SSCP / CISSP Notes

I Used To Pass
I passed CISSP at 100 questions in 60 minutes in 06/2020.

These notes were initially compiled for myself and tailored to my knowledge. It does not contain all content.
I have expanded on the content since passing to include more topics.
It will likely help you after you’ve completed the initial round of studying of all domains.

These notes are a consolidation of knowledge gathered from Adam Gordon’s notes and questions, ITProTV’s test answers, Boson’s
explanations from his tests, the Sunflower notes, Wentz Wu’s questions and many other sources.

Feel free to share the link to these notes if you find them useful.
Tell me about mistakes in or improvements to my notes!
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Lance’s How To: Tackle CISSP
1. As everyone has said, your role is a risk management advisor, NOT a technician.

2. We often hear “Mile Wide, Inch Deep” for CISSP, but I would like to add - FOR BASIC TOPICS, DIG DEEP, BUT NOT TOO DEEP.

It’s important to understand the "process" for basic topics - the "why" and "how". Apply the style of questioning below and you will be prepared.
Using the example of a SIEM (which is NOT a basic topic in CISSP), you know what it is, but have you asked…

- When do you need it?

- Let's say you decide that you need it, how is that decision made? Qualitatively? Quantitatively? Why?
- Who would be the one usually spotting that it's needed and recommending so? Who makes the decision? Why?
- Who will be operating it? What kind of access controls are required? How are they defined? What are the steps involved? Why?
- Who will be auditing it? Should it be internal or external? What’s the benefits / disadvantages to each?
- How does this fit into Continuous Monitoring efforts? Who will be creating the relevant policies for it? Why?
- Who will be implementing them? What are the steps to doing so? Who approves / certifies / accredits that and when? Why?
- What are the potential supply chain issues with it? Who evaluates them? How are they evaluated? Why?
- When are the risks of implementation evaluated? Who evaluates them? How are they evaluated? Why?
- Where does it get implemented in the architecture? What are the advantages / disadvantages?
- What could be the security-related issues with it? How are they mitigated?
- What are the privacy-related issues with it? Which clauses in the GDPR / other laws? How are they mitigated?
But don’t lose yourself going too deep. Stay focused on topic. Do NOT ask questions like...

- What are the configuration settings I should set in a SIEM?

- What is included in the Protection Profiles are SIEMs?
- How does a SIEM compare with a SEM or SIM (both not covered)? I need a comparison matrix...
3. Adam Gordon constantly suggests - Answer what the question asks, not what you THINK it’s asking.
Nothing else exists outside the context of the question.
4. Kelly Handerhan suggests - think of the end game. Which option demonstrates the ultimate purpose?
5. Larry Greenblatt suggests - let Captain Kirk and Spock decide. What answers can be eliminated? Which answer is more likely?

6. IMPORTANT: Don’t struggle with too many practice questions. FOCUS on the understanding of the topics and analysis process of the options.
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Key Regulations

4th Amendment US Constitution. No unreasonable searches or seizures

Patriot Act Provide appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism

HIPAA aka Kennedy-Kassebaum Act. Healthcare security and privacy.

PCI DSS Payments.

E2EE: Encrypts at point of swiping, may get decrypted on merchant device or at payment gateway because key
is negotiated between merchant and gateway, not processor.

P2PE: Uses verified hardware, software and processor. Does not allow key management by merchant.

Sarbanes-Oxley aka SOX. Publicly-traded companies must report their financial status

GLBA of 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Financial institutions only. Provide customers with privacy notice annually.

FISMA of 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act. All federal agencies

OMB Circular A-130 Managing information as a strategic resource. Help reduce paperwork.

EU Privacy Law Safe Harbour -> Privacy Shield Framework

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Key Standards
Name Type / Description Key Concepts / Knowledge

NIST SP 800-14 Generally Accepted Principles and Practices for Securing IT Systems

NIST SP 800-30 Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems OCTAVE, PUSH

NIST SP 800-34 Contingency Planning Guide for IT Systems

NIST SP 800-37 Risk Management Framework

NIST SP 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and
Organizations

NIST SP 800-86 Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response

NIST SP 800-88 Guidelines for Media Sanitization Purge, Sanitize, Destroy

NIST SP 800-137 Information Security Continuous Monitoring

NIST SP 800-145 The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing

ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management Systems (Governance) From BS 7799

ISO/IEC 27002 Security Controls Originally ISO/IEC 17799. From BS 7799

ISO/IEC 15408 Common Criteria

FIPS 140 Security requirements for hardware and

software cryptographic modules

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COSO - Financial reporting and disclosure objectives TOGAF - Developing an IT architecture to align with the goals of the business
Architecture Development Method (ADM):
1 Control Environment Exclusively uses business requirements as central point of comparison for every
2 Risk Assessment phase of development

4 domains:
3 Control Activities
Business, Application, Data, Tech
ITIL - Controls for IT service management
4 Information and Communication
1 Service Strategy
5 Monitoring
2 Service Design

COBIT - Assessment of high-level control objectives (GOVERNANCE) 3 Service Transition

1 Evaluate, Direct and Monitor (EDM) 4 Service Operation

2 Align, Plan and Organize (APO) 5 Continual Service Improvement

3 Build, Acquire and Implement (BAI)

EU Privacy Principles on Employee Data Monitoring
4 Deliver, Service and Support (DSS)
Finality Employee monitoring for data usage
5 Monitor, Evaluate and Assess (MEA)
Necessity Choose least intrusive method
SABSA - Security Architecture Framework Transparency Complete disclosure
6 Perspectives: Analysis of Business Security Requirements
Includes chain of traceability through each phase Legitimacy Must be backed by legal requirement

Contextual Conceptual Proportionality Customized to risk level that is incurred

Logical Physical Data Accuracy

Component Operational Security Take precautions to protect confidentiality

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Awareness of Staff
https://www.isaca.org/resources/isaca-journal/issues/2017/volume-4/enterprise-security-architecturea-top-down-approach
CPTED - Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Territorial Reinforcement Premise: Boundaries define users’ familiarity with the surroundings. Easy to identify intruders.
- Natural to protect a territory that they feel is their own
- Fences, pavement treatment, art, signs, good maintenance and landscaping

Natural Surveillance Premise: Criminals do not like to be observed.

- Flow of activities channelled to put more people near a potential crime area
- Improve line of sight with windows, lighting, and removal of obstructions

Natural Access Controls Premise: Deterrent to keep unauthorized persons away

- Doors, shrubs, fences, locks, barriers
- Properly locate entrances and exits to guide people there
- Landscaping and footpaths to direct traffic
- Psychological barriers: signs, paving textures (announce integrity and uniqueness of the area)

Maintenance & Management Premise: The more run-down an area is, the more likely there’ll be crime, i.e. Broken Window Theory
- Clear sub-division of space into degrees of public / semi-public / private areas

PHYSICAL protection systems (e.g. gate / doors) focus on: PEOPLE, PROCEDURES & EQUIPMENT

Smart Cards
Certificate (containing public key) is accessible at any time. PIN unlocks the private key. Challenge is issued from
authenticator, encrypted with private key and sent back. Authenticator uses public key from certificate to decrypt.

Contact Electrical “fingers” wipe against exact point of chip contacts, providing it power and data I/O

Contactless Has antenna surrounding perimeter of card that gets activated in electromagnetic field, generating power

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contactless
Access Controls
Discretionary Data owner decides permissions.

Non-discretionary Administrator decides arbitrary permissions

Mandatory Uniform implementation. All subjects cannot change constraints (passing info, granting access)
Clearances and data classifications are used as labels. [Hierarchical, Compartmentalized, Hybrid]

Role-based Permissions based on job title. Can be used to implement MAC or DAC.

Attribute(s)-based Combine multiple attributes about subject, object and environment. AKA policy-based

Context-based Usually for firewalls. Can detect and prevent DoS and provide real-time alerts and audit trails.

Access Controls
Deterrent Barriers, fences, lighting, guard dogs, alarms

Preventive IPS, guards, ID cards, locks, mantrap

Detective IDS, motion detectors, logs, job rotation

IR: Beam IR. Passive IR. Request to Exit.
Wave Pattern: Ultrasonic / Microwave
Transient authentication = something you have (worn token) Capacitance: Electrical / Magnetic
MAC Security Modes Photoelectric: Visible light levels (dark areas e.g. safe)
BMS: Magnetic contact on door & frame
Clearance Approval Need to Know Coaxial Strain-Sensitive Cable: Electric field to detect strain

Dedicated ALL ALL ALL Identity Management Lifecycle

System High ALL ALL SOME Provisioning Identity proofing, assigning privileges

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SOME Revocation Different from deletion (implies loss of information)
Access Control Roles
Data Owner Responsible for classification of data. Holds legal rights and complete control over data they create

Data Controller Determines purpose(s) for which and the manner in which data is to be processed. Due Diligence.

Data Steward Responsible for data content (i.e. what’s in the data field) via policies, guidelines, etc.

Data Custodian Responsible for technical environment, data storage and maintenance (e.g. DB Admin)

Data Processor Process data on behalf of Data Controller, ensures adherence, accessibility & maintenance. Due Care.

Data Subject Individual who is the subject of personal data

Federation / SSO Technologies (Relying Party = Service Provider)

SAML [Identity Provider, Service Provider, User] Authentication and Authorization. XML. Token-based

OAuth [Resource Server, Resource Owner, User] Authorization framework. Can be used with XACML.
Allows access tokens to be issued to third-party clients by authorization server, with approval of resource owner. The
third party then uses the access token to access protected resources hosted by the resource server.

OAuth 2.0 Provides specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and smart devices.
Not backward-compatible with OAuth.

OpenID [Application, Relying Party, User] Decentralized Authentication. Register/login with account on another service.

OpenID Connect [RESTFUL HTTP JSON API, Authorization Server, User] Authentication layer on top of OAuth 2.

XACML [PolicySet / Policy / Rule affects Subject / Resource / Action / Environment]

Manages authorization. Uses ABAC. Provides access control architecture and policy language to define them.

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Security Control Implementations
Management Uses planning and assessment methods to reduce and manage risk
e.g. Perform risk assessment annually, ensure inventory exists for all hardware, penetration testing

Operational Implements security as a continuous process

e.g. backups, audit trail, ensuring all users have signed AUP, training program, configuration management

Technical Uses technology to reduce risk

e.g. display warning during login process, configure password expiry, encryption, IDPS, firewalls

EAP - Authentication framework provides some common functions and negotiation of authentication methods called EAP methods
LEAP Developed prior to 802.11i, used in WEP. Considered insecure. Replaced with PEAP or EAP-TLS.

EAP-TLS Requires client-side X.509 certificate unlike HTTPS implementation of TLS.

Private key of certificate can be stored in smart card for high security.

EAP-IKEv2 May be used with IPSec

802.1x - Encapsulates EAP over IEEE 802, i.e. EAPOL 802.11i - Authentication protocol implemented as WPA2
Supplicant: Client 4-way handshake for mutual authentication
Authenticator: Access Point / Switch
Initial authentication process uses either PSK or EAPOL
Authenticator uses RADIUS
to check for authentication Uses CCMP, i.e. AES CCM + AES CTR
before controlling access of Potentially vulnerable to KRACK (Key-Reinstallation)
supplicant to network.

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RADIUS, TACACS, XTACACS, TACACS+ & Diameter
RADIUS Client/Server - Server cannot initiate communication.
Only provides Reject / Challenge / Accept response to user/pass authentication.
Uses shared secret key and MD5 when transmitting passwords. Username in plaintext.

TACACS Client/Server. Proprietary RADIUS. Provides AAA.

XTACACS Client/Server. Separates AAA processes

TACACS+ Client/Server. Extends XTACACS with 2FA and dynamic passwords. NEW PROTOCOL. NOT BACKWARD COMPATIBLE.

Diameter Peer-to-Peer model - allows server to request for credentials for access attempts or to proactively disconnect users.
Has more AVPs than RADIUS. Allows different services (VoIP, MoIP, FoIP) to be authenticated in one architecture instead
of individual architectures or over PPP and SLIP connections only.
Can work with TLS and IPSec.

Attribute-Value Pairs (AVPs) outline how

communication will take place between
entities. More AVP = more functionality.

User profiles are maintained.

Pre-configured profile is assigned after

successful authentication to control access
rights

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Key Ciphers
Cipher Type / Description Rounds Key Length Block Size

RC2 Block / Insecure 18 Variable 64 bits

Key attack methodology: Chosen plaintext (Default 64 bits)

RC4 Stream / Insecure implementation in TLS and WEP 1 40 - 2048 bits N/A

RC5 Block 32 / 64 / 128 bits 0-2048

DES Block. ECB < CBC < CFB < OFB < CTR 16 56 + 8 bits parity 64 bits

2DES Block. Key attack methodology: Meet-in-the-Middle 32 112 + 16 bits parity 64 bits

3DES Block 48 168 + 24 bits parity 64 bits

AES / Rijndael Block (Original Rijndael: any key length in multiples of 32 bits 10 128 bits 128 bits
between 128 and 256 bits) 12 192 bits
Key attack methodology: Side channel 14 256 bits

Blowfish Block 16 Variable 64 bits

Twofish Block / One of the finalists for AES 16 128 / 192 / 256 bits 128 bits

IDEA Block. Replacement for DES. 8.5 128 bits 64 bits

Skipjack Uses Clipper chip 32 80 bits 64 bits

Camellia Block / Standard cipher in IPSec, TLS, S/MIME, Kerberos, 128 / 192 bits / 256 bits 128 bits
18 / 24 / 24
OpenPGP

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DES Modes
Mode Description Uses Propagates
IV Errors
ECB Each block encrypted individually. Vulnerable to known ciphertext attacks. Easiest and fastest. No No
Commonly used for database encryption because of its speed.
Better Security

CBC Block mode chaining uses previous encrypted block to encrypt each subsequent block Yes Yes
Used for authentication.

CFB Stream mode chaining (feedback) uses previous encrypted bits to encrypt each subsequent Yes Yes
bit. Used for authentication.

OFB Stream. Uses encryption subkey before it is XORed with plaintext. Used for authentication Yes No

CTR Stream. Uses 64 bit counter for feedback. Counter does not depend on results of previous bits Yes No
or blocks of encryption. CTR can perform multiple encryptions in parallel, increasing speed.
(Slower than ECB, but used in highly sensitive databases because it still allows for indexing)

Concepts
Confusion & Diffusion Confusion: Substitution. Diffusion: Transposition. Both required for a strong cipher.

Link Encryption Encrypts all information including header, trailer and routing information.

Stream vs Block Stream ciphers are often used when the data has no fixed size (e.g. call, continuous data transfer).
Stream ciphers are better used in hardware because of the bit-level XORing functions.
Main problem with stream ciphers is proper implementation.

Perfect Forward Secrecy Key is frequently changed so that if the latest key is compromised, only a small (latest) portion of data is.
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Crypto Lifecycle Key Management
Pre-operational Create cryptographic key, initialize by setting core attributes. Recovery Given access to the key /
Agency cryptosystem. Provides the
Operational Normal usage key / recovery process in the
event it is lost.
Revocation / Expiry Stronger cryptosystem = shorter time to expiry

Post-operational Keys are backed up for data reconstruction Key Escrow Given the key itself and is to
Destroy Only when compromised or fully retired access sensitive data under
specific circumstances
Attacks / Exploits / Malware
FREAK Cipher / Man-in-the-Middle, forced usage of weak keys

DROWN Cipher (server configuration) / Exploited usage of still-supported SSLv2

BEAST Cipher / Violated same-origin constraints to exploit CBC weakness in TLS 1.0

CRIME & BREACH CRIME targeted compression over TLS, BREACH was an instance of CRIME on HTTP

POODLE Cipher / Affected all block ciphers in SSL 3.0. Variant also affected TLS 1.0 to 1.2. Caused SSL migration to TLS.

Heartbleed Cipher / Affected OpenSSL (an implementation of TLS)

Meltdown Hardware / Intel x86 processors, race condition + side channel attack allowed rogue process to read of all
memory regardless of authorization

Spectre Hardware / Microprocessors with branch prediction. Side channel + timing attack

Cryptolocker Ransomware / Encrypted local + network files using RSA

Wannacry Ransomware / Old versions of Windows (SMB protocol), affected healthcare services

Mirai IoT botnet causing DDoS

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Digital Signatures
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmA2QWSLSPg

Private

Public

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Certificates - X.509. Provide authentication before securely sending information to a server
Level 1 Assurance Only requires email address

Level 2 Assurance Verifies a user’s name, address, social security number and other information against a credit bureau database

How They Work Revocation

Alice Requests for certificate sign(AlicePublic, CRL List of certificate serial numbers.
via Certificate Signing CAPrivate) Revoked or Hold (Temporary).
Request (CSR) Vulns: Large in size. SPOF, vulnerable to DoS. Fail-open.

Bob Verifies Alice’s certificate verify(AliceCert, CAPublic) OCSP with Contains less data than CRL. Less network bandwidth.
stapling Real-time status checks for high volume operations.

Template

Root CA 1 Root CA 2
Certification Path Validation:
- Checks authenticity of certificates Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate
- Checks CRL / OCSP CA 1 CA 2 CA 3 CA 4
- Mitigates MITM

Cross Certification: Issuing Issuing Issuing Issuing Issuing Issuing Issuing Issuing
- Establish trust between different PKI CA 1 CA 2 CA 3 CA 4 CA 5 CA 6 CA 7 CA 8
- Build overall PKI hierarchy
- Allow users to validate each other’s
certificate under different hierarchies
- Trust relationship, e.g. Root CA 1
signing for Intermediate CA 3 Registration Domain
Authority (RA) Controller
Verifies user identity on behalf
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User of CA 6, BEFORE issuance
Kerberos
Requires time synchronization (over NTP) to prevent relay attacks.

Received from Client: Encrypted Request (decrypt with password)

Sent to Client: Encrypted TGT (AS/TGS)

Received from Client: Token

Sent to TGT: Encrypted Token

Sent to AS: User ID + Encrypted Request (with password)

Received from AS & Sent to TGT: Encrypted TGT Received from Client: Encrypted TGT (decrypt with AS/TGT)
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Sent to Client: Token for FS
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BC/DR Processes Risk Management
1 Develop BCP policy statement Defined by C-suite, aka mission statement Process Framework

2 Conduct BIA Conduct BIA to identify time-sensitive critical business Frame Prepare
(aka functional analysis) functions and processes and the resources that support them
Assess Categorize
3 Identify preventive controls Identify, document and implement to recover critical business Respond Select Controls
functions and processes. Data loss causes most devastation.
4 Develop recovery strategies Monitor Implement Controls

5 Develop IT contingency plans Organize a team and compile a BCP to manage a business Assess Controls
disruption. May include multiple contingency plans.
Scope > Key Business Areas > Critical Functions > Depencies > MTD Authorize Controls

6 Perform DRP training & testing Approval & Implementation Monitor Controls
Conduct training for business continuity team and testing and
exercises to evaluate recovery strategies and the plan
Quantitative assessments are
7 Perform BCP/DRP maintenance Tested at least annually harder and for assessors with
experience.
Qualitative assessments are
BC/DR Teams solely done when there is
insufficient time.
Business Continuity IT, legal, media relations, network recovery, relocation, security,
Planning telecommunications. Has senior management. Usually doesn’t include CEO.

Risk Management Involved in planning, not execution

Incident Response Responds to security incidents, not part of execution of contingency plan

Damage Assessment

Recovery Gets critical functions back up running

Salvage / Restoration Restore to primary site. Can declare when primary site is available again.
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LEAST critical functions get restored first at primary site.
BC/DR Plans RAID
Continuity of Restoring mission-essential functions 0 Striping (for high speed). No fault tolerance (no mirror, no parity)
Operations (MEF) to alternate site, including
1 Mirror 1-to-1. No striping. Very costly.
management succession and HQ
re-establishment 3 Striped mirror with parity in dedicated (bottleneck) drive. Minimum of 3 drives.

Business Long term, strategic. e.g. backups 5 Mirror with parity striped together across all drives. Minimum of 3 drives.
Continuity
1+0 2 or more mirrors in a stripe. No parity. Minimum of 4 drives.
Disaster Tactical. Primarily a site-specific plan
Recovery developed with procedures to System Crash Procedure
Data Remanence
temporarily move operations. 1 Enter Single-User Mode
Clearing / Erasing
Information Covers recovery of systems regardless 2 Recover damaged file system files
Systems of site or location. Purging / Sanitizing
Contingency 3 Identify cause of reboot and repair Destroying
Plan
4 Validate critical config and system files
Occupant First-response procedures for
Emergency occupants of a facility, including 5 Reboot system as normal
Plan health and safety of personnel

Crisis Comms Internal and external comms to both

Plan employees and public, not
IS-focused. May be used alone during
public-exposure event.

Transportation of backup tapes must be included in RTO!!

Electronic Vaulting
Bulk. Full backups.

Remote Journaling RTO: Per APPLICATION basis! MTO: Operation in recovery mode.
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Might not need to be 100%
Patch Management Change Management
Evaluate (“Do I need?”) 1 Request

Test (“Does it work?”) 2 Analyze

Approve (“OK.”) 3 Document

Deploy 4 Approval

Verify (“Does it work?”) 5 Document

6 Test

7 Implement
Incident Response Steps
8 (Rollback)
1 Prepare Pre-incident. Includes training, policies definition, etc.
9 Document
2 Detect SIEM. IDPS. A/V software. Continuous Monitoring. End-user Awareness.
10 Notify
3 Respond / Contain CSIRT / CIRT. Forensic backup. Isolate. Volatile memory dump. Power off as last ditch.

4 Mitigate / Eradicate Analyze helps proper clean-up. May include root cause analysis.
Restore to functioning state. Patch.

5 Report

6 Recover Restore to operational state.

7 Remediate Starts from Mitigate phase. Core: Root cause analysis

8 Lessons Learned

Event >> Incident

All incidents are events with negative outcomes vis-a-vis CIA.
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Computer security incidents are incidents as a result of deliberate attacks / malicious action.
Fire Extinguishers Sprinklers
Class Name Suppression Material Wet Pipe Constant supply, discharge immediate

A Common Combustibles Water, Soda Acid Dry Pipe Compressed air. Discharge after all air escaped.
Prevents water freezing in pipes.
B Liquids & Gas (UK: C) CO2, Halon Equivalent, Soda Acid
Pre-action Detection system. No false activations.
C Electrical (UK: E) CO2, Halon Equivalent Water held back until detectors activated.

D Metal Dry Powder Deluge Dry-pipe. All heads open at once to cover area.
Large volume. No heat sensing elements.
Good Temperature & Humidity
Gas Systems (❌ Halon)
60 - 75 Fahrenheit Pressurized Rooms
FM-200 CEA-410 or 308
15 - 23 Celcius Positive Air can flow out of room
Argon Argon-K
Humidity: 40% - 60% Negative Air can flow into room
Corrosion (high) / Static (low)

Lighting Power Concerns

Spike Short voltage ⇧
Continuous Location Lighting Levels (fc)
1 fc = 10.7 lumen Surge Long voltage ⇧
Standby
Building entrances 5 Sag Short voltage ⇩
Movable
Walkways 1.5 Brownout Long voltage⇩
Emergency
Parking garages 5 Fault Short power ❌
Egress
Walkways in parking garages 15 - 20 Blackout Long power ❌

Over parked cars in garages 10 - 12 Transients Noise on power lines

Areas around building 1 Common Noise Hot & Ground Wires EMI
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Tumbler Locks
Lever Tumbler Lock

Pin Tumbler Lock Wafer Tumbler Lock

Relocks
Thermal Engage extra lock when temperature is met, e.g. due to drilling of a safe

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Engage internal bolts when tempering is detected
Email Security
System Description Crypto

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Signed: Integrity, Authentication, Non-repudiation X.509, SHA-1
Extension (S/MIME) Enveloped: Integrity, Authentication, Confidentiality

MIME Object Security Services (MOSS) Authentication, Confidentiality, Integrity and Non-repudiation MD2 & MD5
RSA, DES

Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) Authentication, Confidentiality, Integrity, Non-repudiation RSA, DES, X.509

Message Security Protocol (MSP) Used by military to sign and encrypt

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Assertion that an email was sent by an organization -

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Phil Zimmerman, Asymmetric. Can also encrypt disk drives. RSA, IDEA, SHA-1

Opportunistic TLS for SMTP Gateways Attempts to setup encrypted connection with mail servers [TLS]

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Spam Protection. Verifies with DNS for SPF record. -

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Viruses SCAP - Security Content Automation Protocol
Resident Waits for programs to be executed then infects them. CVE Naming system for vulnerabilities

Non-resident Actively infects selected files without waiting for execution CVSS Scoring system for severity of
vulnerabilities
Companion Virus abuses “extension search order” (execution order) - .com, .exe
then .bat - by naming itself the same as legitimate .exe but as .com Base score affects Temporal Score
Boot-sector Boots with virus in memory. Requires both disks to be connected
Temporal Score affects
to the same system for replication.
Environmental Score (Final)
Tunneling Installs itself under the A/V system and intercepts calls A/V system
CCE Naming system for system config
makes to the OS
problems
Stealth Hides the changes it makes as it replicates. Can intercept OS calls.
CPE Naming system for OS, applications
Self-garbling Formats its own code to prevent A/V from detecting it and devices

Polymorphic Can produce multiple operational copies of itself. Mutates while XCCDF Language format for security
retaining original functionality checklists

Multipart Can infect system files and boot sectors and restore itself upon OVAL Language format for security testing
deletion of a part procedures

Shellcode Wraps around an application so it is executed before the Side Channel Attacks
application
Covert High-level process writes,
Retrovirus Attacks / bypasses A/V system by destroying virus definitions or Storage Low-level process reads
creating bypasses for itself
Covert High-level process transmits,
Phage Virus Modifies other programs and databases. Only way to remove is to Timing Low-level process reads.
reinstall infected applications

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eDiscovery Evidence Types Forensic Procedures
1 Information Real / Object Evidence - Rare! All principles must be applied
Governance May be conclusive if incontrovertible
Actions when seizing evidence should not change evidence
2 Identification Documentary / Written Evidence
Experts may be called to testify Original evidence should only be handled by trained professionals
3 Preservation Best (Original) Evidence (No Copies)
Parol Evidence Rule (No Verbal Override) All activity must be fully documented
4 Collection
Testimonial (Witness) Evidence Individual possessing evidence is responsible for all actions taken
5 Processing Direct Evidence / Expert Opinion /
Hearsay Evidence (incl. unauth’ed log) Any agency that handles evidence must comply with principles
6 Review Secondary Evidence
Copies of original evidence
7 Analysis

8 Production Admissible Evidence

9 Presentation Relevant

Material

Competent
Computer Crime
Computer-Assisted
Computer used as tool. Attack servers to obtain confidential
5 Be’s of Evidence
data, attack financial systems to steal money
Authentic
Computer-Targeted
Computer is victim. B/O, DDoS, Virus destroy data Accurate

Computer-Incidental Complete
Involved incidentally, not victim nor tool
Convincing
Computer-Prevalence
Violation of copyrights, software piracy
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Admissible
OSI Layers
Layer Description Unit Protocols
Physical Media, Signal and Binary Transmission Bits Coax, Fiber, Wireless, SONET, HSSI,
Hardware: Network Card (NIC), Hub, Repeater, Concentrator EIA/TIA

Data Link MAC (>> EUI-64) and LLC (Physical Addressing) Frames - Ethernet SLIP, PPP (pre-PPTP), ARP, ISDN,
Flow control, error notification (IEEE 802.3), Token L2F + PPTP = L2TP (+ IPSec = VPN)
Hardware: Switch, Bridge Ring, 802.11, FDDI
Encapsulation

Network Path Determination & IP (Logical Addressing) Packets IPv4, IPv6, IPSec, ICMP, RIP (DV),
Routing: Ensures packet can reach its destination BGP (DV), OSPF (LS) IGMP, NAT,
Hardware: Router / Bridge Router (Brouter - route first then SKIP, IPX
bridge if fail)

Transport End-to-End Connections and Reliability Sockets TCP, UDP, [SSL, TLS]
Segmentation: Divides data into transmittable packets Segments (TCP)
Datagram (UDP)

Session Interhost Communication Data APIs, Sockets, RPCs

Authentication: Verifies remote host, data received is authentic

Presentation Data Representation and Encryption Data File formats e.g. JPG, MIDI

Application Network Process to Application Data HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, DHCP

Distance Vector: Choose route with least number of hops based on distance. (RIP, BGP, IGRP)
Link State: Choose fastest path. Neighbour Table, Topology Table, Routing Table. Measures cost to each neighbour, construct shortest path. (OSPF)

Packets with internal source addresses should never originate from outside the network, so they should be blocked from entering the network.
Packets with external source addresses should never be found on the internal network, so they should be blocked from leaving the network.
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Private IP addresses should never be used on the Internet, so packets containing private IP addresses should be blocked from leaving the network.
IGP & EGP
IGP Internal routing within an autonomous system (e.g. organization-controlled network)

IGRP [DV] Uses 5 criteria to make a “best route” decision. Network admin can set weightage. Cisco.

RIP [DV] Standard that outlines how routers exchange routing table data. Slow, legacy.
V1 has no authentication. V2 sends passwords in cleartext or MD5.

OSPF [LS] Sends out routing table information (smaller, more frequent updates). Replaced RIP. Optional authentication

EGP External routing between separate autonomous systems

BGP Enables routers on different AS to share routing information. Commonly used by ISPs to route data.

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Common Ports Firewalls
0 - 1023 System / Well-known Stateful Dynamic Packet Filtering (Layers 3 & 4)
Can assemble IP packets to understand context and filter
1024 - 49151 Registered / User
Stateless Static Packet Filtering (Layer 3)
49152 - 65535 Dynamic Only looks at each individual packet to filter

DHCP UDP 67 / 68 Circuit-Level Layer 5

TFTP UDP 69 Deep Packet Inspection WAF (Layer 7)

Kerberos 88 Proxy Firewall Mediate communication between trusted and untrusted
end-points. Can hide source of network connections.
NetBIOS 137 - 139

ActiveDirectory 445 Proxy Types

MsSQL 1433
Circuit-Level Trusted host can communicate with untrusted host. Data field is not
RDP 3389 inspected before being forwarded. Networking only.
E.g. SOCKS -- transport layer for socket security
Syslog 514
Application-Level Relays traffic from trusted end-point running specific application to
Printers 515 / 9100 untrusted end-point. Analyzes data field for common attacks.
SMTP 25 / [S] 465 / 587
Multi-Homed At least 2 network interfaces (inbound / outbound)
POP3 110 / [S] 995

IMAP 143 Switches & IDS

RADIUS UDP 1812 / TCP 2083 ● Promiscuous Mode Port: All traffic passing through a switch can be monitored.
IPSec - ISAKMP UDP 500 ● a.k.a. Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) Port or Mirror Port.
● Can also be achieved using a hub or Test Access Port (TAP).
L2TP 1701
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IPSec - Combines IKEv1/IKEv2, AH and ESP
IKE Start of process. Purpose: Negotiate SA (agreement on how to do crypto). After SAs negotiated, can protect with AH or ESP.

Phase 1: Negotiate ISAKMP SA (bi-directional)

Defines policy set (hash/encryption algo, DH, etc.) used to communicate about management issues about the tunnel
Same settings should be defined on both sides of the tunnel on router / firewall

Phase 2: Negotiate IPSec SA (uni-directional, therefore 2 are required per connection)

Defines transform set used to communicate data, using tunnel settings derived from Phase 1
Has unique SPI for each SA (1 for inbound, 1 for outbound) but no port numbers

IKEv1: Uses preshared keys

IKEv2: Extended with EAP, allowing for certificates / tokens to be used

AH Provides authentication and integrity check of the full traffic including headers, but not encryption of payload. Hates NAT.
Digitally signs a packet for authentication, providing non-repudiation.

ESP Provides authentication and encryption of payload, but outer IP header is not checked for integrity. Works with NAT.

IPSec Modes
AH ESP
Transport Encrypts IP packet data only, but not header
Transport Authenticated Packets Authenticated Packets
Tunnel Encrypts WHOLE IP packet, adds new header (Digitally signed)
Encapsulation Encrypted Payload

Tunnel Authenticated Packets Authenticated Packets &

(Digitally Signed) Header

Tunneled Payload Tunneled & Encrypted

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Subnetting

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ARP Poisoning - Spoofing of MAC address for a requested IP address, to force redirection to alternate systems
Impacts DoS (affects availability), Session Hijacking, MITM

Mitigations Use Static ARP Use VPN

Use IDS (on promiscuous port mode) Use packet filtering firewall

DNS Poisoning - Spoofing of pointer (HOSTS file or Access Point) to alter DNS resolution
Mitigations Only allow authorized changes to DNS information Restrict zone transfers

Log all DNS activity

DNS Hijacking - Spoofing of replies sent to a caching DNS for non-existent subdomains, allow attacker to take over entire DNS
Mitigations Use DNSSEC

Eavesdropping Attacks - Listening in on communications

Mitigations Encryption Physical access control

Replay Attacks - Use of captured information via eavesdropping to re-establish a session

Mitigations Authentication expiry mechanisms Use sequenced / set expiry for session IDs

Modification Attacks - Alteration and use of captured data

Mitigations Digital signature Packet checksum verification

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UTP Types Cable Types Fibre
Std Speed Description Cable Type Speed Distance
CAT 1 4 Mbps 2 pairs xBasey UTP x Mbps -
Voice only, no
data xBaseTy UTP x Mbps 100m, except...

CAT 2 4 Mbps 4 pairs 10GBaseT UTP / 10Gbps Cat 6: 55m

STP Cat 6a: 100m
CAT 3 10 Mbps 4 pairs
xBaseFy Fibre x Mbps 2km
CAT 4 16 Mbps 4 pairs. Token mmhd: 412m
Ring. mmfd: 2km WiFi
smhd: 10km
CAT 5 100 Mbps 4 pairs. 100 MHz Std Speed Freq
RJ-45. Token 10Base2 Coaxial 10 Mbps 185m (~200m)
Ring. 1[x]BaseT Thinnet 802.11 2 Mbps 2.4 GHz

CAT 5e 1 Gbps 350 Mhz 10Base5 Coaxial 10 Mbps 500m 802.11a 54 Mbps 5 GHz
Thicknet
CAT 6 1 Gbps 802.11b 11 Mbps 2.4 GHz

CAT 6e 1 Gbps 802.11g 54 Mbps 2.4 GHz

CAT 7 10 Gbps 802.11n 200+ Mbps 2.4 / 5 GHz

801.11ac 1 Gbps 5 GHz

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VoIP Vulnerabilities
Caller ID falsification / spoofing - vishing (VoIP phishing) or Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) attacks

O/S vulnerabilities - unpatched call manager systems and VoIP endpoints (phones)

MITM - spoofing of call manager or endpoint connection negotiation and responses

VLAN / VoIP hopping - VoIP and computer systems in same switches

Eavesdropping can occur due to unencrypted traffic - mitigated by using Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

The current Internet architecture over which voice is transmitted is less secure than physical phone lines

Softphones (software phone, e.g. Skype) make an IP network more vulnerable than hardware-based IP phones

Phreaking Methods
Black Box Used to manipulate line voltage to steal long-distance service

Red Box Used to simulate tones (coins dropping)

Blue Box Used to simulate the 2600 Hz tones to interact directly with phone system backbone

White Box Used to control phone system using dual-tone multifrequency generator (keypad handset)

Callback Modes
User gets a dial-back on a predefined number that is associated with the user

Caller-ID mode requires user to dial in from the pre-defined number in order to get the call-back

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Virtual Circuits - logical communication pathway created over a packet-switched network
Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVC) Dedicated circuit that always exists and is available to the customer

Switched Virtual Circuits (SVC) Like a dial-up connection, available on-demand, but must be setup for each use and is then torn
down immediately after use

WAN Technologies
Dedicated Lines / Always available and reserved for single customer. SDLC / HDLC used as L2 protocol.
Lease Lines
Each channel: 64 Kbps Technology Connection Type Speed
Uses all channels. 24 channels: 1.54 Mbps
DS-0 Partial T1 64 Kbps - 1.54 Mbps
European version has
32 B & 2 D channels. DS-1 T1 1.54Mbps

DS-3 T3 44.74 Mbps

34 channels: 2.18 Mbps
Cable 10+ Mbps

European DTF 1 E1 2.18 Mbps

European DTF3 E3 34.368 Mbps

Non-Dedicated Lines Connection must be made before data transmission, e.g. modems, DSL, ISDN (digital voice + data)

ISDN BRI: Two B channels for data, one D channel for management

ISDN PRI: 2 to 23 B channels, one D channel for management

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HQ

PVC. Tx / Ex line.

SDLC / HDLC

Branch Office
ATM over Tx / Ex line
DSL (PPPoA / PPPOE)

PVC / SVC. SMDS. PVC or SVC. SDH / SONET

Links multiple LANs
to form a MAN.
Mesh or Ring

Local Telco
Internal mesh,
external star
Telco
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WAN Connection Technologies
X.25 / Frame Relay Old. Packet switching. Used PVC.

ATM Cell switching. Either PVC or SVC.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) Connectionless packet switching. Forms Metropolitan Area Network.

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Fibre from ITU. Uses Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing to high-speed duplex.
Mesh or Ring.

Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) Fibre from ANSI. Mesh or Ring.

Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) Polling on permanent connections at Layer 2 to provide connectivity on mainframes.

High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) Refined SDLC. Full Duplex. Uses polling at Layer 2.

SONET SDH Rate

STS-1 / OC-1 STM-0 51.84 Mbps

STS-3 / OC-3 STM-1 155.52 Mbps

STS-12 / OC-12 STM-4 622.08 Mbps

STS-40 / OC-40 STM-16 2.488 Gbps

STS-96 / OC-96 STM-32 4.876 Gbps

STS-192 / OC-192 STM-64 9.953 Gbps

STS-768 / OC-768 STM-256 39.813 Gbps

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SDLC
IDIOD CBK

Initiation Project Charter, business case, benefits, high-level risk assessment. Early involvement of security.

Initiation Requirements Identify stakeholders, functional requirements. Cost-benefit analysis. Create risk management plan.

Architecture

Design Design

Development /
Acquisition
Implementation
Testing Functional: Unit Testing / Integration Testing / System Testing | Non-Functional

Operation Release Operations & Maintenance. Certification & Accreditation (Full / Provisional)

Disposal Disposal Data retention policies. Data disposal policies. NIST 800-88: Erase / Sanitize / Destroy

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REST Architecture Software Acquisition
Uniform Interface (Modular) Planning

Stateless (Info Within Request) Contracting

Cacheable Monitoring & Acceptance

Client-Server Follow On

Layered System

Code on Demand (Optional)

Expert System - Uses AI and datasets to model decision-making Data Attack Methods
Forward Reasoning approach that uses if-then-else rules to obtain Mining Spotting trends / patterns in data sets
Chaining more data than is currently available. Used when there are
few solutions compared to number of inputs Aggregation Accumulated non-confidential information directly forms
confidential information
Backward Begin with a possible solution (goals), then use dataset to
Chaining justify the solution. Inference Logical jump / deduction required to derive confidential
information from knowledge
OWASP
Injection Original: select * from `users` where `username` = “administrator” and `password` = “input”;
Example 1: select * from `users` where `username` = ”administrator”;--” and password = “input”; (-- indicates comment)
Example 2: select * from `users` where `username` = ”administrator” and password=”input” or “a”=”a”;
Mitigated by validation.

XSS Reflected: User input is immediately printed out again for user to make changes, and in the process, attack code is executed. Transient.
Stored: Attack code is stored in the database and output repeatedly.
DOM-based: Attack code is generated via user input.
Mitigated by validation.

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ACID Model DBMS & Commands Database Taxonomy
Atomicity: DDL Data Definition Language CREATE, DROP, ALTER, TRUNCATE Tuple Row
Complete transactions. e.g.
two-phase commit DQL Data Query Language SELECT Cardinality Number of rows

Consistency: DML Data Manipulation Language INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE Degree Number of columns
Valid states & transactions
DCL Data Control Language GRANT, REVOKE Domain Allowable values that
Isolation: an attribute can have
of each transaction TCL Transaction Control Language COMMIT, ROLLBACK

Durability: Database Shadowing (read-only) is NOT Database Replication

Permanent results

Database Connections Database Keys

ODBC API that allows any application to connect Primary Unique key (usually auto-increment) that identifies each
row in a table.
JDBC API that allows any JAVA application to connect
Foreign References the primary key of another table
OLE DB Method of linking data from different DBs together

DDE / OLE Allows processes to exchange data with each other Database Integrity
Referential Foreign keys must reference existing rows.
Prone to human error, error-cascading.

Entity Primary key to ensure each row can be uniquely referred

Semantic Ensures data entered in a row is within allowable domain

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Maturity Models
SSE-CMM: IDEAL
- Covers entire lifecycle Initiate, diagnose, establish, act, learn
- Whole organization
- Concurrent interaction with other disciplines
- Interactions with other orgs

Software CMM
Initial State of flux. Ad-hoc decisions.

Repeatable Can be repeated with some form of consistency. Not rigorous. Not documented.

Defined Documented SOPs, but may not be sufficiently implemented. Developmental stage.

Managed Processes tested, refined / optimized. Able to demonstrate competence across conditions. No measurable loss in quality.

Optimizing CONTINUOUS PROCESS. Addresses common causes of statistical variances in processes. Changes processes to improve performance.

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Product Evaluation Models
TCSEC ITSEC CC Protection Usage
D F-D + E0 EAL 0/1 Minimal Protection / Functionally Tested

C1 F-C1 + E1 EAL 2 Discretionary Security / Structurally Tested Users process info at same
sensitivity level. Low security.

C2 F-C2 + E2 EAL 3 Controlled Access / Methodically Tested & Checked Authentication and auditing
enabled. Granular access control,
no object reuse.

B1 F-B1 + E3 EAL 4 Labelled Access / Methodically Designed, Tested & Reviewed OS & products. Governments.

B2 F-B2 + E4 EAL 5 Structured Security / Semi-formally Designed & Tested Trusted path, no backdoors.
Lowest level for trusted facility
management.

B3 F-B3 + E5 EAL 6 Security Domains / Semi-formally Verified, Designed & Tested Trusted recovery

A1 F-B3 + E6 EAL 7 Verified Design & Protection / Formally Verified, Designed & Tested

TSEC comes from the Orange Book. Only addresses confidentiality. Common Criteria:
Based on functionality, effectiveness, assurance. - Mainly targets consumers, developers & evaluators
ITSEC is European version of TSEC. Addresses CIA.
- Security Target (ST): Security profile of TOE, compared both
before and after evaluation
TSEC C: DAC | TSEC B: MAC based on Bell-LaPadula, uses security labels.
- Protection Profile (PP): Standard/Baseline
ITSEC defines functionality (AAA) and assurance (performing
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Manual If system fails, does not fail secure. Must have intervention.

Automated Can perform trusted recovery to restore itself against at least one type of failure

Automated w/o Undue Loss Automated + Mechanisms to ensure that specific objects are protected to prevent their loss

Function Can automatically recover system functions in case of failure

Execution Domain:
Isolated area used by trusted
processes when they run in
privileged state.

Protection Domain:
Memory space isolated from
other processes in the
multi-processing system.

Trusted Path:
Communication channel
between applications and
Reference Monitor: Abstract concept of ACL implementation, tamper-proof, small enough to test. kernel in TCB
Kernel: Made up of all components of TCB. Responsible for implementing security policy and reference Trusted Channel:
monitor. To be secure, kernel must be complete, isolated and verifiable. Communication channel
Execution Domain Switching: The TCB allows processes to switch between domains in a secure manner between EXTERNAL
applications and the TCB
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Has access to all resources and can execute both priv & non-priv instructions
CPU Architectures
Von Neumann / Princeton Data and instructions are the same, use the same bus. Leads to injections.
Instruction fetch and data operations cannot occur at the same time. Bottlenecked system performance.

Harvard Separates data and instructions into different buses

CPU Components
Control Unit (CU) Fetches and interprets code, oversees execution of instruction sets. Determines priority and time slice.

Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) Performs calculations

CPU General registers: hold variables and temporary results as ALU works through execution steps
Special / dedicated registers: Hold info e.g. program counter (holds next instruction to be fetched),
stack pointer, program status word (PSW)

Multithreading: Divides CPU time among child processes.

CPU Pipeline Multitasking: Divides CPU time among multiple processes, each given slice of time, then moves on to
Each instruction is loaded after
the next task. Cycles back after all tasks are each given slice of time.
previous is pushed to next.
Cooperative (legacy) / Pre-emptive: OS controls how long a process can use the resource.
Increases performance.
Multiprocessing: Divides load among multiple CPUs. Does not divide CPU time among child
processes. Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) uses single OS to manage every CPU. Asymmetric
1 Fetch
Multiprocessing (AMP) uses separate OS installation per CPU.
2 Decode
Scalar Processing: Executes 1 instruction at a time
3 Execute
Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC): Simpler instructions, less clock cycles to execute
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Memory Manager Responsibilities
Relocation Move / swap content between RAM and HDD as needed, provide pointers to applications

Protection Provide access control for memory segments

Sharing Allow multiple users with different access levels to interact with application / process while running.
Enforce confidentiality & integrity controls between processes using shared memory segments

Logical Organization Segmentation of all memory types, provide addressing scheme at abstraction level and allow for sharing of
software modules e.g. DLL modules

Physical Organization Segmentation of physical memory space for allocation

Memory Address Types

Absolute / Explicit Physical memory address

Relative

Content-addressable aka associative memory. Memory used in complex searches for a specific data value

Logical Index memory addresses that softwares use

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Memory Protection Methods - failure results in system going into maintenance mode
Kernel-mode system components can only be used while in kernel mode. Attempts will generate a fault and create access violation

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR): Virtual memory mapped to sporadic allocation of physical memory

Hardware / software controlled memory protection, such as read/write access.

Data Execution Protection (DEP): Requires DEP-enabled CPU. Prevents executable code from executing within data pages.

Access control lists to protect shared memory objects. Forced security checks

Heap Metadata Protection: Microsoft protection that forces application to fail if pointer is freed incorrectly. Required in Microsoft SDL.

Pointer Encoding: XOR random values with pointers. Attack would need to guess the right XOR. Not required in Microsoft SDL.

Virtual Memory: Maps hardware memory address to applications. Enables multitasking by sharing libraries between applications,
enabling more than one application to access the same information from the same memory address. Allows swapping and paging.

Paging: Moves fixed-length block of memory to disk (secondary memory). When it is required by OS, info is retrieved and loaded back.

Swapping: Copies entire process to disk (secondary memory).

Process Isolation & Memory Protection Methods Interrupted processes can create
security breaches when the current
Encapsulation No process can interact with internal of another process
process is given a clearance level of the
Time Multiplexing Provide structured, controlled, managed access to resources previous process.

Naming Distinctions PID. Each process is assigned unique identity in OS Program counter register contains
memory address of next instruction to
Virtual Address Allows each process to have its own memory space, enforced be fetched.
Memory Mapping through Memory Manager, which provides -
1. Abstraction level for programmers
2. Maximize performance of RAM
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3. Protection of OS and applications once loaded into memory
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