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OSI Security Architecture

• ITU-T X.800 “Security Architecture for OSI”


• defines a systematic way of defining and providing security requirements
• for us it provides a useful, if abstract, overview of concepts we will study
Aspects of Security

• 3 aspects of information security:


• security attack
• security mechanism: detect, prevent, recover
• security service
• terms
• threat – a potential for violation of security
• attack – an assault on system security, a deliberate attempt to evade security
services
Passive Attacks (1)
Release of Message Contents
Passive Attacks (2)
Traffic Analysis
• Passive attacks do not affect system resources
• Eavesdropping, monitoring
• Two types of passive attacks
• Release of message contents
• Traffic analysis
• Passive attacks are very difficult to detect
• Message transmission apparently normal
• No alteration of the data
• Emphasis on prevention rather than detection
• By means of encryption
Active Attacks (1)
Masquerade
Active Attacks (2)
Replay
Active Attacks (3)
Modification of Messages
Active Attacks (4)
Denial of Service
• Active attacks try to alter system resources or affect
their operation
• Modification of data, or creation of false data
• Four categories
• Masquerade
• Replay
• Modification of messages
• Denial of service: preventing normal use
• A specific target or entire network
• Difficult to prevent
• The goal is to detect and recover
Security Service
• enhance security of data processing systems and information transfers of an
organization
• intended to counter security attacks
• using one or more security mechanisms
• often replicates functions normally associated with physical documents
• which, for example, have signatures, dates; need protection from disclosure, tampering, or
destruction; be notarized or witnessed; be recorded or licensed
Security Services
• X.800:
“a service provided by a protocol layer of communicating open systems, which
ensures adequate security of the systems or of data transfers”

• RFC 2828:
“a processing or communication service provided by a system to give a specific
kind of protection to system resources”
Security Services (X.800)
• Authentication - assurance that communicating entity
is the one claimed
• have both peer-entity & data origin authentication
• Access Control - prevention of the unauthorized use
of a resource
• Data Confidentiality –protection of data from
unauthorized disclosure
• Data Integrity - assurance that data received is as sent
by an authorized entity
• Non-Repudiation - protection against denial by one of
the parties in a communication
• Availability – resource accessible/usable
Security Mechanism

• feature designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security attack


• no single mechanism that will support all services required
• however one particular element underlies many of the security
mechanisms in use:
• cryptographic techniques
• hence our focus on this topic
Security Mechanisms (X.800)

•specific security mechanisms:


• encipherment, digital signatures, access controls, data integrity, authentication
exchange, traffic padding, routing control, notarization

•pervasive security mechanisms:


• trusted functionality, security labels, event detection, security audit trails,
security recovery

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