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STORIES FROM THE SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER (S.O.C.) Paul Fletcher Cyber Security Evangelist, Alert Logic
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Stories from the Security Operations Center

Jan 22, 2018

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Page 1: Stories from the Security Operations Center

STORIES FROM THE SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER (S.O.C.)

Paul Fletcher

Cyber Security Evangelist, Alert Logic

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Complexity of defending web applications and workloads

Web App

AttacksOWASP

Top 10

Platform /

Library

Attacks

System /

Network

Attacks

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Network Topology

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Popular Web Application Attacks

Source: blog.sucuri.net

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Recent SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

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Today’s Attacks Have Several Stages

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Initial Attack:

Word Press

XMLRPC Attack

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Initial Attack: Word Press XMLRPC Attack

Athletic Apparel Shop Brick & Mortar and e-commerce

Application stack Custom code written in XML

Word Press content management system

MySQL database

Detection method Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

Log collection and analysis

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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Word Press XMLRPC Attack

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Word Press XMLRPC Attack

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Word Press XMLRPC Attack

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Mitigating WP XMLRPC Attacks

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Mitigating WP XMLRPC Attacks

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Mitigating WP XMLRPC Attacks

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Exfiltration:

SQL Injection

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Exfiltration: SQL Injection Attack

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SQL Injection Attack

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SQL Injection Attack

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What do you see?

Attack:

Response:

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SQL Injection Attack

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Impact of Web App Attacks – Key Takeaways

• Web Apps are becoming more prevalent in organizations

- Use of open source versus traditional applications

• Web App attacks are “gateway” attacks

- Yahoo breach started with a Word Press hack

- 9,000 C&C servers compromised by Word Press hack

- Shadow IT

• Early Stage Detection

- Prevents our customers from dealing with large scale breaches

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How Alert Logic Detects Threats

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Thank You.