Information Assurance

Slide Set 1
CS498SH
Fall 2006
Susan Hinrichs

Based on slides provided by Matt Bishop for use with Slide #1-1
Computer Security: Art and Science
 Outline
• Administrative Issues
• Class Overview
• Information Assurance Overview
– Components of computer security
– Threats
– Policies and mechanisms
– The role of trust
– Assurance
– Operational Issues
– Human Issues

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 Reading
• For this lecture:
– First Chapter of Computer Security: Art and
Science
• For next lecture:
– Read Chapter 2 of Computer Security: Art and
Science

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 Administrivia
• Staff
– Susan Hinrichs, lecturer
– Jody Boyer, teaching assistant
• Communications
– Class web page http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa05/cs498sh
– Newsgroup cs498sh
• Office Hours:
– Susan: Mondays 11am-1pm
– Jody: TBA
• Grades
– 2 midterms worth 25% each. Aiming for Sept 20 and October 27
– Final worth 25%
– Roughly weekly homework worth 25%. Can drop low homework
– Extra project worth 20% for grad students taking for 4 credits

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 Security Classes at UIUC
• Security course roadmap
– http://iti.uiuc.edu/roadmaps/security-roadmap.html
• Two course security introduction sequence
– Cover “Computer Security: Art and Science” by Matt Bishop
– Information Assurance (CS461)
• Covers NSA 4011 security professional requirements
• A broad overview of security.
– Computer Security (CS463)
• Covers more advanced topics
• Covers introductory topics in greater depth

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 Security Classes at UIUC
• Applied Computer Security Lab - CS460
– Taught in spring
– With CS461 covers NSA 4013 system administrator requirements
– Project oriented course. Hands on experience to reinforce how basic
security concepts are implemented today.
• Advanced Computer Security - CS598cag
– Prepares students for research in computer security
– Seminar style course
• Cryptography
– Computer science Manoj Prabhakaran teaching CS498PR Theoretical
Foundations of Cryptography this semester
– Similar course taught every other year by Math and ECE departments
• Reading Group
– Listed as CS591rhc
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– Student lead group. Reads and discusses current security research papers.
 Security in the News
• Worms
– Microsoft Server Service buffer overflow exploit active this summer.
Enables remote execution of arbitrary code.
– Slammer worm crashed nuke power plant network
• Extortion
– Threaten DDoS attack unless company pays up
– DDoS protection from carriers can cost $12K per month
– http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/051605-ddos-extortion.html
• Identity theft
– ChoicePoint, Bank of America, disgruntled waiter, lost laptops, phishing
– Not purely a technology issue
– Can use technology to detect use after theft
• Spam
– Washington post June 2004 claims spam costs large companies $2,000 per
employee
– Claims of $10-$50 billion dollars in lost productivity
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 Security Communities
• Security lore rises from several
communities with different motivations
– Government – Information warfare, protection
of critical infrastructures
– Black hat – Glory, money
– Industry – Return on investment, customer trust
– Academia – Scientific method
• Class will draw from all communities
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 Why Information Assurance?
• Why not just call the course Computer
Security?
– Term focuses on the ultimate protection target
– Historical government term

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 Class Topics
• Introduction and motivation
• Security Policies: Access Control Matrix, Confidentiality and integrity
policies
• Trusted Operating Systems
• Risk Analysis
• Legislation and security
• Exam 1 – September 20
• Applied Cryptography: basic crypto, key management, cipher techniques,
authentication
• Network security mechanisms
• Legal and ethical issues in security
• Exam 2 – October 28
• Security design principles, assurance techniques, Auditing
• System evaluation
• Code vulnerabilities and malicious programs
• Physical security
• EMSEC Slide #1-10
• Hardware-enforced security
 Basic Components
• Confidentiality
– Keeping data and resources hidden
• Integrity
– Data integrity (integrity)
– Origin integrity (authentication)
• Availability
– Enabling access to data and resources

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 Classes of Threats
• Disclosure
– Snooping
• Deception
– Modification, spoofing, repudiation of origin, denial of
receipt
• Disruption
– Modification
• Usurpation
– Modification, spoofing, delay, denial of service

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 Policies and Mechanisms
• Policy says what is, and is not, allowed
– This defines “security” for the site/system/etc.
• Mechanisms enforce policies
• Composition of policies
– If policies conflict, discrepancies may create
security vulnerabilities

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 Goals of Security
• Prevention
– Prevent attackers from violating security policy
• Detection
– Detect attackers’ violation of security policy
• Recovery
– Stop attack, assess and repair damage
– Continue to function correctly even if attack
succeeds

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 Trust and Assumptions
• Underlie all aspects of security
• Policies
– Unambiguously partition system states
– Correctly capture security requirements
• Mechanisms
– Assumed to enforce policy
– Support mechanisms work correctly

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 Types of Mechanisms

secure precise broad

set of reachable states set of secure states

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 Assurance
• Specification
– Requirements analysis
– Statement of desired functionality
• Design
– How system will meet specification
• Implementation
– Programs/systems that carry out design

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 Operational Issues
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
– Is it cheaper to prevent or recover?
• Risk Analysis
– Should we protect something?
– How much should we protect this thing?
• Laws and Customs
– Are desired security measures illegal?
– Will people do them?

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 Human Issues
• Organizational Problems
– Power and responsibility
– Financial benefits
• People problems
– Outsiders and insiders
– Social engineering

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 Tying Together
Information
Threats
Policy
Specification

Design

Implementation

Operation

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 Key Points
• Policy defines security, and mechanisms
enforce security
– Confidentiality
– Integrity
– Availability
• Trust and knowing assumptions
• Importance of assurance
• The human factor

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