Router or DPI?

By cliangNo Comments
One of the roles in cybersecurity practitioner is to share threat intelligence with internal stakeholders to enhance the situation awareness. If you are doing this, don't just share the links of the news. You need to analyze the published threat: Assess the credibility of the threat source Explore what are protection currently deployed in your organization How to avoid similar issues in your organization Prioritize protection investment if not yet deployed with applicable work around to reduce likelihood Essentially, it's WIIFM (What's In It For Me?). If you don't, you don't add value to sharing the threat intelligence. Sadly just a router rather than a smart Deep Packet Inspection....
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Improper Usage

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Park your car at a legitimate parking lot in the street. What's wrong? Even it is a legitimate parking zone, the permitted usage restricts to bus only. Similarly in the cyber world, proper usage is essential to stay secure. Examples are software license (commercial or personal; by device or user; internal or Internet facing application), penetration tools (for authorized  assessment or malicious purpose), specific hardware (prohibit for re-export to 3rd party) etc....
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Masquerade

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Bison is masqueraded as swan. This is a typical trick in social engineering attack.  That's why scams in social network, email invite etc. are so successfully. So, connect only those who you meet face-to-face with their social ID exchanged on the spot, never trust email inviting you to click links for recovery of access or incentive. If the scenario matches with what you need, validate with the sender first to stay secure....
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