Live Demo: How to Detect Data Exfiltration & System Compromise

About AlienVault

AlienVault has unified the security products, intelligence and community essential for mid-sized businesses to defend against

today’s modern threats

Introductions

Garrett GrossSr. Technical Product Marketing Mgr

Mark AllenTechnical Sales Engineer

Agenda

• The changing threat landscape

• Data infiltration methods

• Data exfiltration methods

• Tips to mitigate these threats

• Demo: using USM to detect system compromise

• Correlation directives

• Incident investigation

• More and more organizations are finding themselves in the crosshairs of various bad actors for a variety of reasons.

• The number of organizations experiencing high profile breaches is unprecedented.

• The “security arms race” cannot continue indefinitely as the economics of securing your organization is stacked so heavily in favor of those launching attacks that incremental security investments are seen as impractical.

Threat landscape: Our new reality

84%of organizations breached

had evidence of the breach in their log files…

Source: Verizon Data Breach Report, 2014

“There are two types of companies that use computers. Victims of crime that know they are victims of crime and victims of crime that don’t

have a clue yet.”

- James Routh, 2007 CISO Depository Trust Clearing Corporation

Prevention is elusive

“How would you change your strategy if you knew for certain that you were going to be

compromised?”

- Martin Roesch, 2013 Founder & CTO Sourcefire, Author SNORT

Infiltration (How they get in)

• Man in the middle

• Ad-hoc methods (sniffin packets)

• Purpose-built devices (wifi pineapple)

• Social Engineering

• Easier than you think (who has the keys to your castle?)

• Brute Force password enumeration

• Used in iCloud hack

• Watering Hole/Drive by/Spearphishing

• Deploying RootKits/Trojans

Exfiltration (How they get it out)

• Simple encrypted transmission

• HTTP/HTTP

• Posting to WordPress or other sites

• FTP/SFTP/SCP

• Slow & low

• Hide & Seek

• Images

• Video

• Audio (via VOIP)

• New Methods created every day

Prevent Detect & Respond

The basics are in place for most

companies…but this alone is a ‘proven’ failed

strategy.

New capabilities to develop

Get (Very) good at detection & response

Mitigation

• Educate your users to prevent

• Phishing, Social Engineering, etc

• Monitoring

• Netflow/Sflow

• Service Availability

• Direct Monitoring of traffic

• Tagging

• Prevention at proxy level to detect sensitive docs

• Identification of known bad actors

Firewalls/Antivirus are not enough

• Firewalls are usually not the target – too difficult to effectively penetrate

• Endpoints are the target, usually via email, url redirects, misc malicious

files, etc.

• With 160,000 new malware

samples seen every day,

antivirus apps will not find

every threat

• Needs to be bolstered by

regular and comprehensive

monitoring

@AlienVault

Asset Discovery• Active Network Scanning

• Passive Network Scanning

• Asset Inventory

• Host-based Software

Inventory

Vulnerability Assessment• Network Vulnerability Testing

• Remediation Verification

Threat Detection• Network IDS

• Host IDS

• Wireless IDS

• File Integrity Monitoring

Behavioral Monitoring• Log Collection

• Netflow Analysis

• Service Availability Monitoring

Security Intelligence• SIEM Event Correlation

• Incident Response

AlienVault Labs Threat Intelligence

• Weekly updates to correlation directives to detect emerging threats

• Recent updates related to data exfiltration methods:

• AV Malware, Ajax Security Team Data

Exfiltration

• AV Malware, Operation Machete FTP

exfiltration

• AV attack, malware sending exfiltrating

command output

Now for some Q&A…

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