What Lurks in the Shadow

What Lurks in the Shadow

Addressing the Growing Security Risk of Shadow IT & Shadow Data

By @3ncr1pt3d

Cheryl Biswas

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• Works for: JIG Technologies

• Does what exactly: security researcher, analyst, writer of things

• Trekkie, techie, maker, baker

• Bridging the gap between tech and non-tech

Necessary Disclaimer: All content is my own and does not reflect the opinions of my employer

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Security Lords09/11/2015

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#GenMobile


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#GenMobile “For the security of company data and IT systems, there may be cause for concern”.(http://www.arubanetworks.com/mobileriskindex/)

http://www.arubanetworks.com/mobileriskindex/


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BYoD


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Internet of So. Many. Things

The Human Factor

Fear of the Unknown


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The Dark World

Shadow IT/Shadow Data


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In the Land of Mordor

Where the Shadows Lie

Keep it secret, keep IT safe


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“Employees in every cubicle are using Box, Workday and Salesforce, and they’re not waiting for IT’s permission to do so. They’re using their own apps on their own devices. Many are spinning up servers in the cloud for infrastructure in the cloud, a practice dubbed bring your own server. So privilege is now being consumerized like apps and devices.”

- Forbes

- ZDNET

“When you agree to BYOD policies, you put employees within the security chain”.


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Bad Apples09/11/2015


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Pass on the Passwords• 51% Single password/numerical PIN

• 58% NO policies of software to enforce better passwords

• 56% Shared passwords

• 17% Used company-provided password mgr

• 60% Accessed confidential corporate data


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Unprotected and Connected

• questionable WiFi networks via the local coffee shop hotspot

• unapproved cloud storage

• really, really bad USB


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Securitymeans never having to say you’re sorry


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Cyber Insurance


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A culture of indifference. Sharing as the norm – devices, data, passwords

Indifference towards security – the assumption that security is somebody else’s problem; not worried about their own responsibility

Self-empowerment succeeds over existing rules (Aruba Networks)

“Businesses are ill-prepared for the attitude of next generation employees who own mobile devices, and may be placed at risk as the BYOD trend causes fractures in security enforcement.”

- ZDNet


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Alien Vault Insider Risk Matrix


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“All identities are not created equal”

With great power comes great responsibility


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Great Power, Great Responsibility

• 92% orgs have user monitoring

• 56% handle privileged identity mgmt.

• 58% corps do regular password updates

• 60% IT decision makers share creds

• 52% share creds with contractors

>20% analyze or audit privileged access


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“IT departments often give non-technical executives (e.g. VP of Sales, CEOs, CFOs, etc.) broad privilege inside corporate applications, figuring it is better to give too much freedom to upper management than get yelled at when someone can’t create a report.”

- Forbes


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“It is scary to think that this many people consider it normal for employees to have access to data that they shouldn’t have and for companies to not know where their missing data has gone.”

- David Gibson, VP at Varonis.

The Loss of Privilege


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The hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring of power has a will of its own...


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Time for

a little talk about

B I GData


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Who Touched the Data?

“It’s not good enough to merely resist the rise of BYOD, if people can still access corporate e-mail

when they get home…”John McAfee


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What’s Mine is Mine & What’s Yours is Mine Too


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Sh*tpostsfrom the

Trenches


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Let’s do a little Demo

https://www.shodan.io/

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So Where Do We Go From Here?

“Just Say No.”


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Current rules can’t apply when the game itself

has changed.What was working isn’t working now


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Least Privilege: “Every program and every user of the system should operate using the least set of privileges necessary to complete the job. Primarily this principle limits the damage that can result from an accident or error.”

- SALTZER, J.H. and SCHROEDER, M.D.


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We’ve taken the lid off Pandora’s box. I don’t think it ever goes back on.


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What Are We Missing

• Training and Awareness

• Inventory and Monitoring

• Secure Hi-Value Assets

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The Cloud


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No Idea What They’re Using,No Idea What They’re Losing

• 15x more cloud services used to store critical data than CIOs authorized

• IT says 51 active cloud services. Survey says 730

• Use growing exponentially.

• 1000 external services per company by 2016


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30% of business critical info is in the cloud.

Most cloud apps are third party apps.

- Ponemon Institute


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Shadow ITisn’t

going anywhere …

Gartner says so


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To Build a Better Mousetrap,Draw A Bigger Circle


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The Way Forward

• Ask what users really need and want

• Show the CSuites why we are their strategic partner

• Shift gears and adapt

• Projections based on Cloud, Big Data, Everything as a Service


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As for that one ring that rules them all …

The World has changed. And so must

we.


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Thank You So Much!

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