That is Mr. The Plague to you: Security and Devops

Security and shizzle Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Whom be this? • Ben Hughes, security monkey at
Etsy. • Bullet point fanatic. • Terrible at slides. • Shout out to the Etsy security team. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh It’s a tale of two halves • Security, where
did it all go wrong? • Don’t go alone, take this! • Security-devops-maybe-DBAs-too- oh and-QA-sure-who-else? • I quite like Etsy, here’s why. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Security, where did it all go wrong? Monday, 11
November 13

@benjammingh Wait, but we bought a ﬁrewall! Monday, 11 November
13

@benjammingh They’re coming out of the walls Monday, 11 November
13

@benjammingh teh cloudz • AWS logo goes here. • Maybe
not in AWS... (other cloudiness vendors may be available) Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh But we’re secure, right? Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh The Watering hole attacks of Feb Monday, 11 November
13

@benjammingh Other than the occasional RCE/ SQLi or 0-day, companies
just aren’t getting breached directly through their servers like they used to. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh I’d buy that for a dollar [laptop:~]% id uid=501(ben)
gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff) [laptop:~]% ./magic [*] running old exploit against unpatched OSX. [*] firing off connect back shell to AWS. [*] throwing mad persistence in to LaunchAgents. [*] dropping to a shell. [laptop:~]# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Zero [cool] day • Zero day is bad! Monday,
11 November 13

@benjammingh Surprise! • You can’t defend against unknown attacks. •
Clue is in the name. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Rejoice. That mostly doesn’t matter! Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Treat the symptoms • Lateral movement can be more
important than how they got in. • You don’t care that they broke a window, you care that they got in your living room and took your TV. • (still ﬁx your window) Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Hudson hawk reference • Why is /bin/sh running on
your webserver? • Why is your webserver trying to SSH to other hosts? • Why is the Cold Fusion process reading arbitrary ﬁles oﬀ of disk (SE/NSA Linux time) Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh But still patch • Please, still patch things. •
Know that it isn’t a panacea. • Realise that is okay. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Please do patch! • No really! Monday, 11 November
13

@benjammingh Logs are your eyes. “If it’s not monitored... ...it’s
not in production” Well “If it’s not logged, did it really happen?” Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh You have a limited number of eyes. Monday, 11
November 13

@benjammingh Alerts Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Logstash • http://logstash.net/ • http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/ kibana/ • http://www.logstashbook.com/ •
https://github.com/miah/chef_logstash • https://forge.puppetlabs.com/tags/ logstash Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Two factor all the things •Duo - https://www.duosecurity.com/ •Authy
- https://www.authy.com/ •Google - http://goo.gl/hvre2D •YubiKey - https://www.yubico.com/ Hat tip to Jan Schaumann (@jschauma), from whom I stole the title of this slide from. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Duo and Yubikeys vvbrc Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Pen Testing • Don’t pay someone else to tell
you to patch things. • Don’t pay someone to run Nessus. • Hire more security people before paying for pen-tests. • Attack simulations are better. http:// bit.ly/attacksims Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Attack simulations? • Everything in scope. Monday, 11 November
13

@benjammingh Attack simulations? • Everything in scope. • Don’t have
security run it. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Attack simulations? • Everything in scope. • Don’t have
security run it. • Don’t block on fragility. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Transparency! • Invite people to the brief. • Don’t
just expect a PDF. • Treat it as a postmortem. • Come out of it with a set of actions. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Game days. • Ops’ “game day” simulations, but for
security. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Phishing • Who’s stopped phishing? Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Phishing • Who’s stopped phishing? • You’re not going
to stop phishing. Monday, 11 November 13

to stop phishing. • That doesn’t matter. Monday, 11 November 13

to stop phishing. • That doesn’t matter. • Don’t think you can fully eliminate it, get it reported instead. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Intermission. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh New, Improved Devops • Silo smashing in to one
new larger silo! Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh DevSecOpsFarmerQueen • Many hats. • Not just dev. •
Not just ops. • Security doesn’t just magically happen. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Get security involved! • This can be done is
all sized environments! • Small - having someone who has a security background or interest. • Large - ”Chris Eng & Ryan O’Boyle – From the Trenches: Real-World Agile SDLC” - http://nsc.is/presentation/chris-eng- ryan-oboyle-from-the-trenches-real-world-agile-sdlc/ Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Security are people too! Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Security are people too! • they just might not
always act like it... • security is the only area of technology with genuine adversaries. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Infosec, this one’s for you • Dev and ops
(and everyone else) are people too. • They made those decisions without malice in mind. • People don’t go out of their way to make things insecure! Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Primary action items • Don’t just say “did you
speak to security about this?” • Get people involved! • Security has never [succesfully] been a check box. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Reducing barriers. Having an approachable security team is the
most important thing they can do. The second you lose the ability to talk to them about anything, you effectively lose your security team. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh So, that party you mentioned? • Skill sharing. Monday,
11 November 13

@benjammingh So, that party you mentioned? • Hack week. Monday,
11 November 13

@benjammingh So, that party you mentioned? • Boot camping. Monday,
11 November 13

@benjammingh Borrowing from the devops. • Tests! Monday, 11 November
13

@benjammingh Borrowing from the devops. • Tests! • Test your
code and your infrastructure. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Borrowing from the devops. • Tests! • Test your
code and your infrastructure. • Wait, someone already gave this talk: http://www.slideshare.net/nickgsuperstar/ devopssec-apply-devops-principles-to-security/32 Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Borrowing from the devops. So did Gareth! https://speakerdeck.com/garethr/security- monitoring-penetration-testing-meets-
monitoring Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Stop saying “No!” Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh So ﬁnally • The most important thing that we
do as a security team is... • Humility. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh So ﬁnally • The most important thing that we
do as a security team is... • Humility. • Security isn’t everything. People are rad. Monday, 11 November 13

@benjammingh Fin <golden axe screen shot> Monday, 11 November 13

That is Mr. The Plague to you: Security and Devops

That is Mr. The Plague to you: Security and Devops

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