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Organization Re-structure
Hire an IT Manager!
The IT Specialist at the time was terminated from employment soon after the
cyber incident.
The search was on almost immediately, action was needed and the right
person was needed.
May 2013 new IT manager began working on core issues identified by the
insurance SWAT team
New firewalls
New networks
Catch up technology
Windows XP to Windows 7
Segment Networks
Content Filtering
Layered Defense
Anti-Virus on e-mail
Anti-Virus on servers
Anti-virus on workstations
Network Segmentation
No control
New switch, firewall and virtual technologies were utilized to segment a single
network into many
Separating WiFi
Vulnerability Patching
Attacker go after 3rd party applications a lot now as they are used for most
web applications and become a very easy way into remote systems
Adobe
Silverlight
Java
Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Computer Criminals
Hacker:
Computer-savvy
programmer creates
attack software
Script Kiddies:
Unsophisticated
computer users
who know how to
execute programs
Criminals:
Create & sell bots -> spam
Sell credit card numbers,
System Administrators
Some scripts are useful
to protect networks
Successful attacks!
Crazyman broke into
CoolCat penetrated
Malware package=$1K-2K
1 M Email addresses = $8
10,000 PCs = $1000
Leading Threats
Virus
Worm
Social Engineering
Rootkits
Botnets / Zombies
Social Engineering
Phone Call:
This is John,
the System
Admin. What
is your
password?
and have
some
software
patches
I have come
to repair
your
machine
Calculation
Result
Time to Guess
(2.6x1018/month)
20
Manual 5 minutes
Social Engineering
Manual 2 minutes
80,000
< 1 second
American Dictionary
4 chars: lower case alpha
264
5x105
268
2x1011
8 chars: alpha
528
5x1013
8 chars: alphanumeric
628
2x1014
3.4 min.
728
7x1014
12 min.
958
7x1015
2 hours
12 chars: alphanumeric
6212
3x1021
96 years
12 chars: alphanumeric + 10
7212
2x1022
500 years
9512
5x1023
16 chars: alphanumeric
6216
5x1028
Creating Passwords
Bad
Password
Merry Christmas
(Lengthen)
Merry Xmas
MerryChrisToYou
(Synonym)
(Intertwine Letters)
(convert vowels
to numeric)
MerryJul
(Abbreviate)
MaryJul
MerChr2You
(Keypad shift
Right . Up)
MXemrays
Good
Password ,stuzc,sd
Glad*Jes*Birth
M5rryXm1s
Jq46Sjqw
Mary*Jul
mErcHr2yOu
Password Safe
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
In Closing
Layered Defenses
Employee Education
Thank you
Chris Chidley
Skagit Transit
cchidley@skagittransit.org
360-757-1446