Book chapter
Направления теории рисков в приложении к обеспечению защиты информации
Widespread acceptance and adoption of cloud computing calls for adaptation and development of existing risk assessment models of information systems. The approach suggested in this article can be used for risk assessment of information systems functioning on the basis of cloud computing technology, and assess the effectiveness of security measures.
Some provisions of SWOT analysis and assessment of its productivity in business are criticized.
The use of hardware virtualization for ensuring information security is discussed. A review of various approaches to improving the security of software systems based on virtualization is given. A review of possible scenarios of using virtualization by intruders is also presented. The application domains and limitations of the available solutions and perspectives of future development in the field are discussed.
This paperwork overviews core technologies implemented by comparably new products at information security market - web application firewalls. Web applications are a very wide-used and convenient way of presenting remote users with access to corporate information resources. It can however become single point of failure rendering all the information infrastructure unreachable for legitimate clients. To prevent malicious access attempts to endpoint information resources and, intermediately, to web server, a new class of information security solutions has been created. Web application firewalls function at the highest, seventh layer of ISO/OSI model and serves as a controlling tunnel for all the traffic heading to and from company’s web application server(s). To ensure decent levels of traffic monitoring and intrusion prevention web application firewalls are equipped with various mechanisms of data exchange session “normalness” control. These mechanisms include protocol check routines, machine learning techniques, traffic signature analysis and more dedicated means like denial of service, XSS injection and CRRF attack prevention. Ability to research and add user rules to be processed along with vendor-provided ones is important since every company has its own security policy and, therefore the web application firewall should provide security engineers with ways to tweak its rules to reflect the security policy more precisely. This research is based on wide practice experience integrating web application firewalls into security landscape of various organizations, their administration and customization. We illustrate our research of available filtering mechanisms and their implementations with example product features by market leaders, schemes and screenshots from real web application firewall systems.
The article presents an overview of EU-Russia relations in the sphere of information security. Actors' stances in the sphere as well as obstacles for and prespectives of cooperation are discussed.
In this paper we present a virtualization-based approach of protecting execution of trusted applications inside potentially compromised operating system. In out approach, we do not isolate application from other processes in any way; instead, we use hypervisor to control processes inside OS and to prevent undesired actions with application resources. The only requirement for our technique to work is presence of hardware support for virtualization; no modifications in application or OS are required.