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Introduction

This talk contains no confidential information.

Only actionable information that you will be able to use right away!

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Protecting users

Passwords are deadhttp://www.cnet.com/news/google-security-exec-passwords-are-dead/

Strong authentication is practical: https://fidoalliance.org/● Already enabled for most Google services● Will be integrated in Windows 10, too

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Protecting users

Key take-away: enable 2FA now!We will take care of the rest.

FREE

CHEAP

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"SSL Everywhere"

Source: Google I/O 2014https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15H8Sj-Zol1tcum0CSylhmXns5r7cvNFtzYrcwAzkTjM/present?slide=id.g12f3ee71d_10

● Most Google services served over HTTPS○ Even Ads: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2013/09/use-adsense-on-your-https-sites13.html

● HTTPS used as a ranking signal○ http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal_6.html

● SPDY, then HTTP/2 mandating SSL○ https://blog.chromium.org/2015/02/hello-http2-goodbye-spdy-http-is_9.html

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SSL is no good without a few extras

● Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)○ Enabled back in 2011: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/11/protecting-data-

for-long-term-with.html● Safe implementations

○ BoringSSL: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/○ Crypto research (HearthBleed, POODLE, BEAST, CRIME, ...)

● Deprecation of unsafe algorithms○ E.g. MD5 and SHA-1 http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/gradually-

sunsetting-sha-1.html● HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)● Certificate Pinning● Certificate Transparency (W.I.P.)

○ https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency

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Quality Open Source software

Pick all of those ...

● Google GitHub repository○ https://github.com/google

● Google Summer of Code○ https://www.google-melange.com/

● Core Infrastructure initiative○ http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-initiative

● Research Awards○ http://research.google.com/university/relations/

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Killing all the bugs

● List of security bugs fixed by Googlers○ https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/research/

● lcamtuf's very own fuzzer (AFL)○ http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/○ Results: https://fuzzing-project.org/

● Project Zero○ http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/

● Cloud customers get an awesome Web security scanner for free○ https://cloud.google.com/tools/security-scanner/

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Vulnerability Research Program(s)

We might pay you if ...

● You found a bug in our products○ https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/

● You want to spend time finding bugs in our products○ https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/research-grants/

● You significantly enhanced the security of a critical Open Source project○ https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/patch-rewards/

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Vulnerability Research Program(s)

... and this is for real: $1.5M spent last year● http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ch/2015/01/security-reward-programs-year-in-review.html● https://plus.google.com/+EduardoVelaNava/posts/BGaXYSvrpui

Top VRP contributors attending a fun event @ Google

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What if a few bugs still remain?

Hardening!

● Fighting XSS with templating systems○ https://github.com/google/closure-templates

● Sandboxing○ https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSandboxing

● NaCl○ https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

● Linux kernel features○ E.g. seccomp-bpf

● Compiler hardening○ Cf. LLVM features and roadmap○ ASAN, clang-format-fuzzer, Control Flow Integrity, ...

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... and it works

Source:G-Jacking AppEngine-based ApplicationsHITB Amsterdam 2014Nicolas Collignon and Samir Megueddem

Source: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/26

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What if something happens?

Incident Response!

● Google Rapid Response○ https://github.com/google/grr

● Rekall Memory Forensics○ http://www.rekall-forensic.com/

● Plaso○ https://github.com/log2timeline/plaso

● ... and Joachim's awesomeness○ https://github.com/libyal

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Conclusion

Security is a process, not a product-- Bruce Schneier

Security is a journey, not a destination-- Wrongly attributed to Dalaï-lama :)

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References

Google's Approach to IT Securityhttps://cloud.google.com/files/Google-CommonSecurity-WhitePaper-v1.4.pdf

Google Online Security Bloghttp://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/

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