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<div style="direction: ltr;">Dear Mr. Curtis and Nanog;</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Thank you for your responses. Yes, I am investigating the feasibility of public internet access to help with Digital Divide issues in light of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the challenges of security in this public application.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">It’s relatively straightforward to segment East-West traffic; however, I’m not so sure about the case of North-South. I need to address this issue somehow in my assessment of risks in public networks.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I do *not* want to decrypt SSL traffic. But I would *like* to be able to have some black box with a subscription at the network edge prevent malware from being downloaded through the network.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">My question was whether this is even possible in a public context. Secure DNS services would go a long way toward this goal.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Is it fair to say that an NGFW *must* decrypt SSL traffic in order to fully categorize for IPS/IDS prevention? </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Thank you,</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Curtis, Bruce <bruce.curtis@ndsu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 9, 2020 5:23:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher J. Wolff <cjwolff@nola.gov><br>
<b>Cc:</b> nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Securing Greenfield Service Provider Clients</font>
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If you search for this phrase<br>
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During 2020 more than fifty percent of new malware campaigns will use various forms of encryption and obfuscation to conceal delivery, and to conceal ongoing communications, including data exfiltration.<br>
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you will find lots of vendors of decryption have the phrase from Gartner mentioned prominently on their web site.<br>
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I don’t think TLS decryption would be viable in our university environment.<br>
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Your email address indicates that you are in a government environment and if so you might have more control over devices and could have a better chance of making decryption work.<br>
On the other hand if you have more control over devices a better choice might be to spend your resources on implementing whitelisting rather than decryption.<br>
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Keep in mind that if you implement decryption your decryption device is in scope for PCI and subject to the various PCI duding and logging requirements.<br>
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Attackers abuse Google DNS over HTTPS to download malware<br>
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<a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attackers-abuse-google-dns-over-https-to-download-malware/">https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attackers-abuse-google-dns-over-https-to-download-malware/</a><br>
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More general and as focused on decryption but I recommend you watch these sessions from RSA conferences.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d90Ov6QM1jE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d90Ov6QM1jE</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzI-N0p9hFk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzI-N0p9hFk</a><br>
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And also the NIST draft on Zero Trust Architecture. The document is mainly about Zero Trust but does briefly mention decryption.<br>
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<a href="https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-207.pdf">https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-207.pdf</a><br>
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<a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-207/final">https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-207/final</a><br>
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> On Oct 9, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Christopher J. Wolff <cjwolff@nola.gov> wrote:<br>
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> Dear Nanog;<br>
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> Hope everyone is getting ready for a good weekend. I’m working on a greenfield service provider network and I’m running into a security challenge. I hope the great minds here can help.<br>
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> Since the majority of traffic is SSL/TLS, encrypted malicious content can pass through even an “NGFW” device without detection and classification.<br>
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> Without setting up SSL encrypt/decrypt through a MITM setup and handing certificates out to every client, is there any other software/hardware that can perform DPI and/or ssl analysis so I can prevent encrypted malicious content from being downloaded to my
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> Have experience with Palo and Firepower but even these need the MITM approach. I appreciate any advice anyone can provide.<br>
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> Best,<br>
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Bruce Curtis<br>
Network Engineer / Information Technology<br>
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY<br>
phone: 701.231.8527<br>
bruce.curtis@ndsu.edu<br>
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