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Software SecuritySEC575: Mobile Device Security and Ethical Hacking
- Contents | Schedule | Additional Info
- Instructor: Peter Szczepankiewicz
- 36 CPE/CMU
- Laptop Required
Mobile phones and tablets have become an increasingly common system in enterprise and government networks, from small organizations to Fortune 10 companies. Often, mobile phone deployments grow organically, adopted by end-users for convenient email access, on up to the CEO for access to sensitive company resources and systems. In other cases, mobile phones and tablets have become critical systems for a wide variety of production applications from ERP to project management.
Whether Apple iPhone or iPad, Windows Phone, Android or BlackBerry phones or tablets, the use of mobile devices introduces new risks to an organization including distributed data storage and access mechanisms, lack of consistent patch management and firmware updates, the high probability of loss or device theft and more. Mobile code and software applications are also introducing new malware and data leakage problems that expose sensitive data or personally identifiable information assets. Topping off these problems is a non-technical issue: there simply are not enough people with the skills to securely deploy and manage mobile phone and tablet deployments today.
This course was designed to help organizations struggling with the problems introduced with mobile phone security. From policy to network architecture and deployment, from mobile code analysis to penetration testing and ethical hacking, this course will help you build the critical skills necessary to support the secure deployment and use of mobile phones and tablets. You'll get hands-on experience in designing a secure mobile phone network for local and remote users, make critical decisions to support devices, analyze and evaluate software threats, and learn how attackers exploit mobile phone weaknesses so you can test the security of your own deployment. With these skills you'll be a valued analyst, able to guide your organization through the challenges and pitfalls of securely deploying mobile devices.
A Sampling of Topics
- Evaluating Mobile Device Management (MDM) systems for your organization
- Benefits and weaknesses of device encryption systems
- Building secure mobile phone remote access solutions
- Unlocking, rooting and jail breaking mobile phones and tablets
- Extracting sensitive data from Apple iOS and Android file systems
- Bypassing device lock passcodes
- Reverse engineering mobile code and applications
- Identifying data leakage exposure from mobile applications
- Fingerprinting mobile devices inside your organization
- Impersonating secure WiFi networks for credential harvesting
- Stealing usernames and passwords from BlackBerry phones
- Exploiting weaknesses in popular mobile devuce applications
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| SEC575.1: Mobile Device Threats, Policies, and Security Models | Peter Szczepankiewicz |
Sun Dec 9th, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
OverviewIn order to have a secure mobile phone deployment, you need to establish policies that define the acceptable use the technology and recognize the limitations and threats of mobile phones, tables and the associated infrastructure systems. The first part of the course looks at the significant threats affecting mobile phone deployments and how organizations are being attacked through these systems. As a critical component of a secure deployment, we'll guide you through the process of defining mobile phone policies with sample policy language and recommendations for various vertical industries, taking into consideration the legal obligations of enterprise organizations. We'll also look at the architecture and technology behind mobile phone infrastructure systems from BlackBerry, Apple, Android and Windows as well as the platform-specific security controls available including device encryption, remote data wipe, application sandboxing and more. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 TopicsMobile Problems and Opportunities
Mobile Devices and Infrastructure
Mobile Device Security Models
Legal Aspects of Mobile
Policy Considerations and Development
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| SEC575.2: Mobile Device Architecture Security and Management | Peter Szczepankiewicz |
Mon Dec 10th, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
OverviewWith an understanding of the threats, architectural components and desired security methods, we can design and implement device and infrastructure systems to defend against threats. In this part of the course we'll examine the design and deployment of network and system infrastructure to support a mobile phone deployment including the selection and deployment of Mobile Device Management (MDM) systems. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 TopicsWireless Network Infrastructure
Mobile Device Management System Architecture
Mobile Device Management Selection
Mitigating Stolen Devices
Unlocking, Rooting, Jailbreaking Mobile Devices
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| SEC575.3: Mobile Code and Application Analysis | Peter Szczepankiewicz |
Tue Dec 11th, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
OverviewOne of the critical decisions you will need to make in supporting a mobile device deployment is to approve or disapprove of unique application requests from end-users in a corporate device deployment. With some analysis skills, we can evaluate applications to determine the type of access and information disclosure threats they represent. In this process, we'll use jailbreaking and other techniques to evaluate the data stored on mobile phones. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 TopicsMobile Phone Data Storage and Filesystem Architecture
Filesystem Application Modeling
Network Activity Monitoring
Mobile Code and Application Analysis
Automated Application Analysis Systems
Approving or Disapproving Applications In Your Organization
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| SEC575.4: Ethical Hacking Mobile Networks | Peter Szczepankiewicz |
Wed Dec 12th, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
OverviewAn essential component of developing a secure mobile phone deployment is to perform an ethical hacking assessment. Through ethical hacking or penetration testing, we examine the mobile devices and infrastructure from the perspective of an attacker, identifying and exploiting flaws that delivery unauthorized access to data or supporting networks. Through the identification of these flaws we can evaluate the mobile phone deployment risk to the organization with practical, useful risk metrics. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 TopicsFingerprinting mobile devices
Wireless Network Probe Mapping
Weak Wireless Attacks
Enterprise Wireless Security Attacks
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| SEC575.5: Ethical Hacking Mobile Phones, Tablets, and Applications | Peter Szczepankiewicz |
Thu Dec 13th, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
OverviewContinuing our look at ethical hacking or penetration testing, we turn our focus to exploiting weaknesses on individual mobile devices including iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, Windows Phones and BlackBerry devices. We'll also examine platform-specific application weaknesses and look at the growing use of web framework attacks. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 TopicsNetwork Manipulation Attacks
Mobile Application Attacks
Web Framework Attacks
Back-end Application Support Attacks
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| SEC575.6: Secure Mobile Phone Capture the Flag | Peter Szczepankiewicz |
Fri Dec 14th, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
OverviewOn the last day of class we'll pull in all the concepts and technology we've covered in the week for a comprehensive Capture the Flag (CTF) event. In the CTF event, you'll have the option to participate in multiple roles, designing a secure infrastructure for the deployment of mobile phones, monitoring network activity to identify attacks against mobile devices, extracting sensitive data from a compromised iPad and attacking a variety of mobile phones and related network infrastructure components. In the CTF you'll use the skills you've built to practically evaluate systems and defend against attackers, simulating the realistic environment you'll be prepared to protect when you get back to the office. CPE/CMU Credits: 6 |
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| Additional Information | ||
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Throughout the course, students will participate in hands-on lab exercises. Students must bring their own laptops to class that meet the requirements described below. Windows Students must bring a Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP laptop to class, preferably running natively on the system hardware. It is possible to complete the lab exercises using a virtualized Windows installation, however, this will result in reduced performance when running device emulators within the virtualized Windows host. If you are a Windows XP user, make sure you also have the .NET 3.5 framework installed, which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21 . Administrative Windows Access For several tools utilized in the course, students will be required to perform actions with administrative privileges. Students must have administrative access on their Windows host, including the ability to unload or disable security software such as anti-virus or firewall agents as necessary for the completion of lab exercises. VMware Students will use a virtualized MobiSec Linux VMware guest for several lab exercises. VMware Workstation or VMware Player is recommended. Note that there is no cost associated with the use of VMware Player, which can be downloaded from the VMware website. While some students successfully use VMware Fusion for the exercises, the relative instability of VMware Fusion may introduce delays in exercise preparation, preventing the timely completion of lab exercises. VirtualBox and other virtualization tools are not supported at this time. Hardware Requirements Several of the software components used in the course are hardware intensive, requiring more system resources than what might be required otherwise for day-to-day use of a system. Please ensure your laptop meets the following minimum hardware requirements:
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact laptop_prep@sans.org. |
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