Agile Security and Orchestrated ResponseIBM SECURITY SUMMIT

John Bruce

September 19 & 21, 2017

CEO and Co-Founder, IBM Resilient

• Intro to IBM Resilient

• The current security landscape

• Orchestration and Cognitive Security

• Industry use cases

Agenda

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Resilient Use Case: Fusion Center

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Incident Response Platform

MANUALLYINVOKED

REMEDIATION

AUTOMATIC ENRICHMENT

MANUALLY INVOKED

ENRICHMENT

Endpoint

Security

Malware

Web

Gateway

IT Help Desk

Forensics

Identity

Management

Threat Data

Vulnerability

Management

Passive DNS

Inputs/Escalation

What IBM Resilient Does

MILLION unfilled security positions by 20201.585 security tools from 45vendors

Current Security Practices are Unsustainable

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SECURITY ECOSYSTEM

Integrated and Intelligent Security Immune System

Criminal detection

Fraud protection

Data access control

Application security management

Applicationscanning

Data protection

Device management

Transaction protection

Content security

Malware protection

Endpoint detectionand response

Endpoint patching and management

Network forensics and threat management

Virtual patching

Firewalls

Sandboxing

Network visibility and segmentation

Access management

Identity governance and administration

Privileged user management

IDaaS

Mainframe security

Indicators of compromise

Malware analysis

Threat sharing

Vulnerability management

Security analytics

Threat and anomaly detection

Incident response

User behavior analytics

Threat hunting and investigation

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or·ches·tra·tionˌôrkəˈstrāSHən/nounnoun: orchestration; plural noun: orchestrations1. The arrangement or scoring of music for orchestral performance. "Prokofiev's

mastery of orchestration."2. The planning or coordination of the elements of a situation to produce a

desired effect. “The orchestration of the campaign needed tightening."

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Orchestration for an Uncertain World

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• In an uncertain world, you achieve resilience through orchestration, not automation. • All attacks, networks, environments, organizations, and regulations are

all different. That makes it uncertain.

• Orchestration is the union of people, process, and technology. • Needs to be dynamic and agile. • Need people in charge – backed by automation where it works.

• When you cannot remove people, you need to make them successful.• Orchestration makes it possible for responders to understand what is

going on and act quickly.• Response is hand-to-hand combat – a back-and-forth battle between

attackers and responders.

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Actual Data: Pre and Post Orchestration

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And Then There’s Cognition

• World is adopting AI at an incredible rate.

• Attackers are already underway, flipping defense into offense.

• Imperative that we move to Cognitive Security – leveraging AI to

augment humans across the complete OODA loop.

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TraditionalSecurity Data

A universe of security knowledge

dark to your defensesTypical organizations leverage only 8% of this content

Human-Generated Knowledge

•Security events and alerts

•Logs and configuration data

•User and network activity

•Threat and vulnerability feeds

Examples include:

• Research documents

• Industry publications

• Forensic information

• Threat intelligence

commentary

• Conference presentations

• Analyst reports

• Webpages

• Wikis

• Blogs

• News sources

• Newsletters

• Tweets

Huge Amounts of Security Knowledge is Created for Human Consumption, but Most of it is Untapped

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What is Fed into Watson for Cyber Security

1 Week 1 Hour5 Minutes

StructuredSecurity Data

X-Force Exchange Trusted Partner Data

Open sourcePaid data

- Indicators- Vulnerabilities

- Malware names, …

- New actors- Campaigns- Malware outbreaks- Indicators, …

- Course of action- Actors

- Trends- Indicators, …

Crawl of CriticalUnstructured Security Data

Massive Crawl of all SecurityRelated Data on Web

Breach replies

Attack write-upsBest practices

BlogsWebsitesNews, …

Filtering + Machine Learning

Removes Unnecessary Information

Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing

Extracts and Annotates Collected Data

Billions ofData Elements

Millions of Documents

5-10 updates/hour! 100K updates/week!

3:1 Reduction

Massive Security Knowledge GraphBillions of Nodes/Edges

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• Review the incident data

• Review the outlying events for anything interesting (e.g., domains, MD5s, etc.)

• Pivot on the data to find outliers (e.g., unusual domains, IPs, file access)

• Expand your search to capture more data around that incident

• Search for these outliers / indicators using X-Force Exchange + Google + Virus Total + your favorite tools

• Discover new malware is at play

• Get the name of the malware

• Gather IOC (indicators of compromise) from additional web searches

• Investigate gathered IOC locally

• Find other internal IPs are potentially infected with the same malware

• Qualify the incident based on insights gathered from threat research

• Start another investigation around each of these IPs

Time consuming

threat analysis

There’s got to be an easier way!

Apply the intelligence and investigate the incident

Gather the threat research, develop expertise

Gain local context leading to the incident

Cognitive Tasks of a Security Analyst in Investigating an Incident

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• Employs powerful cognitive capabilities to investigate and qualify security incidents and anomalies on behalf of security analysts

• Powered by Watson for Cyber Security to tap into vast amounts of security knowledge and deliver insights relevant to specific security incidents

• Transforms SOC operations by addressing current challenges that include skills shortages, alert overloads, incident response delays, currency of security information and process risks

• Designed to be easily consumable: delivered via IBM Security App Exchange and deployed in minutes

NEW! IBM QRadar Watson Advisor

Cognitive Security Starts Here

IBM Security Introduces a Revolutionary Shift in Security Operations

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Closing Thoughts

• We’re in the decade of response.

• Orchestration can deliver dramatic improvement in OODA loops.

• Attackers are using AI – cognition is critical for security.

• We’re very early in a long journey.

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