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Is Your Company Security Aware?

Is Your Company Security Aware?. Presented By: Brian Picard GSEC. Personal Background. Progressive Insurance – Security Architect 10 Long Years ( 6 years in Identity/Security ) GIAC – GSEC Certified

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Is Your Company Security Aware?

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  1. Is Your Company Security Aware? Presented By: Brian Picard GSEC

  2. Personal Background • Progressive Insurance – Security Architect • 10 Long Years ( 6 years in Identity/Security ) • GIAC – GSEC Certified • Wide range of background experience ( ie Server Administration, Networking, Development, Identity, and Security Architecture ) • Private Consulting – Anything Technical • 9 Year ( 4 years in Identity/Security ) • Network Development • Server Implementations • Custom Development • Security Consultations and Instruction

  3. Overview • Security Awareness Program • Security Effort Statements • Sample Security Awareness Efforts • Social Engineering • Public Information Gathering • Development Challenges • Physical Security Awareness • Adjacent Risks • Other Samples

  4. Security Awareness Program WARNING This should not be done as a group activity WARNING • Definition: This describes where your company’s security awareness is focused and a rough outline of the scope. • Efforts: This describes what efforts will be made to meet your goals. • Timeframe: This will define how long your company will follow this initiative before re-evaluating it’s position.

  5. Security Effort Statement WARNING These need to be done as a group activity WARNING • Objective: Goals, Scope (In AND Out), Gaps • TargetAudience: Intended Targets, Depth Of Technical Knowledge • Actions: Mediums of Delivery, Durations, Required/Optional • AdditionalReferences: Other Sources Of Information • Measurements: Verification On Success

  6. Sample Security Efforts(Social Engineering) • Objective: To inform employees about Social Engineering and to give them the ability to professionally deal with a suspected Social Engineer. The scope will include social engineering applied to phones, emails, and physical entry to the buildings. • Target Audience: All Company Employees • Actions: Company-wide web cast about Social Engineering. Including a definition, common real-world examples, and ways to deal with suspected social engineers.

  7. Sample Security Efforts(Social Engineering)<Cont> • Additional Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretexting http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1527 http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/engineering • Measurements: • A company-wide web test administered 6 months after the training is completed. • Random Social Engineering attempts done from outside consultants.

  8. Sample Security Efforts(Public Information Gathering) • Objective: To inform employees about Public Information Gathering. The scope includes web and verbal content with individuals inside and outside the company. • Target Audience: The target for this security effort is Web Content Analysts and Point Of Sale employees. • Actions: • A web based find the information internal game. This game will include potentially critical company information hidden on a typical looking company web site. • An internet scavanger hunt for public information on companies with explanations on how this information could be useful to an outsider.

  9. Sample Security Efforts(Public Information Gathering)<cont> • Additional Information: • http://businessethics.suite101.com/article.cfm/corporate_intelligence_gathering • Measurements: • Post assessment of Information Gathering game. • Internet Scavenger Hunt to gather required pieces of information about companies based off their corporate web site

  10. Sample Security Efforts(Development Challenges) • Objective: To inform developers of the potential problems with unsafe coding practices. The scope of this will include Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL Injections, and Improper Input Validation. • Target Audience: Web developers that work on an external facing application. • Actions: This effort will be comprised of a progressive set of challenges regarding the above mentioned topics. After each challenge some hints will be given to help solve the next round of problems.

  11. Sample Security Efforts(Development Challenges)<cont> • Additional Resources: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting • http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/xss-faq.shtml • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection • http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/sql-injection.html • Measurements: • The completion of the required challenges within a designated time frame. • The completion of a follow-up set of challenges, different then the first, six months after completion of the previous round. • Bug tracking for reported SQL Injection, XSS, and Input Validation Issues.

  12. Sample Security Efforts(Physical Security Awareness) • Objective: To inform the employees about potential problems with lacking physical security. The scope for this shall include only entering the building. • Target Audience: All employees with badges. • Actions: • An online bulletin explaining the problems and statistics around un-authorized individuals. • Movable Plaques mounted around badging stations explaining that every person should swipe their own badge and those attempting to tailgate should be questioned.

  13. Sample Security Efforts(Physical Security Awareness)<cont> • Rotation of entry staff to encourage the requirement of swiping and diminish the likelihood of known employees being allowed to enter. • Colorful Posters or Cutouts moved around the company encouraging employees to swipe for their own entry and question others attempting to enter on their swipe. • Measurements: • Trending on the number of un-authorized people in the buildings. • Trending on the number of card swipes per day.

  14. Sample Security Efforts(Adjacent Risks) • Objective: To inform all company employees that work on external data transactions with other companies about Extended Security threats. • Target Audience: Any employee that work on external data transactions. • Actions: A Web Based Training (WBT) that explains the potential problems and history of known problems around network extensions. • Measurements: A post assessment of the content covered in the WBT.

  15. Sample Security Efforts(Other Samples) • Security Informational Sessions • Security Posters • Security Bulletins • Data Classification Awareness • Phishing • Source Code Management

  16. Final Thoughts • Publish Your Security Awareness Statement • Trust but Verify Completion of Efforts

  17. Recap And Personal Contact Information • Recap • Contact Info: • Brian_Picard@Progressive.com

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