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Measuring Compliance with Tenable Security Center

Measuring Compliance with Tenable Security Center. Joe Zurba | HUIT IT Security Presentation to FAS Security Liaisons May 23, 2013. Agenda:. What is compliance and why is it important? What do we need to comply with? What can we measure? How is measurement accomplished?

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Measuring Compliance with Tenable Security Center

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  1. Measuring Compliance with Tenable Security Center Joe Zurba | HUIT IT Security Presentation to FAS Security Liaisons May 23, 2013

  2. Agenda: What is compliance and why is it important? What do we need to comply with? What can we measure? How is measurement accomplished? What are the first steps? What are the next steps? Questions

  3. What is Compliance? com·pli·ance /kəmˈplīəns/ Noun 1. The action or fact of complying with a wish or command. 2. The state or fact of according with or meeting rules or standards. Synonyms agreement - consent - accord - accordance - conformity Compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law.

  4. Why is Compliance Important? Compliance provides a baseline posture from which we can build more mature process and controls Compliance provides standards Compliance helps to lower risk Compliance helps to improve the quality of work Compliance helps to mitigate potential penalties

  5. What Do We Need To Comply With? Depending on where you are within Harvard, you may need to comply with one or several of the following policies/standards: HIPAA FERPA PCI Massachusetts 201 CMR 17 Harvard Information Security Policy Harvard Research Data Security Policy Contractual Obligations

  6. What Can We Measure? Government Compliance FISMA, NIST, DISA STIG, CERT Regulatory Compliance HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), FERPA Corporate (Institutional) Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Institutional Policy, PCI, ISO 27001 And… Harvard Security Policy

  7. How Is Measurement Accomplished? Tenable Security Center Vulnerability Scanning Used to measure systems for vulnerabilities in Operating Systems and common applications Uses credentialed scans to unobtrusively log into systems to analyze patch status Tenable Security Center Compliance Scanning Uses industry standard or custom audit files to measure system configurations Uses credentialed scans to unobtrusively log into systems

  8. Audit Files

  9. Audit Files

  10. Audit Files

  11. Scan Policy

  12. Scan Policy

  13. Scan Policy

  14. Add a Compliance Scan

  15. Add a Compliance Scan

  16. Analyze The Results

  17. Analyze The Results

  18. Analyze The Results

  19. Analyze The Results

  20. What Are The First Steps? Measuring systems that store or process HRCI (PII) against 10 points of the HEISP: Private IP addressing Host-based firewall Vulnerability Scanning and Patching program External logging (Splunk) Active, up-to-date Anti-Virus software Unique credentials, default passwords changed, shared accounts disabled Password length and complexity Brute force credential lock-outs Logging of successful and unsuccessful login attempts

  21. What Are The Next Steps? Establish a process for ongoing compliance scanning, reporting and remediation Expand the service offering to comply with other regulatory standards HIPAA PCI Define standard build audit files to scan for deviation

  22. Questions

  23. Thank you. Joe Zurba | HUIT IT Security Presentation to Security Liaisons May 23, 2013

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