Black Hat Briefings, Las Vegas 2005 [audio] Presentations From The Security Conference

Fueled by business needs such as supply chain integration and outsourcing, modern enterprises must open up portions of their networks to potentially untrusted outsiders. Combined with the troubling aspects of malicious insiders, ever more sophisticated attacks, increasing network complexity, and strong pressure from regulatory bodies to rapidly identify breaches and assess damages, there is a rapidly growing concern over internal network security. IT departments must work harder than ever to prevent insiders and outsiders from gaining unauthorized access to critical assets deep in the network, and if such access ever occurs, identify and report on, the impact of such a security breach. In order to gain real insight into the dynamic behavior of their networks, IT departments must monitor huge quantities of data, where individual elements of a sophisticated attack may be spread out over long periods of time, and vast numbers of logs. Many tools are available to identify individual phases of an attack, such a