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CANHEIT, Memorial University. 2010.
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Transcript
Situational Awareness Paul Halliday | Security Analyst | NSCC |
CANHEIT 2010
• 20+ Sites (13 Campuses) • 5500 IP Devices •
25,000 Full-time/Part-time & Online Students • 1,800 Employees About The Nova Scotia Community College
About My Job
Warm Warm Warm Cold Cold Cold Session Data and PCAP
Metadata Event and alert Data Awareness About This presentation
Zabbix A very brief introduction
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Data Sources Where the raw information comes from and how
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• Easy to collect and process(SIAFI) • Clearly defned and
concise • Results should be consistent and verifable • Cheap (resource wise) • Preferably not proprietary Rules for data sources The rules I try to follow anyway
Putting it all together. Presentation status.nscc.ca
Links to sections within this tab Section Content (a graph
or stub or both) Section note Section Title … FLOW IDS NESS US URL ZABB IX 1 2 3 4 5 SH
Control #1 Control #2 Control #3 Section content A graph
created with RRDTool that shows Internet Trafc FLOW
Section content A graph created with Zabbix that shows flesystem
utilization ZABB IX
Section content A graph created with JpGraph that shows IDS
alert data IDS IP2C
Section content A graph created with Afterglow that shows IDS
alert data IDS
Section content A Stub created with a MySQL query that
shows blocked Email
A Section A graph and stub (fow-tools) combined that show
Blackhole activity FLOW
A Section in action Suspicious activity FLOW
A Section in action Suspicious activity 10.11.12.13 - - [29/May/2010:00:24:58
-0300] "GET /MaV2XmZP8T6Y2Us29ae3c2a404357831ccd07fc6a0aec04d18g HTTP/1.1" 404 122 "http://daybreak.com/key/? qs=52db268891d044c4fa128d4e06b660870c2fe9c4ca138597ad60562136102f407d68b576f42d29c7e 60320ff28a9667d&t=daypro+testimonials" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; InfoPath.1)" 10.11.12.13 - - [29/May/2010:00:42:19 -0300] "GET/? xurl=http://cdn.mfdclk001.org/6vQ11Ovp8f7J1NO2fca2fef53de5ef21823110c774f7972617c&xref=http:/ /www.dogfleatreatment.com/default.pk? tsearch=auto+credit+loan+poor&search_button.x=48&search_button.y=12 HTTP/1.1" 200 1870 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; InfoPath.1)" 10.11.12.13 - - [29/May/2010:00:42:26 -0300] "GET/? xurl=http://cdn.mfdclk001.org/VKw2IN5L7g4JXpS8460217bb4f66f154be9a6e568412b24f38h&xref=htt p://bagging.org/key/? qs=52db268891d044c4fa128d4e06b660870c2fe9c4ca138597ad60562136102f407d68b576f42d29c7e 60320ff28a9667d&t=auto+credit+loan+poor HTTP/1.1" 200 1870 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
• Be consistent and conscious of fow • Be clear.
Use helpers • Be mindful of loading time • Don’t “dead end” the user • Think ahead Rules for data presentation Ok, maybe just suggestions
Tab C O M P L I A N C
E : Contains compliance related information
WWW NESS US ZABB IX
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Nessus HTML output • BIG! 300K to 1.5M in size;
redundant • Difcult to navigate • Single option for host representation
Modifed HTML output • Small! Under 10K • Just report
relevant info • Sort option on column headings • Hostname and IP
Tab D E V I C E S : Contains
maps created by Zabbix
ZABB IX
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Tab E M A I L : Contains SPAM summary
data and Exchange environment information
ZABB IX
IP2C
This link graph shows a typical day of spam:
This link graph shows a particularly heavy day of spam:
FLOW SH
Tab N E T W O R K : Contains
high level network information
FLOW
FLOW
FLOW
FLOW
SH
Tab S I T E S : Acts as a
loader for sensor content
SH
SH
SH
SH
SH
FLOW
FLOW
Tab S T U D E N T V L
A N : An example (last one, promise) of grouped content
FLOW
IDS SH
IP2C IDS
IDS
• URELLS • Visuals with more depth • New types
of visuals: - Wordmaps (tag clouds) - Circos • Hints in link area The Future? Where are we going