Personnel Integrity

Presentations

  • Today: Kali Lewis, Don Chalfant
  • More war-related security discussion topics: hactivism and Web-site defacement.
    • Does it have an impact?
    • Are the people who commit such defacements really a risk?
    • How should caught offenders be treated?

From last time


For today: File integrity checking

  • Why? Intruders and other persons/events may change system software. How will you know what's been changed?
  • Where? Set up monitoring on important system files, and check frequently (usually daily) for changes.

Tools:

  • Tripwire was one of the original tools for this which now has a commercial version. There are two spin-offs likely to be of greater interest:
    • Academic Source Release which has not been actively maintained for several years, so not tuned for modern system configurations.
    • Tripwire is also an open source project at sourceforge, but the most recent update was 2 years ago.
  • Integrit is similar to Tripwire in many ways, but independently developed and with some different approaches. Integrit installation and steps are here.

UNC SILS
Prof. Greg Newby