Seventh Edition, Global Edition

by William Stallings
 Chapter 1
Computer and Network Security
Concepts

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 Cryptographic algorithms and protocols
can be grouped into four main areas:

Symmetric encryption

• Used to conceal the contents of blocks or streams of data of any size,

including messages, files, encryption keys, and passwords

Asymmetric encryption

• Used to conceal small blocks of data, such as encryption keys and hash
function values, which are used in digital signatures

Data integrity algorithms

• Used to protect blocks of data, such as messages, from alteration

Authentication protocols

• Schemes based on the use of cryptographic algorithms designed to

authenticate the identity of entities

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 The field of network and
Internet security consists of:

measures to deter,
prevent, detect, and
correct security
violations that involve
the transmission of
information

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 Computer Security
The NIST Computer Security Handbook defines the
term computer security as:

“the protection afforded to an automated

information system in order to attain the
applicable objectives of preserving the integrity,
availability and confidentiality of information
system resources” (includes hardware, software,
firmware, information/ data, and
telecommunications)
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 Computer Security Objectives
Confidentiality
• Data confidentiality
• Assures that private or confidential information is not made available or disclosed
to unauthorized individuals
• Privacy
• Assures that individuals control or influence what information related to them may
be collected and stored and by whom and to whom that information may be
disclosed

Integrity
• Data integrity
• Assures that information and programs are changed only in a specified and
authorized manner
• System integrity
• Assures that a system performs its intended function in an unimpaired manner,
free from deliberate or inadvertent unauthorized manipulation of the system

Availability
• Assures that systems work promptly and service is not denied to
authorized users
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 Breach of Security
Levels of Impact
• The loss could be expected to have a severe or
catastrophic adverse effect on organizational
Hi operations, organizational assets, or individuals

gh
• The loss could be expected to have a
serious adverse effect on organizational

Moderate operations, organizational assets, or

individuals

• The loss could be expected to

have a limited adverse effect on
organizational operations,

Low organizational assets, or

individuals

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 Computer Security Challenges
• Security is not simple • Security mechanisms typically
involve more than a particular
• Potential attacks on the
algorithm or protocol
security features need to be
considered • Security is essentially a battle
of wits between a
• Procedures used to provide
perpetrator and the designer
particular services are often
counter-intuitive • Little benefit from security
• It is necessary to decide investment is perceived until
a security failure occurs
where to use the various
security mechanisms • Strong security is often
• Requires constant monitoring viewed as an impediment to
efficient and user-friendly
• Is too often an afterthought operation
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 OSI Security Architecture
• Security attack
• Any action that compromises the security of information
owned by an organization

• Security mechanism
• A process (or a device incorporating such a process) that is
designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security attack

• Security service
• A processing or communication service that enhances the
security of the data processing systems and the information
transfers of an organization
• Intended to counter security attacks, and they make use of
one or more security mechanisms to provide the service
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 Table 1.1
Threats and Attacks (RFC 4949)

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 Security Attacks
•A means of classifying security
attacks, used both in X.800 and
RFC 4949, is in terms of passive
attacks and active attacks

•A passive attack attempts to

learn or make use of
information from the system
but does not affect system
resources

•An active attack attempts to

alter system resources or affect
their operation

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 Passive Attacks

• Are in the nature of

eavesdropping on, or
monitoring of, transmissions

• Goal of the opponent is to • Two types of passive

obtain information that is
being transmitted
attacks are:
• The release of message
contents
• Traffic analysis

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 Active Attacks
• Involve some modification of the
• Takes place when one entity
data stream or the creation of a pretends to be a different entity
false stream Masquerade • Usually includes one of the other
forms of active attack
• Difficult to prevent because of
the wide variety of potential • Involves the passive capture of a
physical, software, and network data unit and its subsequent
Replay retransmission to produce an
vulnerabilities
unauthorized effect

• Goal is to detect attacks and to

recover from any disruption or • Some portion of a legitimate
delays caused by them Modification message is altered, or messages are
of messages delayed or reordered to produce an
unauthorized effect

• Prevents or inhibits the normal use

Denial of or management of communications
service facilities

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 Security Services

• Defined by X.800 as:

• A service provided by a protocol layer of
communicating open systems and that ensures
adequate security of the systems or of data transfers

• Defined by RFC 4949 as:

• A processing or communication service provided by a
system to give a specific kind of protection to system
resources

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 Table 1.2

Security
Services
(X.800)

(This table is found on

page 30 in textbook)
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 Authentication
• Concerned with assuring that a communication is
authentic
• In the case of a single message, assures the recipient
that the message is from the source that it claims to be
from
• In the case of ongoing interaction, assures the two
entities are authentic and that the connection is not
interfered with in such a way that a third party can
masquerade as one of the two legitimate parties
Two specific authentication services are defined in X.800:
• Peer entity authentication
• Data origin authentication

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 Access Control
• The ability to limit and control the access to
host systems and applications via
communications links
• To achieve this, each entity trying to gain
access must first be indentified, or
authenticated, so that access rights can be
tailored to the individual

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 Data Confidentiality
• The protection of transmitted data from passive
attacks
• Broadest service protects all user data transmitted
between two users over a period of time
• Narrower forms of service includes the protection of a
single message or even specific fields within a message

• The protection of traffic flow from analysis

• This requires that an attacker not be able to observe the
source and destination, frequency, length, or other
characteristics of the traffic on a communications facility

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 Data Integrity
Can apply to a stream of messages, a single
message, or selected fields within a message

Connection-oriented integrity service, one that

deals with a stream of messages, assures that
messages are received as sent with no duplication,
insertion, modification, reordering, or replays

A connectionless integrity service, one that deals

with individual messages without regard to any
larger context, generally provides protection
against message modification only

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 Nonrepudiation
• Prevents either sender or receiver from
denying a transmitted message
• When a message is sent, the receiver can
prove that the alleged sender in fact sent the
message
• When a message is received, the sender can
prove that the alleged receiver in fact received
the message

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 Availability Service

• Protects a system to ensure its availability

• This service addresses the security concerns

raised by denial-of-service attacks
• It depends on proper management and
control of system resources and thus depends
on access control service and other security
services

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 Security Mechanisms (X.800)

Specific Security Mechanisms

• Encipherment
• Digital signatures
• Access controls
• Data integrity
• Authentication exchange Pervasive Security Mechanisms
• Traffic padding • Trusted functionality
• Routing control • Security labels
• Notarization • Event detection
• Security audit trails
• Security recovery

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 Table 1.3

Security
Mechanisms
(X.800)

(This table is found on

pages 32-33 in textbook)

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 Fundamental Security
Design Principles
• Least common
• Economy of
mechanism
mechanism
• Fail-safe defaults • Psychological
acceptability
• Complete meditation
• Isolation
• Open design
• Encapsulation
• Separation of privilege
• Modularity
• Least privilege
• Layering
• Least astonishment

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 Fundamental Security Design Principles

Economy of mechanism Fail-safe defaults

• Means that the design of security • Means that access decisions
measures embodied in both should be based on permission
hardware and software should be rather than exclusion
as simple and small as possible
• The default situation is lack of
• Relatively simple, small design is access, and the protection
easier to test and verify scheme identifies conditions
thoroughly under which access is permitted
• With a complex design, there are • Most file access systems and
many more opportunities for an virtually all protected services on
adversary to discover subtle client/server use fail-safe defaults
weaknesses to exploit that may
be difficult to spot ahead of time

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 Fundamental Security Design Principles

Complete mediation Open design

• Means that every access must be
checked against the access control • Means that the design of a security
mechanism mechanism should be open rather
than secret
• Systems should not rely on access
decisions retrieved from a cache • Although encryption keys must be
• To fully implement this, every time a secret, encryption algorithms
user reads a field or record in a file, should be open to public scrutiny
or a data item in a database, the
system must exercise access • Is the philosophy behind the NIST
control program of standardizing
encryption and hash algorithms
• This resource-intensive approach is
rarely used

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 Fundamental Security Design
Principles
Separation of privilege Least privilege
• Defined as a practice in which • Means that every process and
multiple privilege attributes every user of the system should
are required to achieve access operate using the least set of
privileges necessary to perform
to a restricted resource
the task
• Multifactor user • An example of the use of this
authentication is an example principle is role-based access
which requires the use of control; the system security policy
multiple techniques, such as a can identify and define the
password and a smart card, to various roles of users or processes
authorize a user and each role is assigned only
those permissions needed to
perform its functions

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 Fundamental Security Design
Principles
Least common Psychological
mechanism acceptability
• Means that the design should • Implies that the security mechanisms
minimize the functions shared should not interfere unduly with the
by different users, providing work of users, while at the same
mutual security time meeting the needs of those
who authorize access
• This principle helps reduce the
• Where possible, security
number of unintended mechanisms should be transparent
communication paths and to the users of the system or, at
reduces the amount of most, introduce minimal obstruction
hardware and software on
which all users depend, thus • In addition to not being intrusive or
making it easier to verify if there burdensome, security procedures
are any undesirable security must reflect the user’s mental model
implications of protection

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 Fundamental Security Design
Principles
Isolation Encapsulation
• Applies in three contexts: • Can be viewed as a specific
• Public access systems should be form of isolation based on
isolated from critical resources object-oriented functionality
to prevent disclosure or
tampering • Protection is provided by
• Processes and files of individual encapsulating a collection of
users should be isolated from procedures and data objects in
one another except where it is a domain of its own so that the
explicitly desired internal structure of a data
• Security mechanisms should be object is accessible only to the
procedures of the protected
isolated in the sense of
preventing access to those subsystem, and the procedures
mechanisms may be called only at
designated domain entry points
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 Fundamental Security Design
Principles
Modularity Layering
• Refers both to the • Refers to the use of multiple,
development of security overlapping protection
functions as separate, approaches addressing the
people, technology, and
protected modules and
operational aspects of
to the use of a modular information systems
architecture for
mechanism design and • The failure or circumvention
implementation of any individual protection
approach will not leave the
system unprotected

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 Fundamental Security Design
Principles
Least astonishment
• Means that a program or user interface should always
respond in the way that is least likely to astonish the
user

• The mechanism for authorization should be

transparent enough to a user that the user has a good
intuitive understanding of how the security goals map
to the provided security mechanism

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 Attack Surfaces
• An attack surface consists of the reachable and exploitable
vulnerabilities in a system
• Examples:
• Open ports on outward facing Web and other servers, and code
listening on those ports
• Services available on the inside of a firewall
• Code that processes incoming data, email, XML, office
documents, and industry-specific custom data exchange formats
• Interfaces, SQL, and Web forms
• An employee with access to sensitive information vulnerable to
a social engineering attack

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 Attack Surface Categories
• Network attack surface
• Refers to vulnerabilities over an enterprise
network, wide-area network, or the Internet

• Software attack surface

• Refers to vulnerabilities in application, utility, or
operating system code

• Human attack surface

• Refers to vulnerabilities created by personnel or
outsiders
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 Attack Tree
• A branching, hierarchical data structure that represents a
set of potential techniques for exploiting security
vulnerabilities
• The security incident that is the goal of the attack is
represented as the root node of the tree, and the ways
that an attacker could reach that goal are represented as
branches and subnodes of the tree
• The final nodes on the paths outward from the root, (leaf
nodes), represent different ways to initiate an attack
• The motivation for the use of attack trees is to effectively
exploit the information available on attack patterns
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 Model for Network Security

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 Network Access Security
Model

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 Unwanted Access
• Placement in a computer system of logic that
exploits vulnerabilities in the system and that can
affect application programs as well as utility
programs such as editors and compilers
• Programs can present two kinds of threats:
• Information access threats
• Intercept or modify data on behalf of users who
should not have access to that data
• Service threats
• Exploit service flaws in computers to inhibit
use by legitimate users
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 Standards
National Institute of Standards and Technology
●
NIST is a U.S. federal agency that deals with measurement science, standards, and technology related to U.S. government use and to the promotion of U.S. private-sector
innovation
●
Despite its national scope, NIST Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and Special Publications (SP) have a worldwide impact

Internet Society
●
ISOC is a professional membership society with world-wide organizational and individual membership
●
Provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure
standards

ITU-T

●
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an international organization within the United Nations System in which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks
and services
●
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three sectors of the ITU and whose mission is the development of technical standards covering all fields of telecommunications

ISO
●
The International Organization for Standardization is a world-wide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries
●
ISO is a nongovernmental organization that promotes the development of standardization and related activities with a view to facilitating the international exchange of
goods and services and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological, and economic activity
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 Summary
• Computer security concepts • Security services
• Definition • Authentication
• Examples • Access control
• Challenges • Data confidentiality
• Data integrity
• The OSI security
• Nonrepudiation
architecture
• Availability service
• Security attacks
• Passive attacks
• Security mechanisms
• Active attacks • Fundamental security
• Attack surfaces and attack design principles
trees • Network security model
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• Standards