Presentation from Riga, Latvia. "Data Security Solutions" Ltd. ITSEC Conference.

1. BalaBit IT Security
The logging
company

2. External Challenges:
Security Breaches

3. External Challenges:
Compliance Pressure to Monitor Users
PCI-DSS ISO27002
SOX→ COBIT Chapter 7, 8 A.10.2
Third-party service
DS5.5 Implement Strong
mngmnt
HIPAA, Basel
Security monitoring Access Control
A.10.10
II, GPG13…
DS9.2 Chapter 10
Audit Access to Monitoring user Similar
Config.changes
Cardholder Data activities requirements!
DS11.6
Chapter 12 A.13.2
Securing Data
Maintain Mgmt of Security
sec.policy for Incidents
personnel

4. Internal Challenges:
„Superuser” Fraud
Source: BalaBit IT professionals survey, 2011

5. How to control?
• Identity-management
• Logging
• Activity monitoring

6. BalaBit IT Security
„The syslog-ng company”
• 2011 revenue: $10.3 M (35% annual growth)
• Number of employees: 120
• Number of customers - global:
– commercial customers: 800
– open source users: 850.000
• 12 years experience in IT Security
• Global partner network, 80+ partners in 30+ countries
• Awarded to Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Fast 50 Lists (2010)

7. syslog-ng Description
• IT environments constantly generate
important data in log messages
• syslog-ng
• Collects
• Filters
• Classifies
• Normalizes
• Stores
• Transfers
• syslog-ng is not a log analysis tool but it is
essential to analysis
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8. Product Family
• syslog-ng Open Source Edition
• Leader since 1998, de facto standard in 2001
• Large, world-wide community
• syslog-ng Premium Edition
• Commercial version
• Additional features
• Professional support
• syslog-ng Store Box
• Turnkey appliance
• Index, search, reporting
• Professional support
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9. syslog-ng Open Source Edition
• Key Features
• Flexible message filtering and re-writing
• Pattern-based classification
• Secure log transfer via SSL/TLS
• Flow-control – adaptive message rate control
• High speed processing > 650k/sec
• Community
• 100,000s of users worldwide
• Well know by system admins
• Included in 3rd party devices
• Custom add-ons
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10. syslog-ng Premium Edition
• Additional Features
• Zero Message Loss
• Reliable Log Transfer Protocol (RLTP)
• Client side failover
• Disk buffer
• Encrypted log storage
• SQL source and destination support
• Windows support
• Support for more than 50 server
platforms
• Professional Support
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11. Customers

12. Logging is not enough…
1. Several security events are not logged!
The User Monitoring „Pyramid”
2. Logs typically do not show what was done.
3. Logs often show only obscure techn. details.
Activity Records -
security camera
System logs -
snapshots

13. Key questions to answer…
Can you ensure the accountability of your IT staff?
Can you monitor the actions of your „superusers”?
Can you reliably control your outsourcing partners?
Do you really know „who access what” on servers?
Can you conduct quick and cheap audits at your company?
Can you present bullet-proof evidence in legal proceedings?
Are you sure you’d pass audits concerning user monitoring?

14. IT Staff
Privileged Activity Monitoring
by Shell Control Box
Outsourcing
partners
Managers
• Firewall,
VDI users
• Network devices,
• Databases,
• Web/file servers,
• Citrix server…

15. Privileged Activity Monitoring by
BalaBit Shell Control Box
Shell Control Box (SCB) is an
appliance that controls privileged
access to remote systems and
records the activities into searchable
and re-playable movie-like audit
trails.

16. Access Control
Security & compliance benefits:
• Central access control gateway
• Multi-protocol support - SSH,
RDP, VNC, Telnet, Citrix, etc.
• Sub-channel control
(e.g. file transfer)
• Access by time policy
• 4-eyes authorization
• Real-time access monitoring
Key Benefit: GRANULAR ACCESS POLICY ENFORCEMENT!

17. Real-time alerting (& blocking)
Security & compliance benefits:
• Alerts for monitoring tools
• Alerts for supervisors
Coming in :
• Terminates session if risky action
• Risky actions are customizable
(e.g. failed login, program execution,
credit card number…)
Key Benefit: IMMIDIATE REACTION ON CRITICAL EVENTS!

18. Audit & Forensics
Security & compliance benefits:
• Real-time activity monitoring
• Tamper-proof, HQ audit trails
• Movie-like playback & search
• File transfer audit
• Independent, transparent audit device
Key Benefit: INDEPENDENT TOOL FOR QUICK AUDITS & FORENSICS!

19. Big SCB Users

20. Conclusion
Benefits for business
Faster ROI
• Faster and higher quality audits
• Lower troubleshooting and forensics costs
• Centralized authentication & access control
• Complete solution for user monitoring
Lower risk
• Improved regulatory and industry compliance
• Better employee/partner control
• Improved accountability of staff
• Bullet-proof evidence in legal proceedings
• Setting technical and psychological barrier

21. Thank you for your attention!
Gábor Paróczi
Sales Manager
gabor.paroczi@balabit.com
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