Logical design: Network Management and Security

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Logical design Network Management and Security

• Integrating Network Management and Security into
  the Design
• Defining Network Management
• Designing with Manageable Resources
• Network Management Architecture
• Security
• Security Mechanisms
• Security Examples
• Network Management and Security Plans

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Network Management and Security

• Integrating Network Management and Security into
  the Design
• How to define and characterize management for a
  network design
• How to plan for
• monitoring,
• configuring and
• troubleshooting the network
• Examine network management protocols and
  instrumentation requirements

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Defining Network Management

• Network management tasks
• Monitoring for event notification
• Monitoring for metrics and planning
• Configuration of network parameters
• Troubleshooting the network
• Planning

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Defining Network Management

• Network elements and characteristics
• A network element is a component of the network
  that can be managed
• Hosts
• Routers
• Switches
• Data Service Units (DSUs)
• Hubs
• NICs
• Cable segments

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Defining Network Management

• Network elements and characteristics
• End to end characteristics the characteristics
  that can be measured across multiple network
  elements and may be extended across the entire
  network or between hosts
• Availability
• Capacity
• Delay
• Delay variation (jitter)
• Throughput
• Error rates
• Network utilization
• Burstiness of the traffic

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Defining Network Management

• Network elements and characteristics
• Link and element characteristics specific to the
  type of the element being managed.
• IP forwarding rates (packets/second) for
  routers
• Buffer utilization of a router
• Logs of authentication failures

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Defining Network Management

• Monitoring and metering
• Monitoring obtaining values for the end-to-end,
  link, and element characteristics.
• Collecting data (e.g. using SNMP)
• Processing data (e.g. time averaging)
• Displaying processed data
• Archiving data

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Defining Network Management

• Monitoring for event notification
• Event A problem or a failure in a network
  element
• Threshold may be set on end-to-end or element
  characteristics for notification of events. (real
  time analysis)
• Real time analysis usually involves short polling
  intervals capacity, CPU, memory, storage needed

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Defining Network Management

• Example
• 100 network elements
• Each polled for 8 characteristics 800 polls and
  800 responses
• Average size of each poll and response is 64
  bytes
• We plan to poll every 5 seconds
• (800 polls 800 responses)(64 bytes/poll)(8
  bits/byte)/(5 seconds) 164 Kb/s

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Defining Network Management

• Monitoring for metrics and planning
• Metering collecting data for long term analysis
• Metrics measured values
• Baselines can be established by monitoring for
  metrics

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Defining Network Management

• Generating the characteristics set
• Generate a working set of end-to-end and element
  characteristics
• For each element
• Generate a table of configuration parameters
• Establish methods for adjusting these parameters
• Understand the effects of adjusting the
  parameters
• Understand the effects of problems and how to
  correct them
• Troubleshooting problem notification, isolation,
  identification, and resolution

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Designing with manageable resources

• Network management protocols
• The requirement for management protocols and
  instrumentation
• The impact of management instrumentation on
  network design
• Instrumentation is the set of facilities provided
  by network elements for accessing element
  characteristics and configuration parameters

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Designing with manageable resources

• Network Management Protocols
• Used to couple this instrumentation with
• Monitoring
• Display
• Processing and
• Storage
• Two major NM protocols
• The simple network management protocol (SNMP and
  SNMPv2)
• The common management information protocol
  (CMIP/CMIP over TCP/IP (CMOT))

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Designing with manageable resources

• SNMP
• Widely used
• Provides facilities for collecting and
  configuring parameters from network elements
• Commands get, get-next, set. Users can set traps
  (thresholds) for parameters for automatic notices
  (less polling)

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Designing with manageable resources

• SNMP
• Management information Base (MIB) collection of
  parameters accessible by SNMP.
• MIBs for
• Routers
• Switches
• Circuits (e.g. T3)
• Remote monitoring (RMON) MIB provides information
  about a LAN segment

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Designing with manageable resources

• Instrumentation methods
• SNMPv2
• Ping
• Traceroute
• Pathchar
• Tcpdump
• telnet
• FTP

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Network Management Architecture

• A network design should consider the data flows
  for management information
• In-band vs. out-of-band monitoring
• Centralized vs. distributed monitoring
• Capacity and delay requirements
• Flows of management data
• Configuration of network management

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Network Management Architecture

• In-band vs. out-of-band monitoring
• In-band monitoring having the NM data flow over
  the same network that the user network traffic
  uses
• Simple network management architecture
• In case of network problems monitoring and
  troubleshooting may be difficult
• Out-of-band monitoring providing different paths
  for NM traffic and user network traffic
• ISDN D-channel
• Separate Frame Relay/ATM virtual circuit
• Telephone lines

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Network Management Architecture

• Centralized/distributed monitoring
• Centralized all monitoring data are sent from
  one monitoring node using either in-band or
  out-of-band-monitoring
• Distributed local monitoring nodes
• Less NM traffic
• In-band/out-of band

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Network Management Architecture

• Capacity and Delay Requirements
• For LANs one monitoring node per subnet
• For WAN/MAN one monitoring node at each
  WAN/MAN-LAN interface

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Network Management Architecture

• LANs determine the
• Number of hosts and network elements to be polled
  for parameters
• Number of parameters to be collected
• Frequency of polling
• NM traffic rate
• 2-5 (Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring)
• 0.2-0.5 (HiPPI 800 Mb/s capacity), etc.

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Network Management Architecture

• Have more than one method to verify the accuracy
  of data collected
• SNMP
• RMON
• Avoid overloading network with NM data

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Security

• For the development of a security plan
• User requirements for security
• Security policies
• Security risk analysis
• Protect network resources from being disabled,
  stolen, modified, or damaged
• Protect hosts, servers, users, and system data

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Security

• Security policies
• Understand possible security breaches
• Implement policies to deal with these breaches
• Common security philosophies
• Deny specifics/permit all else
• Permit specifics/deny all else
• Example policies
• Acceptable use statements, security incident
  handling procedures, configuration-modification
  policies, and network access/firewall policies

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Security

• Security risk analysis
• A process used to determine which components of
  the system need to be protected and the types of
  security risks they should be protected from
• Security risks may also change in time in line
  with changes in an organisation

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Security Risk Analysis Example

• Assume a fictitious company
• Identify effect/likelihood (e.g. A/B)
• Effect A (destructive), B (Disabling), C
  (Disruptive), D (No impact)
• Likelihood A (Certain), B (Likely), C
  (Unlikely), D (Impossible)

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Security Risk Analysis Example
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Security Risk Analysis Example

• Outcome
• A strong user authentication mechanism needed
• Added protection for DNS and email applications
  (e.g. application firewall)
• Encryption for email messages

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Security mechanisms

• Physical
• Security awareness
• User authentication
• Packet filters
• Application wrappers and gateways
• Encryption
• Firewalls

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Security mechanisms

• Not all mechanisms are appropriate for any
  environment
• Degree of protection it provides
• Expertise required for installation and
  configuration
• Cost of purchasing, implementing and operating it
• Amounts of administration and maintenance required

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Security mechanisms

• Physical security
• Protected access (e.g. to servers etc.)
• Backup power source and power conditioning,
  secondary backup storage
• Security against natural disasters

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Security Mechanisms

• Security awareness
• User involvement in all aspects of security
• User authentication
• Packet filters (ACLs)
• Require administration and maintenance
• Take up network resources (e.g. CPU)

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Security Mechanisms

• Application Security mechanisms
• Application wrappers similar to packet filters
  but implemented on hosts
• Application gateways relays between protected
  and unprotected systems
• Encryption
• Degrades network performance 15-85
• Administration, maintenance required
• Expensive

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Security Mechanisms

• Firewalls
• A combination of a number of mechanisms
• May give a false sense of security
• Security and system components
• Security at the user component
• Security at the host component
• Security at the network component

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Security Examples External firewall

• Between external and internal networks
• Recommended when
• there is a security threat from external sources
• limited /no systems and network administration
• access to external networks is needed
• will not impact connectivity to external networks

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External Firewalls Trade offs

• May require knowledge of users requirements
  (telnet, ftp, etc.)
• Requires firewall construction/configuration
  expertise
• Network performance degradation up to 30
• Can complicate WAN/MAN troubleshooting
• May require address translator
• May require additional hardware e.g. routers

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Security Examples Internal Firewall

• Between subnets
• Recommended when
• there is a security threat from within or
  external to network
• limited /no systems and network administration
• interconnectivity between subnets/connectivity to
  external networks is needed
• will not impact connectivity to internal and
  external networks

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Internal Firewalls Trade offs

• May require knowledge of users requirements
  (telnet, ftp, etc.)
• Requires firewall construction/configuration
  expertise
• Network performance degradation up to 30
• Can complicate LAN/MAN/WAN troubleshooting
• May require address translator
• May require additional hardware e.g. routers

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Security Examples Distributed Host Security

• Distributed host security
• When there is a threat from external networks
• When internal sources can be protected via system
  administration
• When connectivity to internal and external
  networks would be impacted by firewall
  performance issues
• Example TCP/IP filtering in MS Windows2000
  authentication encryption

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Distributed Host Security Trade offs

• May require knowledge of users requirements
  (telnet, ftp, etc.)
• Requires consistent and thorough systems and
  network administration
• internal security may be dependent on the
  security of every host and server within the
  network
• Security holes in host operating systems or
  applications will likely affect all internal
  hosts and servers

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Example breaches of security
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Example Security Breaches
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Security points
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Example security controls

• Access control error control to prevent
  unauthorised access
• Physical access control mechanisms,
• Backup equipment and procedures,
• Physical security,
• Logging of message and transaction flow
• etc.

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Network Management and Security Plans

• Evaluating and selecting secure, manageable
  network resources
• Evaluating trade-offs in security and network
  management architectures
• Integration with the network design
• Risk analysis and contingency planning for the
  design

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Practical Security

• Firewalls
• Network Intrusion Detection
• Endpoint Security/Host Intrusion Protection
• VPN Security

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and more specifically

• Cisco PIX Firewalls
• has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec
  certification, as well as Common Criteria EAL4
  evaluation status.
• provide a wide range of security and networking
  services including
• Network Address Translation (NAT),
• Port Address Translation (PAT),
• content filtering (Java/ActiveX),
• URL filtering,
• AAA (RADIUS/TACACS) integration,
• support for leading X.509 PKI solutions,
• DHCP client/server

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AAA

• an architectural framework for configuring three
  different security features.
• authentication,
• authorization, and
• accounting

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AAA Advantages

• Provides scalability
• rely on a server or group of servers to store
  usernames and passwords
• supports standardized security protocols,
• Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
  Plus (TACACS),
• Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
  (RADIUS), and
• Kerberos
• allows you to configure multiple backup systems

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TACACS

• A security application used with AAA that
  provides centralized validation of users
  attempting to gain access to a router or network
  access server.
• Services are maintained in a database on a
  TACACS daemon running, typically, on a UNIX or
  Windows workstation.
• Provides for separate and modular authentication,
  authorization, and accounting facilities
• Uses TCP

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RADIUS

• A distributed client/server system used with AAA
  that secures networks against unauthorized
  access.
• e.g. RADIUS clients may run on Cisco routers and
  send authentication requests to a central RADIUS
  server that contains all user authentication and
  network service access information.
• Uses UDP

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Kerberos

• A secret-key network authentication protocol used
  with AAA that uses the Data Encryption Standard
  (DES) cryptographic algorithm for encryption and
  authentication.

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More on Security

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Security

• Computer and Network Security Requirements
• Security Threats
• Protection
• Intruders
• Malicious Software
• Trusted Systems

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Computer and Network Security Requirements

• Confidentiality
• Requires information in a computer system only be
  accessible for reading by authorized parties
• Integrity
• Assets can be modified by authorized parties only
• Availability
• Assets be available to authorized parties
• Authenticity
• Requires that a computer system be able to verify
  the identity of a user

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Types of Threats

• Interruption
• Interception
• Modification
• Fabrication

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Types of Threats

• Interruption
• An asset of the system is destroyed or becomes
  unavailable or unusable
• Attack on availability
• Destruction of hardware
• Cutting of a communication line
• Disabling the file management system

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Types of Threats

• Interception
• An unauthorized party gains access to an asset
• Attack on confidentiality
• Wiretapping to capture data in a network
• Illicit copying of files or programs

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Types of Threats

• Modification
• An unauthorized party not only gains access but
  tampers with an asset
• Attack on integrity
• Changing values in a data file
• Altering a program so that it performs
  differently
• Modifying the content of messages being
  transmitted in a network

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Types of Threats

• Fabrication
• An unauthorized party inserts counterfeit objects
  into the system
• Attack on authenticity
• Insertion of spurious messages in a network
• Addition of records to a file

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Computer System Assets

• Hardware
• Software
• Data
• Communication lines and Network

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Computer System Assets

• Hardware
• Threats include accidental and deliberate damage
• Software
• Threats include deletion, alteration, damage
• Backups of the most recent versions can maintain
  high availability

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Computer System Assets

• Data
• Involves files
• Security concerns for availability, secrecy, and
  integrity
• Statistical analysis can lead to determination of
  individual information which threatens privacy

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Computer System Assets

• Communication Lines and Networks Passive
  Attacks
• Release of message contents for a telephone
  conversation, an electronic mail message, and a
  transferred file are subject to these threats
• Traffic analysis
• encryption masks the contents of what is
  transferred so even if obtained by someone, they
  would be unable to extract information

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Computer System Assets

• Communication Lines and Networks Active Attacks
• Masquerade takes place when one entity pretends
  to be a different entity
• Replay involves the passive capture of a data
  unit and its subsequent retransmission to produce
  an unauthorized effect
• Modification of messages means that some portion
  of a legitimate message is altered, or that
  messages are delayed or reordered, to produce an
  unauthorized effect

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Computer System Assets

• Communication Lines and Networks Active Attacks
• Modification of messages means that some portion
  of a legitimate message is altered, or that
  messages are delayed or reordered, to produce an
  unauthorized effect
• Denial of service prevents or inhibits the normal
  use or management of communications facilities
• Disable network or overload it with messages

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Protection

• Sharing resources among users involve
• Memory
• I/O devices
• Programs
• Data
• Sharing creates a need for protection

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Protection

• No protection
• When sensitive procedures are run at separate
  times
• Isolation
• Each process operates separately from other
  processes with no sharing or communication

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Protection

• Share all or share nothing
• Owner of an object declares it public or private
• Share via access limitation
• Operating system checks the permissibility of
  each access by a specific user to a specific
  object
• Operating system acts as the guard

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Protection

• Share via dynamic capabilities
• Dynamic creation of sharing rights for objects
• Limit use of an object
• Limit not only access to an object but also the
  use to which that object may be put
• Example a user may be able to derive
  statistical summaries but not to determine
  specific data values

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Protection

• Protection of memory
• User-oriented access control
• Data oriented access control

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Protection of Memory

• Ensure correct function of various processes that
  are active
• Virtual memory scheme
• Paging
• Segmentation
• Shareable/non-shareable
• Hardware support (mP) can be provided for memory
  protection

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User-Oriented Access Control

• Log on
• Requires both a user identifier (ID) and a
  password
• System only allows users to log on if the ID is
  known to the system and password associated with
  the ID is correct
• Users can reveal their password to others either
  intentionally or accidentally
• Hackers are skillful at guessing passwords
• ID/password file can be obtained

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Data-Oriented Access Control

• Associated with each user, there can be a user
  profile that specifies permissible operations and
  file accesses
• Operating system enforces these rules
• Database management system controls access to
  specific records or portions of records

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Data-Oriented Access Control

• Access Matrix A general model of access control
  as exercised by a file or database management
  system. Its elements
• Subject
• An entity capable of accessing objects
• e.g. a process enabling a user/application to
  access an object
• Object
• Anything to which access is controlled
• Files, programs, segments of memory
• Access rights
• The way in which an object is accessed by a
  subject

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Access Matrix
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Access Control List

• Matrix decomposed by columns
• For each object, an access control list gives
  users and their permitted access rights

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Access Control List
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Capability Tickets

• Decomposition of access matrix by rows
• Specifies authorized object and operations for a
  user

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Capability Tickets
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Intruders

• Hacker or cracker
• Three classes
• Masquerader
• Not authorized to use the computer, penetrates
  systems access controls to exploit a legitimate
  users account
• Misfeasor
• A legitimate user accessing objects without
  authorization or misusing his/her privileges
• Clandestine user
• An individual who seizes supervisory control

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Intrusion Techniques

• Objective of intruder is to gain access to the
  system or to increase the range of privileges
  accessible on a system
• Protected information that an intruder acquires
  is a password
• Protecting password file
• Encryption
• Access control

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Techniques for Learning Passwords

• Try default password used with standard accounts
  shipped with computer
• Exhaustively try all short passwords
• Try words in dictionary or a list of likely
  passwords
• Collect information about users and use these
  items as passwords

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Techniques for Learning Passwords

• Try users phone numbers, social security
  numbers, and room numbers
• Try all legitimate license plate numbers for this
  state
• Use a Trojan horse to bypass restrictions on
  access
• Tap the line between a remote user and the host
  system

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Password protectionID Provides Security

• Determines whether the user is authorized to gain
  access to a system
• Determines the privileges accorded to the user
• Guest or anonymous accounts have more limited
  privileges than others
• ID is used for discretionary access control
• A user may grant permission to files to others by
  ID

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Password Selection Strategies

• Computer generated passwords
• Users have difficulty remembering them
• Need to write it down
• Have history of poor acceptance

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Password Selection Strategies

• Reactive password checking strategy
• System periodically runs its own password cracker
  to find guessable passwords
• System cancels passwords that are guessed and
  notifies user
• Consumes resources to do this
• Hacker can use this on their own machine with a
  copy of the password file

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Password Selection Strategies

• Proactive password checker
• The system checks at the time of selection if the
  password is allowable
• With guidance from the system users can select
  memorable passwords that are difficult to guess

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Intrusion Detection

• Assume the behavior of the intruder differs from
  the legitimate user
• Statistical anomaly detection
• Collect data related to the behavior of
  legitimate users over a period of time
• Statistical tests are used to determine if the
  behavior is not legitimate behavior

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Intrusion Detection

• Rule-based detection
• Anomaly detection Rules are developed to detect
  deviation from previous usage pattern
• Penetration identification Expert system
  searches for suspicious behavior

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Intrusion Detection

• Audit record
• Native audit records
• All operating systems include accounting software
  that collects information on user activity
• Detection-specific audit records
• Collection facility can be implemented that
  generates audit records containing only that
  information required by the intrusion detection
  system

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Malicious Programs

• Those that need a host program
• Fragments of programs that cannot exist
  independently of some application program,
  utility, or system program
• Independent
• Self-contained programs that can be scheduled and
  run by the operating system

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Trapdoor

• A secret entry point into a program that allows
  someone who is aware of trapdoor to gain access
• used by programmers to debug and test programs
• Avoids necessary setup and authentication
• Method to activate program if something wrong
  with authentication procedure
• Difficult to control take care of program
  development and software update activities

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Logic Bomb

• Code embedded in a legitimate program that is set
  to explode when certain conditions are met
• Presence or absence of certain files
• Particular day of the week
• Particular user running application

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Trojan Horse

• Useful program that contains hidden code that
  when invoked performs some unwanted or harmful
  function
• Can be used to accomplish functions indirectly
  that an unauthorized user could not accomplish
  directly
• User may set file permission so everyone has
  access to files on another users machine

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Viruses

• Program that can infect other programs by
  modifying them
• Modification includes copy of virus program
• The infected program can infect other programs

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Worms

• Use network connections to spread form system to
  system
• Electronic mail facility
• A worm mails a copy of itself to other systems
• Remote execution capability
• A worm executes a copy of itself on another
  system
• Remote log-in capability
• A worm logs on to a remote system as a user and
  then uses commands to copy itself from one system
  to the other

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Zombie

• Program that secretly takes over another
  Internet-attached computer
• It uses that computer to launch attacks that are
  difficult to trace to the zombies creator

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Virus Stages

• Dormant phase
• Virus is idle
• Propagation phase
• Virus places an identical copy of itself into
  other programs or into certain system areas on
  the disk

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Virus Stages

• Triggering phase
• Virus is activated to perform the function for
  which it was intended
• Caused by a variety of system events
• Execution phase
• Function is performed

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Types of Viruses

• Parasitic
• Attaches itself to executable files and
  replicates
• When the infected program is executed, it looks
  for other executables to infect
• Memory-resident
• Lodges in main memory as part of a resident
  system program
• Once in memory, it infects every program that
  executes

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Types of Viruses

• Boot sector
• Infects boot record
• Spreads when system is booted from the disk
  containing the virus
• Stealth
• Designed to hide itself from detection by
  anti-virus software
• May use compression so that the infected program
  is exactly the same length as an uninfected
  version

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Types of Viruses

• Polymorphic
• Mutates with every infection, making detection by
  the signature of the virus impossible
• Mutation engine creates a random encryption key
  to encrypt the remainder of the virus
• The key is stored with the virus

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Macro Viruses

• Platform independent
• Most infect Microsoft Word
• Infect document, not executable portions of code
• Easily spread

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Macro Viruses

• A macro is an executable program embedded in a
  word processing document or other type of file
• Autoexecuting macros in Word
• Autoexecute
• Executes when Word is started (Macro named
  AutoExec is in the normal.dot template)
• Automacro
• Executes when defined event occurs such as
  opening or closing a document
• Command macro
• Executed when user invokes a command (e.g., File
  Save)

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Antivirus Approaches

• Detection
• Determining that an infection has occurred and
  locating the virus
• Identification
• Following detection of a virus identifying the
  specific virus
• Removal
• Remove all traces of the virus from the infected
  program and all infected systems

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Antivirus Approaches

• Generic Decryption
• Digital Immune System

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Generic Decryption

• Elements
• CPU emulator
• Instructions in an executable file are
  interpreted by the emulator rather than the
  processor
• Virus signature scanner
• Scan target code looking for known virus
  signatures
• Emulation control module
• Controls the execution of the target code

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Digital Immune System

• Developed by IBM
• Motivation has been the rising threat of
  Internet-based virus propagation
• Integrated mail systems
• Groupware Lotus notes, MS Outlook
• Mobile-program system
• Portable Java, ActiveX

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E-mail Virus

• Activated when recipient opens the e-mail
  attachment
• Activated by open an e-mail that contains the
  virus
• Uses Visual Basic scripting language
• Propagates itself to all of the e-mail addresses
  known to the infected host

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Trusted Systems

• Multilevel security
• Information organized into categories
• A subject at a high level may not convey
  information to a subject at a lower level unless
  authorized to do so
• No read up
• A subject can only read objects of a less or
  equal security level (simple security property)
• No write down
• A subject can only write objects of greater or
  equal security level (-property star property)

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Trojan Horse Defense

• Use secure, trusted operating system

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