4

Key Threats• Internet was just growing

• Mail was on the verge

Key Threats• Melissa (1999), Love Letter

(2000)

• Mainly leveraging social

engineering

Key Threats• Code Red and Nimda

(2001), Blaster (2003),

Slammer (2003)

• 9/11

• Mainly exploiting buffer

overflows

• Script kiddies

• Time from patch to exploit:

Several days to weeks

Key Threats• Zotob (2005)

• Attacks «moving up the

stack» (Summer of Office

0-day)

• Rootkits

• Exploitation of Buffer

Overflows

• Script Kiddies

• Raise of Phishing

• User running as Admin

Key Threats• Organized Crime

• Botnets

• Identity Theft

• Conficker (2008)

• Time from patch to exploit:

days

Key Threats• Organized Crime, potential

state actors

• Sophisticated Targeted

Attacks

• Operation Aurora (2009)

• Stuxnet (2010)

Windows 95• -

Windows XP• Logon (Ctrl+Alt+Del)

• Access Control

• User Profiles

• Security Policy

• Encrypting File System (File

Based)

• Smartcard and PKI Support

• Windows Update

Windows XP SP2• Address Space Layout

Randomization (ASLR)

• Data Execution Prevention

(DEP)

• Security Development

Lifecycle (SDL)

• Auto Update on by Default

• Firewall on by Default

• Windows Security Center

• WPA Support

Windows Vista• Bitlocker

• Patchguard

• Improved ASLR and DEP

• Full SDL

• User Account Control

• Internet Explorer Smart

Screen Filter

• Digital Right Management

• Firewall improvements

• Signed Device Driver

Requirements

• TPM Support

• Windows Integrity Levels

• Secure “by default”

configuration (Windows

features and IE)

Windows 7• Improved ASLR and DEP

• Full SDL

• Improved IPSec stack

• Managed Service Accounts

• Improved User Account

Control

• Enhanced Auditing

• Internet Explorer Smart

Screen Filter

• AppLocker

• BitLocker to Go

• Windows Biometric Service

• Windows Action Center

• Windows Defender

Windows 8• UEFI (Secure Boot)

• Firmware Based TPM

• Trusted Boot (w/ELAM)

• Measured Boot and

Remote Attestation

Support

• Significant Improvements

to ASLR and DEP

• AppContainer

• Windows Store

• Internet Explorer 10

(Plugin-less and Enhanced

Protected Modes)

• Application Reputation

moved into Core OS

• BitLocker: Encrypted Hard

Drive and Used Disk Space

Only Encryption Support

• Virtual Smartcard

• Picture Password, PIN

• Dynamic Access Control

• Built-in Anti-Virus

1995 2001 2004 2007 2009 2012

Protect and

Manage Threats

Protect Sensitive

Data

Protect Access to

Resources

Challenges

An interface built on top of and replaces some aspects of traditional BIOS

Like BIOS it hands control of the pre-boot environment to an OS

Architecture-independent

Enables device initialization and operation (mouse, pre-os apps, menus)

Secure Boot, Encrypted Hard Drives, Network Unlock for BitLocker

Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Trusted Platform Module 2.0

Enables commercial-grade security via physical and virtual key isolation from OSTPM 1.2 spec: mature standard, years of deployment and hardeningImprovements in TPM provisioning lowers deployment barriers

Algorithm extensibility Security scenarios are compatible with TPM 1.2 or 2.0

Discrete or Firmware-based (ARM TrustZone® ; Intel’s Platform Trust Technology (PTT))

* Microsoft refers to the TCG TPM.Next as “TPM 2.0”.

# Features TPM 1.2/2.0 UEFI 2.3.1

1 BitLocker: Volume Encryption X

2 BitLocker: Volume Network Unlock X X

3 Trusted Boot: Secure Boot X

4 Trusted Boot: ELAM X

5 Measured Boot X

6 Virtual Smart Cards X

7 Certificate Storage (Hardware Bound) X

8 Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) X

9 Visual Studio Compiler X

10 More…

Training Requirements Design Implementation Verification Release Response

Legacy Boot

Modern Boot

BIOS Starts any OS Loader, even malware

Malware may starts before Windows

The firmware enforces policy, only starts signed OS loaders

OS loader enforces signature verification of Windows components. If fails

Trusted Boot triggers remediation.

Result - Malware unable to change boot and OS components

BIOSOS Loader

(Malware)OS Start

Native UEFIVerified OS

Loader OnlyOS Start

UEFI Firmware, Drivers, Applications, and Loaders must be trusted (i.e.: signed)

UEFI Database lists trusted and untrusted Keys, CA’s, and Image Hashes

Secured RollBack feature prevents rollback to insecure version

Untrusted (unsigned) Option ROMs (containing firmware) can not run

Updates to UEFI Firmware, Drivers, Applications, and Loaders

Revocation process for signatures and image hashes

UEFI able to execute UEFI firmware integrity check and self-remediate

Windows 7 BIOSOS Loader

(Malware)

3rd Party

Drivers

(Malware)

Anti-

Malware

Software

Start

Windows

Logon

Windows

8

Native UEFIWindows 8

OS Loader

Windows

Core, Kernel,

Anti-

Malware

3rd Party

Drivers

Windows

Logon

Malware able to hide and remain undetected

Systems can be compromised before AM starts

Secures Windows system files (e.g.: kernel) and drivers

Starts and protects ELAM based AM software

Automatic remediation/self healing if compromised

PIN and Picture Password Both are easy to use sign in option for Touch devices

Picture password offers a secure (blog) personal sign-in experience, easy to remember

Length PIN Password (a-z) Password (complex) Picture Password

1 10 26 n/a 2,554

2 100 676 n/a 1,581,773

3 1,000 17,576 81,120 1,155,509,083

4 10,000 456,976 4,218,240

5 100,000 11,881,376 182,790,400

6 1,000,000 308,915,776 7,128,825,600

7 10,000,000 8,031,810,176 259,489,251,840

8 100,000,000 208,827,064,576 8,995,627,397,120

Account Lockout Policy - “Account lockout threshold” + “Account lockout duration”

Security Option Policy - “Interactive logon: Machine account lockout threshold”

Wired - Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore – Mat Honan

Email addresses have become universal usernames making them a single point of failure

Basic personal info is enough to trick customer service agents into revealing more sensitive information

Malicious users use information on one service to gain entry into another

Hacked email accounts enables malicious users to reset your pw on other sites (e.g.: Your investment acct)

Easy to deploy and cost effective way to enable strong multi-factor authentication

Provides a secure, seamless, and always ready experience for end user