Cybersecurity Issues Impacting Public Sector Financial Management OASIS e-Gov Washington Workshop, April 17 2009 John Sabo Director Global Government Relations.

Cybersecurity Issues Impacting Public Sector Financial ManagementOASIS e-Gov Washington Workshop, April 17 2009

John SaboDirector Global Government RelationsCA, Inc.

Member, OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee

www.oasis-open.org

Abstract Public financial management systems, e-procurement, and other

services vital to government operations and citizen trust increasingly make use of information technology, networked infrastructures and Internet services. 

Cybersecurity risks continue to multiply as the threat landscape broadens.  As governmental services migrate to Internet and Internet Protocol-based infrastructures, managing cyber security risk takes on greater importance as government agencies cut ties to old business processes and fully embrace Internet-based services. 

This presentation will provide an overview of cybersecurity risk issues, a number of public-private sector partnership efforts to assess and mitigate cyber risks, and examples of work underway by Technical Committees in the OASIS IDtrust Member Section to develop standards to help address these challenges.

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Cybersecurity – Government and Business Risk Management Issues

2007 Business Roundtable Report – growing Internet dependence

Control System vulnerabilities Critical Infrastructure interdependencies

e.g., network availability for e-Gov applications Convergence of communications with Internet

Protocol-based networks/devices/security Major global and federal government cybersecurity

initiatives Major initiatives such as Health IT, Smart Grid

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Obama Administration

E-Government – using cutting-edge technologies to create a new level of transparency, accountability, and participation for America's citizens, to reform government and to improve the exchange of information between the federal government and its citizens and partners.

Cybersecurity – deploying a new generation of secure hardware and software for our critical cyber infrastructure and protecting sensitive corporate and government information and industrial applications from unauthorized access, theft, and misuse, while ensuring the resilience of our information networks, systems and applications.

Data Privacy – managing data privacy and securing personal information by partnering with industry to develop and implement standards and solutions needed to protect the rights of individuals in the information age.

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Foundation in Place for Cybersecurity Risk Management Huge resource and intellectual investments R&D – technology development in response to market needs –

innovation Technologies, standards – e.g., identity and access management,

authorization, encryption Evolving standards and standards development to address new

risk management requirements Operational capabilities via organizations such as Information

Sharing and Analysis Centers Trusted industry and industry - government working relationships Increased focus on cyber risk management, e.g., IT Sector

Coordinating Council risk assessment

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IT Sector Critical Functions and Cybersecurity

IT Products and Services Incident Management Capabilities Domain Name Resolution Identity Management and Trust Support Services Internet-based Content, Information and

Communications Services Internet Routing, Access and Connection Services

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Complexities of the IT Sector

Domain Name System (DNS) root and Generic Top Level Domain (GTLD) operators

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Internet backbone providers Internet portal and e-mail providers Networking hardware companies (e.g., fiber-optics makers and line

acceleration hardware manufacturers) and other hardware manufacturers (e.g., PC and server manufacturers and information storage)

Software companies Security services vendors Communications companies that characterize themselves as having an IT

role Edge and core service providers IT system integrators Global, Federal, State, and local governments…end users, businesses

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IT “Sector Specific Plan”

Prevention and protection through risk management Understand and prioritize risks and implement protective measures

Situational awareness share threat and vulnerability information among IT Sector, other

sectors and government, including developing indications and warnings

Expand public-private analytical capabilities to proactively identify potential future incidents

Response, recovery and reconstitution Communications, incident response and coordination, recovery,

reconstitution, and law enforcement linkages

Federal Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI)

1. Trusted Internet Connections

2. Intrusion detection

3. Intrusion prevention

4. Research and development

5. Situational awareness

6. Cyber counter intelligence

7. Classified network security

8. Cyber education and training

9. Implementation of information security technologies

10. Deterrence strategies

11. Global supply chain security

12. Public/private collaboration

A Few Current Issues

Administration’s 60-day Cybersecurity Review What is the federal government’s role in protecting

critical infrastructure and information networks against a nation state attack?

Role of private sector in protecting government networks – people, process, technology, regulation, and incentives

What thresholds do we recommend for defining and reporting cyber incidents and to whom does it get reported?

New Federal Leadership, Organizational Alignment Legislation and Oversight … all in context of incredible technological innovation

IDtrust Member Section

IDtrust Member Section Evolution

PKI Forum (1999) PKI Member Section (Nov 2002) IDtrust Member Section (2007)

Steering Committee June Leung, FundSERV Abbie Barbir, Nortel John Bradley John Sabo, CA Anil Saldhana, Red Hat

OASIS Staff – Dee Schur

31 Sponsors/Contributing Member Organizations

Strategic Focus Areas

Identity and Trust Infrastructure Components Standards, protocols, cost/benefits, risks

Identity and Trust Policies and Enforcement Policy issues, policy mapping, assurance

Barriers and Emerging Issues Data privacy, interoperability, extensible trust

Education and Outreach White papers, research, conferences, Wiki idtrust.xml.org

Technical Committees

Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) - Advancing new profiles for the DSS OASIS Standard

Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) - Advancing interoperability standard for Information Cards

Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS)- Advancing the ability to use common data formats for representing reputation data

Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) - Defining a resolution protocol for abstract structured identifiers used to identify and share resources across domains and applications

XRI Data Interchange (XDI) - Creating a standard for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other networks using XML documents and Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRIs)

Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) - Defining symmetric key management protocols

Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) - Advancing interoperability standard for enterprise encryption key management

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What is KMIP The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)

enables key lifecycle management. KMIP supports legacy and new encryption applications, supporting symmetric keys, asymmetric keys, digital certificates, and other "shared secrets." KMIP offers developers templates to simplify the development and use of KMIP-enabled applications.

KMIP defines the protocol for encryption client and key-management server communication. Supported key-lifecycle operations include generation, submission, retrieval, and deletion of cryptographic keys. Vendors will deliver KMIP-enabled encryption applications that support communication with compatible KMIP key-management servers.

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Enterprise Cryptographic Environments

Enterprise Key Management

DiskArrays

BackupDisk

BackupTape

BackupSystem

Collaboration &Content Mgmt

Systems

File ServerPortals

ProductionDatabase

Replica

Staging

Key Management Interoperability Protocol

EnterpriseApplications

Email

eCommerceApplications

Business Analytics

Dev/Test Obfuscation

WANLANVPN

CRM

KMIP: Single Protocol Supporting Enterprise Cryptographic Environments

John Sabo [email protected]