2001 November13 -- page 1 Applications that Participate in their Own Defense (APOD) Project Status Review Presentation to Doug Maughan Presentation by Franklin Webber BBN Technologies QuO

2001 November13 -- page 2 Applications That Participate in Their Own Defense New Ideas ImpactSchedule Involve application software in its own defense Use quality-of-service management to aid intrusion diagnosis and to resist attacks Provide a language for building a defense strategy from simple intrusion responses Use middleware to coordinate application’s defense strategy Provide tools to help developers configure application defenses for survivability Systems with more survivability, built with less effort Defense of critical applications without need for perfect security in infrastructure; cost- efficient: can use COTS A set of example defense-enabled applications A collection of validated defense strategies that application developers and/or security specialists can apply July 1999 Start July 2000July 2001 July 2002 End Proof of Concept SW Release Final Survivability Tools Delivery Defense-Enabled App SW Releases Initial validation experiments complete Validation experiments technical report Application Attacker Raw Resources QoS Management CryptoCrypto OSs and NetworkIDSsFirewalls

2001 November13 -- page 3 Summary of Accomplishments Developed concept of defense enabling Integrated a variety of defense mechanisms –resource QoS managers: replication, RSVP bandwidth –resource modulation: port hopping –intrusion detection: Snort, Tripwire –firewall: IPTables –security: IP-to-IPsec switching, OODTE access control Created some basic defense strategies –coordination of mechanisms to enhance defense –QuO middleware used for integration and specification Defense-enabled several applications

2001 November13 -- page 4 Tasks Remaining in Current Contract Design and perform Red Team experiments –defense-enabled image server application –strategies using subsets of existing defense mechanisms Harden existing mechanisms –Incorporate NCSU security-enhanced RSVP –Port to Security-Enhanced Linux Begin classification of defense strategies –precursor to a strategy specification language Deliver final version of defense-enabling toolkit

2001 November13 -- page 5 Experiment Planning Participants: –BBNT: APOD group –BBNT: Experimentation group: Theriault, Nelson –Sandia: Kaufman –Spawar: Huffstetler

2001 November13 -- page 6 Experiment Planning Issues What are the Red Team “flags”? –for availability –for integrity What is to be measured? What attacks are off-limits for Red Team? How can defense enabling, a given defense strategy, and several defense mechanisms be evaluated independently in a limited set of experiments?

2001 November13 -- page 7 Rough Experiment Schedule November: draft experiment plan December: do whiteboard analysis; prepare application January: execute experiment February: analyze data and report results

2001 November13 -- page 8 Where To Next For APOD Concept And Technology? Improvements to technology –lessons learned from experiments –more complete coverage of potential attack scenarios 2nd round of Red Team experiments –fewer attacks out of bounds –using SE Linux Technology transition –transition to Coronado? UltraLog? –domain-specific defense strategies, mechanisms Assuming successful or mixed results from experiments with a Phase I APOD, then Phase II could include:

2001 November13 -- page 9 Improvements to Technology Further development and packaging of defense strategies –effective parameterization –game-theoretic analysis –automatic generation from specifications New and improved defense mechanisms –shorter response time –diffserv vs. RSVP? more and better IDSs? –SPIE to aid defenses against flooding –real-time scheduling for detection and response Extend to heterogeneous environment –used to confine attacks better

2001 November13 -- page 10 Topics For Discussion Since September 11, what cyber-threats does DoD consider highest priority, and can APOD technology address them? What is the potential impact of the new federal cyber-security office on APOD goals? What might be potential funding vehicles for continued APOD activities?