CISSP® Common Body of Knowledge

Review:
Telecommunications &
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Learning Objectives
Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2
The Telecommunications and Network Security domain
encompasses the structures, techniques, transport protocols, and
security measures used to provide integrity, availability,
confidentiality, and authentication for transmissions over private
and public communication networks.
The candidate is expected to demonstrate an understanding of
communications and network security as it relates to data
communications in local area and wide area networks, remote
access, internet/intranet/extranet configurations. Candidates should
be knowledgeable with network equipment such as switches,
bridges, and routers, as well as networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP,
IPSec,) and VPNs.

Reference: CISSP CIB, January 2012 (Rev. 2)

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Question:
• Name the seven layers of OSI reference model?
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Hint: “People do not throw sausage pizza away”

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Question:
• Name the seven layers of OSI reference model?
– Physical (people)
– Data-Link (do)
– Network (not)
– Transport (throw)
– Session (sausage)
– Presentation (pizza)
– Application (away)

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Countermeasures and Controls
– Physical Layer
– Data-Link Layer
– IP Network Layer
– Transport Layer
– Application Layer
• VPN
• NAS

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Implementation of Technical Countermeasures
Example implementation of
technical countermeasures
in Network and
Process & Procedure
Security Operations
Operations
Security CONOPs,

DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH
Security

Internetworking Services:
Information Assurance Defense Information
OSI Reference Internet Protocol

• Routers
Technical Framework Infrastructure (DII) &
Model Suite
(IATF) Security Mechanisms
Certification and Accreditation

Application NFS
OS +

• Switches
Technical Countermeasures

Defending the Host-based IDS +

FTP, Telnet, Computing Secure Messaging +
SMTP, Environment Trusted RDBMS
Presentation XDR
HTTP,
SNMP… etc.

• Encryptors
Security mechanism,
System Architecture,

Domain Controller +
Session RPC Active Directory
Supporting the Service + DIICOE APM
Infrastructure (+ Directory Services +

• Firewalls
X.509-based PKI/KMI/
Transport TCP UDP CA)

Firewall + Network-based IDS

Defending the Enclave
+ Switchs

• Intrusion Detection System

Network Routing IP
ICMP
Protocols

ARP, RARP Defending the Network &

Routers + KGs
Infrastructure

(IDS)
Data-Link
Physical Sec.

Physical

• Intrusion Prevention
Protection of Critical
Facility Security,

Infrastructure

Systems (IPS)
• Operating Systems (OS)

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Countermeasures and Controls

OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol
Memorization
Model Architecture

– Physical Layer Away Application

– Data-Link Layer Pizza Presentation

Application
Layer

– IP Network Layer Sausage Session

– Transport Layer Host-to-Host

Throw
–
Transport Transport
Application Layer Layer

• VPN Not Network Internet Layer

Network

• NAS
Access Layer
Do Data-Link

People Physical

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Physical Layer – Review

Transport Medium
• Cables
OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol
Model Architecture

– LAN: Twisted Pair (Shield, Un-shield), Coaxial, Application

Fiber Optics (Single-mode, Multi-mode) Presentation

Application
Layer

– WAN: SONET, X.21-bis, HSSI, SMDS

Session

• Radio Frequency (RF) Host-to-Host

Transport Transport
– LAN: 2.4GHz, 5GHz, UWB (3.1GHz – 10.6GHz) Layer

– WAN: Microwave (VHF, UHF, HF) (300MHz – Network Internet Layer

300GHz) Data-Link
Network
Access Layer

• Light Physical

– LAN: Infrared
– WAN: LASER (medium: fiber, air)

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Security of Physical Layer

Transport Media
• Physical protection of transport media
– Cables/ Fibers: Casings (Concrete, Steel pipe, Plastic, etc.)
– RF: Allocation of radio spectrum, power of RF, selection of
line-of-sight (LOS), protection from element (rain, ice, air)
– Optical: Selection of transport medium, light wave spectrum
(multi-mode), LOS and strength of light beam (e.g. LASER,
single-mode)
• Path Diversity of transport media
– Cables / Fibers: Geographic diversity
– RF: Utilization of radio channels, coverage area
– Optical: Multi-mode

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Security of Physical Layer

Transport Media
Security considerations for transport media…
• EMI (Electromagnetic Interference)
– Crosstalk
– HEMP (High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse)
• RFI (Radio Frequency Interference)
– UWB (Ultra Wide Band): > 500MHz, FCC authorizes the
unlicensed use in 3.1 – 10.6GHz
– Household microwave oven: 2.45GHz
• Transient. Disturbance of power traveling across
transport medium
• Attenuation. Loss of signal strength over distance

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Security of Physical Layer

Transport Interfaces (I/Fs)

• Physical protection of transport I/Fs
– Access control of network equipment
• Telco Demarcation / Telecommunication Room
• Data Center / Server Room
• Network Closet

• Logical protection of transport I/Fs

– Disable All Interfaces Not In-Use
– Enable Interface only when Ready-To-Use
– Designate specific I/Fs for management
– Designate specific I/Fs for monitor

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Security of Physical Layer

Network Equipment
• Enable service password-encryption on all
routers.
• Use enable secret command and not with the
enable password command
• Each router shall have different enable and user
password
• Access routers only from “secured or trusted” server
or console
• Reconfigure the connect, telnet, rlogin, show ip
access-lists, and show logging command to privilege
level 15 (secret)
• Add Warning Banner

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Questions:
• Why household microwave oven may interfere with
your Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/g)?
–

• Loss of signal strength over distance is?

–

• Disturbance of power traveling across a transport

medium is?
–

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Answers:
• Why household microwave oven may interfere with
your Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/g)?
– The microwave oven operates in 2.45GHz and Wi-Fi
operates in 2.4GHz

• Loss of signal strength over distance is?

– Attenuation

• Disturbance of power traveling across a transport

medium is?
– Transient

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Countermeasures and Controls Memorization OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol

Model Architecture

– Physical Layer Away Application

– Data-Link Layer Pizza Presentation

Application
Layer

– IP Network Layer Sausage Session

– Transport Layer Host-to-Host

Throw
–
Transport Transport
Application Layer Layer

• VPN Not Network Internet Layer

Network

• NAS
Access Layer
Do Data-Link

People Physical

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Data-Link Layer – Review

• Data-Link Layer
– MAC (LAN & WAN)
OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol
Model Architecture

– LLC (LAN) Application

• LAN Data-Link Layer Protocols Presentation

Application
Layer

– Ethernet (CSMA/CD) Session

– Token Ring (Token Passing) Host-to-Host

Transport Transport

– IEEE 802.11 a/b/g (CSMA/CA) Layer

• WAN Data-Link Layer Protocols

Network Internet Layer

Network

– X.25 Data-Link Access Layer

– Frame Relay Physical

– SMDS (Switched Multi-gigabit Data Services)

– ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
– HDLC (High-level Data Link Control)
– ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Data-Link Layer

Confidentiality and Integrity of Data-Link Layer
• SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol)
• PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
• L2TP (Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol)
• Link Encryption (i.e. Link / Bulk Encryptor) : ISDN,
Frame Relay, ATM
• RF:
– LAN: WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), EAP (Extensible
Authentication Protocol), IEEE 802.1X
– WAN: AN/PSC-5 Radio (w/ embedded encryption for
SATCOM, DAMA, LOS communications), TADIL-J (Link-16)
(w/ embedded encryption for LOS communications)

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)

• SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) is a packet
framing protocol that encapsulates IP packets on a
serial line
• Runs over variety of network media:
– LAN: Ethernet, Token Ring
– WAN: X.25, Satellite links, and serial lines
• Supports only one network protocol at a time.
• No error correction
• No security

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

• PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) is a encapsulation
mechanism for transporting multi-protocol packets
across Layer 2 point-to-point links. (RFC 1661)
– ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, etc.
• PPP replaces SLIP because:
– Support multiple network protocols (IP, AppleTalk, IPX, etc.)
in a session
– Options for authentication
• Security features:
– PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)
– CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
– EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol)

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

• PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) (RFC
1334)
– Authentication process is in plaintext, and it is send over the
established link
• CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol) (RFC 1994, replaces RFC 1334)
– Protection against playback attack by using 3-way
handshake:
1. After link established, authenticator sends a “challenge”
message to the peer
2. Peer response with a value calculated using a “one-way hash”
3. Authenticator calculate the expected hash value and match
against the response
– CHAP requires that the “secret” key be available in plaintext
form. But the “secret” key is NOT send over the link

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

• EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) (RFC 2284)
supports multiple authentication mechanisms:
– MD5-Challenge
– One-Time Password (OTP)
– Generic Token Card
• Protection against playback attack by using 3-way
handshake:
1. After link established, authenticator sends a authentication
request message to the peer
2. Peer send response with a set of values that matches
authentication mechanism of the authenticator
3. Authenticator calculates the expected value and match
against the response

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP)

• L2TP (Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol) (RFC 2661)
extends the PPP model by allowing the L2 and PPP
endpoints to reside on different devices (e.g.
workstation to router) interconnected by a packet-
switched network

PPP Frames

L2TP Data Message L2TP Control Message

L2TP Data Channel (unreliable) L2TP Control Channel (reliable)

Physical Layer Packet Transport (Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, etc.)

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

• WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is an optional IEEE
802.11 encryption standard.
– Implemented at the MAC sub-layer
– Use RSA’s RC4 stream cipher with variable key-size
– Shared symmetric key, 40-bit! (104-bit is not a standard!)
with 24-bit IV (Initialization Vector)
• Security issue with WEP…
– Size of IV (24-bit) +
– Shared static symmetric key (40-bit or 104-bit)
– Hacker can collect enough frames in same IV and find out
the symmetric key (i.e. related key attack)
• Mitigation:
– IPsec over 802.11
– IEEE 802.11i and IEEE 802.1X
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy
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Security of Data-Link Layer

IEEE 802.1X
• IEEE 802.1X uses EAP (Extensible Authentication
Protocol)
– 802.1X is an interoperability standard NOT a security
standard!
• Uses 3-way handshake, in state machine model:
1. Unauthorized State: After link established, authenticator
(access point) sends a authentication request message to
the peer.
2. Unauthorized State: Peer send response with a set of values
that matches authentication mechanism of the authenticator.
3. Unauthorized State: Authenticator calculates the expected
value and match against the response.
4. Authorized State: Exchange encrypted data message.

Reference: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1X-2004.pdf.
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Security of Data-Link Layer

IEEE 802.11i
• IEEE 802.11i standard has
been ratified on 6/24/2004. Client Workstation
(STA)
Access Point
(AP)

– FIPS 140-2 certified by NIST. AP sends a single use random numeric

value (Nonce) to STA
– A.k.a. WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected ANonce

Access version 2)
STA returns a “single use nonce” along
• Uses IEEE 802.1X (i.e.
STA constructs a Pair-wise
Transient Key (PTK)* with Message Integrity Code (MIC)
SNonce + MIC
EAP) for authentication.
• Uses 4-way handshake. AP returns a Group Temporal Key
(GTK) along with MIC to STA
AP constructs a
PTK*

• Uses AES-based CCMP GTK + MIC

STA send an acknowledgement to AP

(Counter-mode Cipher- ACK

block-chaining Message * As soon as the PTK is obtained it is divided into 3 separate keys:
EAP-KCK (Extended Authentication Protocol-Key Confirmation Key)
authentication code EAP-KEK (Key Encryption Key)
TK (Temporal Key) – The key used to encrypt the wireless traffic.
Protocol).
Reference:
- Q&A, Wi-Fi Protected Access, WPA2 and IEEE 802.11i, Cisco Systems
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i
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Security of Data-Link Layer

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) & Reverse ARP (RARP)

• ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) maps MAC
addresses (physical addresses) to IP addresses
(logical addresses)
• RARP (Reverse ARP), opposite of ARP, maps IP
addresses to MAC addresses
• Preserving integrity of ARP table is the key to
security of switching topology.

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) & Reverse ARP (RARP)

ARP Table is vulnerable to…
• Denial-of-Services (DoS) Attack
– A hacker can easily associate an operationally significant IP
address to a false MAC address. Then your router begin to
send packets into a non-existing I/F.
• Man-in-the Middle Attack
– A hacker can exploit ARP Cache Poisoning to intercept
network traffic between two devices in your network.
• MAC Flooding Attack
– MAC Flooding is an ARP Cache Poisoning technique aimed
at network switches. By flooding a switch's ARP table with a
ton of spoofed ARP replies, a hacker can overload network
switch and put it in “hub” mode. Then the hacker can packet
sniff your network while the switch is in "hub" mode.

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Security of Data-Link Layer

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) & Reverse ARP (RARP)

To preserve integrity of ARP table…
• Logical Access Control:
– Static ARP table. Not scalable, but very effective.
– Enable port security using sticky MAC address. Write the
dynamically learned MAC addresses into memory.
– Disable all un-necessary protocols & services.
• Physical Access Control:
– Disable all Interfaces Not In-Use.
– Enable Interface only when Ready-To-Use.
– Designate specific I/Fs for management.
– Designate specific I/Fs for monitor.

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Questions:
• Why Point-to-point protocol (PPP) is better than Serial
Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)?
–
–

• Both Challenge handshake authentication protocol

(CHAP) and Extensible authentication protocol (EAP)
uses 3-way handshake. What is the advantage using
EAP instead of CHAP?
–

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Answers:
• Why Point-to-point protocol (PPP) is better than Serial
Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)?
– PPP supports multiple internetworking protocols in a session
– SLIP has no security feature

• Both Challenge handshake authentication protocol

(CHAP) and Extensible authentication protocol (EAP)
uses 3-way handshake. What is the advantage using
EAP instead of CHAP?
– EAP supports multiple authentication mechanisms: MD5,
One-time password (OTP), and Token card.

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Questions:
• What is the size of the shared static symmetric key
for 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)?
–

• What is the relationship between IEEE 802.1X and

IEEE 802.11i?
–

• Is IEEE 802.1X a security standard?

–

• What is the primary security issue for Layer 2

switches?
–

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Answers:
• What is the size of the shared static symmetric key
for 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)?
– 104-bit. 24-bit of Initialization vector (IV)

• What is the relationship between IEEE 802.1X and

IEEE 802.11i?
– IEEE 802.11i uses IEEE 802.1X for EAP authentication

• Is IEEE 802.1X a security standard?

– No. IEEE 802.1X is an interoperability standard

• What is the primary security issue for Layer 2

switches?
– Preserving the integrity of ARP table

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Countermeasures and Controls

OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol
Memorization Model Architecture

– Physical Layer Away Application

– Data-Link Layer Pizza Presentation

Application
Layer

– IP Network Layer
Sausage Session

– Transport Layer Host-to-Host

Throw
–
Transport Transport
Application Layer Layer

• VPN Not Network Internet Layer

Network

• NAS
Access Layer
Do Data-Link

People Physical

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Network Layer – Review

• Logical Addressing (IP address)
•
OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol

Controls: ICMP, ARP, RARP Model Architecture

• Routing: Static, Dynamic

Application

•
Application

Routing Protocols: Presentation

Layer

– Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP’s) Session

• Distance Vector Routing Protocols Transport

Host-to-Host
Transport
Layer
• Link State Routing Protocols
Network Internet Layer
– Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGP’s)
Network

• State Vector Protocols Data-Link Access Layer

Physical

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Security of Network Layer

Network Address Translation (NAT)

NAT (Network Address Translation) is a method of
connecting multiple computers to the Internet (or any
other IP network) using one IP address.
• The increased use of NAT comes from several
factors:
– Shortage of IP addresses
– Security needs
– Ease and flexibility of network administration
• RFC 1918 reserves the following private IP
addresses for NAT
– Class A: 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
– Class B: 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
– Class C: 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255

Reference: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt
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Security of Network Layer

Virtual IP Address (VIP)

VIP (Virtual IP Address) is a method that maps a virtual
internetworking entity into many computing hosts.
• One-to-Many:
– Used for Load-Balance / Sharing
– Used limit exposure of multiple IP addresses or multiple
network I/Fs. (one-to-many)
• Many-to-one:
– One network I/F to many IP addresses.
– Used for Application sharing

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Security of Network Layer

Routing: Static vs. Dynamic

Preserving integrity of route table is the key to security
of routing topology.
• Static routing is the most secure routing
configuration. However, scalability is a major
drawback.
– Static Route Table, no automatic updates.
• Dynamic routing is scalable, but need to establish
security policy to preserve integrity of route table
– Automatic updates.
– Need to set thresholds.
– Authenticate neighbors and peers.

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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing
There are two types of routing protocols:
• Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)
– Routing Information Protocols (RIP)
– Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)
– Enhanced IGRP (EIGRP, Cisco proprietary)
– Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
– Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)
• Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGPs)
– Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP, RFC 827). EGP is no
longer in use for Internet
– Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is the standard
routing protocol for Internet

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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing: Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)

• Router uses distance vector routing protocols
mathematically compare routes using some
measurement of distance (or # of hops) and send all
or a portion of route table in a routing update
message at regular intervals to each of neighbor
routers.
– RIP (Routing Information Protocol)
– IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)
– EIGRP (Enhanced IGRP, Cisco proprietary)
• Security issues:
– Integrity of routing tables: Automatic distribution of route
table updates.
– Operational stability: The routing updates create chain-
reaction of route table recalculations to every neighbor
routers.
Reference: Routing TCP/IP Volume I, by J. Doyle, et. al., Cisco Press
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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing: Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)

• To preserve integrity of route table: Use MD-5
authentication between neighbor routers.
– Do not use RIPv1, because it does not support MD-5
authentication.
• To improve operational stability of routers running
distance vector IGP’s:
– Use Split horizons with poison-reverse updates. It prevents
routing loops by preventing a router from updating adjacent
neighbors of any routing changes that it originally learned
from those neighbors.
– Use Hold downs (for IGRP & EIGRP). It prevents IGRP’s
interval updates from wrongly reinstating an invalid route.

Reference: Routing TCP/IP Volume I, by J. Doyle, et. al., Cisco Press

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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing: Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)

• Router uses link-state routing protocols sends only
link-state advertisements (LSAs) to each of its
neighbor routers.
– OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
– IS-IS (Integrated intermediate system-to-intermediate
system)
• Security issues:
– Integrity of routing tables: Automatic distribution of LSAs.
– Operational stability: After the adjacencies are established,
the router may begin sending out LSAs. the LSAs create
chain-reaction of recalculations of route paths to every
neighbor routers (i.e. Link-state Flooding).

Reference: Routing TCP/IP Volume I, by J. Doyle, et. al., Cisco Press

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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing: Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)

• To preserve integrity of route table: Use MD-5
authentication between neighbor routers.
• To improve operational stability of routers running
link-state IGP’s:
– Set sequence number for each link-state advertisement
(LSA). The sequence numbers are stored along with the
LSAs, so when a router receives the same LSA that is
already in the database and the sequence number is the
same, the received information is discarded.

Reference: Routing TCP/IP Volume I, by J. Doyle, et. al., Cisco Press

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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing: Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGPs)

• Exterior gateway protocols are design for routing
between multiple AS’ (Autonomous Systems).
– EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol).
– BGP (Border Gateway Protocol).
BGP is THE routing protocol for Internet. BGP peers exchange
full routing information when a new peer is introduced, then send
only updates for route change. BGP is a path vector routing
protocol, because the router does its own path calculation, and
advertises only the optimal path to a destination network.
• Security issues:
– Integrity of routing tables: Automatic distribution of route table
updates.
– Operational stability: The router running BGP is vulnerable to
“route-flap”. Where a unstable routing path to an unreachable
network may cause dynamic updates to all peering routers
and this impacts performance of entire Internet!

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Security of Network Layer

Dynamic Routing: Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGPs)

• To preserve integrity of route table: Use MD-5
authentication between peering routers.
• To preserve operational stability of edge routers
running BGP:
– Enable BGP route-flap damping on all edge routers. For
example:
Prefix length: /24 /19 /16
Suppress time: 3hr. 45-60min. <30min.
– Set ACL to deny all “Bogon” IP addresses. For Edge routers
peering on Internet.

Note: “Bogon” IP addresses are the un-used or not been

assigned IP addresses on the Internet. The list can be
obtained at http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html.

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Security of Network Layer

Packet-filtering Firewall
• Router ACL’s = Packet-filtering
firewall Application Application

• Firewall Policy: Deny by default, Presentation Presentation

Permit by exception. Session Session

– Understand the data-flow (i.e. Transport Transport

source, destination, protocols, and Network Network Network

routing methods), so the security Data-Link Data-Link Data-Link

engineer knows how to apply IP Physical Physical Physical

filtering. Source
Firewall
Destination
(RTR w/ ACL)
– Knows the specific inbound and
outbound I/F’s
– Disable all un-necessary protocols
& services.

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Security of Network Layer

Packet-filtering Firewall
OSI Reference

• Use distribute-list <ACL> out to control Model

outbound routing information. Application

• Use distribute-list <ACL> in to control Presentation

inbound routing information.

• Global Filtering:
Session

1. Create ACLs that defines what network information is Transport

allowed in/out.
2. Configure distribute-list in the appropriate Network

direction under the router’s routing protocol

Data-Link
configuration.
• Per-interface Filtering: Physical

– Apply distribute-list <ACL> <in/out> to a

<specific interface>

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Security of Network Layer

Security of Network Equipment

• Physical Access Control
– Dedicated access ports for management
• Console Port, Auxiliary Port, VTY (Virtual TTY) Port.
– Dedicated monitoring I/Fs for SNMP
• Use SNMPv3, or SNMPv2c, no default community strings
• For SNMPv2c, treat community strings as “password”.
• Logical Access Control
– Set password & privilege levels.
– Implement AAA (Authentication, Authorization &
Accountability).
– Implement centralized authentication & authorization
mechanism: TACACS+ or RADIUS.

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Security of Network Layer

Security of Network Equipment

• Time synchronization
– Use multiple time sources.
– Use NTP for all Layer 3 equipment to synchronize their time.
– Use NTP authentication between clients, servers, and peers
to ensure that time is synchronized to approved servers only.
• Event Logging
– Configure key ACLs to record access violations.
– Example: Anti-spoofing violations, VTY access attempts,
Router filter violations, ICMP, HTTP, SNMP…etc.

Reference: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Questions:
• What are the two primary security issues associated
with the use of dynamic routing protocols?
–
–

• What is the difference between Interior gateway

protocols (IGPs) and Exterior gateway protocols
(EGPs)?
–

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Answers:
• What are the two primary security issues associated
with the use of dynamic routing protocols?
– Integrity of routing tables
– Operational stability

• What is the difference between Interior gateway

protocols (IGPs) and Exterior gateway protocols
(EGPs)?
– IGPs are used within autonomous systems. EGPs are used
between autonomous systems

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Countermeasures and Controls Memorization OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol

Model Architecture

– Physical Layer Away Application

– Data-Link Layer Pizza Presentation

Application
Layer

– IP Network Layer Sausage Session

– Transport Layer Host-to-Host

Throw
–
Transport Transport
Application Layer Layer

• VPN Not Network Internet Layer

Network

• NAS
Access Layer
Do Data-Link

People Physical

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Firewalls
• Packet-filtering firewall (i.e. Router ACLs)
– Do not examine Layer 4-7 data. Therefore it cannot prevent
application-specific attacks
• Proxy firewall
– It supports selected IP protocols (I.e. DNS, Finger, FTP,
HTTP, LDAP, NNTP, SMTP, Telnet). For multicast protocols
(PIM, IGMP…etc) must be TUNNEL through the firewall
• Stateful inspection firewall
– It’s faster than proxy firewall and more flexible because it
examines TCP/IP protocols not the data
– Unlike proxy firewall, it does not rewrite every packets and
does not “talk” on application server’s behalf

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Firewalls
Hybrid Firewalls…
• Circuit-level proxy firewall
– IETF created SOCKS proxy protocol (RFC 1928) for secure
communications
– SOCKS creates a circuit between client and server without
requiring knowledge about the internetworking service. (No
application specific controls)
– It supports user authentication
• Application proxy firewall
– Application proxy + Stateful inspection
– A different proxy is needed for each service
– It supports user authentication for each supported services.
– e.g. Checkpoint Firewall-1 NG

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Packet-filtering firewalls
• Router ACL’s ~ Packet-filter
firewall Application Application

• Firewall Policy: Deny by default, Presentation Presentation

Permit by exception Session Session

– Understand the data-flow (i.e. Transport Transport

source, destination, protocols, and Network Network Network

routing methods), so the security Data-Link Data-Link Data-Link

engineer knows how to apply IP Physical Physical Physical

filtering Source
Firewall
Destination
(RTR w/ ACL)
– Knows the specific inbound and
outbound I/F’s
– Disable all un-necessary protocols
& services

Source: DISA FSO Network STIG

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Proxy firewalls
• Do not allow any direct
connections between internal
and external computing hosts Application Application Application

TCP/IP Application
Layer
Presentation Presentation Presentation

• Able to analyze application Session Session Session

commands inside the payload Transport Transport Transport

(datagram) Network Network Network

• Supports user-level Data-Link Data-Link Data-Link

authentications. Able to keep a Physical Physical Physical

comprehensive logs of traffic and Source Firewall Destination

specific user activities

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Stateful inspection firewalls

• Supports all TCP/IP-based

services, including UDP (by Application Application Application

some) Presentation Presentation Presentation

Stateful Inspection
• Inspects TCP/IP packets and Session Session Session

keep track of states of each Transport Transport Transport

packets. Low overhead and high Network Network Network

throughput Data-Link Data-Link Data-Link

Physical Physical Physical

• Allows direct TCP/IP sessions

Source Firewall Destination
between internal computing
hosts and external clients
• Offers no user authentication

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Firewall Policy
OSI Reference
Model
In principal, firewall performs three actions:
• Accept: where the firewall passes the IP packets
Application

through the firewall as matched by the specific Presentation

rule Session

• Deny: where the firewall drops the IP packets

Transport

when not matched by the specific rule and return

an error message to the source system. (log Network

entries are generated) Data-Link

• Discard: where the firewall drops the IP packets, Physical

and not return an error message to the source

system. (i.e., Like a “black hole”)

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Network Design with Firewalls

Federated
ISP
` Enterprise
` ISP `
Employee User
HTTP / VPN or
Public users VPN dedicated
HTTPS
(Citizen and LoB) circuit
DOI Intranets
Internet Intranet
DOI Intranets

Redundant Routers using diverse

path uplinks to external networks

Exterior Firewalls

Multi-Service Switches

Content Switch for load

balacing

DMZ DMZ

External DNS External DNS

Business Specific VLAN Business Specific VLAN

FTP Srvr. Web Srvrs Web Application Srvrs Web Application Srvrs Web Srvrs FTP Srvr.

Proxy-ed Proxy-ed Proxy-ed Proxy-ed Proxy-ed Proxy-ed

E-mail Srvr. Certificate Srvr. Directory Srvr. Directory Srvr. Certificate Srvr. E-mail Srvr.
(Virtual) (Virtual) (Virtual) (Virtual) (Virtual) (Virtual)

Primary Backup
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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) &

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
• Network-IDS (Intrusion Detection System) is a
“passive” device
– To detect attacks and other security violations
– To detect and deal with pre-ambles to attacks (i.e.,
“doorknob rattling”/ probing / scanning)
– To document the threat to a network, and improve diagnosis,
recovery and correction of an unauthorized intrusion
• Network-IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is a “in-
line” device
– Has all the same service features of a N-IDS, plus
– Inference the internetworking “behavior” to PREVENT further
damage to internetworking services

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) &

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
• N-IDS (and Host-IDS) use “knowledge-based” (a.k.a.
“signature-based”) methodology to detect intrusions
– Uses a database of known attacks and vulnerabilities called
signatures
– Only as good as the last signature update
– Can be difficult to tune – false positives, acceptable
behavior.
• N-IPS uses “behavior-based” methodology to detect
and prevent intrusions.
– Learns normal network or host behavior
– Alerts when behavior deviates from the norm such as
malformed packets, abnormal network utilization, or memory
usage

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Network-based Intrusion Detection System (N-IDS)

• Network-IDS (intrusion detection system) is a
“passive” device
– There are two way to setup the listening interfaces:
Network TAP and VLAN Port Spanning on L2 switch
– N-IDS is composted of two components: Pre-processor
(Sensor) and Event Collector/Analyzer
• Pre-processor assembles the packets and match them against
a pre-defined signature database
• Event Collector/Analyzer collects the events from all the
sensors, correlate and present intrusion pattern
L2 Switch with Port
Span on VLAN
Business Specific VLAN Business Specific VLAN

Listening I/F Listening I/F

N-IDS N-IDS
Sensor Sensor
Monitor & Management VLAN Reporting I/F Monitor & Management VLAN Reporting I/F

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Security of Transport & Application Layers

Network-based Intrusion Prevention System (N-IPS)

• Network-IPS (intrusion prevention system) is an “in-line”
device
– Examines network traffic and automatically blocks
inappropriate or malicious traffic
– However, it may block some “normal” enterprise
internetworking LAN traffic. So, it’s best to use it between the
edge router and exterior perimeter firewall
Redundant Routers using diverse
path uplinks to external networks

N-IPS

Exterior Firewalls

Multi-Service Switches

Content Switch for load

balacing

DMZ DMZ

Primary Backup
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Questions:
• What are the five common types of firewall?
–
–
–
–
–

• What are the three policy actions a firewall can take?

–
–
–

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Answers:
• What are the five common types of firewall?
– Packet filtering
– Proxy
– Stateful inspection
– Circuit-level proxy (i.e., SOCKS)
– Application proxy

• What are the three policy actions a firewall can take?

– Accept
– Deny
– Discard

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Questions:
• If 1 is a router, 4 is located in a DMZ.
What is 2?
1 2 4 –

3
• If 3 is a switch, 5 is a N-IDS, and 6 is a
5 6 computing platform. What does one
have to do to the switch ports to 5 and
6?
–

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Answers:
• If 1 is a router, 4 is located in a DMZ.
What is 2?
1 2 4 – Firewall

3
• If 3 is a switch, 5 is a N-IDS, and 6 is a
5 6 computing platform. What does one
have to do to the switch ports to 5 and
6?
– Provision a port span

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Countermeasures and Controls Memorization OSI Reference TCP/IP Protocol

Model Architecture

– Physical Layer Away Application

– Data-Link Layer Pizza Presentation

Application
Layer

– IP Network Layer Sausage Session

– Transport Layer Host-to-Host

Throw
–
Transport Transport
Application Layer Layer

• VPN Not Network Internet Layer

Network

• NAS
Access Layer
Do Data-Link

People Physical

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Application Layers – S-HTTP vs. HTTPS

• S-HTTP (Secure HTTP) (RFC 2660) is an
experimental protocol designed for use in conjunction
with HTTP
– S-HTTP is a Message-oriented secure communication
protocol

• HTTPS is HTTP over SSL (Secure Socket Layer).

– SSL works at the Transport Layer level
– HTTP message is encapsulated within the SSL

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Application Layers – SET

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a system for
ensuring the security of financial transactions on the
Internet. It was supported initially by MasterCard,
Visa, Microsoft, Netscape, and others
• A user is given an electronic wallet (digital certificate)
and a transaction is conducted and verified using a
combination of digital certificates and digital signature
among the purchaser, a merchant, and the
purchaser's bank in a way that ensures privacy and
confidentiality
• SET uses Netscape's SSL, Microsoft's STT (Secure
Transaction Technology), and Terisa System's S-
HTTP
• SET uses some but not all aspects of a PKI
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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Application Layers – DNS

• Domain Name System (DNS) translates hostnames to IP
addresses. BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is the
most commonly used DNS server on the Internet
– DNS server. It supplies domain name to IP address conversion
– DNS resolver. When it can not resolve DNS request. It send a
DNS query to another known DNS server
• Security issues with DNS:
– DNS cache poisoning, where the legitimate IP addresses are
replaced
– DNS spoofing, where the attacker spoofs the DNS server’s answer
with it’s own IP address in source-address field
• Countermeasures:
– Forbid recursive queries to prevent spoofing
– Setup multiple DNS servers (External, internal)
– Keep your BIND up to date

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system
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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Security of Application Layers – Computing Hosts

Protection of servers (network focused)…
• Be specific on service functions
– Limit services, minimize potential exposures
– Focus on a single function…
Web Server Web Pages
DNS Server DNS
E-mail Server E-mail
DB Server DB Services
• Install Host-IDS
– Enforce CM and Change Control
• Install Anti-Virus
• Disable all processes/services not in use
• Enforce strict access control
– Network I/Fs
– OS / Applications
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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Technical Countermeasures in IATF v3.1

Defense-In-
Security Mechanism Security Services
Depth Security Services Spectrum:
Redundant & Diverse Comm. Links Availability • Access Control
Defending the • Confidentiality
Network & Encryptors Confidentiality, Integrity • Integrity
Infrastructure • Availability
Routers Access Control
• Non-Repudiation
Defending the Access Control,
Firewalls
Enclave Integrity
Boundary Multi-Service & Layer 2 Switches Access Control
Network-based & Host-based IDS’s Integrity
Defending the Access Control,
Hardened OS
Computing Integrity
Environment
Access Control,
Anti-Virus Software
Integrity
Confidentiality: Access
Control, Identification,
Supporting the PKI (X.509-based Messaging:
Authentication,
Infrastructure DMS)
Integrity, Non-
Repudiation

Reference & Guidelines:

• Information Assurance Technical Framework (IATF), Release 3.1
• DoDI 8500.2 Information Assurance (IA) Implementation
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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Principles & Network Architecture
• Security Countermeasures and Controls
– Physical Layer
– Data-Link Layer
– IP Network Layer
– Transport Layer
– Application Layer
• VPN
• NAS

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Virtual Private Network (VPN) & Tunneling

• Tunneling is used to “package/encapsulate” packets and
transport them INSIDE of another packets from one
internetworking domain to another.
• VPN enables the shared internetworking resources to be
used as private or dedicated circuits. (i.e. Access Control)
– Types of VPN:
• LAN-to-LAN
• Remote Client Access
• Client-less Remote Access
– Example:
• PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)
• L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol)
• MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching)
• GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation)
• IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)
• SSH (Secure Shell)

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) operates at
Layer 2. (RFC 2637)
• A protocol which allows PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
to be tunneled through an IP-based network.
– PPTP packages data within PPP packets, then encapsulates
the PPP packets within IP packets for transmission through
an Internet-based VPN tunnel
• PPTP supports data encryption and compression
• PPTP also uses a form of GRE to get data to and
from its final destination

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)

L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) operates at Layer 2.
(RFC 2661)
• A protocol which allows PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
to be tunneled through an IP-based network.
• It is a hybrid of PPTP and L2F can support multiple
protocols
• Often combined with IPsec for security

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)

MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) (a.k.a. Tag
Switching), operates at Layer 2
• a data-carrying mechanism, operating at data-link
layer. It was designed to provide a unified data-
carrying service for both circuit-based clients and
packet-switching clients which provide a datagram
service model
• It can be used to carry many different kinds of traffic,
including both voice telephone traffic and IP packets.
• It does not rely on encapsulation and encryption to
maintain high-level of security

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) (RFC 2784)
• GRE is a Network Layer tunnel that allows any
network protocol to be transmitted over a network
running some other protocol such as:
– Transmitting multicast datagrams over a unicast network.
– Transmitting non-TCP/IP routing protocols such as:
AppleTalk, IPX, etc.
• GRE can be a security issue (i.e. packet-filtering), so
recommended that GRE be created in front of a
firewall.

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IPsec… (1/6)
IPsec is a protocol suite (RFC 2401 4301, 2411).
• Transport Layer:
– AH (IP Authentication Header) provides connection-less
integrity, data origin authentication.
– ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload) provides
confidentiality through encryption.
• Application Layer: (RFC 4306)
– IKE (Internet Key Exchange) is performed using ISAKMP
(Internet Security Association and Key Management
Protocol).

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IPsec… (2/6)
• Authentication Header (AH) (RFC 4302)
– AH follows right after IP header
– Next Header: Identifies the protocol of transferred data
– Payload Length: Size of AH packet
– SPI: Identifies the security parameters, which in combination
with the IP address, identify the security association
implemented with this packet
– Sequence Number: Used to prevent replay attacks
– Authentication Data: Contains the integrity check value
(ICV) to authenticate the packet

Bits

0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 31
1 Next Header Payload Length Reserved

2 Security Parameters Index (SPI)

Words

3 Sequence Number

4 Authentication Data (variable)

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IPsec… (3/6)
• Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (RFC 4303)
– ESP operates directly on top of IP header
– SPI: Identifies the security parameters in combination with
the IP address
– Sequence Number: Used to prevent replay attacks
– Payload Data: The encapsulated data
– Padding: Used to pad the data for block cipher
– Pad Length: Necessary to indicate the size of padding
– Next Header: Identifies the protocol of the transferred data
– Authentication Data: Contains the integrity check value (ICV)
to authenticate the packet Bits

0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 31
1 Security Parameters Index (SPI)

2 Sequence Number
Words

3 Payload Data (variable)

4 Payload Data... Padding... Pad Length Next Header

5 Authentication Data (variable)

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IPsec… (4/6)
IPsec imposes computational
performance costs on the host or IPsec
Architecture

security gateways.
• Memory needed for IPSec code and ESP Protocol AH Protocol

data structures
• Computation of integrity check
values. Encryption
Algorithm
Authentication
Algorithm
Encryption Authentication

• Encryption and decryption. Algorithm

Encryption
Algorithm
Algorithm
Authentication
Algorithm

• Added per-packet handling-

manifested by increased latency and Domain of
Interpritation
possibly, reduced throughput (DOI)

• Use of SA/key management

protocols, especially those that Key Management

employ public key cryptography,

also adds computational costs to
use of IPSec
Reference: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2411
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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IPsec… (5/6)
IPsec operates in two modes:
• Transport mode:
– Only the payload is protected (i.e., encryption & hash)
– IP headers are not encrypted
– If AH is used then IP address can not be translated (i.e., NAT)
– For host-to-host communications only
• Tunnel mode:
– The payload and header are protected (i.e., encryption & hash)
– Used for network-to-network, host-to-network, and host-to-host
communications

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec
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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IPsec... (6/6)
IPsec is implemented in the following “popular” ways…
• Network-to-Network
– IPsec tunnel between two security gateways
– GRE/IPsec in established Layer 3 tunnel
– L2TP/IPsec in established Layer 2 tunnel
• Host-to-Network
– L2TP/IPsec in established Layer 2 tunnel via VPN client on
remote client (i.e. your laptop or PC)
– IPsec tunnel between VPN client to security gateway
• Host-to-Host
– IPsec in transport mode or tunnel mode between two
computing machines

Reference:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L2TP
• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/tech_configuration_examples_list.html
• http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/secur_c/scprt4/scipsec.htm
• RFC 4301, Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4301)
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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
Client Server
• Runs between the Application Layer client hello

(HTTP, SMTP, NNTP, etc) and server hello

Transport Layer (TCP) certificate

server key exchange

• Supports client/server’s negotiation Request for client’s certificate

server hello done

of cryptographic algorithms:
– Public-key cryptography: RSA, Diffie-
certificate

client key exchange

Hellman, DSA or Fortezza certificate verification

– Symmetric ciphers: RC2, IDEA, DES,

change cipher specification

finished
3DES or AES
change cipher specification
– One-way hash functions: MD5 or SHA finished

Application Data...

Reference: http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/
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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Remote Client Server

• SSL works in two modes: Client Application

(with embedded support for
Server Application
(with embedded support for

– Application embedded. i.e. HTTPS

SSL/TLS) SSL/TLS)

SSLv3/TLSv1 SSLv3/TLSv1

– SSL Tunnel or SSL VPN (e.g. TCP/IP stack TCP/IP stack

OpenVPN) Data-Link Layer Data-Link Layer

• SSL VPN is less complex than SSL/TLS encrypted

payload using e.g.
2048 RSA, 3DES

IPsec… Remote Client DOI ESN Networks

– Unlike IPsec, SSL protocol sits on

Server Applications Server Applications

top of Transport Layer stack. Server Applications

Server Applications
Server Applications
Server Applications
Server Applications
Server Applications

– OpenVPN (a.k.a. user-space VPN) TCP/IP stack TCP/IP stack

because unlike IPsec, it operates

out side of OS kernel. SSLv3/TLSv1 Tunnel Client
Software
SSLv3/TLSv1 Tunnel
Security Gateway

– SSL is more flexible in supporting SSLv3/TLSv1 SSLv3/TLSv1

multiple cryptographic algorithms TCP/IP stack TCP/IP stack

Data-Link Layer Data-Link Layer

Proprietary transparent SSL/

TLS encrypted VPN tunnel
using e.g. 2048 RSA, 3DES

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

• TLS 1.0 (Transport Layer Security) Client Server

(RFC 2246) is defined base on SSL client hello

3.0 server hello

certificate

• TLS and SSL protocols are not server key exchange

Request for client’s certificate

interchangeable. (during a server hello done

client/server session) certificate

• The selection of TLS or SSL is client key exchange

certificate verification

negotiated between client/server at change cipher specification

the “hello”.
finished

change cipher specification

finished

Application Data...

Reference: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt
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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Secure Shell (SSH)

• SSH (Secure Shell) is a secure
replacement for the r* programs (rlogin,
rsh, rcp, rexec, etc.)
• SSH uses public-key to authenticate Host

users, and supports variety of Application

SSH Client
cryptography algorithms: Blowfish, Client

3DES, IDEA, etc.

• SSH protects:
Secure SSH Connection

Target

– Eavesdropping of data transmitted over the

network. Application
Server
SSH Server

– Manipulation of data at intermediate elements in

the network (e.g. routers).
– IP address spoofing where an attack hosts
pretends to be a trusted host by sending packets
with the source address of the trusted host.
– DNS spoofing of trusted host names/IP addresses.
– IP source routing
Reference: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4251.txt
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Questions:
• Why PPP can utilize PPTP and L2TP?
–

• What are the two primary purposes to use GRE?

–

• What are the two operating modes for IPsec?

–
–

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Answers:
• Why PPP can utilize PPTP and L2TP?
– Because PPP allows multiple protocols per session

• What are the two primary purposes to use GRE?

– Transmission of non-TCP/IP routing protocols (e.g.,
AppleTalk or IPX)
– Transmission of multicast datagrams over a unicast network

• What are the two operating modes for IPsec?

– Transport mode
– Tunnel mode

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Questions:
• Why IPsec requires AH protocol and ESP protocol?
–

• SSL uses which three cryptosystems?

–
–
–

• What are the two operating modes for SSL?

–
–

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Answers:
• Why IPsec requires AH protocol and ESP protocol?
– AH for authentication and ESP for encryption

• SSL uses which three cryptosystems?

– Public-key (Asymmetric) (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, DSA or Fortezza)
– Symmetric (RC2, IDEA, DES, 3DES or AES)
– Hash function (MD5 or SHA)

• What are the two operating modes for SSL?

– Application embedded
– Tunnel mode

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Topics

Telecommunications & Network Security Domain – Part 2

• Security Principles & Network Architecture
• Security Countermeasures and Controls
– Physical Layer
– Data-Link Layer
– IP Network Layer
– Transport Layer
– Application Layer
• VPN
• NAS

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Security Countermeasures & Controls

Network Access Servers (NAS)

• NAS (Network Access Server) provides centralized
Access Control of AAA (Authentication, Authorization,
Accounting) services
– A distributed (client/server) security model
– Authenticated transactions
– Flexible authentication mechanisms
• Versions of NAS:
– TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access Control
System) (Cisco proprietary).
– RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service)
(Open source).
– DIAMETER.

Reference:
• RADIUS: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3579.txt
• DIAMETER: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4005.txt
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Network Access Servers (NAS)

Authentication Servers – TACACS+

TACACS (Terminal Access Controller Access Control
System) (RFC 1492)
• TACACS+ is a significant improvement of old version.
Unlike RADIUS, TACACS is stateful, TCP-based.
• TACACS is not supported by all vendors. In addition,
TACACS protocol does not support authentication
proxies, which means user authentication can only be
stored centrally in a Cisco ACS. (However, Cisco
ACS does support authentication proxy to both UNIX
and Windows servers.)
• Unlike RADIUS, TACACS encrypts entire TCP
packet, not just the authentication messages.
Reference:
• http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/480/10.html
• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps1018/products_tech_note09186a0080094eb0.shtml
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Network Access Servers (NAS)

Authentication Servers – RADIUS

RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service)
• RADIUS Server stores UserID, Password, and
Authorization parameter (ACL) centrally.
• Unlike TACACS, RADIUS does support
authentication proxies, so the user authentication
information or schema is scale able.
• Uses CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol) to authenticate user.
• Client/Server uses shared secret stored in
configuration file for encryption and decryption of
CHAP, but not data packets.
• Uses a single UDP packet design for speed and
performance.

Reference:
• RADIUS: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3579.txt
• DIAMETER: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4005.txt
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Network Access Servers (NAS)

Authentication Servers – Diameter

Diameter (RFC 3588) is designed based on RADIUS
that supports “Mobile-IP” services.
• Diameter protocol supports NAS, Mobile-IP,
ROAMOPS (Roaming Operations), and EAP.
• Operates peer-to-peer (instead of client/server),
supports multiple authentication proxy and broker
models.
• Diameter supports both IPsec (mandatory) and TLS
(optional).

Reference:
• RADIUS: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3579.txt
• Diameter:
• http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4005
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3588
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Validation Time… 

1. Class Exercise

2. Review Answers

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Exercise #1: VPN
• Please provide explanations for the following:
– If you are running WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i) at home, why would
you need to run IPsec to MITRE?

– Why is running “split tunnel” bad?

– How is “MITRE WiFi” WPA2 different than your home

wireless network running WPA2? (Hint: IEEE 802.1X)

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Exercise #2: Layers of Perimeter Security
• Please provide examples of network-based perimeter
security controls and provide rationale:
– For boundary protection at the edge?

– For DMZ?

– For enclave protection at the core (/ interior)?

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