RE: IPSO/Secure Platform audit

["Erin Carroll" <amoeba () amoebazone com>]

The firewall ruleset analysis should be easy to do in ruling out holes in
your existing rules. However, another thing to consider is an System
Integrity Verification (SIV) tool like fcheck or similar This is assuming
the Nokia is running SunOS and not the appliance version which an SIV
wouldn't apply. SIV's check, and track moving forward, the MD5 hashes of
whatever you want to monitor (usually rootkit targets like modified ls, ps,
top, etc). Any modifications to those binaries will be flagged or blocked
depending on the tool you use.

-Erin Carroll

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olasupo Lawal [mailto:lawal () shaw ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:14 PM
> To: Dan Rogers
> Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: IPSO/Secure Platform audit
>
> You can lock down all access to the Nokia Appliance to 
> specific source IP addresses (https, SSH). Fpr SSH, you can 
> actually specific which interfaces you want the Nokia 
> applicnace to accept connections on. You can further restrict 
> access using the Check Point Policy.
>
> In addition to this lock down, you can then create a new 
> administrator ID, removing all other administrator accounts.. 
> That way, any adminbistrators who are unable to log on will 
> get a hold of you to find out what may be happening. Any 
> other person who has no busienss logging into teh Nokia 
> appliance, and who have no business case for continued access 
> wil simply let go!
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Ola
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Rogers <pentestguy () gmail com>
> Date: Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:00 am
> Subject: IPSO/Secure Platform audit
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I'm currently reviewing a Check point/Nokia box and a 
> Secure Platform 
> > manager. The settings in Voyager are all good, and likewise the Web 
> > GUI of the SPLAT manager is fine, they're both patched and 
> the policy 
> > is also clean - but I want to ensure the o/s themselves are 
> ok. I've 
> > checked that there aren't any users there shouldn't be in 
> /etc/passwd, 
> > checked there aren't any unknown processes (at least any visible 
> > ones), any unusual open ports or any strange scripts 
> scheduled to run 
> > in crontab. The firewall logs themselves aren't showing anything 
> > unusual.
> >
> > I am concerned that a previous administrator may have left himself 
> > access by the back-door somehow - but am not in a position 
> to rebuild 
> > them to be sure. What else would you lot check for?
> >
> > Ta
> >
> > Dan
> >
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