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 ====== Security ====== ====== Security ======
  
-See [[:security:sidebar]]+===== How to Suck at Information Security ===== 
 +Original document at [[http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5644]]. The following list presents common information security mistakes and misconceptions, so you can avoid making them.
  
 +=== Security Policy and Compliance ===
 +
 +    * Ignore regulatory compliance requirements.
 +    * Assume the users will read the security policy because you've asked them to.
 +    * Use security templates without customizing them.
 +    * Jump into a full-blown adoption of frameworks such as ISO 27001/27002 before you're ready.
 +    * Create security policies you cannot enforce.
 +    * Enforce policies that are not properly approved.
 +    * Blindly follow compliance requirements without creating overall security architecture.
 +    * Create a security policy just to mark a checkbox.
 +    * Pay someone to write your security policy without any knowledge of your business or processes.
 +    * Translate policies in a multi-language environment without consistent meaning across the languages.
 +    * Make sure none of the employees finds the policies.
 +    * Assume that if the policies worked for you last year, they'll be valid for the next year.
 +    * Assume that being compliant means you're secure.
 +    * Assume that policies don't apply to executives.
 +    * Hide from the auditors.
 +
 +=== Security Tools ===
 +
 +
 +    * Deploy a security product out of the box without tuning it.
 +    * Tune the IDS to be too noisy, or too quiet.
 +    * Buy security products without considering the maintenance and implementation costs.
 +    * Rely on anti-virus and firewall products without having additional controls.
 +    * Run regular vulnerability scans, but don’t follow through on the results.
 +    * Let your anti-virus, IDS, and other security tools run on "auto-pilot."
 +    * Employ multiple security technologies without understanding how each of them contributes.
 +    * Focus on widgets, while omitting to consider the importance of maintaining accountability.
 +    * Buy expensive product when a simple and cheap fix may address 80% of the problem.
 +
 +=== Risk Management ===
 +
 +
 +    * Attempt to apply the same security rigor to all IT assets, regardless of their risk profiles.
 +    * Make someone responsible for managing risk, but don't give the person any power to make decisions.
 +    * Ignore the big picture while focusing on quantitative risk analysis.
 +    * Assume you don't have to worry about security, because your company is too small or insignificant.
 +    * Assume you're secure because you haven’t been compromised recently.
 +    * Be paranoid without considering the value of the asset or its exposure factor.
 +    * Classify all data assets as "top secret."
 +
 +=== Security Practices ===
 +
 +
 +    * Don't review system, application, and security logs.
 +    * Expect end-users to forgo convenience in place of security.
 +    * Lock down the infrastructure so tightly, that getting work done becomes very difficult.
 +    * Say "no" whenever asked to approve a request.
 +    * Impose security requirements without providing the necessary tools and training.
 +    * Focus on preventative mechanisms while ignoring detective controls.
 +    * Have no DMZ for Internet-accessible servers.
 +    * Assume your patch management process is working, without checking on it.
 +    * Delete logs because they get too big to read.
 +    * Expect SSL to address all security problems with your web application.
 +    * Ban the use of external USB drives while not restricting outbound access to the Internet.
 +    * Act superior to your counterparts on the network, system admin, and development teams.
 +    * Stop learning about technologies and attacks.
 +    * Adopt hot new IT or security technologies before they have had a chance to mature.
 +    * Hire somebody just because he or she has a lot of certifications.
 +    * Don't apprise your manager of the security problems your efforts have avoided.
 +    * Don't cross-train the IT and security staff.
 +=== Password Management ===
 +
 +    * Require your users to change passwords too frequently.
 +    * Expect your users to remember passwords without writing them down.
 +    * Impose overly-onerous password selection requirements.
 +    * Use the same password on systems that differ in risk exposure or data criticality.
 +    * Impose password requirements without considering the ease with which a password could be reset.
 +
 +
 +===== Links =====
 +
 +   * [[http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1864|Five common Web application vulnerabilities]]
 +   * [[http://www.freeotfe.org/|A free "on-the-fly" transparent disk encryption program for
 +MS Windows 2000/Windows XP]]
 +   * [[http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html|Rootkit Hunter]]
 +   * [[http://www.hardened-php.net/|Hardened-PHP Project Homepage]]
 +   * [[http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialInternetSecurity.html|Linux securiy tips]]
 +   * [[http://www.ossec.net/|OSSEC HIDS - Open Source HIDS]]
 +   * [[http://www.first.org/resources/guides/|FIRST Best Practice Guide Library (BPGL)]]
 +   * [[http://www.bastille-unix.org/|Bastille linux]]
 +   * {{facebook_privacy_and_security_guide.pdf|Facebook Privacy & Security Guide}}
 +   * [[http://www.fbpurity.com/ Facebook Purity - greasemonkey script]]
 +   * [[https://www.howsmyssl.com/| Check your browser for SSL/TLS]]
 +----
 +
 +
 +   * Caida Presentations http://www.caida.org/outreach/presentations/
 +   * CERT Coordination Center
 +      * http://www.cert.org/nav/index_green.html
 +      * http://www.cert.org/octave/
 +      * http://www.cert.org/csirts/
 +
 +   * Center for Internet Security Benchmarking tools
 +      * http://www.cisecurity.org/
 +
 +   * Cisco's Safe Documentation
 +      * http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/.../networking_solutions_package.html
 +
 +   * Team Cymru Document List
 +      * http://www.cymru.com/Documents/index.html
 +
 +   * Federal Agency Security Practices
 +      * http://csrc.nist.gov/fasp/
 +
 +   * First
 +      * http://www.first.org/resources/guides
 +
 +   * NSA Guides
 +      * http://www.nsa.gov/snac/
 +
 +   * OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications
 +      * http://www.owasp.org/documentation/guide/guide_downloads.html
 +
 +   * Oreilly's Onlamp
 +      * http://www.onlamp.com/security/
 +
 +   * Internet Security Alliance Common Sense Guides
 +      * http://www.isalliance.org
 +
 +   * Microsoft Security Guidance Center
 +      * http://www.microsoft.com/security/guidance
 +      * http://www.microsoft.com/security/guidance/worldwide
 +      * http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/default.mspx
 +
 +   * Nanog's Security Curriculum
 +      * http://www.nanog.org/ispsecurity.html
 +
 +   * RFC 2350 - Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response
 +      * http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2350.html
 +   * RFC 2196 - Site Security Handbook
 +      * http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2196.html
 +   * RFC 2827 - Network Ingress Filtering
 +      * http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2827.html 
 +   * RFC 2504 - Users' Security Handbook
 +      * http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2504.html
 +
 +   * SANS Reading Room
 +      * http://www.sans.org/rr/ 
 +   * Sun blueprints
 +      * http://www.sun.com/blueprints/browsesubject.html
 +   * Sun System Administration Best practice
 +      * http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/bestpractices.html 
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