ChaoSlingr: Introducing Security-Based Chaos Testing

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ChaoSlingr introduces the discipline of security testing into chaos engineering with the focus on driving failure out of the model and going beyond the reactive processes that currently dominate traditional security testing methodology. (Source: RSA Conference USA 2018)

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Aaron Rinehart
ChaoSlingr: Introducing Security-Based
Chaos Testing
CSV-W04
Chief Enterprise Security Architect
UnitedHealth Group
Grayson Brewer
IT Security Consultant
UnitedHealth Group

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Security + Chaos = Security Experimentation
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A Tool to Build or a Weapon to Destroy?
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Where do Security Failures come from?
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The Gap b/t Modern Software & Security
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So in fact do we identify Security Failures?
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It worked for Rebel Alliance but not here
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Build Confidence through Instrumentation
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SecurityExperimentationSecurityExperimentation
THENEWPLAYBOOK

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What's the Difference?
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• Testing is assessment or validation of an expected
outcome
• Experimentation seeks to derive new insights and
information that were previously unknown

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Security Experimentation: A Definition
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• Drive out failure.
• Observe failure.
• Learn from failure.
• Build resilient systems.
Be Objective & Use Failure as a Tool

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Why do it?
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• Build Confidence in Security Measures
• Strengthen Incident Management
• Measure Incident Response Readiness
• Identify Security Failures within the Security Control Plane
• Proactively Detect Security Failures
• Measure Investments in Security Technology

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Value of Game Day Exercises
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• Provides Objective Measurement for Security Incident Response
• Identify Control Coverage Gaps
• Keeping the Team Sharp and “Battle Ready”
• Learn how your Security Really Works vs. How you Assume it Works.
“If you’re not cultivating a Learning Culture,
you wIll probably end up losing to someone
else who is.”

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Open Source Security Experimentation Tool
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FYI ChaoSlingr is on Github (FREE!)
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An Example Experiment Using ChaoSlingr
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Summary: Takeaways
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• Security Problems in
Distributed Systems
• Chaos Engineering
• Security Experimentation
• ChaoSlingr: Open Source Tool
• Think Differently, Be Objective

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Apply What You Have Learned Today
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• Next week you should:
• Start asking yourself the Right Questions
• Go to Github and check out ChaoSlingr
• Find out if your organization has an Site Reliability Engineer and tell them what you learned in this talk.
• In the first three months following this presentation you should:
• Conduct your first GameDay Exercise and manual Security Chaos Experiment
• Attend a Chaos Engineering Community Event near you
• Within six months you should:
• Write your own experiments for ChaoSlingr or your own tool.
• Run your first automated Security Chaos Experiment

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The New Normal: Continuous Evolution
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