2020 FRSecure CISSP Mentor Program - Class 11

2020 CISSP MENTOR
PROGRAM
May 27, 2020
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Class 11 – May 27th, 2020
Instructor:
Evan Francen, FRSecure & SecurityStudio CEO
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CISSP® MENTOR PROGRAM – SESSION ELEVEN
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Two more classes of content, then practice.
122 slides tonight, but who’s counting?
Another laid back class tonight. Some reinforcement and
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1. What type of backup is typically obtained during the
Response (aka Containment) phase of Incident
Response?
A. Incremental
B. Full
C. Differential
D. Binary
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1. What type of backup is typically obtained during the
Response (aka Containment) phase of Incident
Response?
A. Incremental
B. Full
C. Differential
D. Binary
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2. What is the primary goal of disaster recovery planning
(DRP)?
A. Integrity of data
B. Preservation of business capital
C. Restoration of business processes
D. Safety of personnel
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2. What is the primary goal of disaster recovery planning
(DRP)?
A. Integrity of data
B. Preservation of business capital
C. Restoration of business processes
D. Safety of personnel
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3. What business process can be used to determine the
outer bound of a Maximum Tolerable Downtime?
A. Accounts receivable
B. Invoicing
C. Payroll
D. Shipment of goods
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3. What business process can be used to determine the
outer bound of a Maximum Tolerable Downtime?
A. Accounts receivable
B. Invoicing
C. Payroll
D. Shipment of goods
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4. Your Maximum Tolerable Downtime is 48 hours. What
is the most cost effective alternate site choice?
A. Cold
B. Hot
C. Redundant
D. Warm
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4. Your Maximum Tolerable Downtime is 48 hours. What
is the most cost effective alternate site choice?
A. Cold
B. Hot
C. Redundant
D. Warm
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5. A structured walkthrough test is also known as what
kind of test?
A. Checklist
B. Simulation
C. Tabletop Exercise
D. Walkthrough Drill
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5. A structured walkthrough test is also known as what
kind of test?
A. Checklist
B. Simulation
C. Tabletop Exercise
D. Walkthrough Drill
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6. Which type of backup will include only those files that
have changed since the most recent Full backup?
A. Full
B. Differential
C. Incremental
D. Binary
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6. Which type of backup will include only those files that
have changed since the most recent Full backup?
A. Full
B. Differential
C. Incremental
D. Binary
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Executive Succession Planning
• Organizations must ensure that there is always an
executive available to make decisions during a
disaster
• A common mistake is allowing entire executive teams
to be offsite at distant meetings
• One of the simplest executive powers is the ability to
endorse checks and procure money.
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Plan Approval
• Now that the initial BCP/DRP plan has been
completed, senior management approval is the
required next step
• It is ultimately senior management's responsibility to
protect an organization's critical assets and personnel
• Senior management must understand that they are
responsible for the plan, fully understand the plan,
take ownership of it, and ensure its success.
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Backups and availability (again…)
• In order to be able to successfully recover critical
business operations, the organization needs to be
able to effectively and efficiently backup and restore
both systems and data
• Verification of recoverability from backups is often
overlooked
• Critical backup media must be stored offsite
• Ensure that the organization can quickly procure large
high-end tape drives (if necessary)
• If the MTTR is greater than the MTD, then an alternate
backup or availability methodology must be employed
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Hardcopy Data
• Hardcopy data is any data that are accessed through
reading or writing on paper rather than processing
through a computer system.
• In weather-emergency-prone areas such as Florida,
Mississippi, and Louisiana, many businesses develop
a “paper only” DRP, which will allow them to operate
key critical processes with just hard copies of data,
battery-operated calculators, and other small
electronics, as well as pens and pencils
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Electronic Backups
• Archives that are stored electronically
• Full Backups
• Every piece of data is copied and stored on the backup repository
• Time consuming, bandwidth intensive, and resource intensive
• Will ensure that any necessary data is available
• Incremental Backups
• Archive data that have changed since the last full or incremental
backup
• Differential Backups
• Archive data that have changed since the last full backup
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Electronic Backups
• Electronic vaulting
• Batch process of electronically transmitting data that is to be
backed up on a routine, regularly scheduled time interval
• Used to transfer bulk information to an offsite facility
• Good tool for data that need to be backed up on a daily or possibly
even hourly rate
• Stores sensitive data offsite
• Can perform the backup at very short intervals to ensure that the
most recent data is backed up
• Occurs across the Internet in most cases (important that the
information sent for backup be sent via a secure communication
channel and protected through a strong encryption protocol)
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Electronic Backups
• Remote Journaling
• A database journal contains a log of all database transactions
• May be used to recover from a database failure
• Remote Journaling saves the database checkpoints and database
journal to a remote site
• Database shadowing
• Uses two or more identical databases that are updated
simultaneously
• Can exist locally, but it is best practice to host one shadow
database offsite
• Allows faster recovery when compared with remote journaling
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Software Escrow
• Maintain the availability of their applications even if
the vendor that developed the software initially goes
out of business
• Allow a neutral third party to hold the source code
• Should the development organization go out of
business or otherwise violate the terms of the
software escrow agreement, then the third party
holding the escrow will provide the source code and
any other information to the purchasing organization.
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DRP testing, training, and awareness
• Skipping these steps is one of the most common
BCP/DRP mistakes
• A DRP is never complete, but is rather a continually
amended method for ensuring the ability for the
organization to recover in an acceptable manner
• Used to correct mistakes
• A DRP that will be effective will have some inherent
complex operations and maneuvers to be performed
by administrators
• Each member of the DRP should be exceedingly
familiar with the particulars of their role in a DRP.
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DRP Testing
• In order to ensure that a Disaster Recovery Plan
represents a viable plan for recovery, thorough testing
is needed
• Routine infrastructure, hardware, software, and
configuration changes materially alter the way in
which the DRP needs to be carried out
• Ensure both the initial and continued efficacy of the
DRP as a feasible recovery methodology, testing
needs to be performed.
• Different types of tests
• At an minimum, regardless of the type of test
selected, tests should be performed on an annual
basis
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DRP Testing
DRP Review
• Most basic form of DRP testing
• Focused on simply reading the DRP in its entirety
to ensure completeness of coverage
• Typically performed by the team that developed
the plan, and will involve team members reading
the plan in its entirety to quickly review the overall
plan for any obvious flaws
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DRP Testing
Checklist
• Also known as consistency testing
• Lists all necessary components required for
successful recovery, and ensures that they are, or will
be, readily available should a disaster occur
• Often performed concurrently with the structured
walkthrough or tabletop testing as a first testing
threshold
• Focused on ensuring that the organization has, or can
acquire in a timely fashion, sufficient resources on
which their successful recovery is dependent
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DRP Testing
Parallel Processing
• Common in environments where transactional data is a key
component of the critical business processing
• Typically involves recovery of critical processing components at
an alternate computing facility, and restore data from a previous
backup
• Regular production systems are not interrupted
• Transactions from the day after the backup are then run against
the newly restored data, and the same results achieved during
normal operations for the date in question should be mirrored by
the recovery system's results
• Organizations that are highly dependent upon mainframe and
midrange systems will often employ this type of test.
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DRP Testing
Partial and Complete Business Interruption
• This type of test can actually be the cause of a
disaster, so extreme caution should be exercised
before attempting an actual interruption test
• Testing will include having the organization stop
processing normal business at the primary location,
and instead leverage the alternate computing facility
• More common in organizations where fully redundant,
load-balanced, operations exist
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Training
• An element of DRP training comes as part of
performing the tests
• More detailed training on some specific elements of
the DRP process may be required.
Starting Emergency Power
• Converting a datacenter to emergency power, such as
backup generators
• Specific training and testing of changing over to
emergency power should be regularly performed.
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Training
• An element of DRP training comes as part of
performing the tests
• More detailed training on some specific elements of
the DRP process may be required.
Calling Tree Training/Test
• Individuals with calling responsibilities are expected
to be able to answer within a very short time period, or
otherwise make arrangements.
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Awareness
Even for those members who have little active role with
respect to the overall recovery process, there is still the
matter of ensuring that all members of an organization
are aware of the organization's prioritization of safety and
business viability in the wake of a disaster.
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Continued BCP/DRP maintenance
• The BCP/DRP must be kept up to date
• BCP/DRP plans must keep pace with all critical business and IT
changes.
Change Management
• The Change Management process is designed to ensure that security is
not adversely affected as systems are introduced, changed, and
updated.
• Includes tracking and documenting all planned changes, formal approval
for substantial changes, and documentation of the results of the
completed change
• All changes must be auditable
• The change control board manages this process
• The BCP team should be a member of the change control board, and
attend all meetings to identify any changes that must be addressed by
the BCP/DRP plan
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BCP/DRP Mistakes
Common BCP/DRP mistakes include:
• Lack of management support
• Lack of business unit involvement
• Lack of prioritization among critical staff
• Improper (often overly narrow) scope
• Inadequate telecommunications management
• Inadequate supply chain management
• Incomplete or inadequate crisis management plan
• Lack of testing
• Lack of training and awareness
• Failure to keep the BCP/DRP plan up to date
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Specific BCP/DRP frameworks
A handful of specific frameworks include NIST SP 800-34,
ISO/IEC-27031, and BCI.
NIST SP 800-34
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) Special Publication 800-34 “Contingency
Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems”
• May be downloaded at
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-
34/sp800-34.pdf.
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ISO/IEC-27031
• Draft guideline that is part of the ISO 27000 series, which also includes
ISO 27001 and ISO 27002
• Focuses on BCP (DRP is handled by another framework)
• The current formal name is “ISO/IEC 27031 Information technology—
Security techniques—Guidelines for ICT Readiness for Business
Continuity (final committee draft).” According to
http://www.iso27001security.com/html/27031.html, ISO/IEC 27031 is
designed to:
• “Provide a framework (methods and processes) for any organization—
private, governmental, and nongovernmental;
• Identify and specify all relevant aspects including performance criteria,
design, and implementation details, for improving ICT readiness as part of
the organization's ISMS, helping to ensure business continuity;
• Enable an organization to measure its continuity, security and hence
readiness to survive a disaster in a consistent and recognized manner.”
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ISO/IEC-27031
• Terms and acronyms used by ISO/IEC 27031 include:
• ICT—Information and Communications Technology
• ISMS—Information Security Management System
• A separate ISO plan for disaster recovery is ISO/IEC 24762:2008,
“Information technology—Security techniques—Guidelines for
information and communications technology disaster recovery
services.” More information is available at
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=41532
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BS-25999
• British Standards Institution (BSI, http://www.bsigroup.co.uk/)
released BS-25999, which is in two parts:
• “Part 1, the Code of Practice, provides business continuity
management best practice recommendations. Please note
that this is a guidance document only.
• Part 2, the Specification, provides the requirements for a
Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) based on
BCM best practice. This is the part of the standard that you
can use to demonstrate compliance via an auditing and
certification process.”14
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BCI
• The Business Continuity Institute (BCI, http://www.thebci.org/)
published a six-step Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) in 2008,
latest version is 2013 which describes the Business Continuity
Management (BCM) process:
• Management Practices
• PP1 Policy & Program Management
• PP2 Embedding Business Continuity
• Technical Practices
• PP3 Analysis
• PP4 Design
• PP5 Implementation
• PP6 Validation
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And…
Domain #7: Security Operations (or Chapter
8) is in the bag!
Break time? Think again…
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• Programming Concepts
• Application Development Methods
• Databases
• Object-Oriented Design and Programming
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Software Security
• Artificial Intelligence
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Unique Terms & Definitions:
• Extreme Programming (XP)—an Agile development
method that uses pairs of programmers who work off
a detailed specification
• Object—A “black box” that combines code and data,
and sends and receives messages
• Object-Oriented Programming—changes the older
procedural programming methodology, and treats a
program as a series of connected objects that
communicate via messages
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Unique Terms & Definitions:
• Procedural languages—programming languages that
use subroutines, procedures and functions
• Spiral Model—a software development model
designed to control risk
• Systems Development Life Cycle—a development
model that focuses on security in every phase
• Waterfall Model—An application development model
that uses rigid phases; when one phase ends, the next
begins
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• Programmers may make 15-50 mistakes per thousand lines of
code, but following a programming maturity framework such as
the SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) can lower that number
to 1 mistake per thousand.
SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
• The Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a maturity
framework for evaluating and improving the software
development process. The model was developed by Carnegie
Mellon University’s (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI).
• The goal of CMM is to develop a methodical framework for
creating quality software which allows measurable and
repeatable results
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repeatable results
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repeatable results
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repeatable results
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Machine Code
• Machine code (also called machine language) is software that is
executed directly by the CPU. Machine code is CPU-dependent; it
is a series of 1s and 0s that translate to instructions that are
understood by the CPU.
Source Code
• Source code is computer programming language instructions
which are written in text that must be translated into machine
code before execution by the CPU.
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Machine Code
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A good explainer video for assembly language
and machine code is:
Android Authority (8:20)
https://youtu.be/wA2oMRmbrfo

Source Code
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Assemblers
• Assembly language is a low-level computer
programming language. Assembly language
instructions are short mnemonics, such as “ADD,”
“SUB” (subtract), and “JMP” (jump), that match to
machine language instructions. An assembler
converts assembly language into machine language.
A disassembler attempts to convert machine
language into assembly.
Compilers
• Compilers take source code, such as C or Basic, and
compile it into machine code. Once compiled, the
machine language is executed directly by the CPU.
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Interpreters
• Interpreted languages differ from compiled
languages: interpreted code (such as shell code) is
compiled on the fly each time the program is run.
Examples may include Perl, Python, Java, etc.
Bytecode
• Bytecode, such as Java bytecode, is also interpreted
code. Bytecode exists as an intermediary form
(converted from source code), but still must be
converted into machine code before it may run on the
CPU.
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Programing Language Generations
• First-generation language: machine code
• Second-generation language: assembly
• Third-generation language: COBOL, C, Basic
• Fourth-generation language: ColdFusion, Progress
4GL, Oracle Reports
• Fourth-generation languages tend to be Graphical User
Interface (GUI)-focused; dragging and dropping elements,
and then generating code based on the results.
• 4GL languages tend to be focused on the creation of
databases, reports, and websites.
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4GL, Oracle Reports
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4GL, Oracle Reports
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Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
Uses programs to assist in the creation and maintenance
of other computer programs.
There are three types of CASE software:
1. Tools: support only specific task in the software-production
process.
2. Workbenches: support one or a few software process activities
by integrating several tools in a single application.
3. Environments: support all or at least part of the software
production process with a collection of Tools and Workbenches.
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Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Programming
• Top-Down (TD) programming starts with the broadest and
highest level requirements (the concept of the final program) and
works down towards the low-level technical implementation
details.
• Bottom-Up programming is the reverse: it starts with the low-
level technical implementation details and works up to the
concept of the complete program.
Procedural languages such as C have historically been programmed
Top-Down style: start with the main program, define the procedures,
and work down from there. Object-oriented programming typically
uses bottom-up design: define the objects, and use them to build up
to the final program.
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Types of Publicly-Released Software
• Open and Closed Source Software:
• Closed source software is software typically released in
executable form: the source code is kept confidential.
Examples include Oracle and Microsoft Windows 7.
• Open source software publishes source code publicly,
allowing anyone to inspect, modify, or compile the code
themselves. Examples include Ubuntu Linux and the Apache
web server.
• “Closed source software” and “proprietary software”
are sometimes used as synonyms, but that is not
always true: some open source software is also
proprietary.
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Free Software, Shareware, and Crippleware:
• Free software:
• “Free” may mean it is free of charge to use (sometimes called “free as in
beer”),
• “Free” may mean the user is free to use the software in any way they would
like, including modifying it (sometimes called “free as in liberty”).
• The two types are called gratis and libre, respectively. Freeware is “free as in
beer” (gratis) software, which is free of charge to use.
• Shareware is fully-functional proprietary software that may be initially
used free of charge. If the user continues to use the Shareware for a
specific period of time specified by the license (such as 30 days), the
Shareware license typically requires payment.
• Crippleware is partially-functioning proprietary software, often with key
features disabled. The user is typically required to make a payment to
unlock the full functionality.
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Software Licensing
• Most software, both closed and open source, is protected by software
licensing.
• Proprietary software is usually copyrighted the users of the software
must usually agree to the terms of the software licensing agreement
before using the software. These agreements are often called EULAs
(End-User License Agreements), which are usually agreed to when the
user clicks “I agree” while installing the software.
• Open source software may be protected by a variety of licensing
agreements, including the GNU Public License (GPL), BSD (Berkeley
Software Distribution), and Apache (named after the Apache Software
Foundation) licenses.
• The most prevalent of open source licenses is the GPL, which focuses
on free (libre) software, allowing users the freedom to use, change, and
share software. The core of the GPL is the term “copyleft,” a play on
copyright: copyleft seeks to ensure that free (libre) software remains
free. A Quick Guide to GPLv3 (see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-
guide-gplv3.html)
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Software Licensing
licensing.
guide-gplv3.html)
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Software Licensing
licensing.
guide-gplv3.html)
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Application Development Methods
• Waterfall Model - linear application development
model that uses rigid phases; when one phase ends,
the next begins.
• Predates software design and was first used in
manufacturing
• First used to describe a software development process in
1969
• Unmodified waterfall model does not allow developers to go
back to previous steps – NO ITERATION
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• Waterfall Model - linear application development
model that uses rigid phases; when one phase ends,
the next begins.
• Predates software design and was first used in
manufacturing
• First used to describe a software development process in
1969
• Unmodified waterfall model does not allow developers to go
back to previous steps – NO ITERATION
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• Modified Waterfall Model
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• Sashimi Model
• highly overlapping steps
• based on (and a reaction to) the Waterfall Model
• named after the Japanese delicacy Sashimi, which has
overlapping layers of fish (and also a hint for the exam)
• based on the hardware design model used by Fuji-Xerox
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• Sashimi Model
• highly overlapping steps
• based on (and a reaction to) the Waterfall Model
• named after the Japanese delicacy Sashimi, which has
overlapping layers of fish (and also a hint for the exam)
• based on the hardware design model used by Fuji-Xerox
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• Spiral
• Described in the 1986 paper “A Spiral Model of Software
Development and Enhancement” (see:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=12948).
• repeats steps of a project, starting with modest goals, and
expanding outwards in ever wider spirals (called rounds).
• each round of the spiral constitutes a project
• each round may follow traditional software development
methodology such as Modified Waterfall
• risk analysis is performed each round
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• Spiral
• Described in the 1986 paper “A Spiral Model of Software
Development and Enhancement” (see:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=12948).
• repeats steps of a project, starting with modest goals, and
expanding outwards in ever wider spirals (called rounds).
• each round of the spiral constitutes a project
• each round may follow traditional software development
methodology such as Modified Waterfall
• risk analysis is performed each round
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• Agile Software Development
• Agile Software Development evolved as a reaction to rigid
software development models such as the Waterfall Model.
Agile methods include Scrum and Extreme Programming
(XP).
• The Agile Manifesto (See: http://agilemanifesto.org/)
states: “We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it. Through
this work we have come to value:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan”
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• Scrum
• named after a scrum in the sport of rugby
• contain small teams of developers, called the Scrum Team
• supported by a Scrum Master, a senior member of the
organization who acts like a coach for the team
• the Product Owner is the voice of the business unit
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• Extreme Programming (XP)
• pairs of programmers who work off a detailed specification
• high level of customer involvement
• XP core practices include:
• Planning: specifies the desired features, which are called the
User Story. They are used to determine the iteration (timeline)
and drive the detailed specifications
• Paired programming: programmers work in teams.
• Forty-hour workweek: the forecasted iterations should be
accurate enough to forecast how many hours will be required
to complete the project. If programmers must put in additional
overtime, the iteration must be flawed.
• Total customer involvement: the customer is always available,
and carefully monitors the project.
• Detailed test procedures: they are called Unit Tests.
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• Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• Rapid Application Development (RAD) rapidly develops
software via the use of prototypes, “dummy” GUIs, back-end
databases, and more.
• The goal of RAD is quickly meeting the business need of the
system;
• Technical concerns are secondary.
• The customer is heavily involved in the process.
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• Prototyping
• Prototyping is an iterative approach which breaks projects
into smaller tasks, creating multiple mockups (prototypes) of
system design features.
• Lowers risk by allowing the customer to see realistic-looking
results long before the final product is completed.
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• Prototyping
• Prototyping is an iterative approach which breaks projects
into smaller tasks, creating multiple mockups (prototypes) of
system design features.
• Lowers risk by allowing the customer to see realistic-looking
results long before the final product is completed.
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Systems Development Life Cycle
• (SDLC, also called the Software Development Life
Cycle or simply the System Life Cycle)
• On the exam, SDLC focuses on security in every phase
• Broader than many application development models,
focusing on the entire system, from
selection/development, through operational
requirements, to secure disposal.
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• The following overview is summarized from NIST SP
800-14:
• Operation/Maintenance: The system is modified by the
addition of hardware and software and by other events.
• Disposal: The secure decommission of a system.
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• Not testable, but I like the OWASP Secure Software
Development Lifecycle Project(S-SDLC)
• OWASP Secure Software Development Life Cycle
Project defines security software development
process.
• Get it here:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Secure_S
oftware_Development_Lifecycle_Project
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• Not testable, but I like the OWASP Secure Software
Development Lifecycle Project(S-SDLC)
• OWASP Secure Software Development Life Cycle
Project defines security software development
process.
• Get it here:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Secure_S
oftware_Development_Lifecycle_Project
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Software Escrow
• Software escrow describes the process of having a third party
store an archive or computer software.
• The vendor may wish to keep the software source code secret,
but the customer may be concerned that the vendor could go out
of business (potentially orphaning the software).
• Orphaned software with no available source code will not receive
future improvements or patches.
• Software escrow places the source code in escrow, under the
control of a neutral third party.
• A contract strictly specifies the conditions for potential release
of the source code to the customer, typically due to the business
failure of the software vendor.
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Code Repository Security
• Public third party code repositories such as GitHub
(http://www.github.com)
• Accidentally publishing private code as public is a common
mistake made by developers. This includes accidentally
publishing code that includes passwords or private keys.
• List of security controls:
• System Security
• Operational Security
• Software Security
• Secure Communications
• File system and backups
• Employee access
• Maintaining security
• Credit card safety
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Security of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• An Application Programming Interface (API) allows an application
to communicate with another application, or an operating system,
database, network, etc.
• OWASP API Security Project
(https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_API_Security_Project
)
• “This project is designed to address the ever-increasing number of
organizations that are deploying potentially sensitive APIs as part of
their software offerings. These APIs are used for internal tasks and
to interface with third parties. Unfortunately, many APIs do not
undergo the rigorous security testing that would render them secure
from attack. “
• Problems with the security of API servers are notorious.
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Software Change and Configuration Management
• The exam treats configuration management and
change management as separate (but related)
disciplines
• Configuration management tracks changes to a specific piece
of software
• Change management is broader, tracking changes across an
entire software development program
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Software Change and Configuration Management
• NIST Special Publication 80-128: Guide for Security-Focused
Configuration Management of Information Systems
(http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-128/sp800-128.pdf)
• A Configuration Management Plan (CM Plan) is a comprehensive
description of the roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures that
apply when managing the configuration of products and systems. The
basic parts of a CM Plan include:
• Configuration Control Board (CCB) – Establishment of and charter for a group
of qualified people with responsibility for the process of controlling and
approving changes throughout the development and operational lifecycle of
products and systems; may also be referred to as a change control board;
• Configuration Item Identification – methodology for selecting and naming
configuration items that need to be placed under CM;
• Configuration Change Control – process for managing updates to the
baseline configurations for the configuration items; and
• Configuration Monitoring – process for assessing or testing the level of
compliance with the established baseline configuration and mechanisms for
reporting on the configuration status of items placed under CM”
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DevOps
• Separation of duties between the developers, quality assurance
teams, and production teams
• “the practice of operations and development engineers
participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design
through the development process to production support.”
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Object-oriented Design and Programming
• Object oriented design and programming uses an
object metaphor to design and write computer
programs.
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) replicates the use
of objects in computer programs.
• Object-Oriented Design (OOD) treats objects as a
higher level design concept, like a flow chart.
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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Treats a program as a series of connected objects that
communicate via messages.
• Attempts to model the real world
• Examples of OOP languages include Java, C++,
Smalltalk, and Ruby.
• An object is a “black box” that is able to perform
functions, and sends and receives messages.
• Objects contain data and methods (the functions they
perform).
• The object provides encapsulation (also called data
hiding): we do not know, from the outside, how the
object performs its function.
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Cornerstone Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Cornerstone object-oriented programming concepts
include objects, methods, messages, inheritance,
delegation, polymorphism, and polyinstantiation.
• Inheritance is a way to reuse code of existing objects,
establish a subtype from an existing object
• Delegation refers to one object relying upon another to
provide a specified set of functionalities
• Polymorphism is the ability to create a variable, a function, or
an object that has more than one form
• Polyinstantiation means “many instances,” two instances
(specific objects) with the same names that contain different
data.
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Cornerstone Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Cornerstone object-oriented programming concepts
include objects, methods, messages, inheritance,
delegation, polymorphism, and polyinstantiation.
• Inheritance is a way to reuse code of existing objects,
establish a subtype from an existing object
• Delegation refers to one object relying upon another to
provide a specified set of functionalities
• Polymorphism is the ability to create a variable, a function, or
an object that has more than one form
• Polyinstantiation means “many instances,” two instances
(specific objects) with the same names that contain different
data.
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Coupling and Cohesion
• Coupling and cohesion are two concepts used to
describe objects.
• A highly coupled object requires lots of other objects to
perform basic jobs, like math.
• An object with high cohesion is far more independent: it can
perform most functions independently.
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Object Request Brokers
• Object Request Brokers (ORBs) can be used to locate
objects: they act as object search engines.
• ORBs are middleware: they connect programs to
programs.
• Common object brokers included COM, DCOM, and
CORBA.
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Object Request Brokers
• Object Request Brokers (ORBs) can be used to locate
objects: they act as object search engines.
• ORBs are middleware: they connect programs to
programs.
• Common object brokers included COM, DCOM, and
CORBA.
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CORBA
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is an open
vendor-neutral networked object broker framework by the Object
Management Group (OMG).
• Competes with Microsoft’s proprietary DCOM.
• Objects communicate via a message interface, described by the
Interface Definition Language (IDL). See http://www.corba.org for
more information about CORBA.
• The essence of CORBA, beyond being a networked object broker,
is the separation of the interface (syntax for communicating with
an object) from the instance (the specific object):
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CORBA
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is an open
vendor-neutral networked object broker framework by the Object
Management Group (OMG).
• Competes with Microsoft’s proprietary DCOM.
• Objects communicate via a message interface, described by the
Interface Definition Language (IDL). See http://www.corba.org for
more information about CORBA.
• The essence of CORBA, beyond being a networked object broker,
is the separation of the interface (syntax for communicating with
an object) from the instance (the specific object):
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Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) and Object-Oriented
Design (OOD)
• Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) and Object-Oriented Design (OOD) are a
software design methodology that takes the concept of objects to a
higher, more conceptual, level than OOP. The two terms are sometimes
combined as Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD).
• It is like drawing a flowchart on a whiteboard which shows how a
program should conceptually operate.
• The way data in a program flows and is manipulated is visualized as a
series of messages and objects. Once the software design is complete,
the code may be programmed in an OOP language such as Ruby.
• Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) seeks to understand (analyze) a problem
domain (the challenge you are trying to address) and identifies all objects
and their interaction. Object-Oriented Design (OOD) then develops
(designs) the solution.
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Software Vulnerabilities, Testing, and Assurance
Software Vulnerabilities
• 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors -
http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/
• Hard-coded credentials: Backdoor username/passwords left by
programmers in production code
• Buffer Overflow: Occurs when a programmer does not perform
variable bounds checking
• SQL Injection: manipulation of a back-end SQL server via a front-end
web server
• Directory Path Traversal: escaping from the root of a web server
(such as/var/www) into the regular file system by referencing
directories such as “../..”
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TOCTOU/Race Conditions
• attacker attempts to alter a condition after it
has been checked by the operating system, but
before it is used
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TOCTOU/Race Conditions
• attacker attempts to alter a condition after it
has been checked by the operating system, but
before it is used
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Disclosure
• Disclosure describes the actions taken by a security researcher after discovering a
software vulnerability.
• Full Disclosure is the controversial practice of releasing vulnerability details
publicly. The rationale is this: if the bad guys may already have the information,
then everyone should also have it. This ensures the white hats also receive the
information, and will also pressure the vendor to patch the vulnerability.
• Advocates argue that vulnerable software should be fixed as quickly as possible;
relying on (perceived) lack of knowledge of the vulnerability amounts to “Security
through obscurity,” which many argue is ineffective. The Full Disclosure mailing list
(see: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/) is dedicated to the practice of full
disclosure.
• Responsible disclosure is the practice of privately sharing vulnerability information
with a vendor, and withholding public release until a patch is available.
• Other options exist between full and responsible disclosure
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Databases
• A database is a structured collection of related data.
Types of Databases
• Formal database types include relational (two dimensional),
hierarchical, and object-oriented. The simplest form of database is
a flat file: a text file that contains multiple lines of data, each in a
standard format.
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Databases
• A database is a structured collection of related data.
Types of Databases
• Formal database types include relational (two dimensional),
hierarchical, and object-oriented. The simplest form of database is
a flat file: a text file that contains multiple lines of data, each in a
standard format.
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Relational Databases
• The most common modern database is the relational
database, which contain two-dimensional tables of
related (hence the term “relational”) data.
• A table is also called a relation.
• Tables have rows and columns: a row is a database
record, called a tuple; a column is called an attribute.
• A single cell (intersection of a row and column) in a
database is called a value.
• Relational databases require a unique value called the
primary key in each tuple in a table.
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• A relational database employee table, sorted by the primary key
(SSN, or Social Security Number).
• Attributes are SSN, Name, and Title.
• Tuples include each row: 133-73-1337, 343-53-4334, etc. “Gaff” is
an example of a value (cell).
• Candidate keys are any attribute (column) in the table with unique
values: candidate keys in the previous table include SSN and
Name; SSN was selected as the primary key because it is truly
unique (two employees could have the same name, but not the
same SSN).
• Two tables in a relational database may be joined by the primary
key.
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• A relational database employee table, sorted by the primary key
(SSN, or Social Security Number).
• Attributes are SSN, Name, and Title.
• Tuples include each row: 133-73-1337, 343-53-4334, etc. “Gaff” is
an example of a value (cell).
• Candidate keys are any attribute (column) in the table with unique
values: candidate keys in the previous table include SSN and
Name; SSN was selected as the primary key because it is truly
unique (two employees could have the same name, but not the
same SSN).
• Two tables in a relational database may be joined by the primary
key.
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Foreign Key
• A foreign key is a key in a related database table that
matches a primary key in the parent database.
Referential, Semantic, and Entity Integrity
• Referential integrity means that every foreign key in a
secondary table matches a primary key in the parent
table.
• Semantic integrity means that each attribute (column)
value is consistent with the attribute data type.
• Entity integrity means each tuple has a unique primary
key that is not null.
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Database Normalization
• Seeks to make the data in a database table logically concise,
organized, and consistent.
• Removes redundant data, and improves the integrity and
availability of the database.
• Normalization has three rules, called forms:
• First Normal Form (1NF): Divide data into tables.
• Second Normal Form (2NF): Move data that is partially dependent on
the primary key to another table.
• Third normal Form (3NF): Remove data that is not dependent on the
primary key.
Database Views
• Database tables may be queried; the results of a query are called
a database view.
• Views may be used to provide a constrained user interface.
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The Data Dictionary
• The data dictionary contains a description of the
database tables.
• This is called metadata: data about data.
• Contains database view information, information about
authorized database administrator, and user accounts
including their names and privileges, auditing
information, among others.
• A critical data dictionary component is the database
schema: it describes the attributes and values of the
database tables.
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Database Query Languages
• Allow the creation of database tables, read/write access to those
tables, and many other functions.
• Database query languages have at least two subsets of
commands:
• Data Definition Language (DDL) - DDL is used to create, modify, and
delete tables.
• Data Manipulation Language (DML) - DML is use to query and update
data stored in the tables.
• The most popular relational database query language is SQL
(Structured Query Language)
• Created by IBM in 1974
• Many types of SQL exist, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, PL/SQL
(Procedural Language/SQL, used by Oracle), T-SQL and ANSI SQL
(used by Microsoft SQL), and many others.
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Database Query Languages
• Common SQL commands include:
• CREATE: create a table
• SELECT: select a record
• DELETE: delete a record (or a whole table)
• INSERT: insert a record
• UPDATE: change a record
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Hierarchical Databases
• Hierarchical databases form a tree: the global Domain
Name Service (DNS) servers form a global tree.
Object-oriented Databases
• Databases traditionally contain just (passive) data;
object-oriented databases combine data with functions
(code) in an object-oriented framework.
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Database Replication and Shadowing
• Database replication mirrors a live database, allowing
simultaneous reads and writes to multiple replicated databases
by clients.
• Shadow databases are similar to replicated databases, with one
key difference: a shadow database mirrors all changes made to a
primary database, but clients do not access the shadow.
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• A data warehouse is a large collection of data. Modern data
warehouses may store many terabytes (1000 gigabytes) or even
petabytes (1000 terabytes) of data.
• Once data is collected in a warehouse, data mining is used to
search for patterns.
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Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence is the science of programming electronic computers
to “think” more intelligently, sometimes mimicking the ability of mammal
brains.
Expert Systems
• Expert systems consist of two main components:
• The first is a knowledge base that consists of “if/then” statements. These
statements contain rules that the expert system uses to make decisions.
• The second component is an inference engine that follows the tree formed
by the knowledge base, and fires a rule when there is a match.
• Integrity of the knowledge base is critical.
• The entire knowledge base should form a logical tree, beginning with a
trunk. The knowledge base should then branch out.
• The inference engine follows the tree, branching or firing as if/then
statements are answered.
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Artificial Neural Networks
• Simulate neural networks found in humans and
animals.
• The human brain’s neural network has 100 billion
neurons, interconnected by thousands or more
synapses each.
• Each neuron may fire based on synaptic input.
• This multilayer neural network is capable of making a
single decision based on thousands or more inputs.
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• How Artificial Neural Networks Operate
• ANNs seek to replicate the capabilities of biological neural
networks.
• A node is used to describe an artificial neuron.
• Nodes receive input from synapses and send output when a
weight is exceeded.
• Single-layer ANNs have one layer of input nodes; multilayer
ANNs have multiple layers of nodes, including hidden nodes
• Both single and multilayer artificial neural networks
eventually trigger an output node to fire: this output node
makes the decision.
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• An Artificial Neural Network learns by example via a
training function: synaptic weights are changed via an
iterative process, until the output node fires correctly
for a given set of inputs.
• Artificial Neural Networks are used for “fuzzy”
solutions, where exactness is not always required (or
possible), such as predicting the weather.
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• An Artificial Neural Network learns by example via a
training function: synaptic weights are changed via an
iterative process, until the output node fires correctly
for a given set of inputs.
• Artificial Neural Networks are used for “fuzzy”
solutions, where exactness is not always required (or
possible), such as predicting the weather.
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Bayesian Filtering
• Bayesian filtering is named after Thomas Bayes, an
English clergyman who devised a number of probability
and statistical methods including “a simple
mathematical formula used for calculating conditional
probabilities.”
• Commonly used to identify spam.
• Bayesian filtering techniques to automatically assign a
mathematical probability that certain “tokens” (words
in the email) were indications of spam.
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Genetic Algorithms and Programming
• Genetic Algorithms and Programming seek to replicate nature’s
evolution, where animals evolve to solve problems.
• Genetic programming refers to creating entire software programs
(usually in the form of Lisp source code)
• Genetic algorithms refer to creating shorter pieces of code
(represented as strings called chromosomes).
• Genetic programming creates random programs and assigns
them a task of solving a problem.
• The fitness function describes how well they perform their task.
• Crossover “breeds” two programs together (swaps their code).
• Mutation introduces random changes in some programs.
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• The process is summarized here:
• Generate an initial population of random computer programs
• Execute each program in the population and assign it a
fitness value according to how well it solves the problem.
• Create a new population of computer programs.
• Copy the best existing programs
• Create new computer programs by mutation.
• Create new computer programs by crossover(sexual
reproduction)
• Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming have
been used to program a Pac-Man playing program,
robotic soccer teams, networked intrusion detection
systems, and many others.
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• The process is summarized here:
• Generate an initial population of random computer programs
• Execute each program in the population and assign it a
fitness value according to how well it solves the problem.
• Create a new population of computer programs.
• Copy the best existing programs
• Create new computer programs by mutation.
• Create new computer programs by crossover(sexual
reproduction)
• Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming have
been used to program a Pac-Man playing program,
robotic soccer teams, networked intrusion detection
systems, and many others.
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We made it through Class 11!
This concludes all of the content for the CISSP
• We’re done with the book.
• Next, we do practice exams. YOU need to read,
read, read (and memorize).
• Come with questions!
Have a great evening, talk to you Monday!
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