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more-on-de-perimeterization

Posted by: admin 15 years, 10 months ago

Having just posted on de-perimeterization, I thought that this quote from Scott Borg of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit on the consequences of breaches:

"We started seeing huge vulnerabilities," Borg said Wednesday at the GovSec conference in Washington, where the draft document was released. Most of the systems were compliant with current security checklists and best practices. "And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines," susceptible to being outflanked.

The problem is that existing best practices are static lists based on outdated data. The new USCCU list shifts the focus from perimeter security to monitoring and maintaining internal systems. The problem with perimeter security is that there is always some way to circumvent it, Borg said.

"We are way into diminishing returns on our investments in perimeter defense," he said. "To deal with it now, you have to think of the problem of cybersecurity not from a technical standpoint, but by focusing on what the systems do, what you could do with them and what … the consequences [would] be."

I think it means that companies should start shifting their focus from firewalls and IDS/IPS to two-factor authentication and database encryption.

Of course, I looked for a copy of the draft on their website. Let me know if you have better luck.

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