The Path of DevOps Enlightenment for InfoSec

DevOps Days Kansas City @WICKETT

THE PATH OF DEVOPS ENLIGHTENMENT

FOR INFOSECJAMES WICKETT

SIGNAL SCIENCES


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‣ HEAD OF RESEARCH AT SIGNAL SCIENCES

‣ ORGANIZER OF DEVOPS DAYS AUSTIN

‣ LYNDA.COM AUTHOR ON DEVOPS

‣ BLOG AT THEAGILEADMIN.COM

@WICKETT

http://lynda.com/JamesWickett

http://theagileadmin.com


‣ WHY DO WE HAVE DEVOPS?

‣ DID WE BUILD DEVOPS PROPERLY?

‣ IS THE DEVOPS CULTURE LOST?

‣ CAN WE GET IT BACK?

‣ CAN WE PROTECT DEVOPS FROM FURTHER DISTORTION?

QUESTIONS ON MY MIND


My Journey


‣ WEB AND ECOMM FOR $1B COMPANY

‣ BRUTAL ONCALL ROTATIONS

‣ +24HR DEPLOYMENTS

‣ WATERFALL, WATERFALL, WATERFALL

‣ FRIENDS ARE BORN FROM ADVERSITY

FIRST BIGCO JOB


‣ IN 2007 WENT STARTUP AND AWS CLOUD

‣ LEARNED A BIT ABOUT FAILURE AND HAPPINESS

‣ REJOINED OLD TEAM IN 2010 FOR NEW CLOUD VENTURE BACK IN BIGCO

CLOUDING FOR PROFIT


‣ DEVOPS AND INFRA AS CODE

‣ NOT CD, BUT DEPLOYS DAILY

‣ AT BIGCO DELIVERED 4 SAAS PRODUCTS IN 2 YEARS WITH DEVOPS AND CLOUD

ENTER DEVOPS


‣ FOUND RUGGED SOFTWARE

‣ MET GENE KIM IN 2012 IN A BAR IN AUSTIN

‣ CREATED GAUNTLT

‣ LATER, JOINED SIGNAL SCIENCES

DEVOPS AND SECURITY


DevOps is Friendship


Compassion for Ops


10:1

Dev:Ops


Labor Inequity Permeates IT Ranks


100:10:1

Dev:Ops:Sec


Yet, I remained optimistic for DevOps+Security


ENTER DOUBTS


‣ DEVOPS ON A BUS AT RSA

‣ EXPO FLOOR AT DOCKER CON AND THE DEVOPS TOOLCHAIN

TWO EVENTS


HAD WE ALLOWED DEVOPS TO BE A NEW GIMMICK OR SLOGAN ?


WHAT HAD DEVOPS BECOME?


‣ WHY DO WE HAVE DEVOPS?

‣ DID WE BUILD DEVOPS PROPERLY?

‣ IS THE DEVOPS CULTURE LOST?

‣ CAN WE GET IT BACK?

‣ CAN WE PROTECT DEVOPS FROM FURTHER DISTORTION?

QUESTIONING DEVOPS


OUR ROOTS: FRIENDSHIP


There is irony in my story…


‣ TEACH THREE DEVOPS CLASSES IN THE DEVOPS FOUNDATIONS SERIES AT LYNDA / LINKEDIN LEARNING

‣ WRITE DEVOPS AND SECURITY ARTICLES AS PART OF MY ROLE AT SIGNAL SCIENCES


Back to Our Roots


CULTURE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT TO DEVOPS

SUCCEEDING IN THE ENTERPRISE

- PATRICK DEBOIS


‣ MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING

‣ SHARED LANGUAGE

‣ SHARED VIEWS

‣ COLLABORATIVE TOOLING

4 KEYS TO CULTURE


FRIENDSHIP


Make a friend at DevOps Days KC


Security is in Crisis


Companies are spending a great deal on security, but we read of massive computer-related attacks. Clearly something is wrong.

The root of the problem is twofold: we’re protecting the wrong things,

and we’re hurting productivity in the process.

THINKING SECURITY, STEVEN M. BELLOVIN 2015


[Security by risk assessment] introduces a dangerous fallacy: that structured inadequacy is almost as

good as adequacy and that underfunded security efforts plus risk

management are about as good as properly funded security work


Security is often the cultural outlier in an

organization


many security teams work with a worldview where their goal is to inhibit change as much as possible


“SECURITY PREFERS A SYSTEM POWERED OFF AND UNPLUGGED”

- DEVELOPER


“…THOSE STUPID DEVELOPERS”

- SECURITY PERSON


It is 30 times cheaper to fix security defects in dev

vs. Prod

NIST, 2002, The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infra for Software Testing


Security must Change or Die


“every aspect of managing WAFs is an ongoing process. This is the antithesis of set it and forget it technology. That is the real point of this research. To maximize value from your WAF you need to go in with everyone’s eyes open to the effort required

to get and keep the WAF running productively.”

- WHITEPAPER FROM AN UNDISCLOSED WAF VENDOR


Bottleneck Approach


THE AVERAGE TIME TO DELIVER CORPORATE IT PROJECTS HAS INCREASED FROM ~8.5 MONTHS TO OVER 10

MONTHS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS

Revving up your Corporate RPMs, Fortune Magazine, Feb 1, 2016

THE GROWTH OF [SECURITY] FUNCTIONS WHICH IS TOO OFTEN POORLY COORDINATED… [RESULTING IN] A PROLIFERATION OF NEW TASKS IN THE AREAS OF COMPLIANCE, PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION.


Many security professionals have a hard time adapting their existing practices to a world where requirements can change every few weeks, or where they are never written down at all.


DevOps A New Traveling Companion

for Security (…and probably the only way to survive)


High performers spend 50 percent less time remediating security issues than

low performers. By better integrating information security objectives into daily work, teams achieve higher levels of IT performance and build

more secure systems. 2016 State of DevOps Report


High performing orgs achieve quality by incorporating

security (and security teams) into the delivery process

2016 State of DevOps Report


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQblKuMuS0Y


The New Path


OLD PATH VS. NEW PATHEmbrace Secrecy Create Feedback LoopsJust Pass Audit! Compliance adds ValueEnforce Stability Create Chaos

Build a Wall Zero Trust NetworksSlow Validation Fast and Non-blocking

Certainty Testing Adversity TestingTest when Done Shift LeftProcess Driven The Paved Road


A security team who embraces openness about what it does and

why, spreads understanding. - Rich Smith


Runtime is arguably the most important place to

create feedback loops


‣ ACCOUNT TAKEOVER ATTEMPTS

‣ AREAS OF THE SITE UNDER ATTACK

‣ MOST LIKELY VECTORS OF ATTACK

‣ BUSINESS LOGIC FLOWS

DETECT WHAT MATTERS


Are you under attack?


Where?


Options: RASP, NGWAF or Web Protection Platform


‣ POLICIES AND PROCEDURES IN PLACE

‣ EFFECTIVE EXECUTION OF THOSE POLICIES TO ALLOW YOU TO KEEP FUNCTIONING

‣ MOST OF PCI AND OTHER FRAMEWORKS PROVIDE REASONABLY GOOD PRACTICES *IF* YOU REMOVE ALL THE WATERFALL BITS

UNDERSTAND AUDITORS


[Deploys] can be treated as standard or routine changes that have been pre-approved by management, and that don’t require a heavyweight change review meeting.

Separation of Duties Considered Harmful


Developers with Access to Production, Oh My!!!

https://www.schellmanco.com/blog/2012/12/auditing-devops-developers-with-access-to-production/




Check out DevOps Audit Defense Toolkit

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/228391/Corporate/DevOps_Audit_Defense_Toolkit_v1.0.pdf


‣ ADD IN CHAOS TO YOUR SYSTEM AND APPLICATION

‣ CHAOS MONKEY

‣ ANTI-FRAGILE

‣ RELEASE IT! BOOK

CHAOS ENGINEERING


‣ ADDS MISCONFIG TO THE STACK AND CHECKS TO SEE IF IT GETS DETECTED

‣ NEW OPEN SOURCE TOOL!

‣ RUNS AS A LAMBDA

CHAOS SLINGR


‣ I AM BEING PEN TESTED ANYWAY, WHY NOT FIND OUT WHAT THEY ARE FINDING?

‣ 24/7 PEN TESTING

‣ BUILDS DEVELOPER CONFIDENCE

‣ FINDS MIX OF LOW HANGING FRUIT AND SOMETIMES MUCH MORE!

BUG BOUNTIES


‣ NO PERIMETER SECURITY

‣ ASSUME COMPROMISE

‣ INSTRUMENT ALL LAYERS

‣ EXTENDS FROM LAPTOPS TO WEB APPS TO CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS

ZERO TRUST NETWORKS


‣ DON’T SLOW DELIVERY

‣ CONTINUOUS TESTING AND VALIDATION

‣ TESTING ON THE SIDE OF THE PIPELINE

‣ PENETRATION TESTING OUTSIDE OF DELIVERY

FAST AND NON-BLOCKING


Currently, at Signal Sciences we do about 15

deploys per day


Roughly 10,000 deploys in the last 2.5 yrs


CD is how little you can deploy at a time


We optimized for cycle time—the time from code

commit to production

Gave power to the team to deploy


Signal Sciences is a software as a service

company and a security company


Security is part of CI/CD and the overall delivery

pipeline


‣DESIGN

‣INHERIT

‣BUILD

‣DEPLOY

‣OPERATE

PIPELINE PHASES


‣INHERIT

‣BUILD

‣OPERATE

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

What have I bundled into my app that leaves me

vulnerable?

Do my build acceptance tests and integration tests

catch security issues before release?

Am I being attacked right now? Is it working?


Be Mean to Your Code


The goal should be to come up with a set of automated tests that probe and check security configurations and runtime system behavior for security features that will execute every time the system is built and every time it is deployed.


Security tools are intractably noisy and

difficult to use


A method of collaboration was needed for devs, ops

and security eng.


There needed to be a new language to span the

parties


Started Gauntlt 4 years ago


Open source, MIT License

Gauntlt comes with pre-canned steps that hook security testing tools

Gauntlt does not install tools

Gauntlt wants to be part of the CI/CD pipeline

Be a good citizen of exit status and stdout/stderr


gauntlt.org

http://gauntlt.org


$ gem install gauntlt

# download example attacks from github # customize the example attacks # now you can run gauntlt

$ gauntlt


@slow @finalFeature: Look for cross site scripting (xss) using arachni against a URL

Scenario: Using arachni, look for cross site scripting and verify no issues are found Given "arachni" is installed And the following profile: | name | value | | url | http://localhost:8008 | When I launch an "arachni" attack with: """ arachni —check=xss* <url> """ Then the output should contain "0 issues were detected."

Given

When

Then

What?


“We have saved millions of dollars using Gauntlt for the largest healthcare industry

project.”

- Aaron Rinehart, UnitedHealthCare


http://bit.ly/2s8P1Ll

http://bit.ly/2s8P1Ll


‣ 8 LABS FOR GAUNTLT

‣ HOW TO USE GAUNTLT FOR NETWORK CHECKS

‣ GAUNTLT FOR XSS, SQLI, OTHER APSES

‣ HANDLING REPORTING

‣ USING ENV VARS

‣ CI SYSTEM SETUP

WORKSHOP INCLUDES:

DevOps Days Kansas City @WICKETTgithub.com/gauntlt/gauntlt-demo

http://github.com/gauntlt/gauntlt-demo


github.com/gauntlt/gauntlt-starter-kit

http://github.com/gauntlt/gauntlt-starter-kit


SOURCE: THE THREE WAYS OF

DEVOPS, GENE KIM


Most teams use Gauntlt in Docker containers


https://github.com/gauntlt/gauntlt-docker




Red Team Mondays at Intuit


OVER 30% OF OFFICIAL IMAGES IN DOCKER HUB CONTAIN HIGH PRIORITY

SECURITY VULNERABILITIES

https://banyanops.com/blog/analyzing-docker-hub/


‣ MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING

‣ JASON CHAN, NETFLIX

‣ GOLD IMAGES

‣ BLESSED BUILDS AND DEPENDENCIES

THE PAVED ROAD


Don’t be a blocker, be an enabler of the business


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