Brad Albrecht Senior Security Program Manager Microsoft Corporation SESSION CODE: OSP201.

Advances in Microsoft Office Client Security: Keeping Enterprise Data SafeBrad AlbrechtSenior Security Program ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

SESSION CODE: OSP201

Session Objectives and Takeaways

Session Objective(s): Explain Office 2010 Security

Today’s risk is not macrosSecurity is working in the backgroundOffice 2010 security is game changingFile Validation, Protected View, Better user experience

Threat Landscape

* Diagram from SANS – The Top Cyber Security Risks

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Applications

OS Libraries

OS Transport

Network

How do we protect ourselves from these threats?

• Attack Resilience• Layered Defences• Integrity Protection

Protection Technology

• Encryption• Data Protection• Enterprise Management• Secure Collaboration

Core Security

• Threat Modelling• Validation Tools• Secure Coding Practices• Security Development Lifecycle• Intensive Distributing Fuzzing

Security Engineering

Security Engineering

Valid File Fuzzer Fuzzed File

Target Application

Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)Intensive Distributing Fuzzing

Layered Defenses

Harden the Attack Surface

Reduce the Attack Surface

Improve User Experience

Mitigate the Exploits

Security EngineeringSecurity Development Lifecycle FoundationIntensive Distributed Fuzzing

Integrate OS AdvancesSupport for DEP/NXLeverage WIC Image ParsersRobust & Agile Cryptography

Harden the Attack Surface

Harden the Attack Surface

Reduce the Attack Surface

Reduce the Attack Surface

Office File ValidationBinary filesRuns automatically on openEvaluates file for ‘correctness’Protects against unknown exploitsFaster updates for changes to rulesReduce the

Attack Surface

Reduce the Attack Surface

Gatekeeper vs MSRC cases

Mitigate the Exploits

Protected Viewer ‘Sandbox’

Word, Excel, PPT files can run in the ‘sandbox’Prevents harmful documents from damaging user data and OSHelp users make better trust decisions

Protected Viewer

Office Protected Viewer

Files that failed File Validation Files that don’t comply

with File Block Policy

Files in unsafe folders

All Outlook Attachments

Files from the Internet Zone

Mitigate the Exploits

Improve User Experience

Better information to make trust decisionsAvoid forcing choice between security and productivityRemembers users selections for security decisions, and does not ask againReduced Prompts

Improve User Experience

‘My Stuff’...

Improve User Experience

IncomingStrong protection from all classes of malware

inside sandbox.

Trust decisions are ‘sticky’View document before trust decision is made. Many

scenarios stop here – reading is enough.

Open email attachment

‘Gatekeeper’Validation

SandboxedViewer

User Clicks ‘Enable’

Document opens, fully enabled

SaveDocument

ReopenDocument

Office 2007 Prompts

Protecting your documents

Encryption EnterpriseMgmtData Protection Digital Signature

Information Rights ManagementUsers can control permissionsRestrictions on sensitive dataCopy prevention

Enable Collaboration between two enterprisesCan lock down content

Data Protection

Data Protection

Encryption

Full Crypto Agility via native CNG SupportAllows agility in organizationsEffective in Govt organizations

Integrity ChecksValidates encrypted messages

Enforce Domain password complexityEnabled through GPO

Encryption

Digital Signature

Timestamping RFC 3161Documents valid after certificate expires

XAdESInternational standardEnables stronger signatures

Digital Signature

EnterpriseMgmt

Define policies and use Office to enforce themMore IT Admin control in 2010More granularity within group policy management

Enterprise Management

Resources

www.microsoft.com/teched

Sessions On-Demand & Community Microsoft Certification & Training Resources

htResources for IT Professionals Resources for Developers

www.microsoft.com/learning

http://microsoft.com/technet

OfficeITPro.com

http://microsoft.com/msdn

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office

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JUNE 7-10, 2010 | NEW ORLEANS, LA