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By AMSAT Aug 28,2020

Dealing with cyber-threat: a complex challenge

To keep abreast with industry best practices and to adhere to technical and other requirements, enterprises today often use frameworks to ensure cybersecurity compliance. These frameworks provide best guidelines to help improve security, enhance business processes, meet regulatory requirements, and carry out other tasks essential to attain specific business objectives such as breaking into a particular market niche or selling to government institutions.

There are a number of such frameworks, and the recommendations set out in them can impose tough and often costly requirements on enterprise resources, not least in circumstances where an enterprise is bound by a host of supervisory compliance regimes

Cybersecurity Compliance Frameworks

 

These frameworks typically provide recommendations on executing and managing the several aspects of a security program, such as perimeter defense, access control, authentication, encryption, monitoring, reporting, incident response, and risk management. They may also give guidelines on best practices, and fields that should be encompassed in cybersecurity awareness training.

These frameworks approach these matters in a particular way, typical of its particular design, and are likely to be influenced by the industry standards or market sector for which they have been designed.

The following are some of the leading frameworks highly recommended for cybersecurity compliance purposes.

Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ)

This specific framework has developed standards for automating the measuring of structural quality and the size of software applications. The standards were drawn up based on exploits and flaws recognized by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), the SANS Institute, and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). The standards of this framework are generally used in handling risks like application security.

Control Objectives for Information Related Technology (COBIT)

More than 25 years ago, the Information Security Audit and Control Association (ISACA) introduced the Control Objectives for Information Related Technology (COBIT) framework to highlight the issue of risk reduction in financial institutions. The latest review of COBIT comprises best practices for aligning information technology functions and procedures and connecting these best practices to business plan.

Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)

This framework provides a standardized way for government agencies to assess the risks of cloud-based software solutions and infrastructure platforms. The framework allows existing security evaluations and packages to be reused across many government organizations and is based on the constant monitoring of cloud products and services for real-time cybersecurity.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

This is a division of the US Chamber of Commerce, which deals with cybersecurity issues impacting the operators and managers of serious infrastructure. NIST’s recommendations for manufacturing, quality control, security, and other matters are grounded on the outcomes of consultations with security industry specialists, government agencies, and researchers. The framework offers a set of controls and balances to help infrastructure operators to manage their cybersecurity risks.

Privacy Shield

The Privacy Shield Framework was recognized to substitute the US-EU Safe Harbor rules which were issued to ensure that US companies complied with European Union (EU) data protection standards when shifting EU data across borders. The framework was intended to minimize and alleviate the risk of meddling when data is transferred between the EU and the USA.

 

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    Key Features of a File Integrity Monitoring Software
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    By AMSAT Dec 31,2020

    7 Key Features of a File Integrity Monitoring Software

    The growing occurrence of data breaches over the last few years has led to the creation of a number of regulatory standards such as the PCI-DSS. These standards get companies to embrace security best practices, including the need to supervise all types of changes made to server configurations. Although some of these configuration changes have no considerable effect on systems, a few unforeseen changes could put companies at risk, which may also lead to non-compliance.

     

    The File Integrity Monitoring Solution

     

    To help secure your critical data and maintain compliance, you need to spot changes down to the smallest detail in real time. This is achieved by creating a baseline state and supervising for file changes relative to the baseline. 

     

    The problem is that it’s unrealistic to oversee every application or device in your network all the time. Moreover, today’s networks are far too multifaceted to be checked physically, and this reality holds true even in small to mid-sized organizations. Therefore, you need a solution that helps you take over all these changes without the risks of manual editing. And this results in the need for File Integrity Monitoring (FIM).

     

    Here are the features you should be looking for when assessing any file integrity monitoring solution.

    1. Multiple Platform Support

     

    A typical organization today commonly runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX or even HP-UX. So, it’s important to try to find an effective solution than can supervise numerous platforms without incompatibility issues.

     

    2. Easy Integration

    The FIM of your choice should be able to impeccably work with other data security solutions such as associating change data with event and log data. This lets your team swiftly recognize, trace, and relate problem-creating changes with each other.

     

    3. Prolonged Perimeter Protection

     

    You should opt for an FIM solution that goes beyond change discovery in files and its characteristics. Network devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, and VPN concentrators should also be taken into account by your solution.

     

    4. Smarter Change Detection

     

    Spotting a change at a minimum means recognizing if a hash of the file has altered. A sturdier FIM solution can look at numerous traits pertaining to a file besides the hash. All of this supplementary metadata offers superior insight of the true nature of the change. For instance, changing the owner of a file does not change its contents, which implies that the hash would remain the same. Nevertheless, a more sophisticated FIM lets you comprehend if the file’s owner has been changed.

     

    5. Multi-Level Logging and Simplified Reporting

     

    Conventional file integrity monitoring solutions generally operate on each individual machine, with contemporary tools providing a cohesive view of all changes across the network. This lets you manage all of the servers in a single view. Another aspect to look for in an FIM solution is advanced reporting of rollup information. Preferably, your FIM tool should have a sophisticated dashboard that lets you assess the state of your infrastructure at an unconventional level and subsequently drill down volumes of change data into actionable information.

     

    6. Simplified Rule Configuration

     

    Your file integrity monitoring solution ought to have a system to easily define monitoring guidelines for a server or device. It should also have a mechanism to duplicate those rules to many devices across your infrastructure.

     

    7. Real-Time Monitoring

     

    This feature protects the integrity of your IT infrastructure by comparing misconfigurations in real time against your internal standards or outside policies for compliance and security best practices.

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      Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup for First Week of Jan 2021

      By AMSAT Jan 01,2021

      Dealing with cyber-threat: a complex challenge

      The outgoing week saw a handful of incidents with far-reaching effects on the
      cybersecurity landscape. From the Russian attackers compromising Microsoft
      cloud customers to Vietnam being targeted in a supply chain attack to Wasabi
      cloud storage service knocked offline for hosting, the world of cybersecurity was
      rocked by multiple events perpetrated by malicious threat actors.

      Here is the review of the stories that made headlines in the outgoing week.  

       

      SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code

      On Thursday, Microsoft recognized that hackers who organized a huge hack of government and private computer networks gained access to its internal “source code,” a vital element for its software. The tech giant attributed the attack to Russian-led hackers.

       

      Russian hackers compromised Microsoft cloud customers through third party

       

      Russian government hackers compromised Microsoft cloud customers and stole emails from at least one private-sector company. People familiar with the matter said that it was a disturbing development in Moscow’s continuing cyberespionage campaign targeting several U.S. agencies and corporate computer networks.

       

      Vietnam targeted in complex supply chain attack

      A group of cagy hackers perpetrated an ingenious supply chain attack against Vietnamese private companies and government agencies by inserting malware inside an official government software toolkit.

      Wasabi cloud storage service knocked offline for hosting malware

      Cloud storage provider Wasabi suffered an outage after a domain used for storage endpoints was suspended for hosting malware.

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        By AMSAT Aug 28,2020

        An Insight into File Integrity Monitoring and Its Functionality

        File Integrity Monitoring, of FIM, is, doubtlessly, an
        extremely important layer of security in any network that merits protection. FIM,
        which is required by data security standards and recommended by auditors and
        security experts worldwide, oversees important system files and operates system
        components and even network devices for unlawful changes.

        By adjusting ePOS terminals, operating system host files or critical applications, malevolent parties can steal sensitive information, such as payment information from networks for their own advantage. FIM seeks to prevent the outcome of such hacks by warning administrators to unlawful changes in the network.

         

        How FIM actually works

        Once executed, the FIM software will begin to oversee any alterations that are made to your files, systems, logs, settings, etc. It detects when, how, and by whom the changes are made and compares them with the reference point. The organizations can install the predictable changes to decrease false alerts. A majority of the FIM software are able to detect DDoS attacks, phishing attacks, unlawful system access, data theft, malware or ransomware injections, and insider fears.

        A business website has scores of code files on the directory. Although the management understands that an attacker has injected malware in the website, it’s hard to trace malicious injections amongst thousands of lines of codes. FIM software is able to spot the exact file and codes that have been tainted, which makes the recovery process all the much swifter and easier. For WordPress sites, it can also monitor wp-config.php and .htaccess files.

        Challenges with FIM

        Some of the critical problems associated with FIM include:

         

        Hash-based File Integrity Checking

         

        This scans key files on systems on a regular schedule and warns admins about spotted changes by comparing the hash to the preceding version. The substitute to this is you need to plan this task to run as per a definite time interval. Nevertheless, this way you miss out on all the times the checking is under way. In addition, this technique is most appropriate for authentic file changes—not file access and reads.

        Real-time File Integrity Checking

        The actual file auditing procedure that captures real-time file access and alters within file audit events. By evaluating these events in real-time, you are able to get information on not just file changes, but also all the file read, write, and create events. The problem with this method is coping with a huge volume of events to locate the violation you are looking for.

         

        In Windows systems, FIM can be executed by collecting file audit events from a particular file, folder, or a whole system and evaluating the event logs to see file-change characteristics. This is easier said than done. One challenge with allowing native Windows file reviewing and using Windows Event Viewer to spot file changes is you end up getting several events (mostly false-positives) and combing all of them to find the precise event that exposes a breach. Another challenge is learning the exact event ID to identify a violation.

         

        You need to spend more time and effort finding these event IDs and find a way to remove all the noise and superfluous events created in the file auditing process.

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          By AMSAT Dec 23,2020

          A Brief Overview of System Integration Method

          System Integration is the method by which several individual subsystems or sub-components are combined into one all-inclusive larger system, thus letting the subsystems work collectively. Simply put, the synergy formed through system integration allows the core system to attain the principal functionality required by the organization.

           

          Many organizations using system integration need to improve its efficiency as well as productivity and quality of their operations. The objective? To get the company’s different IT systems to communicate with each other in the background in order to avoid the time and effort spent physically sharing information with other units of the organization, including the higher management. System integration helps an organization witness a rise in information flow speeds as well as decreases operational expenses.

           

          Additionally, system integration links a company with third parties such as contractors, clients and stakeholders, while allowing suppliers to keep up to date with raw material levels. It also lets customers keep track of finished goods inventory and shareholders view the company status at a glance in a dashboard way in real time. A reliable system integrator helps meet all of these conditions through the use of system integration.

           

          Methods of System Integration

           

          By no means is finding an appropriate systems integration solution a simple undertaking. It’s imperative you choose the right subsystems, the right locations and the right nature of the relationship. Therefore, it is very important that you as a company appreciate precisely what processes are involved, how they interact with all the stakeholders as well as the business goals. If you have clarity about why and where the company needs agreement in operations, the systems integration will go smoothly.

          Here are some widely prevalent methods of system integration. 

           

          Point-to-Point Integration

           

          Point-to-Point Transfers are typically point-to-point interfaces between two systems. The files are generally created for particular objectives and it is strange for the data in the file to be used by more than one receiving system. The format of the file is significant to the applications but could be column based, delimited, or XML format.

           

          Vertical Integration

           

          Companies are always on the lookout for ways to cut costs and control the quality of the products and services they provide. A company is capable of providing a competitive advantage by incorporating various stages of its production process and supply chain into its business. This is called vertical integration. There are three types of integration, each with a number of collective benefits and drawbacks when integrating two companies in various stages of production. Organizations may acquire vertical integration through internal expansion, an acquisition, or a merger.

           

          Horizontal Integration

           

           

          This type of integration refers to acquiring systems integration using one specialized subsystem as a common user interface layer which connects all the other subsystems. One can find some of the most common examples of horizontal integration in the healthcare industry. If there are three subsystems, then there will only be three connections. If there are 7 subsystems there will only be 7 connections. Thus, the major benefit of this method is the minimum number of connections needed to maintain functionality which in turn cuts time, effort and money spent creating the system. 

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            By AMSAT Dec 18,2020

            Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup

            The outgoing week has been full of happenings: supply chain attacks, cyberattacks, and creation of kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor by technology giants like Microsoft and FireEye have dominated the cybersecurity landscape.

            Here is a brief review of news that stood out in the cyberworld.


            Microsoft, FireEye confirmed SolarWinds supply chain attack


            Cybercriminals believed to be operating on behalf of a foreign government breached software provider SolarWinds and then deployed a malware-laced update for its Orion software to infect the networks of numerous US companies and government networks.

            Cyberattack hit SolarWinds’ 18,000 customers

            SolarWinds divulged that 18,000 customers might have been affected by the cyber-attack against its supply chain.

            FireEye, Microsoft, GoDaddy come up with kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor

            Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy collaborated to create a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that forces the malware to axe itself.

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              Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup

              The outgoing week has been one of discoveries: security researchers, by default or by design, came up with new malware and malicious NPM packages. On the other hand, news of a hacker selling passcodes for email accounts of scores of C-level executives also did the rounds across the cybersecurity landscape.

               

              Here is a brief review of news that stood out in the cyberworld.

               

              A threat actor sold passcodes for email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives

               

              A cybercriminal sold access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives at organizations across the globe.

               

              Researchers discovered new malicious NPM packages installing remote access trojans

               

              According to reports, cybersecurity researchers discovered new malicious NPM packages that install the njRAT remote access trojan, letting cybercriminals gain control over a computer.

              Russian cyber-espionage group discovered new malware used in government attacks

               

              ESET’s security experts found a new malware that Russian cyber-espionage group Turla has been using in carrying out attacks against governments.

               

              New TrickBot version aimed to infect UEFI/BIOS firmware

               

              TrickBot malware operators added a new capability that can let them interact with an infected computer’s BIOS or UEFI firmware. According to news reports, the new capability was spotted inside part of a new TrickBot module and was seen in the wild at the end of October.

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                Six ways to protect against digital threats
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                By AMSAT Dec 04,2020

                Six ways to protect against digital threats

                As digitization and connectivity are set to bring about the fourth industrial revolution, manufacturers need to adopt cybersecurity to ensure physical assets and intellectual property are effectively protected against theft and attack.

                The digitization of manufacturing, or Industry 4.0 as it is commonly known, is prompting industrial players to attain new levels of efficiency, quality, and visibility.

                Although these are exciting times in manufacturing, there is a flip side to the speedy progress that’s on track. Unhappily, more connections also open the door to new security risks, and earlier generations of industrial control systems were not developed with security or IP connectivity in mind.

                As per a recent Cisco study, if cybersecurity concerns delay digital execution, it could take up to five years to keep up with the competition. Since the industrial sector has some of the most amateur security practices and policies and rock-bottom quality security infrastructure, the very cogent risk of being left behind cannot be ruled out.

                Here are the 6 tried-and-tested ways the industrial sector can embrace to defend against digital threats.

                The basics must be covered


                Several industrial companies don’t have even a simple security policy in writing, a business should begin by drafting and enforcing a set of written security policies and procedures for its plant that will, for example, delineate who should be able to access the network in the first place and how. It should encompass enduring employees and contractors, while also spelling out what assets they can access, define adequate asset use, and define reporting systems for events. Written policies should also include an incident response plan, including any measures to re-establish significant production systems after a security event.

                Defend assets with physical access restrictions

                Some of the most rigorous harm comes from within, when entry is acquired from the factory floor. Whether it’s averting inventory lift, data loss or intellectual property theft, businesses can take advantage of an all-inclusive physical security solution incorporated with a secure wired and wireless industrial network. It’s important to defend assets with physical access restrictions like locks, key cards, and video supervision. If possible, you can also add device verification and authorization, as well as encryption.

                Take a holistic approach

                The more connections you have in your manufacturing setting, the more odds for a breach. No single technology, merchandise, or method can completely protect your network. A fundamental mapping exercise will help you begin, providing an account of all the devices and software on your network. Keep in mind, ‘air gap’ approaches are imperfect, as a robot or device’s being linked to the network doesn’t ensure its complete safety. One fraudulent or malicious thumb drive will put a remote machine at risk of unintended downtime or worse, safety incidents.

                Use industry best practices


                It’s important to set up zones and design schemes to separate your sub-systems by employing industry best practices, such as the ISA IEC 62443 standard. Creating a DMZ (demilitarized zone) between your company and manufacturing networks is equally important. On the network edge, firewalls and intrusion finding will help you avoid possible risks and threats. And within the network, using out-of-band deep packet inspection (DPI) in your routers, switches, and other network devices can help you detect viruses, spam, and other disruptions.

                Frustrate attackers at the edge

                An important piece of any company’s network structural design rests the internet edge, where the corporate network meets the public internet. Internet edge is the first step to cyberspace, and performs a number of roles for the typical enterprise network. With network users reaching out to websites and using email for B2B communication, you need to keep your business resources both accessible and secure. Something as straightforward as moving from unmanaged switches in your network to lightly managed switches enables you to better protect ports and improve network visibility, control and defense.

                Conclusion

                By thinking holistically and merging several layers of defense, you can secure intellectual property and physical assets from inadvertent breaches and cyber theft, while accelerating threat resolution, decreasing downtime, and driving productivity gains across your services.

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                  An Insight into Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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                  By AMSAT Dec 02,2020

                  An Insight into Identity and Access Management (IAM)

                  A number of organizations encounter the challenge of providing their staff with the right level of access to the right resources at the right time. They also need to adopt governance practices and solutions to help manage certain risks and deal with operational inadequacies. Companies can meet this demand appropriately by enforcing an effective individuality and access management program. Identity and access management can thus be defined as “a specific framework for business procedures, technologies and strategies that provides effective and simple solutions for managing digital identities.”

                  Importance of IAM


                  An IAM system can provide guarantees and help keep track of employee activity. The capacity to know that only select employees can view programs and applications reinforce both security and operational programs for an enterprise. Limitations can also be set in the system to spot any wary user activity, communication, or problems that might otherwise go unnoticed. User information such as passwords or email addresses can swiftly become an intricate issue to track without an appropriate control system in place. IAM helps defend against security events by letting administrators automate many user account related tasks. This includes the capacity to have automated roadmap for onboarding of employees, granting access to systems and applications they are authorized to access, based on their role.

                  Identity and access management solutions help companies save costs by reducing the time required to address issues pertaining to user account. They also regulate and even automate important features of managing identities, validation, and permission, saving time and money while minimizing risk to an organization. The different aspects of security offered by these solutions solutions are key to creating a robust information security program. The ability to control and audit who comes in and out of your company’s network is key to operationally supporting and protecting an environment.

                  Benefits of IAM systems

                  Enforcing identity and access management and relevant best practices can give you a leading edge to your business rivals. Today, most businesses need to give users outside the organization access to internal systems. Opening your network to clients, associates, vendors, contractors and, indeed, employees can raise productivity and reduce operating costs. By affording greater access to outsiders, you can drive teamwork across your organization, increasing output, employee satisfaction, research and development, and, eventually, revenue.

                  An IAM system can be a keystone of a protected network that requires organizations to define their access policies and clearly outline who has access to which data resources. As a result, well-executed identities imply profounder control of user access, which converts into a minimized risk of internal and external holes. This is significant since, in addition to the growing threats of external threats, internal attacks are all too common. About 60% of all data breaches are caused by an organization’s own personnel, according to a prestigious cybersecurity index. Of those, 75% were malicious in intent, while 25% were accidental.

                  How IAM works


                  Regulating user access has conventionally involved several verification methods for confirming the identity of a user, including passwords, digital credentials, tokens and smart cards. Hardware tokens and credit-card-sized smart cards acted as one factor in two-factor verification, which combines your password with the token or the card to confirm your identity. A smart card carries an entrenched combined circuit chip that can be either a safe microcontroller or corresponding intelligence with internal memory or a memory chip alone.

                  In today’s multifaceted compute settings, along with increasing security threats, a strong user name and password no longer suffice. Instead, IAMs often include elements of biometrics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and risk-based verification. At the user level, new user verification methods are helping to better shield identities. For instance, the popularity of Touch ID-enabled iPhones has adapted many people with using their fingerprints as a verification method.

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                    Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup for 4th week of November

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                    By AMSAT Nov 27,2020

                    Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup

                    In the outgoing week, reports of security breach, hijacking of firmware, security flaws in web hosting software, discovery of a zero-day flaw, and more made headlines in the world of cybersecurity.

                    Here is a brief review of news that stood out in the
                    cyberworld.


                    Manchester United revealed security breach


                    European football club Manchester United divulged a cybersecurity incident that impacted its internal systems. The football club said it was unsure if the breach allowed the attackers to access data associated with fans.


                    Security researcher discovered method to overwrite and hijack the firmware of Tesla


                    A Belgian security researcher Lennert Wouters came up with a method to overwrite and hijack the firmware of Tesla Model X key fobs, allowing them to steal any car that is not running on the latest software update.

                    Security experts found major security defect in web hosting software cPanel

                    Security experts from Digital Defense discovered a major security flaw in cPanel, a popular software suite that facilitates the management of a web hosting server. The vulnerability allows cybercriminals to avoid two-factor authentication (2FA) for cPanel accounts used by website owners to access and manage their websites and server settings.

                    Security researcher accidentally discovered Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 zero-day

                    A French security scientist inadvertently found a zero-day vulnerability that affects the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. The bug was discovered in two misconfigured registry keys for the RPC Endpoint Mapper and DNSCache services that are part of all Windows installations.

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