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<p><strong>Ever</strong><strong>ything that you need to know about Duqu:</strong></p>
<p>Duqu was reported to antivirus vendors around the 14th of October, 2011, but it has been in the wild since November of 2010. Since then there have been varients (updated copies with additional features or upgrades to code) released.</p>
<p>It has been billed as the next <a class="zem_slink" title="Stuxnet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet" rel="wikipedia">Stuxnet</a>, the son of Stuxnet, or a Stuxnet clone. In reality, Duqu is actually more like a payload of Stuxnet rather than the entire attack campagin, because it is a backdoor package dropped via other means. The reason why Stuxnet was considered to be so advanced was in large part because of its varied numbers of unpatched exploits that it used to ensure successful infection.</p>
<p><strong>Lets take a look at the similarities:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Duqu uses code segments that can be identical to or very close to those used in the Stuxnet payload.</li>
<li>Both Stuxnet and Duqu use signed code in order to appear to antivirus, Windows, and users as legitimate code.</li>
<li>Registers a remote procedure call server in a very similar fashion to Stuxnet</li>
<li>Has the same list of antivirus products, in the same order as Stuxnet except one more product was added.</li>
<li>Checks for running processes in a manner similar to Stuxnet</li>
<li>Both Stuxnet and Duqu use &#8220;import by hash&#8221; techniques instead of directly importing function names.</li>
</ul>
<p>These similarities are code similarities, which means that Stuxnet and Duqu seem to share a common resource base, code base, and methodology in loading and running executables. Essentially we can think of the ways Duqu and Stuxnet install and launch themselves as being similar enough to warrant either worry that it is the same perpetrator of Stuxnet, or that they have access to the source code of the Stuxnet threat.</p>
<p>There are plenty of significant differences, however, namely that Duqu only performs information-gathering techniques. In comparison, Stuxnet destroyed industrial equipment, disabled safety systems, and was overtly malicious. Duqu&#8217;s most significant malicious payload is its spying ability.</p>
<p><strong>Duqu infections currently have the following functionalities:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>View processes, accounts, and domain information</li>
<li>View drive names/information</li>
<li>Ability to take screenshots</li>
<li>View network and network setup</li>
<li>Keylogger</li>
<li>Window name enumeration</li>
<li>Share enumeration</li>
<li>File exploration on all drives</li>
</ul>
<p>Duqu sends this information to a command-and-control server currently located in India, the IP address of which is hard-coded into the Duqu payloads. Interestingly enough, Duqu is also set to destroy itself after 36 days of infection, a probable reason for why it has been able to live so long in the wild without detection.</p>
<p><strong>Targets:</strong></p>
<p>Duqu appears to be mostly targeting some industrial control systems and Certificate authorities, probably for the purposes of gaining information to be used in further exploits. CA compromises are also lucrative because of their use in malware.  Duqu itself is a sterling example of the use of compromised CA information because it uses a stolen certificate to sign itself as legitimate software, fooling the operating system, antivirus, and user alike with the ruse.</p>
<p><strong>Infection Methods:</strong></p>
<p>At first, Duqu was largely reported to have come from the same folks who created Stuxnet.  This simply doesn&#8217;t have to be the case.  The techniques could have been copied or even stolen wholesale by the malware authors.  Duqu also behaves differently and uses different infection methods.  Whereas Stuxnet was focused on remote exploitation or spread-exploitation, Duqu&#8217;s exploit of choice (MS11-087, which has since been patched) is a trojan-horse method that requires a user to open an infected Microsoft Word document.</p>
<p><strong><strong>What Can We Learn From This?</strong></strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t trust the initial reports, be wary, but try not to buy into the paranoia because it&#8217;s important to have measured and rational reactions to security threats so your customers and users don&#8217;t view you as the &#8220;boy who cried wolf&#8221;.  The sad thing about Duqu is that it would be very hard to detect without antivirus signatures.  With it being signed, silent, patient and auto-deleting, it is a threat that is difficult to detect or defend against unless you have the proper security infrastructure (<a class="zem_slink" title="Intrusion detection system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system" rel="wikipedia">Intrusion detection system</a>, VLANs, exfil firewalls, Data Loss Prevention, ect&#8230;).  Use this as an excuse to justify increased security expenditures if you don&#8217;t have things up-to-spec.</p>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.bobgourley.com/2011/11/microsoft-releases-temporary-plug-for-duqu/">Microsoft Releases Temporary Plug For Duqu</a> (bobgourley.com)</li>
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<p>Android is a great mobile computing platform. It’s extensible, fairly easy-to-use (considering its plethora of features), has a great application store with hundreds of thousands of applications, and connects back with everything in Google so that all of Google’s information and services are at the users fingertip. For developers, it’s a very extendable platform which is able to integrate code from a variety of languages, run C programs, and deploy applications easily to users.</p>
<p>This combination of versatility, extendability, usability, and many features are a few reasons why Android has a significant market share in the mobile computing industry. These great features are also the things attracting enterprise users, including the government.</p>
<p>But something is becoming increasingly clear to security researchers. There are some very serious security issues with this platform. They are so serious the government should think twice before rushing to Android as a most favored mobile platform. In fact, a case can be built that it should be excluded from government use unless guidelines are followed in order to mitigate the issues.</p>
<p>Bottom line up front: If you are going to use Android, use it with a well thought out Mobile Risk Management solution.</p>
<p><strong>Here is more to ponder:</strong></p>
<p>Android is supposedly secure from the ground up, running a Linux kernel (with many adaptations), a walled-garden application model, system architecture to increase security (DEP, ASLR), application permissions, and more. Unfortunately, holes or bypasses have been found in nearly all of these security features. Some, like the application permissions model, may require significant overhauls in order to maintain security.  For more on Android security, please use the Crucialpoint contact form in &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; to request access to the &#8220;Current State of Android Security&#8221; whitepaper.</p>
<p>The security of the platform in question is not just notable for what has been broken or evaded,  it&#8217;s notable for what it doesn&#8217;t include: fine-grain enterprise management and mature management tools. Android from its inception has been primarily a consumer device and its somewhat meager corporate tools reflect this path. As the operating system grows, it has been adding new management/control features in order to allow its use in corporate infrastructure, but these features are still growing. Enterprise adoption of the platform has thus been low and slow. It doesn&#8217;t yet provide the myriad of options that blackberry does, and it doesn’t have the level of integration with existing corporate services either. These features need to be built into the core of the operating system and its management tools.</p>
<p>Android devices have also had a notoriously difficult update process, with devices waiting months or years to receive critical patches or version upgrades from service providers and/or manufacturers. Government devices need to be kept to a higher security standard and as such should receive patches at-pace. Android devices are computers, and they should be treated as such.</p>
<p>Government adoption of Android should meet these requirements in order to securely implement Android:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hardware that will be able to run next-generation Android versions</li>
<li>Ability to push patches and upgrades</li>
<li>Require vendors to have a quick patch turnaround (a few weeks instead of months, like Google Nexus devices)</li>
<li>Management and Policy deployment platforms (such as <a href="http://fixmo.com/products/sentinel">Fixmo Sentinel</a>)</li>
<li>Support contracts from vendors or in-house Android support</li>
<li>Release of patches back into Android Open Source Project</li>
<li>Disablement of the Android Debug Bridge</li>
<li>Encryption or Encryption Services (such as <a href="http://fixmo.com/products/safezone">SafeZone</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Admittedly, most of the infection vectors for android require the ability to install malicious applications, a feature which can be easily disabled with simple policy, but some common application exploits are available for Android as well. Physical access to a device can also give other attack vectors to motivated criminals or state actors, and given the ease with which phones are lost, it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility that phone would get misplaced or stolen, hacked, and then returned to the user.</p>
<p>Android may be the most common, most easily extendable platform, but with its security concerns, very careful planning is recommended so that mistakes aren’t made in its deployment.</p>
<p>A concluding caution: There are issues in closed approaches to mobile as well. And some of those might even be harder to fix. With this article we wanted to focus a bit more on Android because the Government seems to be rushing there. The key point is that any mobile system will require the right planning and systems to be put in place. When it comes to Android, the versatility and ability to modify Android will prove to be an asset to the Government &#8212; so long as it is properly managed and as long as security is part of your architecture.</p>
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		<title>Carrier IQ Invades Privacy</title>
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		<dc:creator>BryanHalfpap</dc:creator>
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<p dir="ltr">The Carrier IQ application is supposedly a diagnostic tool which sits on a variety of phones including Android, iPhone, and some &#8220;feature&#8221; phones. This diagnostic tool is sold to handset manufacturers or service providers and placed in the firmware of the phones shipped to the users. In the Android incarnation of the software, it is enabled by default and can log extremely detailed information about users. The application is somewhat hidden and cannot be turned off or uninstalled without having rooted the phone. These behaviors are fairly consistent with behaviors of advanced malware or even rootkits, and is a gross invasion of privacy due to the kinds of information it collects.</p>
<p>The application collects the following data:</p>
<ul>
<li>Phone Keypad Presses</li>
<li>Website URLS (regardless of https encryption)</li>
<li>Home/Properties/Back/Search button presses</li>
<li>Battery State Changes</li>
<li>Location</li>
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<p>And requests access to many hardware and system resources in Android, including “services that cost you money” and “personal information”.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Admittedly, the collection of location on its own may not be a big deal to many people, but the fact that it is collecting URLs which should be encrypted is a problem. This could expose sensitive user credentials. Collecting phone call key presses is even worse because it can easily collect banking PINs, credit card numbers, passwords, and more. The application even has access to sound and recording functionalities, which means it could be turned into an all-in-one surveillance device.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is absolutely no reason for a diagnostic application to collect the amount of data it is collecting. There is no reason for a diagnostic application to record key-presses or any other user action when crash reports are readily available from the phones operating system. This should not have happened.</p>
<p>Wired has managed to put together a list of phones and carriers which do not run the malicious software on their phones. Check to see if you have a secure device or carrier here.</p>
<p>More interesting is that this just now started to become news. Forum posts from before October indicate that some power-users of Android devices have noticed this software operating in the background of their phones since March of this year. <a href="http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-epic-4g/66282-carrier-iq-real-does-anyone-care.html">See the original posts here</a>.</p>
<p>Some software to detect installs of Carrier IQ has been developed by the author of the initial research and can be found <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559&amp;postcount=110">HERE</a> (The tool has been around since mid-November). However, note that it may not find all instances of the application, as its installation files can be in different locations from phone to phone. If you have a rooted phone, the application will also search for several other known logging services and display their collections as well.</p>
<p>Note:  This affects iPhone and some Android Users, but the iPhone incarnation of the application is harmless when compared to its Android version. It is not on by default, and can be disabled easily. iPhone users can disable CarrierIQ with a few simple steps (as opposed to removal on android, which requires root access) see <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/how-to-disable-the-carrier-iq-rootkit-on-your-iphone/16724">directions from ZDNet</a>.</p>
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		<title>Security Innovation Network (SINET) Workshop and Showcase 25-26 October 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BobGourley</dc:creator>
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<p>The mission of SINET is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. The Showcase is supported by the Department of Homeland Security, Science &amp; Technology Directorate, and public and private sponsors.</p>
<p>Please join us as we continue to give the entrepreneurs a voice and advance innovation through collaboration models. The Showcase takes place at the National Press Club &#8211; Washington DC, October 25 &amp; 26, 2011</p>
<p>We will soon be announcing the companies that made the list of the top 16 for this event. I&#8217;ve seen the list and believe they are all worthy of the widespread attention this event will give their offerings.</p>
<p>As an example of the types of companies to expect in the SINET Showcase for 2011, <a href="http://www.security-innovation.org/showcase2010-presenting.htm" target="_blank">consider last years selectees</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The SINET 2010 Presenting Companies</p>
<div><a href="http://www.avirtek.com/" target="_blank"><img title="AVIRTEK, INC., Tucson, AZ" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/Avirtek_logo.jpg" alt="" />AVIRTEK, INC., Tucson, AZ</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bluespace.com/" target="_blank"><img title="BlueSpace Software Corp, Austin, TX" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/BlueSpaceLogo.jpg" alt="" />BlueSpace Software Corp, Austin, TX</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/" target="_blank"><img title="BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., Austin, TX" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/BreakingPoint.jpg" alt="" />BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., Austin, TX</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.catbird.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Catbird Networks, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/catbird_logo.jpg" alt="" />Catbird Networks, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.dataguise.com/" target="_blank"><img title="dataguise Inc., Fremont, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/DATAGUISE-Logo.jpg" alt="" />dataguise Inc., Fremont, CA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.fireeye.com/" target="_blank"><img title="FireEye, Inc., Milpitas, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/FireEye_logo.jpg" alt="" />FireEye, Inc., Milpitas, CA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.futurepointsystems.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Future Point Systems, Inc., Reston, VA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/FuturePoint-Logo.jpg" alt="" />Future Point Systems, Inc., Reston, VA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.globalvelocity.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Global Velocity, Inc., Clayton, MO" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/GlobalVelocity_logo.jpg" alt="" />Global Velocity, Inc., Clayton, MO</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.infoassure.net/" target="_blank"><img title="InfoAssure, Inc., Annapolis, MD" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/InfoAssure.jpg" alt="" />InfoAssure, Inc., Annapolis, MD</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.invincea.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Invincea, Inc., Fairfax, VA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/Invincea_TAG_RGB.jpg" alt="" />Invincea, Inc., Fairfax, VA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.lgscout.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, LLC, Baltimore, MD" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/looking-glass.jpg" alt="" />Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, LLC, Baltimore, MD</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.mocana.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Mocana Corp, San Francisco, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/mocana-logo.jpg" alt="" />Mocana Corp, San Francisco, CA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.privacydatasystems.com/" target="_blank"><img title="PrivacyDataSystems, Charlotte, NC" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/Privacy-Data-Systems.jpg" alt="" />PrivacyDataSystems, Charlotte, NC</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.reversinglabs.com/" target="_blank"><img title="ReversingLabs Corp, Cambridge, MA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/ReversingLabs-logo.jpg" alt="" />ReversingLabs Corp, Cambridge, MA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.sciosecurity.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Scio Security, Ann Arbor, MI" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/scio-logo.jpg" alt="" />Scio Security, Ann Arbor, MI</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.silvertailsystems.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Silver Tail Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/silvertail_logo.jpg" alt="" />Silver Tail Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.sitscape.com/" target="_blank"><img title="SitScape, Inc., Vienna, VA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/SitScapelogo.jpg" alt="" />SitScape, Inc., Vienna, VA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.telesecret.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Telesecret Corporation, Los Angeles, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/Telesecret_logo.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="109" />Telesecret Corporation, Los Angeles, CA</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.trustifier.com/" target="_blank"><img title="Trustifier Inc., Newark, DE" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/Trustifier-Logo.jpg" alt="" />Trustifier Inc., Newark, DE</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.webloq.com/" target="_blank"><img title="WebLOQ, Inc., Monterey, CA" src="http://www.security-innovation.org/itsef/images/Presentings/webloq_with_tag.jpg" alt="" />WebLOQ, Inc., Monterey, CA</a></div>
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<p>By the time inboxes are scrubbed and most of the infections have been catalogued it’s clear that this is going to be a security nightmare, since a few dozen machines have been compromised. The attack will take a week or more to fix as desktops are reloaded, servers are checked for more intrusions, and any data losses are reported to the proper authorities.</p>
<p>This is how computer security has been operating at most corporations for a decade. Now enter the world of Secure Configuration and Change Management, or SCCM. SCCM can take the infection turnaround time from days and weeks to minutes or hours, and one of the products leading the charge is Triumfant.</p>
<p>Triumfant’s Configuration and Change Management Tool is an almost completely self-sufficent heuristic scanning software algorithm that manages to neatly sidestep some of the problems with traditional heuristic detection using a combination of patented intellectual property and a gradually changing baseline scanner that is able to move with an IT environment instead of against it.</p>
<p>In a Triumfant environment, baseline behaviors are scanned in groups weekly. These weekly scans are then compared against nightly aggregations of endpoint scans. The nightly aggregations are in turn made up of changes tracked by the user-agent on the endpoint. By comparing gradual baselines within user-defined groups, Triumfant is better able to understand what is and isn’t anomalous, thereby eliminating false positives and negatives.</p>
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<h2>How are anomalies detected?</h2>
<p>The agent on the endpoint hashes all of the files on the hard disk with a cryptographic algorithm, generating a fingerprint for each file. If a file is changed, then the hash will change, signaling a need to compare the old and new versions. The endpoint agent then performs change detection sweeps, comparing hashes of older scans against the MD5 hashes of the current scan. When something changes, a flag is raised and an entry is made in a local change database. The agent also scans a list of over 3000 metrics (such as registry settings) that determine the behavior of the computer.</p>
<p>Every minute, the client makes a connection request to the Triumfant server. If the server responds with a request for the list of recent changes (which it does by default every night) the list is uploaded. All databases and lists are encrypted and signed.</p>
<p>When a rouge application, malware, or an unauthorized user make changes in the system registry, adds files to the hard drive, or modifies critical files in system directories, the endpoint client detects these changes and adds them to a behavior profile. If the behavior is deemed to be malicious, Triumfant flags it as a rouge application and gathers the related system events and changes up into a single, coherent event and prepares them for reversal in remediation. No white- or black-listing is used in this technique, meaning that the server does not need to be constantly updated with new profiles or lists, other than Microsoft windows update signatures, which are used to help determine the patch status of a machine.</p>
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<h2>Remediation:</h2>
<p>Once an undesirable change or application has been discovered, and cataloged, it is presented to an administrator via the Triumfant web interface. The web interface is a highly customisable AJAX application that allows for the creation of new views, reports with charts and graphics, users with different groups and permissions, and the ability to remediate issues with only a few simple clicks.</p>
<p>Simply click on the problem, then click on the remediation button in the left-hand corner. The remediation will be performed automatically by the tool, then put into the list of remediated issues automatically. If for some reason the remediation cant be performed, then it is placed in the “unsuccessful remediation” category.  Unsuccessful remediations are not commonplace.  Even if important system files are deleted or corrupted, computers in the same group are able to copy files for other group members to use, provided that the hash values matched before corruption or deletion.</p>
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<h2>Taking it further:</h2>
<p>Triumfant has extrapolated on their heuristic detection and automatic remedition because the scanning technology behind it can do so much more. Triumfant scans over 3000 parameters for use in their tool, and it collects this data inside of a large, highly-opimised database, allowing it to be easily used for other applications, such as compliance testing.</p>
<p>Inside of the Triumfant server tool, administrators can import SCAP files to use as templates in compliance testing. Once Triumfant has scanned it’s member computers and determined that they are outside of compliance, the template will be used to build remediations against whatever parameters are out of alignment with the SCAP specifications.</p>
<p>Triumfant can also take the data from its database and insert it into a variety of third-party applications with which it has integration, including ePO and the Remedy ticketing system for high cohesion with existing software. Triumfant has custom-built integration for custom ticketing and tracking systems as well.</p>
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<h2>Past and Present:</h2>
<p>Due to the problems associated with heuristic detection, most CCM software has not seen deep market penetration. Triumfant’s tool has been around for some time, having been fire tested at the pentagon for almost 4 years now, while the company has been around since 2002.</p>
<p>In the next few months, Triumfant will be debuting an updated version of their tool that is able to perform all of it’s functions on Macs as well as Windows computers. By the end of the year a Unix or Unix-variant (Linux, BSD, Solaris) should be out, followed by smartphone variations.</p>
<p>Tools such as Triumfant may very well become the future of computer security configuration management over the next few years. Tools like those provided by Triumfant offer ease of use without sacrificing security, bringing thousand-system compliance requirements into the reach of even small IT security departments. It&#8217;s ability to remediate nasty infections (like rootkits) give it a leg up on many anti-virus vendors which must release signatures, patches, and fixes and which will forever lag behind heuristic detection technology.</p>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dillon Behr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet This is the second installation on my series about Computer Network Operations (CNO).  The last blog explored the actions known as Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), and as always, please feel free to comment.  Today, the topic switches from exploitation to defense. Computer Network Defense (CND): Includes actions taken via computer networks to protect, monitor, [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.c4i.org/jp3_13.pdf">Computer Network Defense</a></em> (<strong>CND</strong>): Includes actions taken via computer networks to protect, monitor, analyze, detect and respond to network attacks, intrusions, disruptions or other unauthorized actions that would compromise or cripple defense information systems and networks. <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp6_0.pdf">Joint Pub 6.0</a> further outlines Computer Network Defense as an aspect of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetOps">NetOps</a>.</p>
<p>CND essentially means keeping the bad guys out and from acquiring or altering our information.  This is something that the United States has not been particularly successful with recently.  There has been progress made, however, largely due to the recognition that vulnerabilities in cyberspace affect everyone, not just the government or military.</p>
<p>In 2006 the first Government-led, full-scale, cyber security exercise of its kind, <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/files/training/gc_1204738275985.shtm">Cyber Storm</a>, took place.  “Cyber Storm was a coordinated effort between international, Federal and State governments, and private sector organizations to exercise their response, coordination, and recovery mechanisms in reaction to simulated cyber events.”<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> This event highlighted some of the vulnerabilities in our defense systems as well as some of the shortcomings in our attribution and response capabilities.  Each Cyber Storm builds on lessons learned from previous real world incidents, ensuring that participants face more sophisticated and challenging exercises every two years.  Cyber Storm has been repeated bi-annually since and advances have been made to address the major issues, but more work needs to be done.</p>
<div>There are many efforts being made between the public and private sectors to secure our cyber domains, yet our networks are infiltrated daily.  The very nature of the Internet and it&#8217;s decentralization ensures that there will still be a lot of work to be done for the foreseeable future.  Let&#8217;s continue our efforts to collaborate and share between sectors and work together towards a secure cyber future.&nbsp;</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division. (2006). <em>Cyber storm: exercise report</em> Retrieved from http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/prep_cyberstormreport_sep06.pdf</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 19:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dillon Behr</dc:creator>
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<li><em><em>Computer Network Exploitation</em> (<strong>CNE</strong>): </em>Includes enabling actions and intelligence collection via computer networks that exploit data gathered from target or enemy information systems or networks. <a href="http://www.c4i.org/jp3_13.pdf" target="_blank">Joint Pub 3-13</a></li>
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<p>CNE, which can include cyber-espionage, has many advantages at the strategic, operational, and the tactical levels.  Strategically, an adversary may find it more beneficial to collect data against us rather than make an offensive move against us, for fear of retaliation.  Again, a vulnerability in our network is an open door for another to come take information.  This is generally physically harmless, but the amount of information that walks out the door daily is staggering and it adds up.</p>
<p>This has been one of the biggest problems that the U.S. has had to deal with in recent years, as witnessed during the release of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" target="_blank">Wikileaks</a> website last summer.  China and other countries steal our government and our industry secrets every day.  Of course, that is not to say that we aren’t stealing theirs as well, but we need to continue to become better, while getting better at securing our own information.</p>
<p>In an excerpt from the book <em>Toward a Theory of Space Power: Selected Essays</em>, Benjamin Lambeth, a RAND researcher, says “unlike the air and space environments, cyberspace is the <em>only</em> military operating area in which the United States already has peer competitors in place and hard at work.”<a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Naturally, most hold China to be our main competitor in this arena, and in fact most other areas as well, but there are and will be other adversaries, state-level and below, that have designs on exploiting the United States through the cyber domain.  What are some strategies that we should seek to continue growing in this area?</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Lambeth, B. (2011). Airpower, space, and cyberwar. <em>JFQ</em>, (60), Retrieved from <a href="http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-60/JFQ60_46-53_Lambeth.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-60/JFQ60_46-53_Lambeth.pdf</a></p>
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		<title>A Discussion About Computer Network Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 22:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dillon Behr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet In a networked world, as in the rest of the world, we have to keep ourselves protected from attacks.  The problem is, this networked world actually exists in a different domain than we are historically used to fighting in.  Of course, I am talking about the cyber domain.  The United States has long enjoyed a [...]]]></description>
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			</div><div style="clear:both"></div><div style="padding-bottom:4px;"></div><p><a href="http://ctovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CNO-pic2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12661" title="CNO pic" src="http://ctovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CNO-pic2-e1305743430171.jpg" alt="" width="265" height="198" /></a>In a networked world, as in the rest of the world, we have to keep ourselves protected from attacks.  The problem is, this networked world actually exists in a different domain than we are historically used to fighting in.  Of course, I am talking about the cyber domain.  The United States has long enjoyed a distinct military advantage in controlling the four traditional domains of air, space, ground, and land.  But the cyber domain is the only one that man created; yet paradoxically the U.S. does not have full control over it.</p>
<p>It is the very nature that is <a href="http://ctovision.com/2011/05/the-u-s-international-strategy-for-cyberspace/">cyberspace</a> (decentralized) that makes it so difficult to dominate.  Further, dominance in cyberspace is essential to dominance in all other domains, as they are all increasingly dependent upon cyber infrastructure.  It seems that right now we are involved in what I see as an arms race, so to speak, that parallels historical times such as aircraft wars during the initial stages of flight, the space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union, and also the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.</p>
<p>One major difference in this realm however, is that domination in cyberspace means you essentially become the main target of anyone wishing to expand their power, to take a realist’s perspective.  In the cyber realm there are no borders by which to define your existence and draw a line in the sand.  Additionally, as of now there are no widely accepted defined rules, analogous to a Geneva Convention or Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, governing actions in this realm.  Even if there were established norms and mores in this realm, there is no international governing body to preside over them.  All in all, this ‘wild west’ atmosphere essentially means that if there is an open door (i.e. vulnerability in your network), it is an invitation for someone to walk in and take something or attack without fear of repercussion.</p>
<p>This as where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network_operations" target="_blank">Computer Network Operations</a> (CNO) comes into play.  According to <a href="http://www.c4i.org/jp3_13.pdf" target="_blank">Joint Pub 3-13</a>, CNO consists of three different operations; computer network exploitation (CNE) (and espionage), computer network defense (CND), and computer network attack (CNA):</p>
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<li><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><em>Computer Network Exploitation</em> (<strong>CNE</strong>): Includes enabling actions and intelligence collection via computer networks that exploit data gathered from target or enemy information systems or networks.</span><br />
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<li><em>Computer Network Defense</em> (<strong>CND</strong>): Includes actions taken via computer networks to protect, monitor, analyze, detect and respond to network attacks, intrusions, disruptions or other unauthorized actions that would compromise or cripple defense information systems and networks. Joint Pub 6.0 further outlines Computer Network Defense as an aspect of <a title="NetOps" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetOps">NetOps</a></li>
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<li><em>Computer Network Attack</em> (<strong>CNA</strong>): Includes actions taken via computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy the information within computers and computer networks and/or the computers/networks themselves.</li>
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<p>Over the next couple weeks I will be expanding upon this concept with a series of posts related to this.  I am hoping this can help some people understand what it is we are all dealing with here, what the nature of the threat is, and how we can work together to alleviate it.  I welcome any input and discussion on the matter.</p>
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		<title>A look at General Alexander&#8217;s RSA Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RyanKamauff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Last week, General Alexander (director of NSA and commander, USCYBERCOM) spoke at the RSA conference in San Francisco. He pointed out the the explosion of technology over the past 10 years. That users went from an average of 250MB of personal files, to over 128GB. The fact that 70% of Americans online are on [...]]]></description>
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<p>Last week, General Alexander (director of NSA and commander, USCYBERCOM) spoke at the <a href="http://www.rsaconference.com/2011/usa/">RSA</a> conference in San Francisco. He pointed out the the explosion of technology over the past 10 years. That users went from an average of 250MB of personal files, to over 128GB. The fact that 70% of Americans online are on Facebook &#8211; that 600M users worldwide are as well. This, mixed with the huge advances in programming (Watson and Deep Blue) lets us know that we do have the capability to protect and defend our advanced networks.</p>
<p>General Alexander reminded us of attacks on Estonia (2007) and Georgia (2008) as well Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. His concern is that some of those attacks might be used on the 15K DoD networks. These networks are scanned over 1 million times a day, yet receive 20k email attacks a month, thousands of independent network assaults. The DoD is scanning 92TB+ and 150B+ packets every day.</p>
<p>The biggest problem is that our public/private infrastructure is the backbone to the network. Additionally, there is a need to secure the defense industrial base. This was made certain by the USB flash drive issues in 2008. General Alexander states, &#8221;Take combined talent and figure out how we secure the network.&#8221;  The &#8220;combined talent&#8221; is that in academia, private industry, and public servants.</p>
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<div>He highlighted these needs for CYBERCOM;</div>
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<li>Need to operate in Cyber Domain</li>
<li>Active Defense &#8211; key change for military networks and how they operate</li>
<li>How to protect critical infrastructure and key resources &#8211; have to partner w/ DHS + industry to develop critical infrastructure and key resources</li>
<li>Create lasting partnerships across the globe &#8211; there is only one internet and we are all plugged into it</li>
<li>Leverage technical dominance &#8211; the US is innovating and needs to continue to use those innovations to stay technically dominant</li>
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<div>General Alexander feels that active defense is the key &#8211; we are facing an opponent that is performing guerrilla attacks on our networks. His vision of active defense has the following attributes;</div>
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<li>Dynamic &#8211; ability to change due to the threat profile</li>
<li>Customized &#8211; tailored to individual agencies and missions</li>
<li>Countermeasures - capability to turn</li>
<li>Team-Based &#8211; multiple systems and organizations working together
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<li>hunt inside networks for capabilities</li>
<li>how we work on boundaries</li>
<li>responsibility on military and IC for early-warning and indications (how can this be done?</li>
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<li>Needs to be more than anti-virus and patch management</li>
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<p>The general brought up needs to have widespread cyber education. For our citizens and our civil servants (military and government). The people need to be educated on their role in cyberspace and how they can be a factor in this domain.</p>
<p>Lastly, General Alexander focused on how important STEM + R&amp;D efforts will be to cyberspace dominance. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) studies are needed to have educated work force.  R&amp;D spending drives innovation. This ties in with his thoughts on a public/private partnership &#8211; pushing STEM + R&amp;D needs to be done at academic, private and public levels, and must be concerted efforts.</p>

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		<title>Invincea Named Most Innovative Company of RSA 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BobGourley</dc:creator>
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			</div><div style="clear:both"></div><div style="padding-bottom:4px;"></div><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-12171" href="http://ctovision.com/2011/02/invincea-named-most-innovative-company-of-rsa-2011/inivea1/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12171" style="margin: 4px;" title="Invincea" src="http://ctovision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Inivea1-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>If you are an enterprise IT professional there is something you should know:</p>
<p><a href="http://invincea.com" target="_blank">Invincea</a> has been named the &#8220;Most Innovative&#8221; company at the 2011 RSA conference.</p>
<p>There are reasons for this. The capabilities provided by Invincea hold great promise in the fight against malware. The endorsement of a panel of security experts at the world&#8217;s greatest security conference should be enough to get your attention, so now do your own due diligence and accelerate Invincea into your own enterprise.</p>
<p>Here is more from BusinessWire:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110215005868/en/Invincea-Named-%E2%80%9CMost-Innovative-Company-RSA%C2%AE-Conference" target="_blank">http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110215005868/en/Invincea-Named-%E2%80%9CMost-Innovative-Company-RSA%C2%AE-Conference</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;(<a href="http://www.businesswire.com/">BUSINESS WIRE</a>)&#8211;<strong>RSA Conference:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>“Invincea was judged the most innovative by our diverse panel of judges. We look forward to watching Invincea in the years to come as it is sure to make a continuing impact on the information security landscape.”</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>News Facts</strong></p>
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<li>RSA<sup>®</sup> Conference (<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsaconference.com&amp;esheet=6611942&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.rsaconference.com&amp;index=1&amp;md5=6ac38abb13cae65fef309193a8678da1" target="_blank">www.rsaconference.com</a>), the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced Invincea Inc., as the winner of its “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2011” contest. Invincea was determined as most innovative during the RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox program, a half-day interactive program intended to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of the security industry and represent today’s best new security solutions.</li>
<li>This year’s Innovation Sandbox program featured interactive white boarding sessions, a “Trailbreakers” panel showcasing innovators who blazed their own trail, a “Start-up Speed Dating” session, matching venture capital professionals with early stage start-up company attendees, and the finalists’ presentations to a panel of judges.</li>
<li>This year,<strong> </strong>Invincea Inc. competed against nine other finalists invited to pitch their product and business plan to a judging panel including Asheem Chandna of Greylock Partners; Gerhard Eschelbeck of Webroot; Renee Guttmann of Coca-Cola<em>; </em>Paul Kocher of Cryptography Research, and Ray Rothrock of Venrock.</li>
<li>Innovation Sandbox was sponsored by Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions and Titus, a leading provider of security and compliance solutions for email and documents.</li>
</ul>
<p>“The Top 10 participants in this year’s Innovation Sandbox represent the entrepreneurial spirit of the security industry,” said Sandra Toms LaPedis, Area Vice President and General Manager of RSA Conference. “Invincea was judged the most innovative by<strong> </strong>our diverse panel of judges. We look forward to watching Invincea in the years to come as it is sure to make a continuing impact on the information security landscape.”</p>
<p><strong>About RSA Conference</strong></p>
<p>RSA Conference helps drive the global information security agenda with annual events in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Throughout its 20-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities to learn about information security’s most important issues through face-to-face and online interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. As information security professionals work to stay ahead of ever-changing security threats and trends, they turn to RSA Conference for a 360-degree view of the industry. RSA Conference seeks to arm participants with the knowledge they need to remain at the forefront of the information security business. More information on events, online programming and the most up-to-date news pertaining to the information security industry can be found at<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsaconference.com&amp;esheet=6611942&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.rsaconference.com&amp;index=2&amp;md5=eaf4a201645297a016e057afd0567001" target="_blank">www.rsaconference.com</a>.</p>
<p>RSA and the RSA Conference logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other products and/or services referenced are trademarks of their respective companies.</p>
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