Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The State Department, fresh off the heels of a highly publicized cyberintrusion, is picking industry’s brain for tactics to block and perhaps strike back at hackers, according to new contracting documents. State wants to produce a new set of how-to ”playbooks” around cybersecurity ”to clearly guide both offensive cyber operations and responses to cyberattacks,” department officials said Wednesday. “Offensive cyber operations” is military jargon for hacking into or disrupting an adversary’s system, making it an odd turn of phrase to describe civilian data security practices. This is especially curious, given the planned “playbooks,” or how-to guides, will eventually be available to the public, according to State. The strategies that will be hammered out include, but are not limited to: Physical and Logical Network Segmentation, using Palo Alto and Cisco technology. (Running data on separate networks can help contain the spread of an intrusion) Two-Factor Authentication (Requiring users to log in with not only a code, but also another form of identification, like a smart card) Network Configuration Monitoring, signature &heuristics based Zero Client Architecture Cloud Computing Security Security Operations Center Mobile Device Security Dynamic System Defenses Data-At-Rest & Data-In-Transit Encryption (Information is saved and sent in scrambled code, instead of plain text, to thwart eavesdroppers) Data Centric Security Micro Hypervisor Technology Application Whitelisting (Users are only allowed access to a preset […]
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