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Building the Next Generation of Cyber Professionals

New technologies lead to new products, which lead to a need for more cybersecurity professionals. It’s an ongoing cycle.

Future security professionals will need to focus on some key concepts in order to be knowledgeable and equipped to handle the stability and security issues of tomorrow’s technology.

Experience

Experience always has and always will be important in landing a job and keeping that job. You need to be able to perform the tasks required by a position. You might not be able to walk directly into the security profession of your dreams, but starting off in more mundane positions, excelling at accomplishing your work responsibilities will not only grant you experience, but also enable you to be recognized for your excellence, which usually equates to promotion and career advancement. More experience leads to more knowledge, and more applied knowledge leads to wisdom. Security professionals need wisdom to see the risks and responses that others overlook.

Coding Skills

There will always be IT positions that do not require programming ability, but a security professional is not likely one of them. Many future security positions will require coding skills. After all, with coding skills you can:

• Analyze suspicious programs to determine their function and intent.
• Craft filters and responses to attacks while waiting for a vendor to release a patch.
• Improve the function of open source programs or write your own code to solve problems.

Certifications

Experience can be a trump card, but many HR managers will not take a second look at a prospect unless he or she has certain specific requirements. Such requirements often include not having a criminal record, having a college degree and having specific certifications.

While training for some certifications is often geared toward passing an exam, achieving a certification at least provides a rough measurement of your knowledge level and capability. Someone who has a certification has a better chance at being considered for a job than someone else who has the same overall background but lacks certification.

To determine which certifications to pursue, survey 10 to 20 job postings from various organizations for the specific job you would like to have. List the certifications recommended or required in those postings. Use that list as a road map to gain the needed training and pass the certification exams. Re-perform this survey every three to six months to keep your progress on target.

Penetration Testing

Checking or verifying that a security implementation functions as expected and designed is often referred to as ethical hacking or penetration testing. A security professional will likely find that the need to perform his or her own internal security analysis will be increasingly essential in security management. Hiring consultants to perform penetration tests can be dauntingly expensive, so the ability to perform your own penetration tests is a significant benefit compared to others without such skills.

End User Acceptance Testing

Often security experts get caught up in enforcing the most secure implementation without considering how it impacts the work tasks of individuals. Security should always be adjusted to business needs and requirements. It is of little value to have a highly secure network if essential business tasks cannot be accomplished.

While developing and deploying new security solutions, take the time to review how the security improvements will affect users and business tasks.

Whenever possible, develop training to help end users adjust to new business processes before implementing significant security changes. If workers do not accept and adjust to security, they will often find a way to bypass or disable the security that they see as too inconvenience or having no direct value to their specific work activities.

Staying Prepared

As security experts, it is our responsibility to continuously prepare for new technologies and to encourage the adoption of improved security measures in order to increase stability and reduce exploitation. In order to stay vigilant, the next generation of security professionals should have experience, coding skills, certification, penetration testing skills and the ability to perform pre-deployment end-user testing.

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How does a switch differ from a hub?

A. A switch does not induce any latency into the frame transfer time.
B. A switch tracks MAC addresses of directly-connected devices.
C. A switch operates at a lower, more efficient layer of the OSI model.
D. A switch decreases the number of broadcast domains.
E. A switch decreases the number of collision domains.

Reveal Answer

Answer: B.

Hubs are considered layer one devices. They are multiport repeaters. They full traffic to all ports, all the time. Switches (layer 2 switches) are layer two devices and forward traffic based on learning the layer 2 addressing (MAC address) of devices and determine the need to forward based on the location of the destination, relative to the source.

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Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Day the Logic Bomb Went Off

Part 4 of the Real-Life IT Horror Stories Series

Editor’s note: In celebration of Halloween, we’ve asked a few of our instructors to share some of the horror stories from their own consulting careers. This four-part series includes tales of espionage, employee sabotage and website theft. Read on if you dare.

AMC’s television series “Halt and Catch Fire” shows North Texas’ rise as the “Silicon Prairie.” In the 1980s and early 1990s, it’s where IBM PC cloning was explored and where first-person shooter games were created. It’s also the site of the first “logic bomb”—the source of my horror story.

Very early in my career, a disgruntled employee used a logic bomb to digitally wipe out more than 160,000 corporate records. That happened at the first company where I had an IT job, in Fort Worth, Texas, my hometown.

A logic bomb is sometimes confused with a computer virus. However, a logic bomb is really a piece of code that is intentionally created to do malicious activities when a desired set of criteria is met. For example, a programmer could install a logic bomb to automatically delete a database if it didn’t receive some kind of code or signal after a set period of time.

The Effects of the Logic Bomb

That’s exactly what happened where I worked. There was a system programmer who had a reputation for being difficult to work with. A couple of years prior, he created code that would automatically delete corporate records if certain criteria were met. This programmer was fired in September 1987. A couple of days after his firing, the logic bomb went off, deleting about 168,000 important corporate records. The programmer who did this became the first person ever convicted of “harmful access to a computer.”

At the time, I was still in high school and was doing some IT work in the evenings. My mother had a connection in that company, which is how I was able to get the job. I was in a very entry-level role that involved running a printer attached to an IBM mainframe. I didn’t know much about organizations at the time, or really how they worked. I remember seeing the “higher-ups” running around with frantic looks on their faces. From my perspective, the volume of print that was produced increased dramatically, and I ended up working lots of extra hours while the organization was trying to recover from the data loss.

I remember at one point we had numerous federal agents on-site. At times, they would watch us print data and then they’d remove it from the printer to ensure that we didn’t look at what had been printed. It would not be the last time in my career that federal agents were involved. There was a time in the 1990s when some employees were accused of insider trading, and there was another time following 9/11 when some suspicious accounts at the company where I worked belonged to potential terrorists. But, those are stories for another time.

Young and Carefree No More

It took a while, but eventually the organization recovered from the data loss. I started that job in the summer of 1987, and I remember being so young and carefree at the time and generally having a good time at work. After that event, I began to realize how important IT is. This logic bomb had a profound effect on my career, and how I thought about IT.

I began to think a lot about this situation, and how it meant that those of us with technical IT jobs really do wield a lot of power under certain conditions. A few years later, when I had changed companies a few times and started to make my way up the corporate ladder, I thought of this event as being something that has always informed my view of IT change management. I’ve thought about how a good IT change management process would have detected the programmer installing the malicious code and would have saved the organization significant amounts of money related to recovery efforts.

I’ve worked all over the world, but stories like this are really what’s kept me in North Texas. There’s always something happening here in a behind-the-scenes way that is a significant contribution to the world of technology. These events have a way of shaping those of us in the area, which is why I think there are so many IT and telecommunications people that hail from North Texas.

Do you have any stories of your own? If so, please share below or on Twitter and make sure you use #ITHorrorStories.

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Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Avoidable DNS Disaster

Part 3 of the Real-Life IT Horror Stories Series

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While acting as vice president of a performance-based Internet marketing company, I oversaw the migration to a new infrastructure, an important part of which involved changing over 300 of our DNS records. Imagine my horror when I discovered that we’d mistakenly misrouted nearly all of those records, taking the entire company down.

DNS Goes Down Taking Revenue Along With It

Performance-based marketers take all the risk, like buying media and sending emails, and are only reimbursed when and if, a resulting sale or conversion occurs. Our company ran the strong chance of bleeding cash just by advertising a product that didn’t convert. Days like our DNS outage were tough not only because they took the company offline, but mainly because they were completely avoidable.

What we did wrong is a checklist of all the top no-nos:

• Too few resources — First, our tiny team was already stretched to the limit, with everyone juggling six to eight mission critical deliverables every day. We didn’t give this migration the elevated “holy” status it needed to succeed.

• Not vetting employee qualifications – I assumed the person I’d assigned the task to (let’s call him “Mr. P.”) had DNS experience because of his two decades in software development. I only asked high level questions like, “Are you OK doing this?” and “Can you do it on Friday?”

• Bad timing – What was maybe the biggest mistake was performing a major change like this on a Friday, or more specifically, EOD Friday. Too many times at this company, employees sacrificed their weekends because executives insisted on Friday releases.

• Inadequate TTL settings — I did not personally ensure that the time to live (TTL) settings, which represent the time it takes to propagate DNS records, were set to the lowest value possible. Lower TTLs would have allowed us to quickly roll back any issues.

• A false sense of security — I shoulder surfed the start of Mr. P.‘s work on that Friday, witnessing five to seven of the DNS records get correctly get re-assigned. That made me think, “Of course he’ll do the other 300 correctly”.

The Nightmare Continues

That next day (Saturday, of course) while enjoying brunch with my family, I got a panicked call from our senior vice president of ad buying:

“All the URLs are going to other websites. The mortgage URL is going to the acne products, the acne products URL brings up the cell phone landing page. I’ve shut off all campaigns.”

I pulled up some URLs, and sure enough, each one was completely misrouted, at the exact time (weekend) when they’re supposed to be making the most money. I tried to call Mr. P, but only got voicemail. I immediately went into the office only to find that, (again, because we were all so busy, and because I’d not made this a priority for Mr. P.), we’d not documented how to access the DNS provider.

Lessons Learned

When we were finally able to track Mr. P. down, hours later, he discovered that the TTLs had not been set to five minutes as we’d thought. Most were still at six hours or more. Only after much internal stress, completely destroyed weekends, apologies to clients and the loss of over $20,000, did we get our 300 DNS records going back to the correct servers. Looking back, this incident really reinforced that fact that you can never take anything for granted. Just because somebody should know how to complete a task does not mean that they do. My advice to you is to make sure your team has the necessary skills to complete a task before you turn them loose. It’s much easier to address items with your staff than with your clients – trust me.

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Your company has an e-commerce site that is publicly accessible over the Internet. The e-commerce site accepts credit card information from a customer and then processes the customer’s transaction. Which standard or law would apply for this type of data?

A. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996
B. PCI DSS
C. Basel II
D. SOX

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is B.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to any entity that transmits, stores, or accepts credit card data. This is a private sector standard and not a law.

The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 protects companies from industry or corporate espionage, and specifically addresses technical, business, engineering, scientific, or financial trade secrets.

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• Minimum Capital Requirements — determines the lowest amount of funds that a financial institute must keep in hand.
• Supervision — ensures oversight and review of risks and security measures.
• Market Discipline — requests members to disclose risk exposure and to validate market capital.

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By Phill Shade

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About three years ago while in a galaxy, unfortunately all too nearby, I was working as a consultant for a small design company when I came across the nightmare of all nightmares: industrial espionage.

I was contacted by another consultant who had been analyzing the client’s network to optimize performance. While the first engineer was able to address several routine network issues, he had requested assistance in analyzing a possible data breach.

The Problem: Design Theft

Arriving on-site, the initial brief revealed that the company designed the distinctive cases used by major vendors to house their products. The issue was that their designs were showing up in illegal markets, sometimes before they were even in production.

Several days’ worth of investigation using Wireshark, GeoIP and graphical traceroute utilities showed an internal connection originating in the company’s design servers and reaching to St. Petersburg, Russia.

Capturing the Culprit

To confirm this observation, we created several fake designs and uploaded them to the server in question. We then attached Wireshark to a hub and connected the server back to the network switch. A capture filter was set inside Wireshark and set to the IP address of the server.

Within a matter of only a few hours, using Wireshark, we were able to observe a stealth connection originating in St. Petersburg and connecting into an open port on the design server. What followed wasn’t that much of a surprise as we watched the very designs we had loaded into the server copied and transferred back to Russia. We had our villain!

We saved all of our evidence, created a quick report and prepared our presentation before leaving for the day. The next day dawned and we met with our client contact to reveal our evidence and supporting documentation.

Initially, the presentation appeared to go well as we laid out our evidence, explained our methodology and concluded with a series of logical recommendations such as securing the network with a series of firewalls, implementing logging of transactions and basic data encryption.

It All Starts to Go Wrong

What ensued still lingers in my mind to this day for its colossal arrogance and blind adherence to a single view of things with all evidence to the contrary. Rather than accepting our findings and thanking us, the client instead stated:

“That can’t be true; you’re reading it wrong!”

To say I was surprised at this response was the understatement of the week. When I gathered my thoughts and asked why, the next shock ensued:

“Our network can’t possibly be compromised since we only use Mac computers and they are safe from hacking!” the client uttered with blind belief in modern advertising.

When we dared to ask what sort of security software or hardware they used to protect the network and infrastructure, we received nearly the same answer.

So hoping for the best, we presented our presentation to the department head, then the CTO and finally the CEO. Each piece of evidence, the Wireshark capture files, the GeoIP information and the traceroute results as well as the IANA address resolution was covered; only to be met with the same statement that there had to be a mistake and there was no need to follow any of the recommendations as this would make operating the network to difficult.

The Client Isn’t Always Right

Completely at a loss for words all we could do was present the invoice for services rendered and make our somewhat chagrined departure. Keeping a watch on the company revealed they were out of business in another year or so. I learned that sometimes all you can do is capture the culprit, present the evidence and hope for the best.

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Almost every IT administrator, whether they work in storage, networking, servers, or clients, has a story about the Domain Name System (DNS) not functioning properly. I collect DNS horror stories like some people collect bottle caps.

The Case of the Disappearing Domain

I was working at a start-up company that had grown from a dozen people to about 80 employees in a couple of years. It was a busy time, Web traffic was picking up every day. And then one Wednesday, we noticed a dramatic drop in incoming email, and the hits on the website dropped like a rock. But not rock bottom. Frantically, I tested from the outside and inside. Everything was fine.

The vice president of engineering called me. Some important quotes and contract negotiations from our customers weren’t coming through. I sent test messages. All of mine went through. The chief financial officer stopped by my office. He had just gotten off the phone with an investor. Our website was down, and we weren’t receiving emails from them. Then the CEO was in my office.

My sweaty fingers were wildly typing frantic magic incantations, desperately struggling to resuscitate our presence and existence in the networked world. We were slipping away. Hour by hour it was getting worse. And then nothing. Our network communications flatlined. All inbound communications had ceased. Yet we could still ping out. No one could get into our business. We were dead.

That was the painful day that I discovered the agony and defeat that having someone buy your domain name out from under you can cause. I knew the network was solid and working at the Internet Protocol level. We could get out to the rest of the world with the exception of PTR record authentications for outbound email that had begun to fail to some destinations. I discovered that another registrar had allowed some company to register the domain name we already “owned.” Our company name was stolen out from under us.

You might not think that DNS is a dangerous business that involves theft, espionage, sabotage, or outright hacker malice with no competitive angle. I know of several other second-hand occurrences of domain theft, including people having to file certification of their right to their business name, and other cases that went to court. But I have never had it happen to me again directly. We got our domain back, though it took several days for the email and Web services to start flowing fully again. I am now sure to lock in the registration so that no one can unregister the domain names of my business or those of my clients. Please be safe and always protect yourself.

Not-So-Active Directory

Domain names are everywhere—on billboards, radio, television, web videos, Skype, Lync, business cards and any other kind of communications. To have a DNS is to be able to communicate in business and personal aspects of life. All internal computer-based business operations, and all Internet-based and personal communications depend on the Domain Name System. Even being able to log in to computers with Active Directory, depends on DNS. Servers also need to log into their computer accounts in Active Directory and that depends on a properly functioning DNS too.

A colleague of mine was setting up a new Active Directory domain. They scripted the configuration and population of the domain for a development environment to be a clone of test system so that a team of people could work with realistic test data during development. The new domain controller worked perfectly. Redundancy is always a good idea. So they were setting up another Active Directory server.

The promotion of the second domain controller kept failing, telling them that the domain didn’t exist. They tried the domain several times and had been troubleshooting, but they were running out of time. The system needed to go live. They asked me to take a look. We had 15 minutes to get the second domain controller up and get 20 client machines joined into the domain and inoculated with group policies.

I was in the middle of another build, so I talked them through the troubleshooting of the problem. “Domain does not exist or cannot be contacted” they muttered. “But it’s right here!” they said, pointing at the console of the first—and only—domain controller.

I asked them to tell me the DNS settings. They brushed off the request, claiming that they had checked it a dozen times and it worked great, while they kept trying to get the second server online. It failed again.

I walked over to their console. “Show me the preferred and alternate DNS servers on the second machine,” I asked. The settings popped up and I noted coolly, “Those are the DNS servers on the client’s network, not the development network. Show me the first server.”

They brought up the DNS settings. Both the preferred and alternate DNS settings for the first domain controller were set to the client’s network. We didn’t have permissions to register any records in their DNS infrastructure. My colleague had simply forgotten to set up an independent DNS zone and host it on our systems, then forward other requests to the client’s DNS servers. They adjusted the configuration and after a couple of hours of frustration were able to get everything running within a few minutes, just in time for the team of developers to arrive.

Always double-check your work when overtired. Always ask for help or another person to cross-check the settings when in doubt, or even when you’re sure of yourself. And always suspect DNS. I always say that “there are two things that can go wrong with Active Directory—time and DNS.”

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