Attackers Vs. Defenders: Restoring the Equilibrium Ron Meyran Director of Security Marketing January 2013 AGENDA Cyber security Statistics About 2012 Global Security Report Key Findings ERT Case Studies 2013 Recommendations Cyber Security Study • • • • A research study by Ponemon & Radware Surveyed 700 IT & IT Security Practitioners Non Radware customers Release date: November 12th 2012 3 Cyber Security Business Priorities Ranking of cyber security objectives in terms of a business priority objective 5 = Highest Priority to 1 = Lowest Priority 5 4.7 4.4 4.5 4 3.5 3.5 2.8 3 2.5 2 1.9 1.5 1 0.5 0 Interoperability Confidentiality Integrity Compliance Availability 4 DDoS Attacks Frequency How many DDoS attacks experienced in the past 12 months? 65% of organizations had an average of 3 DDoS attacks in the past 12 months 5 Average downtime during one DDoS attack 25% 22% 20% 16% 15% 10% 13% 10% 54 Minutes average 11% downtime during one DDoS9%attack 5% 5% 10% 4% 0% Less than 1 minute 11 to 20 minutes 31 to 60 minutes 3 to 5 hours Cannot determine 6 Cost of Downtime Cost per minute of downtime 25% 21% 20% $22,000 15% 15% 15% Average cost per minute of downtime 12% 11% 10% 8% 5% $3,000,000 7% 5% 5% Average annual Cost of DDoS Attacks 1% 0% $1 to $10 $10 to $100 $101 to $1,001 to $5,001 to $10,001 $25,001 $50,001 More Cannot $1,000 $5,000 $10,000 to to to than determine $25,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 7 AGENDA Cyber security Statistics About 2012 Global Security Report Key Findings ERT Case Studies 2013 Recommendations Information Resources • Radware Security Survey – External survey – 179 participant – 95.5% are not using Radware DoS mitigation solution • ERT Survey – Internal survey – Unique visibility into attacks behaviour – 95 selected cases • Customer identity remains undisclosed ERT gets to see attacks in real-time on daily basis 9 AGENDA Cyber security Statistics About 2012 Global Security Report Key Findings ERT Case Studies 2013 Recommendations Organizations Bring a Knife to a Gunfight • ”Someone who brings a knife to a gun fight” – Is someone who does prepare himself for the fight, but does not understand its true nature • Organizations today are like that – They do invest before the attack starts, and conduct excellent forensics after it is over, – however, they have one critical blind-spot – they don't have the capabilities or resources to sustain a long, complicated attack campaign. • Attackers target this blind spot! 11 Attacked in 2012 They had the budget They made the investment And yet they went offline 12 Organizations Deploy Two-phase Security Approach Industry Security Survey How much did your organization invest in each of the following security aspects in the last year? 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% Procedures 20% Human skills 15% Equipment 10% 5% 0% Before During After Only 21% of company efforts are invested during the attack itself, while 79% is spent during the pre-attack and post-attack phase. 13 But attacks today have 3 phases 14 Attacks last longer 21% 23% 14 21% 12% 12 10 2011 2012 8 6 11% 4 12% 2 2012 0 1-2 days 2011 Half a week 1 week Attacks last longer: The number of DoS attacks lasting over a week had doubled in 2012 15 And become more complex ERT Cases – Attack Vectors 29% 29% 16% 30% 25% 20% 15% 16% 10% 4% 5% 7% 0% 5-6 7-8 2011 2012 Complexity 9-10 Attacks are more complex: 2012 DoS/DDoS attacks have become more sophisticated, using morecomplex attack vectors. Note the number of attacks using a complexity level of 7-10. 16 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Do you consider Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) a solution for a DoS/DDoS attack? 70% 30% Yes No 70% of the companies who use CDN believe the CDN is a solution for DoS\DDoS attacks. 17 Attacks Evade CDN service GET www.exmaple.com Legitimate requests are refused Legitimate users Internet Backend Webserver • In recent cyber attacks the CDN was easily bypassed GETchanging the page request in every Web – By www.exmaple.com/?[Random] transaction Botnet • These random request techniques force CDNs to “raise the curtain” – All the attacks traffic is disembarked directly to the customer premise – More complex to mitigate attacks masked by CDN CDN service 18 Attackers are well prepared • By definition the defenders loose the battle • Equilibrium has been disrupted 19 The good news (1) Industry Security Survey How likely is it that your organization will be attacked by cyber warfare? Possible 37% Organizations start understanding the risk of DDoS Unlikely 45% Very likely 10% Likely 8% Over half of the organizations believe their organization is likely to be attacked by cyber warfare. 20 The good news (2) Industry Security Survey Which solutions do you use against DoS attacks? 45% 40% 40% 32% 32% 35% 27% 30% Organizations start understanding Firewall and IPS cannot fight DDoS attacks 25% 20% 12% 8% 5% 5% 15% 10% 8% 5% 5% 1% 3% 5% 2% 10% 5% 2012 0% 2011 21 Conclusions • Today’s attacks are different – Carefully planned – Last days or weeks – Switching between attack vectors • Organizations are ready to fight yesterdays’ attacks – Deploy security solutions that can absorb the first strike – But when attacks prolong - they have very limited gunfire – By the time they succeed blocking the first two attack vectors, attackers switch to a third, more powerful one 22 A different approach is needed • A team of security experts – – – – – Acquire capabilities to sustain long attacks Train a team that is ready to respond to persistent attacks Deploy the most up-to-date methodologies and tools 24 x 7 availability to respond to attacks Deploy counterattack techniques to cripple an attack 23 AGENDA Cyber security Statistics About 2012 Global Security Report Key Findings ERT Case Studies 2013 Recommendations US Banks Under Attack: from the news 25 US Banks Under Attack: Operation Ababil • Publication of the ‘Innocence of Muslim’ film on YouTube invokes demonstrations throughout the Muslim world • September 18th- ‘Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-din Al Qassam’ announced an upcoming cyber attack campaign against ‘American and Zionist’ targets. 26 Attack Summary • Attack targets – Bank of America – New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – Chase – Wells Fargo • Attacks lasted Sep 18-21, 2012 • Multiple attacks’ waves on each target, each wave lasted 4 to 9 hours • Victims suffered from temporary outages and network slowness • ERT was actively involved in protecting the attacked organizations 27 Why it was so challenging? UDP Garbage flood on ports 80 and 443 Multi-vulnerability attack campaignLarge volume SYN flood • Mitigation nearly impossible Business • Attackers look for the blind spot SSL Client Hello flood HTTP flood attack 28 Recent updates • HTTP flood was carried from compromised hosting servers – Highly distributed attacks 29 AGENDA Cyber security Statistics About 2012 Global Security Report Key Findings ERT Case Studies 2013 Recommendations ERT recommendations for 2013 • Acquire capabilities to sustain a long sophisticated cyber attack • Attack tools are known. Test yourself • Carefully plan the position of DoS/DDoS mitigation within network architecture – On premise capabilities – In the cloud capabilities 31 Thank You Ron Meyran [email protected]