be practised.
This talk was presented at AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2019 by Amar Prusty, Cloud-Data Center Consultant Architect, DXC Technology
[Round table] zeroing in on zero trust architectureDenise Bailey
Idea of Zero Trust
Frameworks e.g. NIST framework
Building a Zero Trust Architecture
Building Tech stack for transition to Zero Trust Architecture
Building Tech stack for directly implementing Zero Trust Architecture
BATbern48_How Zero Trust can help your organisation keep safe.pdfBATbern
This presentation will bring insights into how the Zero Trust framework can help organizations improve their cybersecurity posture and resilience and what the organizational challenges are.
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Extended Detection and Response, or XDR for short, is one of the acronyms that are increasingly used by cybersecurity vendors to explain their approach to solving the cyber security problem. We have been spending trillions of dollars on approaches to secure our systems and data, with what success? Cybersecurity is still one of the biggest and most challenging areas that companies, small and large, are dealing with. XDR is another approach driven by security vendors to solve this problem. The challenge is that every vendor defines XDR slightly differently and makes it fit their own “challenge du jour” for marketing and selling their products.
In this presentation we will demystify the XDR acronym and put a working model behind it. Together, we will explore why XDR is a fabulous concept, but also discover that it’s nothing revolutionarily new. With an MSP lens, we will explore what the XDR benefits are for small and medium businesses and what it means to the security strategy of both MSPs and their clients. The audience will leave with a clear understanding of what XDR is, how the technology matters to them, and how XDR will ultimately help them secure their customers and enable trusted commerce.
Slide on Cloud Security. This defines the possible aspects on Cloud Security. Images are taken from different Websites which are mentioned on references section.
Top 20 certified ethical hacker interview questions and answerShivamSharma909
The technique of discovering vulnerabilities in a software, website, or agency’s structure that a hacker might exploit is known as ethical hacking. They employ this method to avoid cyberattacks and security breaches by legitimately hacking into systems and looking for flaws. CEH was designed to include a hands-on environment and a logical procedure across each ethical hacking area and technique. This is to provide you the opportunity to work towards proving the knowledge and skills to earn the CEH certificate and perform the tasks of an ethical hacker.
Read more: https://www.infosectrain.com/blog/top-20-certified-ethical-hacker-interview-questions-and-answer/
Zero Trust: the idea that all access to corporate resources should be restricted until the user has proven their identity and access permissions, and the device has passed a security profile check. A core concept for Okta.
Adopting A Zero-Trust Model. Google Did It, Can You?Zscaler
Based on 6 years of creating zero trust networks at Google, the BeyondCorp framework has led to the popularization of a new network security model within enterprises, called the software-defined perimeter.
In 2018, Zero Trust Security gained popularity due to its simplicity and effectiveness. Yet despite a rise in awareness, many organizations still don’t know where to start or are slow to adopt a Zero Trust approach.
The result? Breaches affected as many as 66% of companies just last year. And as hackers become more sophisticated and resourceful, the number of breaches will continue to rise.
Unless organizations adopt Zero Trust Security. In 2019, take some time to assess your company’s risk factors and learn how to implement Zero Trust Security in your organization.
This Deck, gives you an overview of the zero trust security posture, considerations you should have while looking to adopt that posture, and the advantages of doing so.
Secure Access – Anywhere by Prisma, PaloAltoPrime Infoserv
The purpose of the session is to ensure security on the rapidly scaled work from Home situations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The objective is to ensure that they can securely and rapidly connect to all of their applications, including SaaS, cloud, and data-center applications.
The session will be delivered by Mohammad Faizan Sheikh, Channel Systems Engineer, India & SAARC for Palo Alto Networks..
5 Steps to a Zero Trust Network - From Theory to PracticeAlgoSec
A Zero Trust network abolishes the quaint idea of a “trusted” internal network demarcated by a corporate perimeter. Instead it advocates microperimeters of control and visibility around the enterprise’s most sensitive data assets and the ways in which the enterprise uses its data to achieve its business objectives.
In this webinar, guest speaker John Kindervag, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and Nimmy Reichenberg, VP of Strategy at AlgoSec will explain why a Zero Trust network should be the foundation of your security strategy, and present best practices to help companies achieve a Zero Trust state.
The webinar will cover:
• What is a Zero Trust network, and why it should be a core component of your threat detection and response strategy
• Turning theory into practice: Five steps to achieve Zero Trust information security
• How security policy management can help you define and enforce a Zero Trust network
Understand the concepts of the NIST Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). We will use a parenting analogy and show how it applies to protecting file as an enterprise resource.
Cloud Security is critical to Data Security and Application Resilience against CyberAttacks. This talk looks at Security Best Practices that need to be practised.
This talk was presented at AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2019 by Amar Prusty, Cloud-Data Center Consultant Architect, DXC Technology
[Round table] zeroing in on zero trust architectureDenise Bailey
Idea of Zero Trust
Frameworks e.g. NIST framework
Building a Zero Trust Architecture
Building Tech stack for transition to Zero Trust Architecture
Building Tech stack for directly implementing Zero Trust Architecture
BATbern48_How Zero Trust can help your organisation keep safe.pdfBATbern
This presentation will bring insights into how the Zero Trust framework can help organizations improve their cybersecurity posture and resilience and what the organizational challenges are.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) An Overhyped Product Category With Ulti...Raffael Marty
Extended Detection and Response, or XDR for short, is one of the acronyms that are increasingly used by cybersecurity vendors to explain their approach to solving the cyber security problem. We have been spending trillions of dollars on approaches to secure our systems and data, with what success? Cybersecurity is still one of the biggest and most challenging areas that companies, small and large, are dealing with. XDR is another approach driven by security vendors to solve this problem. The challenge is that every vendor defines XDR slightly differently and makes it fit their own “challenge du jour” for marketing and selling their products.
In this presentation we will demystify the XDR acronym and put a working model behind it. Together, we will explore why XDR is a fabulous concept, but also discover that it’s nothing revolutionarily new. With an MSP lens, we will explore what the XDR benefits are for small and medium businesses and what it means to the security strategy of both MSPs and their clients. The audience will leave with a clear understanding of what XDR is, how the technology matters to them, and how XDR will ultimately help them secure their customers and enable trusted commerce.
Slide on Cloud Security. This defines the possible aspects on Cloud Security. Images are taken from different Websites which are mentioned on references section.
Top 20 certified ethical hacker interview questions and answerShivamSharma909
The technique of discovering vulnerabilities in a software, website, or agency’s structure that a hacker might exploit is known as ethical hacking. They employ this method to avoid cyberattacks and security breaches by legitimately hacking into systems and looking for flaws. CEH was designed to include a hands-on environment and a logical procedure across each ethical hacking area and technique. This is to provide you the opportunity to work towards proving the knowledge and skills to earn the CEH certificate and perform the tasks of an ethical hacker.
Read more: https://www.infosectrain.com/blog/top-20-certified-ethical-hacker-interview-questions-and-answer/
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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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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 ...
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This talk was presented at the 7th WCSQ World Congress for Software Quality in Lima, Perú on Wednesday, 22nd March 2017.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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2. Topics Covered
Understand what Zero Trust is and why it is important.
What comprises a Zero Trust network and how to create
architecture
Conditions and Controls
Understand how identity, device health
Benefits of Zero Trust
Discover how to apply these conditions to line of business SaaS apps
or on-premises web apps.
Examples and Demo (If time permits)
5. It was a walled garden (castle/moat approach)
Perimeter-based networks operate
on the assumption that all systems
(and users) within a network can be
trusted.
Not able to accommodate modern
work styles such as Bring Your Own
Device (BYOD) and Bring Your Own
Cloud (BYOC)
Attacker can compromise single
endpoint within trusted boundary
and quickly expand foothold across
entire network.
6. Users cannot be trusted! (Neither can the network!)
https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/dbir/
28%of attacks involved
inside actors¹
4%Of end-users will
click on anything¹
17%Of breaches
had errors as
casual events¹
7. What is a Zero Trust network?
Eliminates the concept of trust based on network location within
a perimeter.
Leverages device and user trust claims to get access to data and
resources.
John Kindervag
8. What comprises a Zero Trust network?
Identity provider to keep track of users and user-related information.
Device directory to maintain a list of devices that have access to
corporate resources, along with their corresponding device
information (e.g., type of device, integrity etc.)
Policy evaluation service to determine if a user or device conforms to
the policy set forth by security admins
Access proxy that utilizes the above signals to grant or deny access to
an organizational resource
Anomaly detection and machine learning
11. Approach: Start with asking questions
Who are your users? What apps are they trying to
access? How are they doing it? Why are they doing it
that way?
What conditions are required to access a corporate
resource?
What controls are required based on the condition?
12. Consider an approach based on set of conditions
What is the user’s role and group
membership?
What is the device health and
compliance state?
What is the SaaS, on-prem or mobile app
being accessed?
What is the user’s physical location?
What is the time of sign-in?
What is the sign-in risk of the user’s
identity? (i.e. probability it isn’t
authorized by the identity owner)
What is the user risk? (i.e. probability a
bad actor has compromised the account?
13. Followed by a set of controls (if/then statement)
Allow/deny access
Require MFA
Force password reset
Control session access to the app
(i.e. allow read but not download,
etc)
14. Device Health Conditions
Determine the machine risk level (i.e. is it compromised by malware,
Pass-the-Hash (PtH), etc)
Determine the system integrity and posture (i.e. hardware-rooted boot-
time and runtime checks)
Integrity checks:
– Drivers
– Kernel
– Firmware
– Peripheral firmware
– Antimalware driver code
Verify boot state of machine
Compliance policy checks (i.e. is an OS security setting missing/not
configured?)
Integrity at
system start-up
Integrity as
system is
running
Validate
integrity as OS is
running
15. Identity Conditions
What is the user’s risk level?
Is the sign in coming from:
– A known botnet IP address?
– An anonymous IP address?
– Unauthorized browser? (i.e. Tor)
– An unfamiliar location?
– Impossible travel to atypical locations?
Is the sign in suspicious?
– High number of failed attempts across multiple accounts over a short period of time
– Matches traffic patterns of IP addresses used by attackers
Are the user’s credentials (username/password pair) leaked?
– Up for sale on the dark web / black sites
18. Benefits of a Zero Trust model
Allow conditional access to certain resources while restricting access
to high-value resources on managed/compliant devices.
Prevent network access and lateral movement using stolen
credentials and compromised device.
Enables users to be more productive by working however they want,
where they want, when they want.
Identity is everything, make it the control plane.
Consider an “if-this-then-that” automated approach to Zero Trust.
Zero Trust can enable new business outcomes that were not possible
before.
