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CERT AM: Securing NREN in Armenia. Armenian NREN. ASNET AM – Connecting more than 40 academic institutes of NAS RA and more than 10 other research, educational and cultural organizations
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Armenian NREN • ASNET AM – Connecting more than 40 academic institutes of NAS RA and more than 10 other research, educational and cultural organizations • ARENA – Network association, providing Internet access for research and educational organizations within the framework of Virtual Silk Highway project
Armenian NREN • LIBNET AM – Armenian Libraries Consortium manages “Developing of Armenian Libraries computerized network” project, which interconnects libraries trough fiber optical channels • School network – managed by Harmony Foundation in the framework of ongoing ASCP project of connecting 330 schools in Armenia
Establishment of CERT AM 1. Hosting organization Internet Society – Armenia (ISOC AM) was chosen for the following reasons: • ISOC AM is the local internet community, • ISOC AM is a member of CEENET representing Armenia NREN and participates in other CEENET projects like Porta Optica, • ISOC AM is more responsive to the international cooperation and activity, • Major ISPs and corporate/educational networks of Armenia are members of ISOC AM
Establishment of CERT AM 1. Hosting organization • ISOC AM is a manager and registry (AM NIC) of AM TLD and as such accumulates an important information on security, vulnerabilities, attacks. • ISOC AM has a training center with qualified trainers, • ISOC AM is conducting network administrators training courses, • ISOC AM training center is a CIW authorized training center with training programs in Web design for E-commerce and Security, • ISOC AM is a participant of e-rider and community centers (telecenters) programmes.
Establishment of CERT AM 2. Analyzing the current situation Common security problems • Viruses • Spam • Hacking resources • Dos and DDos attacks
Establishment of CERT AM 2. Analyzing the current situation - ASNET
Establishment of CERT AM 2. Analyzing the current situation - ASNET • WORM_NETSKY.C • HTML_Netsky.P • WORM_NETSKY.DAM • WORM_BAGLE.GEN-2 • WORM_NETSKY.Z • WORM_BAGLE.CL • WORM_GREW.A • WORM_MYDOOM.M • WORM_MYTOB.AF • WORM_MYTOB.DM Top 10 viruses in 2006
Establishment of CERT AM 2. Analyzing the current situation - ASNET Fighting against viruses • Antivirus software on users’ machines • Scanning incomming email attachments
Establishment of CERT AM 2. Analyzing the current situation - ASNET Spam fighting techniques • DNS-based blacklists • Content filtering Result: about 21000 spam messages being blocked daily
Establishment of CERT AM 2. Analyzing the current situation - ASNET Example of Hacker attacks • SSH brute force attacks About 500 attacks are identified and blocked monthly
Establishment of CERT AM 3. Defining constituents and their resources • Assigning some of the IT staff of each REN as Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) with the corresponding job description • Organize an orientation meeting for CISOs and establish a community of CISOs • Receive a description of software and hardware products installed in each of the RENs from CISOs
Establishment of CERT AM 4. Defining services Reactive • Incident response Proactive • Vulnerability reports • Technology watch Security Quality Management • Awareness building
Establishment of CERT AM 5. Maintaining the web site • Have an online incident report form • Have security advisories available online • Have best practice documents available • Have security related articles and news available • Have a download area for downloading security tools • Have the contact information of CERT AM • Have a mailing list subscription form • Have statistics of security attacks, etc.
Establishment of CERT AM 6. Maintaining awareness building process • Organizing workshops and seminars for users and administrators of NREN • Organizing regular meetings of CISOs
Establishment of CERT AM 7. International relations • It is planned for CERT AM to become a member of international CSIRT communities such as FIRST • It is planned to hold a number of workshops inviting representatives from foreign CSIRTs