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CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems Physical and EM Security Physical Security Physical Security Plan Elements of Physical Security Environmental Threats Physical Access Theft Backups Printouts Unattended Terminals EM Security Physical Security Plan

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CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

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  1. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems Physical and EM Security CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  2. Physical Security • Physical Security Plan • Elements of Physical Security • Environmental Threats • Physical Access • Theft • Backups • Printouts • Unattended Terminals • EM Security CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  3. Physical Security Plan • List of physical assets to be protected • Descriptions • Replacement cost (hardware + data) • Locations of physical assets • Description of security perimeter(s) • Holes in perimeter (doors, windows, etc.) • Multiple perimeter example: • Outermost: campus • Outer: building • Inner: server room • Threats that you’re protecting against • Security defenses CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  4. Elements of Physical Security • Determent • Convince people not to attack. • Detection • Alarms, guards, and other means of detecting attacks. • Delay • Elements that slow down an attacker, e.g. locks & safes. • Response • Guards or a call to the police. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  5. Environmental Threats: Fire • Dangers: • Flames • Heat • Smoke • Water • Defenses • Gas-charged extinguishers • Dry-pipe water sprinkler systems CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  6. Environmental Threats: Temperature • Most computer systems need 50-90F • Dangers: • Cold: thermal shock on power-on, cracking ICs/boards. • Hot: unreliability, then system failures as heat increases. • Defenses • Air-conditioning system • Good air circulation • Temperature alarm system CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  7. Environmental Threats: Water • Humidity • Below 20% static discharge becomes a problem. • Must remain below dew point to avoid condensation on chilled surfaces. • Defenses: • Humidifier/de-humidifier • Humidity alarm • Water • Defenses: • Keep drinks away from computers. • Alarm at low level. • Automatic power shut-off at higher level. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  8. Environmental Threats: Electrical • Electrical Noise • Motors, fans, even vacuum cleaners can generate electrical surges. • Defenses: • UPS with power line filter • Anti-static mats • Lightning • Defenses • Turn off computer systems during lightning storms. • Surge suppressors may help for distant strikes. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  9. Environmental Threats • Dust • Collects on drive heads and degrades media by abrasion. • Dust is slightly conductive and can cause circuit boards to short and fail if much accumulates. • Defenses: • Air Filtering Systems • Vacuuming • Vibration • Can work circuit boards out of sockets and drive heads out of alignment over time. • Defenses: • Rubber or foam mat. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  10. Physical Access • Raised floors/dropped ceilings • If internal walls do not extend above dropped ceilings and below raised floors, computer room door security can be easily bypassed. • Air ducts • Serve computer room with many small air ducts. • Weld screens over air vents or within air ducts. • Motion detectors. • Glass walls • Easy to break—avoid them. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  11. Network Cabling • Threats • Wiretapping/monitoring • Cutting • Connecting to AC power • Defenses • Run through steel conduits, not open trays. • Double-walled conduits with pressurized gas between layers; alarm if pressure falls. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  12. Alarms • Sensor types • Vibration detectors • Video cameras • Motion sensors • Infrared (body heat) detectors • False alarms • Causes • Weather (thunder, lightning, wind) • Created by attacker • Degrade response • guards/police will ignore alarms if too many false. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  13. Theft • Reasons: • Resale • Access to stored information • Targets • Laptops • Components: RAM, CPUs, hard disks • PCs/servers CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  14. Theft Defenses • Limit physical access. • Keep critical systems in high security areas. • Case locks to prevent access to components. • Laptop locks to lock laptop to desk. • Visible equipment tags with serial numbers. • Phone-home software for tracing. • Encryption of information. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  15. Backups • Protect availability of information. • Offer potential for confidentiality violation. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  16. Backups • Defenses: • Secure in safe after creation. • Periodically move to secure offsite storage. • Verify that you can restore data from backups. • Verify old backups periodically too. • Encrypt data on backup tapes. • Bulk erase tapes to destroy data before disposal. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  17. Printouts • Provide availability when computers down. • Potential for confidentiality violation. • Dumpster diving • Defenses • Separate wastebaskets for confidential/unclassified information. • Paper shredding • Expensive shredding recovery services exist. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  18. Unattended Terminals • Offer anonymous attacker access • Defenses: • Auto-logout shells or daemons • Automatic screen locking • Boot only from hard disk • BIOS password to protect boot settings • Case lock to prevent battery removal or BIOS chip replacement CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  19. EM Security • What is EM Security? • History • Surveillance • Passive Attacks • Active Attacks • Defences CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  20. EM Security Preventing a system from being attacked using electromagnetic emanations. • Confidentiality attacks • Listening to high frequency signals bled onto connected cables like power lines. • Listening to electromagnetic radiation leaked from computer devices. • Integrity attacks • Disrupting computations by inserting power glitches. • Availability attacks • Jamming, electromagnetic pulse weapons. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  21. History 1914: Telephone wires laid for miles parallel to enemy trenches only a few hundred meters away. Earth leakage caused crosstalk, allowing enemy to listen. 1960: UK listened to secondary signal on French embassy cable to capture plaintext leaked from cipher machine. 1960s: TV detector vans in UK listened to RF leakage to discover license fee evaders. 1985: Wim van Eck’s paper describing how to reconstruct picture on CRT at a distance. 1990s: Power analysis of smartcards. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  22. Power Analysis • Power analysis: analyzing power supply current of electronic device over time. • Transistor switching changes power draw. • Smartcards: credit-card sized plastic with embedded microprocessor/memory. • Uses: credit/ID card replacement, one time password authentication, physical access key. • Vulnerabilities • Low clock frequency compared to PCs. • Little or no power filtering. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  23. Power Analysis • Simple Power Analysis • Visual inspection of power consumption graph can reveal DES shifts and permutations or RSA multiplication and exponentiation operations. • Differential Power Analysis • Statistical analysis of many (100’s) operations where algorithm and either plaintext or ciphertext known. • Can be used to find 48 of 56 bits of DES key by analyzing last round of cipher. • Defenses: randomization of order of S-box use, frequent key updates, timing randomness, insertion of random dummy operations. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  24. RF Leakage • All video displays (CRTs and LCDs) emit a weak TV signal. • All cabling (serial cables using by ATMs and Ethernet cable used by PCs) emits signals too. • Keyboard RF emissions modulated by currently pressed key. • Defenses: • Electromagnetic shielding of device or room. • Soft-Tempest fonts: low pass filter removes high frequencies of fonts—little visual difference on monitor but larger effect on signal. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

  25. Key Points • Physical security is an essential component of computer security. • Many systems are more vulnerable to physical threats than system/network attacks. • Elements of Physical Security • Determent • Detection • Delay • Response • Backups are a defense against many threats, but must be defended themselves. CIT 380: Securing Computer Systems

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