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“ Secure ” Remote Access

“ Secure ” Remote Access. For telecommuters and roaming users. Submitted To Mr.: Ahmed Abu Mosameh Preparation By: Mohammed N. Abu Shammala. “ Secure ” Remote Access Requirements. Authentication (Knock, knock, who’s there?) Access to the laptop Access to your network Physical Security

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“ Secure ” Remote Access

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  1. “Secure” Remote Access For telecommuters and roaming users Submitted To Mr.: Ahmed Abu Mosameh Preparation By: Mohammed N. Abu Shammala

  2. “Secure” Remote Access Requirements • Authentication (Knock, knock, who’s there?) • Access to the laptop • Access to your network • Physical Security • Lost or mislaid laptops • Unauthorised Access to a laptop • Network Security • Network-based attacks/intrusions • Information confidentiality • Malware Protection • Management/Low support cost • Ease of Use

  3. Authentication • Authentication is needed to: • Prevent unauthorised access to the laptop • Prevent unauthorised access to your network • The Authentication Scheme needs to: • Be easy and seamless to the user • Use multiple factors to prevent capture and replay of credentials (e.g. key-logging of passwords) • Prevent man-in-the-middle attacks • Rainbow iKey cryptographic tokens

  4. Physical Security • Laptop’s contain your agency’s information • Try and keep as little information on the laptop as possible - Don’t use a laptop as a mass file-store • Make it difficult to obtain information even with physical access to the laptop – Boot time authentication • Media could be removed and read from elsewhere – Disk Encryption • Procedures + Citrix + WinMagic + Rainbow Crypto Tokens

  5. Disk Encryption – Implementation Choices • Disk vs File Encryption • File Encryption • Choose a file, decrypt, use, encrypt, secure erase unencrypted file • Disk Encryption • Encrypts and decrypts all files (including temporary files) “on the fly”. This process is extremely transparent to the end user. • Issues for ‘pooled’ resources • If laptop L is encrypted with user A’s key then users B,C,D… cannot use the laptop. • Use a device access key rather than a user authentication key • ‘Master’ Keys • If a user loses their key, or is not present can IT Support read the disk? • Encrypt the disk encryption key using the user’s key and a key owned by IT Support staff

  6. Network Security • Your Agency’s information travels over the Internet. • Make sure that nobody can watch it go past; Prevent unauthorised access to your information resources. • Packet sniffing – Session encryption e.g. IPSEC or SSL • Man-in-the-middle • Authenticate both the “Server” and the “client”! • Capture-and-replay Network Attack Prevention • Protect the client system • Disable unneeded services • Use a personal firewall to only allow access from applications that should be using the network/internet • Agency owned systems versus staff owned (or internet café’) systems • Filter traffic from the client to your network – it should only be trying to access expected services! • E.g. CodeRed, MSBlaster, SQLSlammer! • Cisco VPN Client + Rainbow Crypto Token + ZoneAlarm

  7. Malware Prevention • Personal Firewall • Use a personal firewall that authenticates which applications connect to the internet or your network – this prevents rogue software from spreading over the network • Anti-virus • Prevents detected Malicious Software from executing on the laptop • Does it update ‘automagically’? • System Resources • Multiple instances of security software for disk encryption, network encryption, authentication, firewall, anti-virus... Is this a DoS attack in itself? • ZoneAlarm + McAfee + WinMagic + Cisco VPN + .. + RAM

  8. Management and Support • Managing and supporting LAN clients and Remote clients can be very different • Physical access to hardware • Access to bandwidth for downloading patches • Login scripts and domain management tools may be unavailable • Thin-client – one update for all users • The biggest support headache… • Getting roaming connected to the internet

  9. Ease of Use and End-User Awareness • A “Secure” Remote Access System needs to be really easy to use so that: • End Users use it and not circumvent it! • E.g. Choose to use WebMail instead of secure Remote Access connections • Make it intuitive • Don’t rely on all end users to read the documentation • If possible train/demo the system before they leave

  10. Questions

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