EGI CSIRT:Security challenges
| Mission | Members | Contacts
| Incident handling | Alerts | Monitoring | Security challenges | Procedures | Dissemination
Security challenges: what is it about ?
The goal of security drills, is to investigate whether sufficient information is available to be able conduct an audit trace as part of an incident response, and to ensure that appropriate communications channels are available.
EGI-CSIRT action on this thematic is at two points:
- development of drills framework. They are available for egi sites; this is to help them verify their security maturity.
- challenges at egi levels. Some wide level security challenge campaign are organized; this contributes to security at project level.
For further informations, you can contact ssc-monitor(at)zwaan.nikhefhousing.nl .
Security challenges: what is expecting from sites ?
What is important to bear in mind ?
The sites contacted for a challenge are asked to follow the normal security incident response procedure, and react as if the incident was real, with the two following exceptions:
1. No sanctions must be applied against the Virtual Organization (VO) that was used to submit the job. 2. All "multi-destination" alerts must be addressed to the e-mail list which has been designated for the test: ssc-monitor(at)zwaan.nikhefhousing.nl DO NOT use: abuse(at)egi.eu for Security Service Challenges. Instead, insert the originally intended "multi-destination" address(es) in the body of your message.
Information to be gathered at the sites
For an initial response and first directions answers to the following questions might be useful.
- NETWORK:
- Are there any other suspicious connections open? If so to which IPs - Is network monitoring data (e.g. netflows) available?
- CONTAINMENT:
- Does the process belong to a batch job or an interactive login? - From where was the login/job submission done? - In case it is a Grid-Job, the following questions are important: -To which VO is the user/certificate affiliated? - Which grid-certificates (DN) are involved in this test-incident? # Example: DN-1: CN=John Doe, O=<SomeInstitute>,O=<Something>, ..." - Since when were the jobs running? # Example: YYYY:MM:DD hh:mm Date:
The sites should provide the security teams asap with this information at latest within one working day.
The time needed to pass this information to EGI-CSIRT by replying to the alarm mail will be measured and evaluated.
Replying to the alarm mail will automatically use the above sketched RTIR system.
What is the normal security incident response procedure?
Following is site checklist for normal incident response procedure.
PLEASE REMIND THAT FOR THE CHALLENGE THE PROCEDURE IS APPLIED WITH RESTRICTIONS STATED IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION In case of doubt please contact: ssc-monitor(at)zwaan.nikhefhousing.nl
PLEASE REMIND THAT FOR THE CHALLENGE THE PROCEDURE IS APPLIED WITH RESTRICTIONS STATED IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION In case of doubt please contact: ssc-monitor(at)zwaan.nikhefhousing.nl
More informations about EGI security procedures ( flowchart, formal document, forensic howto ... ) can be found here : https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:Policies
Please also visit our Forensic Howto wiki pages. If you want to contribute, just send your input to egi-csirt-team(at)mailman.egi.eu.
Evaluation - Report generation
We distinguish between
1) Measurable per site operations (with target times):
- initial feedback: 4h
- found malicious job/processes/stop them: 4h
- ban problematic certificate: 8h
- contain the malicious binary and sent it to the incident-coordinator: 24h
These will be measured by the ssc-monitor and the points the sites get are calculated according to the formula stated on the wiki page. Times are relative to the alarm to the site, we try to make sure that the alarms will be send during office-hours (09:00 - 18:00, local time). The target times might change, will be in the final version on the wiki page.
2) Collaborative investigations: Since we want to achieve cross site communication, and possibly collaboration on the "malware" forensics the evaluation schema has changed accordingly. I..e Network forensics are needed, but we don't measure this, since due to the overall SSC set-up, most of this information should already be available to the "more western" sites relative to the initially alarmed sites.
ban/unban of the pilot-job-submitter DN is based on local policies. It will not be measured, but a statement on the decision, whether to ban/unban the pilot-job-submitter or not, is expected.
Security challenge: how is it operated ?
Participating sites
# Format GOC-Name PANDA-Name NGI-NAME VO) Taiwan-LCG2 ANALY_TAIWAN APAC atlas Australia-ATLAS ANALY_AUSTRALIA APAC atlas CA-SCINET-T2 ANALY_SCINET ROC-CA atlas CA-VICTORIA-WESTGRID-T2 ANALY_VICTORIA-WG1 ROC-CA atlas TRIUMF-LCG2 ANALY_TRIUMF ROC-CA atlas BEIJING-LCG2 ANALY_BEIJING ROC-CA atlas CERN-PROD ANALY_CERN CERN atlas CYFRONET-LCG2 ANALY_CYF PL atlas praguelcg2 ANALY_FZU CZ atlas DESY-HH ANALY_DESY-HH DE atlas FZK-LCG2 ANALY_FZK DE atlas GoeGrid ANALY_GOEGRID DE atlas HEPHY-UIBK ANALY_HEPHY-UIBK DE atlas TUDresden-ZIH ANALY_DRESDEN DE atlas UAM-LCG2 ANALY_UAM SPAIN atlas pic ANALY_PIC SPAIN atlas IFAE ANALY_IFAE SPAIN atlas IFIC-LCG2 ANALY_IFIC SPAIN atlas csTCDie ANALY_CSTCDIE IE atlas IL-TAU-HEP ANALY_IL-TAU-HEP IL atlas TECHNION-HEP ANALY_TECHNION-HEP IL atlas WEIZMANN-LCG2 ANALY_WEIZMANN IL atlas INFN-FRASCATI ANALY_INFN-FRASCATI Italy atlas INFN-MILANO-ATLASC ANALY_INFN-MILANO-ATLASC Italy atlas INFN-ROMA1 ANALY_INFN-ROMA1 Italy atlas INFN-T1 ANALY_INFN-T1 Italy atlas NIKHEF-ELPROD ANALY_NIKHEF-ELPROD NL atlas SARA-MATRIX ANALY_SARA NL atlas LIP-Coimbra ANALY_LIP-Coimbra P atlas LIP-Lisbon ANALY_LIP-Lisbon P atlas NCG-INGRID-PT ANALY_NCG-INGRID-PT P atlas ITEP ANALY_ITEP RU atlas JINR-LCG2 ANALY_JINR RU atlas RRC-KI ANALY_RRC-KI RU atlas RU-Protvino-IHEP ANALY_IHEP RU atlas ru-PNPI ANALY_PNPI RU atlas ARC-SITE-SI ARC-pikolit.ijs.si SI atlas ARC-SITE-CH ARC-ce.lhep.unibe.ch CH atlas ARC-SITE-liu-SE ARC-arc-ce.smokerings.nsc.liu.se SE atlas ARC-SITE-umu-SE ARC-jeannedarc.hpc2n.umu.se SE atlas UKI-SCOTGRID-GLASGOW ANALY_GLASGOW UK atlas UKI-NORTHGRID-LANCS-HEP ANALY_LANCS UK atlas UKI-SOUTHGRID-CAM-HEP ANALY_CAM UK atlas IN2P3-LPSC ANALY_LPSC F atlas
Tools
A framework has been developped to automate the operation of EGI security challenges.
The release of may 2011 contains: the panda framework for job submission, a prototype of the new EGI-CSIRT ticketing system based on RTIR.
The test malware is not intrusive, it does not try to get elevated priviledges.
More informations about the framework are given at security drills framework.
Post processing, clean up
As part of the incident handling, Grid authorizations may have been withdrawn from the DN that was used to submit the job. When the incident response procedure is complete, the test operator will explicitly request restoration of any such authorizations to their original state.
De-briefing
When the challenge has been completed on a representative number of Sites, the test operator will ask for de-briefing input from the participating Sites. Material submitted will be used to edit a report. The report will be circulated to the contributors for comments before being presented to the EGI-CSIRT.
Feedback
Please all NGI Security Officers participating in SSC5 put your comments here. Comments from NGI Security Officer as well as from site point of view both kindly welcome. Please indicate:
- what kind of problems you have encountered, what problems sites had,
- ideas to solve mentioned problems (of course if you have, not obligatory field :) ),
- whether procedure and broadcasted information were clear enough for you and for sites,
- which parts of SSC sites liked and consider useful and which they don't,
- if you think that situation during SSC5 run revealed some weakness of our procedure, please show where,
- tips from sites, how to do what, maybe we can build later extend tutorial for dealing with incidents,
- what questions appeared from sites, maybe we can add some more info on wiki pages/templates/procedure to make it even more clear,
- and all other stuff, which you believe can help us improve our work.
If you see a problem, but someone else hes mentioned it, please write it as well, this will show the scope.
NGI: XY Security Officer: Name (Template)
Problems encountered and ideas for solutions:
- Problem One - and solution for it
- Problem Two - no idea how to solve it
Ideas for improvements:
- Let's do this in a different way, such as...
Other comments:
- comment
NGI: NL Security Officer: Sven Gabriel
NGI: DE Security Officer: Ursula Epting
NGI: PL Security Officer: Adam Smutnicki
NGI: UK Security Officer: MingChao
NGI: GRNET Security Officer: Christos Triantafylldis
Problems encountered and ideas for solutions:
- Investigation ownerships
It appears that whenever someone tried to steal an investigation it got the whole incident and all the investigation. This is not the foreseen reaction. This was solved by adding a new custom-field (Security Officer) to store the responsible security officer for each investigation. This also solved the issue of having 2 people responsible for one investigation i.e. in Italy's case.
- Mail flow
There are many mails that were repeating the same information (from other source). Ideally only the responsible people for each investigation should get these mails while everyone should only get the updates at the incident ticket.
- Single view of the status of all investigation
To ease the investigation follow-up i created a dashboard (https://ssc-rt.nikhef.nl/Dashboards/365/Current%20investigations) to have an overview of the current situation. It would be nice if such views could be created in a less manual way
Ideas for improvements:
- It would be nice to be able to communicate information to all involved contacts but also keep information at a central point for EGI CSIRT needs. I would propose to use the incident ticket for this were replies should go to every contact (like broadcast but only to sites/services that are involved) and comments to store the internal information that EGI CSIRT has before releasing them
Other comments:
- I think this time we have achieved the target of having each person with one role in the whole procedure (with exception of Leif and Ursula who also had the site hat). In future i think we should also distinguish the infrastructure that is used (i.e. it appears like our RTIR, the main communication channel, was co-hosted with the intruder)