Visibility Gap of Your Security Tools

Visibility Gap of Your Security Tools
I have been focusing on visibility lately and often specifically on gaps. Visibility gaps demand the attention of every cybersecurity professional. Success often hinges on how quickly these gaps get closed. The very act of which helps us achieve what they need the most - greater visibility. Solving for these gaps will equip us by catalyzing transformation. No need for Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning, just an advanced persistent drive to close these visibility gaps! I introduced this idea in a previous Diary Is Your SOC Flying Blind? This time, I want to focus on your security agents. Are they working and providing their intended value? How do you know? What would it look like to have an Agent Health Dashboard that answered two fundamental questions all day long: Is the agent installed? Is the agent performing its expected role? I like to include practical ideas when I am the Handler. To that end, I developed several ideas across several diverse dimensions for you to consider. Perhaps next week, you will use this as a checklist to complete or perform a spot check. Visibility for your developers and DBAs Number of active sessions Number of runaway sessions Application performance metrics Visibility for your physical security Camera feeds Badges that show to be both inside and outside of the building at the same time Visibility for your networks Netflow volume Traffic volume New ports and services Trends over time for each Visibility for your Servers and Workstations Day log volume Communication patterns Lateral movement detection Trends over time for each Alert when devices stop sending their logs Activity performed by administrators Application question - What visibility gaps exist, and what can you do next week on purpose to close one of them? Please leave your ideas and suggestions in our comments box! Russell Eubanks ISC Handler @russelleubanks I will be teaching next: A Practical Introduction to Risk Assessment - SANSFIRE 2020	Russell 100 Posts ISC Handler
Subscribe	Jan 25th 2020 4 months ago
Another metric worth looking at, if DPI permits it: inbound/outbound traffic ratios for encrypted traffic (SSL/TLS/SSH). Just watching 22 and 443 is okay but not great, as you may get outbound exfiltration using encryption over port 80.	Rogueshoten 3 Posts
Quote	Jan 27th 2020 4 months ago
Two huge areas I find are frequently missed: 1. If the Antivirus or File Integrity Management settings have files or folders excluded from their oversight, those files or folders need to be covered somehow by a different process. 2. I've never met anyone who correlated the number of alarms sent by the tools to the number acknowledged or acted upon by the staff. If a class of alarms only goes to one person (in error), and they have those alarms sent to a sink hole, there's a problem. If the delivery mechanism is broken for a class of alarm notifications, you'll never notice unless this form of correlation is performed.	HackerHater 7 Posts
Quote	Jan 31st 2020 4 months ago