Security Basics: Re: Network Segregation to prevent spread of malware

[Steve Figures <sfigures () gmail com>]

You can reduce the risk of malware spreading between network segments by placing IPS interfaces between the segments.

The IPS will need to be configured, tuned to suit your legitimate traffic & have an appropriate blocking policy, then 
monitored for alerts to be fully effective.

It is a lot of work but we have successfully contained worms in this way. It does help your security posture too, so 
the investment in equipment & resource is worthwhile. It can protect you from more than just worms, it can mitigate 
against user gullibility for phishing & other vulnerabilities too. You have to assess whether your business case will 
support that investment, as it is not something that you can buy, install & ignore.


Steve Figures

On 23 Jan 2013, at 13:07, "Rob" <synja () synfulvisions com> wrote:

> Additionally, the services commonly used for worm propagation (RDP/TS, RPC, etc) are also used heavily for domain 
> operations anyway.
>
> For many environments this would be one step forward, two steps back in terms of security.
>
> Rob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Bell <jerry () riskologist com>
> Sender: listbounce () securityfocus com
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:07:25 
> To: tomright006 () gmail com<tomright006 () gmail com>
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com<security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Subject: Re: Network Segregation to prevent spread of malware
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> The answer is 'it depends', but probably no. If you are talking about a classic company network and dividing 
> workstations into separate networks to prevent cross contamination, you have to consider the pivot points for most 
> malware - email, file shares, etc, which can still allow malware to propagate between networks even if no traffic is 
> allowed directly between them. Some kinds of malware, notably worms who propagate directly from one system to another 
> via some kind of remotely exploitable vulnerability, would be contained by network segmentation, however those sorts 
> of events are becoming increasingly rare (however when they do happen, they tend to be big events). 
>
> Jerry
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 5:33 PM, tomright006 () gmail com wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I need few tips on Network Segregation to prevent spread of Malware. Can I avoid Malware spreading from one network 
> > segment to another just by segregating network with access list or firewalls?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom
> >
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