Enhance Shared Situational Awareness: ESSA
Description: The ESSA storefront provides evolving federated querying capabilities across the participating national cybercenters. The system is designed to be extensible, allowing multiple participants to join the effort through shared common specifications, the Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information (TAXII) 1.1 and the Structured Threat Information eXpression eXtensible Markup Language (STIX XML) 1.1.1. It also allows participants adhering to the ESSA Information Sharing Architecture (ISA) access control specification to choose what they are willing to share and with whom.
Supporting This Effort
• Russell as security engineer
External Web Application Hosting: EWAH
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Because many NCPS applications embed user identities and perform authentication and authorization within the application, identity information is stored in various formats and authentication performed in a variety of ways. Phase one efforts will include modifying these applications to point to a central source for authentication (the WSO2 IS) and use Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2.0 as the standard mechanism for exchanging identity information.
Because of the work with IHSR and initial application integration, ICAM transitioned from a point development project to an enterprise service. We created the development, transition and deployment strategies for integration with all — more than 50 — mission applications within NSD. We created two categories, service transition and service improvement, for the ICAM enterprise service activities. The two categories represented all applications transitioning to the ICAM enterprise service as well as new capabilities that will be upgraded for future improvements.
Supporting This Effort
• Sheryl as project lead
• Alonzo as security engineer
Advanced Malware Analysis Center: AMAC
A vital part of the US-CERT mission is to share critical malware information in a timely manner and collaborate with federal, state, local and tribal governments as well as industry and potentially, international partners. The AMAC supports this mission by triaging, coordinating, confirming,
Troy, co-authored the JRIMS Joint Mission Needs Statement Homeland Security Enterprise – Information Sharing with the United States Coast Guard, representing CBP. This document was submitted to the Joint Requirements Council (JRC), adjudicated and awaiting validation. Additionally, Troy has been the Action Officer/Representative for CBP on activities to technically and operationally demonstrate Integrated Maritime Domain Enterprise - Operations and Intelligence Data Node system capabilities in Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC)’s Air and Marine Operations Surveillance System (AMOSS).
The specific purpose of this paper is to describe the authentication process and to describe how this and other information security considerations will affect the design and development process for new information systems.
Individual users play an important role in any form of institution or organization but concerns are raised about the security. The network administrators clearly lay down a set of rules, regulations and protocols that an individual user has to agree accordingly upon which part of the resources and what class of service that the user can obtain.
This document is intended to help the integrated acquisition project team 1) understand and consider the implications of how the various IOSS services requirements were procured in the past and/or are currently
System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute or SANS.org (2001) “View Employee Internet Use Report (PDF)” retrieved from http://www.sans.org/security-resources/policies/internet.php
Another step involves security checks upon implementation and describes agency-level threat to the business scenario or the mission. It similarly entails sanctioning the information system for processing and lastly constant monitoring of the security controls. FISMA and NIST's standards are aimed at offering the ways for agencies to achieve their identified missions with safety commensurate with the threat (United States Department of Agriculture, 2015). Together with guidelines from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), FISMA and NIST create a framework for advancing and growing an information security scheme (SecureIT, 2008). Such framework includes control descriptions and evaluation, program development, and system certification and accreditation. The final objective involves conducting daily functioning of the agency and achieving the agency's articulated objectives with sufficient security commensurate with risk.
As part of the network security team, we will be proving IDI with a network security plan to mitigate the vulnerabilities that have been discovered. A secure site will be set up with network intrusion detection and network protection systems will be available to access via the internal network. Policies will be presented for remote access and the use of VPN. Also contained within this report will be strategies for hardening the network and mitigating risks. An updated network layout with increased network security to meet the current needs will be included.
The EO13636 chief objective is to improve the Cybersecurity Framework of principles and determine what the best practices are that may possibly be taken to decrease the threat from all cyber dangers. Under EO13636, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Security Staff, and The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will coordinate with additional investors to advance the Cybersecurity Framework. National Institute of Standards and Technology executives are asking that everyone who is involved take an active role in the development of this Framework (Fischer et al., 2013)
This paper serves to direct the development team along a pathway of security, with the intent to share information about the most secured manner to implement this project. It must first be acknowledged that for information to be secured, information security must be integrated into the SDLC from system inception. The early integration of security in the
The best way to address this issue is the use of a threat intelligence management platform. The “threat intelligence management platform” filters, gathers and analyzes data, and then delivers it in a standard format for inclusion in a variety of security systems and appliances (Comparing). Finally, it is important to remember that the organizations budget will play a major role in the choice of selecting threat intelligence services. The appropriate choice is to strive for consistency when interviewing potential service providers.
This paper is to recommend that the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity Protection System be fully implemented into all civilian and government systems without predetermined search criteria, or “signatures”.
Armando, A., Basin, D., Boichut, Y., Chevalier, Y., Compagna, L., Cuéllar, J., ... & Vigneron, L. (2005, January). The AVISPA tool for the automated validation of internet security protocols and applications. In Computer Aided Verification (pp. 281-285). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
In addition to the DCGS-A with MFWS, coordina-tion with the G2 SIGINT analyst must take place in order to create a uniform, standardized query containing the information required by the CEMA Section and SAVED in the higher echelon’s que-ry program. Following this, a client name must be created and assigned to the CEMA Section for direct dissemination of the queried information via the MFWS, which provides the CEMA Section with the information it requires precisely when all other pertinent data is released and disseminated. This allows the SIGINT to maintain focus on their priorities and provide the CEMA Section with critical updates so that it may proceed with conducting accurate and precise execution of EA, EP, and ES. In addition, this decreases the adversary’s ability to detect friendly influence in EMS, while simultaneously minimizing unintended effects on friendly systems that rely on the
Miller Inc. which is in the business of providing data collection and analytics services relies majorly on network security to keep its competitive advantage. This is because the customers that rely on the company's system trust that since there are sufficient security measures that have been ensured, they can store their data securely. Each of the functional models of the system should have sufficient security measures to ensure that complete security of the whole system architecture is achieved. The three functional modules are the backend module, services or operation module and customer access module. The major relationship between infrastructure and security comes in the role they play to ensure that the end user gets the data that they need when they need it and in the best way possible. Therefore for the three modules, there is a need to balance security with the right infrastructure.
Just like a biological virus, a computer virus is able to infect and ruin lives. This malicious software constitutes more than just simple viruses but also includes other types of software including worms, Trojan horses, and ransomware. Malware has been around since the late 1980’s. Originally, people became hackers to gain notoriety online, but today, it has become more of a business. Cyber attacks originate from all around the world, and it is not just individual people that benefit from it. In two decades, numerous cyber crime syndicates have been created, and states all over the world sponsor hacker groups. Over the past twenty-five years, malware has become less about checking the integrity of computer security and gaining notoriety in the underground cyber society, and it has become more of a chaos creating, money making business that many people and institutions take part in.