...Vulnerability Management Policy Purpose The purpose of this policy is to increase the security posture of IHS systems and mitigate threats posed by vulnerabilities within all IHS-owned or leased systems and applications. Scope This policy applies to all IHS employees, contractors, vendors and agents with access to any part of IHS networks and systems. This policy applies to remote access connections used to do work from a remote location, including reading or sending email and viewing intranet web resources. Policy 1. Approved Scanning Tools 1.1 There are numerous, tools that can provide insight into the vulnerabilities on a system. Not all scanning tools have the same set of features. The CSO shall be the sole entity to implement an enterprise...
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...VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT WHITEPAPER Automating Vulnerability Assessment This paper describes how enterprises can more effectively assess and manage network vulnerabilities and reduce costs related to meeting regulatory requirements. Automated Vulnerability Assessment / Vulnerability Management (VA/VM) solutions are supplementing and in some cases replacing manual penetration testing with an overall improvement in network security without increasing costs. New advances have eliminated the high management overhead and false positive rate issues that plagued open source and early market VA/VM entries. This whitepaper discusses: Speed of change in networks, equipment and applications plus the speed of exploit deployment is revealing weakness in corporate policies specifying relatively infrequent manual penetration testing. Perimeter defences (anti-virus, firewall and IPS/IDS) are vital, but can be bypassed by determined effort to reach and exploit known vulnerabilities that reside just inside the fence. The introduction of an automated network scanning mechanism and consolidated reporting to identify and track mitigation of known vulnerabilities is establishing a higher overall security level often using already existing budget and manpower. Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................................................................................... 3 The Challenges of Network Security Assessments .......
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... Chapter 1 Vulnerability Assessment Solutions in this Chapter: I What Is a Vulnerability Assessment? I Automated Assessments I Two Approaches I Realistic Expectations Summary Solutions Fast Track Frequently Asked Questions 1 285_NSS_01.qxd 2 8/10/04 10:40 AM Page 2 Chapter 1 • Vulnerability Assessment Introduction In the war zone that is the modern Internet, manually reviewing each networked system for security flaws is no longer feasible. Operating systems, applications, and network protocols have grown so complex over the last decade that it takes a dedicated security administrator to keep even a relatively small network shielded from attack. Each technical advance brings wave after wave of security holes. A new protocol might result in dozens of actual implementations, each of which could contain exploitable programming errors. Logic errors, vendor-installed backdoors, and default configurations plague everything from modern operating systems to the simplest print server.Yesterday’s viruses seem positively tame compared to the highly optimized Internet worms that continuously assault every system attached to the global Internet. To combat these attacks, a network administrator needs the appropriate tools and knowledge to identify vulnerable systems and resolve their security problems before they can be exploited. One of the most powerful tools available today is the vulnerability assessment, and this chapter...
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...matrix above that align with your organization’s compliance and security objectives. • Discovery and Assessment locate where database vulnerabilities and critical data reside. • User Rights Management identifies excessive rights over sensitive data. • Monitoring and Blocking protect databases from attacks, unauthorized access, and theft of data. • Auditing helps demonstrate compliance with industry regulations. • Data Protection ensures data integrity and confidentiality. • Non-Technical Security instills and reinforces a culture of security awareness and preparedness. Discovery and Assessment Scan for Vulnerabilities: Understanding vulnerabilities that expose databases to input injection is essential....
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...security strategy is to identify all resources and hosts within the IT infrastructure. Once you identify the workstations and servers, you now must then find the threats and vulnerabilities found on these workstations and servers. Servers that support mission critical applications require security operations and management procedures to ensure C-I-A throughout. Servers that house customer privacy data or intellectual property require additional security controls to ensure the C-I-A of that data. This lab requires the students to identify threats and vulnerabilities found within the Workstation, LAN, and Systems/Applications Domains. 1. What are the differences between ZeNmap GUI (Nmap) and Nessus? ZeNmap is used to map a network and Nessus is used to Test a network for vulnerabilities. 2. Which scanning application is better for performing a network discovery reconnaissance probing of an IP network infrastructure? Nmaps sole purpose is just that, network probing and recon. 3. Which scanning application is better for performing a software vulnerability assessment with suggested remediation steps? Nessus would be a better tool for this operation. While you can find network vulnerabilities with Nmap, it is not used as such. 4. How many total scripts (i.e., test scans) does the Intense Scan using ZenMap GUI perform? Port Scanning, OS detection, Version detection, Network Distance, TCP sequence prediction, Trace route 5. From the ZenMap GUI pdf report...
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...CSS200-1401B-01 Principals of Network Security Instructor: Gregory Roby Phase 2, Individual Project Date: March 08, 2014 By: Gil Palacio Lab #3 Overview: In this Lab I am learning how to use the Zenmap Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the free Nmap Security Scanner application. This application is an open source tool that automates network exploration to perform several different types of security audit scans of large IP networks (LAB 3, CTU. 2014). SO here is what I gather while doing this Lab: I added several IPs to putty in order to build information or to give information to the GUI that I am looking into. I copy pasted the two interfaces that are up,up in the 1st question from the Lab Assessment sheet of the putty profile created: Interface Ethernet0/0 "", is up, line protocol is up Hardware is 88E6095, BW 100 Mbps Auto-Duplex(Full-duplex), Auto-Speed(100 Mbps) Available but not configured via nameif MAC address c84c.7556.de9e, MTU not set IP address unassigned 0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort 0 L2 decode drops 0 switch ingress policy drops 0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collisions, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 rate limit drops ...
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...each host in the scan. In the Command box, highlight -O, type -sV and press Enter to run a software version scan. In the SYN scan from earlier in the lab, Zenmap identified the services running on the machines, but not the versions. This scan will discover the versions of the software on open TCP ports and will make a guess at the OS based on the services. As a result, unlike the fingerprint -O scan, the service -sV scan can provide a more detailed OS version. The scan was even able to detect the operating system on 172.30.0.7 as Linux, but this level of detail will take a little longer to run than the previous scans. Figure 9 Software version scan results Click 172.30.0.7 in the left pane and click the Ports/Hosts tab. The version for the services running on the TCP protocol are now visible in the Ports/Hosts tab. Figure 10 Software version results for each port Make a screen capture showing the details in the Ports/Hosts tab and paste it in your Lab Report file. Repeat steps 16 and 17 for each host in the scan. Click Scan > Save All Scans to Directory and navigate to the Security_Strategies folder (Local Disk (C:) > Security_Strategies), click the Create Folder button at the top right, type Scans and click Save. Figure 11 Save all scans Close the Zenmap window. Part 2: Conducting a Vulnerability Scan with OpenVAS Note: OpenVAS, and similar tools, perform vulnerability assessment of Unix, Windows...
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...| Vulnerability Assessment System Penetration and Analysis Testing | |Memo | Internal Penetration Testing Tool and Purchase | | | | With the recent attack/hack on agency's network town police department authorities came to a decision to conduct a complete assessment on network vulnerabilities. The main goal of this memo is to assess or evaluate the network penetration tools available in the market. Compare the tools. Cost to buy and implement these tools internally. Hire a professional service to evaluate these tools. In this memo we will cover the internal implementation at high level. In the market there are many penetration tools like a. Nmap - Worlds Best Port Scanner b. Nessus - Vulnerability Scanner c. Metasploit - Exploit framework For testing Vulnerabilities I picked the above three mentioned tools which are widely used in many organizations and would be perfect for this scenario. The penetration tools that could be used to conduct a vulnerability analysis are; Nmap and Nessus which provide a number of penetration testing techniques such as port scanning, Credentialed and uncredentialed scans, enumeration, patch...
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...Vulnerability scanning Lab #2 1. Zenmap is a tool used for scanning remote computers. Zenmap can retrieve the following information from the target machine: Type of operating system List of open ports Mac Address A hacker plans to carry out an attack on a company network. In order to carry out the attack, the attacker will require some basic information about the target machine on the company network. Zenmap could be used to probe the network and target machine and retrieve basic information needed to stage an attack. 2. Nessus 3. Before the reconnaissance step it is important to formulate a plan. You would also require some information such as host IP address in order to probe the target machine using tools like Nessus. 4. CVE listing is a publicly available and free list of standardized identifiers for common computer vulnerabilities. MITRE is a not-for-profit organization responsible for hosting CVE. MITRE operates research and development centers sponsored by the federal government. 5. Zenmap is capable of identifying operating systems that are present on IP server and workstation. This can be achieved by using the Intense Scan option. 6. Knowing that the target host is running Windows XP workstation gives better sense of what kind of vulnerabilities to expect. You can focus the scan on Windows using some plugins in Nessus and concentrate on services that run on the windows workstation. You can also look out for unpatched and outdated...
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...Advanced research | Tenable Nessus Security Center | Executive Proposal | | James Ellis | 2/21/2015 | [ The following proposal will outline an effective solution for Advanced Research to incorporate in their security audits and assessments. ] | Executive Summary Security testing software is a very important entity for many organizations as it provides security to a company’s network by identifying and testing vulnerabilities before potential hackers can exploit them. Advanced Research has been the victim of cybercriminal efforts to take intellectual assets and sell it to their competitors. It is assumed that our network of corporate documents has been infiltrated by illegal sources more than once. The amount of malware being released to the Internet and infiltrating corporate networks is escalating at an alarming, exponential pace that is doubling every year, (Kaspersky, 2014). Even more disconcerting is that in spite of software vendors efforts to provide patches for vulnerabilities in an expeditious manner as they are discovered, the number of vulnerabilities discovered on existing systems has also increased exponentially, (Kaspersky, 2014). In addition, over 41% of all computers connected to a network were attacked at least once, and this number does not account for the number of attacks to Android mobile devices for which over 98% of all malware is designed to attack, (Kaspersky, 2014). The following is a plan for implementation and purchase of the Tenable...
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...such as a server, and monitors traffic to and from the server and other items on the system. A network-based IDS deals with traffic to and from the network and does not have access to directly interface with the host. Intrusion detection systems are alert-driven, but they require the information systems security practitioner to configure them properly. An IDS provides the ability to monitor a network, host or application, and report back when suspicious activity is detected, but it does not block the activity. In this lab, you will configure Snort, an open source intrusion prevention and detection system, on the TargetSnort virtual machine and the Web-based IDS monitoring tool called Snorby. You also will use the OpenVAS scanning tool to scan the...
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...is the relationship between risks, threats, and vulnerabilities as it pertains to information systems security throughout the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure?Without threats or vulnerabilities you have very little risk of having an incident. The more likely a threat can exploit any vulnerability the higher the risk becomes. Risk mitigation must include finding and eliminating vulnerabilities and exploits. 3) Which application is used for Step 2 in the hacking process to perform a vulnerability assessment scan?Nessus is a vulnerability assessment scanner that can be downloaded for home and educational use but can also be licensed for corporate, enterprise features and functions. 4) Before you conduct an ethical hacking process or penetration test on a live production network, what must you do prior to performing the reconnaissance, probing, and scanning procedures?Written permission. You must obtain written authorization to perform an intrusive Penetration test or vulnerability assessment scan on a live production network. 5) What is a CVE listing? Who hosts and who sponsors the CVE database listing website?CVE stands for common vulnerabilities and exposures. The Mitre Corporation under contract with the Department of Homeland Security (sponsor) and the U.S. National Cyber Security Division (sponsor) is responsible for hosting the CVE database listing website. CVE publishes known software vulnerabilities and exposures and how to mitigate them with software...
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...Plan 15 3.1 Task 3.1 Reporting 3.1 Schedule 3.2 Limitation of Liability 3.3 End of Testing 3.1 Unanswered Questions 10 3.4 Signatures 8 3.1 Authorization Letter 8 4. Conclusion 11 5. Bibiography 11 Acronyms 22 Appendix A – Test Case Procedures 23 Abstract This document is a proposal with a series of activities undertaken to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities. It helps confirm the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the security measures that have been implemented. This proposal provides an understanding of penetration testing. It discusses the benefits, the strategies and the mythology of conducting penetration testing. The mythology of penetration testing includes three phases: test preparation, test and test analysis. Key Words: Security Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Web Application Penetration Testing. What is a Penetration test? Penetration tests are a great way to identify vulnerabilities that exists in a system or Network that has an existing security measures in place. A penetration test usually involves the use of attacking methods conducted by trusted individuals that are similarly used by...
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