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Internet of Medical Things: Combatting Connected Health Security Threats – IoT For All
The healthcare industry increasingly relies on IoT networks to securely connect a growing variety of medical devices and equipment. These connected devices are transforming processes and the continuum of care in applications ranging from a hospitals consignment inventory management to remotely controlling insulin pumps, heart-rate monitors, and other implantable devices using smartphones.
In these and other Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) applications, device security is often neglected. Some solution providers mistakenly believe that security cannot be implemented cost-effectively, which is hazardous thinking. The industry moves to a command-and-control model using commercial smartphones whose built-in security mechanisms are generally not adequate for safety-critical applications. These and a wide variety of other IoMT challenges can be solved through a three-tiered security-by-design strategy that protects all communication between system elements, brings trust to each system element, and ensures always-on connectivity between smartphone apps, the IoMT devices, and the cloud.
Cyberattacks or IoMT integrity issues for connected implantable medical devices have unfortunately become more and more prevalent. One of the first examples occurred in May 2019 when a Type 1 diabetes patient re-programmed his insulin pump to customize his treatment and landed in the hospital. He had exploited a security flaw in his commercially available, FDA-authorized device that, according to the FDAs safety warning, could pose significant risks if patients did not correctly implement their own treatment customization.
This same type of safety flaw also provides an open door to hackers, enabling them to access a device whether to cause harm or steal sensitive health information. Some of these same devices require the patient to change a device component, or consumable, over the devices lifetime. The consumable itself poses a new threat opportunity in terms of counterfeit replacement or integrity.
Another popular application for IoMT solutions is hospital asset tracking so that equipment is always available and accessible, and one of the most promising is consignment inventory management. Vendors increasingly sell products, equipment, and associated consumables to hospitals on consignment, issuing invoices only when items are used. Further, OEMs need to ensure that the consigned inventory is maintained to the OEM requirements such as temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors before being utilized in inpatient care.
In the past, all information about these items was manually entered, from their receipt at the hospital to their use and re-stocking. Adopting an IoMT solution for these processes reduces errors while improving efficiency, but security is critical for ensuring the integrity of the supply chain and all financial transactions.
Equally, if not more, important is the authenticity of this hospital inventory. Johnson & Johnson said in its June 2020 document, Position on Counterfeit Healthcare Products, that Counterfeits cover the spectrum of medicines, both prescription and OTC, as well as different forms of medical devices and surgical instruments and a range of consumer products The company went on to say that, in many cases, the fake or counterfeit productsare indistinguishable to patients, consumers, and healthcare professionals, so detection by specialists is needed.
A high-profile example is personal protective equipment (PPE), whose supply has been plagued by counterfeiting during the global pandemic. Healthcare providers must defend themselves against this risk while also ensuring the proper use of all legitimate medical equipment and consumables, whether they be controlled substances that must be correctly dosed to the intended individual or x-ray plates that must be used with a given imaging system for a specified patient.
Every piece of connected equipment inside the hospital is also a cybersecurity threat surface. Cybercriminals can use legacy equipment like MRIs and other wired Ethernet medical systems ranging from anesthesia machines to ventilators and infusion pumps as a means into the hospitals core communications network. Many of these systems were produced long before cybersecurity was a critical consideration. Connecting them to the hospital network can open the door to a variety of cybersecurity attacks.
The danger grows with the adoption of commercial smartphones for controlling connected-health solutions. The devices Bluetooth wireless connection does not provide adequate security. Mitigating these threats requires a multi-layered, security-by-design approach that minimizes cost while simplifying deployment.
Each of the applications described thus far requires multiple layers of protection, especially those that use smartphones for command and control in life-critical situations. While it is true that Bluetooth, NFC, LTE, Ethernet, and other protocols mitigate some breaches, they do not defend against all threats. Therefore, it is necessary to start at the application layer, protecting the communications channel between the smartphone app, the medical device, consumable (if applicable), and the cloud from various malware and wireless channel cybersecurity attacks.
Unlike typical transport layer security that only protects the message payload as it moves down the OSI stack and back, application-layer security creates a secure tunnel between the sender and receiver. It essentially enables the application to natively build its own security rather than rely solely on the lower stack levels. The session can be authenticated and require all messages to be encrypted before they leave the app. Robust key exchanges and key management functions enable the recipient to decrypt and validate these messages before utilizing the recipient app.
The second layer of security, for authentication, is essential for smartphone-based control of implantable devices. It helps protect both the application and the platform upon which the app is running, mitigating the risk of attack through connectivity to the solutions cloud services, smartphone apps, and other IoT devices. This layer can handle authentication of the user, the smartphone app, cloud, consumable, and any associated devices connected to the solutions communication system while validating their integrity to ensure hackers cannot gain root access to privileges that enable them to do harm. The authentication layer is particularly important for connected-health solutions that are at risk of counterfeiting. It brings trust to each thing in an IoT solution to protect patient safety and the privacy and integrity of their information.
To implement the authentication layer, each system element must have a unique digital cryptographic identity and have attestation capabilities so it can validate the authority and privileges of the other elements. This ensures there is a root of trust within and between all components in the system so all remain uncompromised and invulnerable to the latest cyber threats. The authentication layer thus ensures that only authorized and trusted sources can send information and issue commands. It can also prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating the application code and ensures other smartphone applications cannot interfere with the connected-health application.
The authentication layers root of trust needs to be established on each system element, including the device, cloud, consumable, and smartphone. Depending on the element, either software or hardware may be used to establish the root of trust. In the factory, Hardware Security Modules, or HSMs, may be used to provide both the medical device and the consumable with cryptographic keys and digital certificates to behave like secure elements (SE) in the system. The trusted cloud issues digital certificates over the air that identify the apps and devices as trusted and handles all the solutions identity lifecycle management. Lastly, even the user may be authenticated based on third party databases and phone resources to verify fingerprints, facial images, document scans, and the like.
The last layer of this three-tiered security-by-design architecture addresses the challenge of ensuring seamless connectivity. Whether its an asset tracking and consignment inventory management or wearable injection device, it is critical to have always-on connectivity between the Thing and the Cloud to exchange data, change operating profiles, and update firmware over-the-air, or administering alerts. Too often, solutions depend exclusively on a handheld device or smartphone for cloud connectivity and cannot ensure that the system always has the most recent device data and can immediately change device performance.
One way to solve this problem on the smartphone is with security software that runs in the OS background. After the smartphone user starts the app and configures it for continuous operation, this layer can continue to harvest the devices IoT data whenever the devices are in proximity to the smartphone.
A second solution for this layer takes a hardware-based approach to the problem. A small-form-factor bridge can implement one communications protocol for interaction with the IoT device and another to communicate with the cloud. The first protocol usually features only personal area coverage. This solution can be configured either for continuous operation or only when the primary IoT-to-cloud path is unavailable.
The third approach to implementing this authentication layer is protecting legacy equipment such as MRI machines and other wired Ethernet medical systems. In this case, a hardware gateway is used to connect to the Ethernet network. It is placed in front of this vulnerable medical equipment to provide a separate channel for communicating only with authenticated devices.
A system that combines the capabilities of smartphones, bridges, and hardware gateways, as described above, ensures the always-on feature that most IoMT deployments need.
Connected-health security solutions were previously built from the ground up. Todays offerings can still be implemented in a modular fashion to meet a wide range of application scenarios using third-party software developer kits (SDKs). This provides users with a building-block approach to adding security at a lower cost and greater flexibility than in the past. The approach also makes it possible to retrofit robust security measures into legacy designs and infrastructures as needed and continuously improve them, up to and including incorporating HSMs later in a solutions lifecycle to optimize how the application layers root of trust is implemented.
Solutions like these add small incremental cost to IoMT-based consignment inventory management systems, connected legacy medical equipment, and smartphone-controlled implantable healthcare devices, but the benefits they deliver are manifold. They significantly improve security while providing the opportunity to differentiate IoMT offerings based on the incalculable benefit of protecting patients from injury or death.
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Stay Safe Online: What You Need To Know About Digital Distancing – MakeUseOf
The more you use digital devices and the internet to access, manage, and store your personal files, the higher the risk of a hacker accessing them remotely.
But in a world where it's necessary to digitize every aspect of your life, how do you keep yourself safe from the inevitable cyberattack or data leak?
Digital distancing is the practice of limiting communication and access between different digital accounts, devices, or apps.
Think of it as a simplified version of network segmentation, where the network is broken into several independent units to minimize damages in case of a cyberattack or a data breach and makes them easier to protect individually.
To digitally distance your accounts and devices is to create protective distance between them. That way, if an attacker manages to break into one device or account, they dont have access to all of your data, but only a part of it.
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In addition to minimizing the damages of a malicious cyberattack, practicing digital distancing also makes recovery easier. After all, youd only need to change the credentials of a few accounts, not all of them.The same goes for data recovery and mitigating social damages to your character and reputation.
You often hear phrases like "network segmentation" and "digital distancing" in business-centric cybersecurity conversations, rarely regarding internet security for the individual user. That's because the average user wasnt as big a target as they are now. But, since you might be working remotely from home, studying online, or working on a personal project, your data is much more valuable than it used to be10 years ago.
Applying digital distancing to a single user instead of a business corporation with dozens of employees differs in execution but not in concept.
Security measureslike this used to demand exceptional levels of skill and expertise, making it unavailable to the average user.Now that technology has became more wide-spread, anyone can implement a degree of digital distancing that best works for them.
Digital distancing forindividualsdoesntrequire technical elementsit's about behavioral changes and rules you set for your online activity to ensure maximum security.
Separating your devices and accounts doesnt need to have any specialized monitoring software as its easy to do it manually using readily-available tools.
If possible, use separate work/school and entertainment devices. This helps keep your most valuable data isolated in case of an attack, which is more likely to originate from the device you use for casual browsing than work orstudying.
You should use separate accounts for separate purposes. While those dont have to be strictly separated by the type of use, they limit the damages if your logins happen to be in a data leak.
A VPN doesnt only come in handy when watching Netflix. Learn how to use your VPN as it encrypts the data leaving your device into the open internet and masks your IP address.
Not to mention, most VPNs now come with built-in malware and spyware detectors, creating an additional layer of security while browsing even the most suspicious of websites.
One key element of digital distancing is using different passwords between accounts to keep them secure in case one is breached. A password manager keeps all of your passwords locked securely behind a single master password.
You might be worried that a cybercriminal can use a brute-force attack or similar to effectively guess your password andgain access to all of your logins. You could use two password managers if this concerns you; however, you need to make sure youuse multiple password vaults under different credentials. Otherwise, the risk is still there.
Nonetheless, a sole password manager should be fine.
MFA is your failsafe if one of your passwords is stolen. Using MFA is akin to implementing an additional login requirement that a hacker won't be able to bypass as easily. MFA comes in the form of text messages, emails, physical keys, or on-device authentication apps.
Using one or more authentication method should correlate to your threat model and how valuable an account or device is.
The goal of digital distancing is to limit communication betweenservicesto isolate them. Regular cross-device and cross-account syncing does the exact opposite. It links and shares data between devices and accounts openly and regularly.
Instead ofstopping synchronization altogether, limit it to a smaller number of accounts and devices and use it only when necessary. You can also replace direct file syncing with using secure cloud storage where you manually input a passwordand preferably an additional authentication methodto access data.
An Internet of Things (IoT) device is any device that connects to the internet. This could be a printer, thermostat, or smart assistant.
While most IoT devices promise maximum security, according to NETSCOUTSs Threat Intelligence Report, it takes an average of five minutes for an IoT device to get attacked after it goes online.
You should aim to keep your IoT devices offline as often as possible. Otherwise, heres what you can do:
The kill-switch could be automatic; for instance, after a certain number of failed login attempts, using geographical location boundaries, or manual through remote access. These methods allow you to permanently dispose of private data stored on a lost or stolen device.
That way, you can eliminate the trails a hacker or thief can follow to your other devices and accounts through crumbs you might have accidentally left behind as well as keep your personal files private.
Just be careful your information isn't completely lost,so back them up regularly.
The more secure your files are, the less convenient using your accounts and devices becomes. Thats why instead of going overboard and exhausting yourself with strict security measures, start slow and do what's necessary to your situation.
Secure your most valuable accounts first, such as your email, cloud storage, and password manager.
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Local Governments and States of the United States Solar Winds | Now – DodoFinance
The US Internet Security Agency (CISA) says a recent cyber attack on the US government has hit private US and local governments.
Hackers were able to hijack Solar Winds security software and hack into the federal governments network. The breach affected networks within the federal government, individual states and local governments, and within key infrastructure and business organizations, CISA wrote in a statement on its website.
U.S. The company announced last week that government agencies and critical infrastructure were affected, but did not name individual states or local governments at the time. Sisa did not immediately respond to requests for further details.
Intelligence MPs, Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo and Justice Secretary Bill Barr have blamed Russia for the attack. However, some officials believe it is too early to say for sure who carried out the cyber attack.
Future US President Joe Biden has warned that those behind cyber attacks could face severe punishment. As President I want our adversaries to know that I do not see cyber attacks on our nation.
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Importance of AWS Identity and Access Management – Enterprise Security Mag
With all its interesting capabilities and potential, AWS IAM is gaining the gravity it deserves.
FREMONT, CA: Previously, the battle lines of network and internet security were drawn clearly. It was easy to separate good actors from malicious actors. Cybersecurity focused on preventing unauthorized access to network resources and data. IT security professionals have to pay closer attention today because the threats arent trying to hack or crack their way in. They are using sophisticated methods to obtain valid user credentials and walking in through the front door. Enterprises need to have a strong identity and access management, and cloud logging and monitoring to recognize and respond to malicious behavior. This is where Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS comes in.
Security in the cloud is one of the biggest barriers to cloud migration. It becomes essential for security operation teams to follow security best practices to ensure a smooth transition with a strong basis. With all the public attention surrounding major cloud platforms, it is admirable that AWS IAM follows an incredibly granular approach in offering permissions and access control. IAM lets enterprises control who can use the resources and in which ways. This is why its possible to create an exceedingly safe environment using AWS.
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AWS IAM lets enterprises create and manage identities, including users, groups, and roles, meaning firms can issue and allow authentication for resources, people, services, and apps within the AWS account. Access management or authorization in IAM is made of policies and permissions. IAM lets enterprises do this without sharing the credentials, and more recently, AWS released ControlTower to further simplify multi-account configurations.
As the biggest cloud platform and provider, AWS has come forth with several measures to enhance security, and IAM is the most vital of all of them. However, security and IAM is a complicated subject, which is why AWS released the Shared Responsibility Model aimed at establishing and sharing the responsibility for security and compliance between customers and AWS.
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SOC as a Service market on the up, driven by greater focus on security – SecurityBrief Asia
The global System On a Chip (SOC) as a Service market is set to reach US$676.8 million by 2026, according to a new study from Valuates Reports.
This represents an increase from US$305.5 million in 2020, at a CAGR of 14.2% during the forecast period 2021-2026.
The major factors that are driving the growth of SOC as a service market size are a rise in sophisticated cyber attacks, increasing venture capital funding, and growing investments in SOC as a Service technology, the report states.
In addition, a surge in trends such as BYOD and work from home is expected to drive the SOC as a service market size.
WFH employees use private networks such as telephone or internet links, the security strength of which is not known to organisations.
As these are mostly used for business purposes, they may be at risk of ransomware and other cybersecurity threats that did not originate within the organisation.
In order to protect businesses from possible harms that may be caused by these developments, corporations are embracing SOC as a Service to reduce the threat, the report states.
Furthermore, increased adoption of SOC as a Service by government and public sector is expected to drive the SOC as a Service market size.
Governments are heavily deploying new technology solutions through digital governance initiatives and smart cities.
Applications in the government and public sector industry verticals are becoming the primary targets for cyber criminals to access confidential data.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the reliance on online businesses has increased significantly.
BFSI, retail, government and public sector, electricity, and infrastructure, healthcare and manufacturing sectors, among others, are using the internet to provide the requisite services to customers.
This increasing focus on online business due to the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to further propel the growth of SOC as a Service market size.
When it comes to regions, Asia Pacific is expected to witness the highest CAGR growth during the forecast period. Industries such as financial institutions, government and public sector, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, energy and utilities, and others are expected to adopt SOC as a service solution in this region.
Companies operating in APAC will benefit from flexible economic conditions, government-driven industrialisation policies, and increasing digitalisation, the report finds.
North America also is expected to hold a significant SOC as a service market share during the forecast period. This is due to the increased focus to enhance advanced systems protection for the enterprises, increasing the need for data security, and the strong presence of several market players.
Major key vendors include Proficio, BlackStratus, Thales e-Security, Cygilant, Alert Logic, Arctic Wolf Networks, Netmagic Solutions, ESDS Software Solution, AQM Technologies and Suma Soft.
In the reportGlobal Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 20212026,SOC as a Service Market is Segmented by type (Prevention, Detection, Incident Response), application (BFSI, Healthcare, Education, Retail, IT and Telecom, Logistics and Transportation, Manufacturing, Others), key vendors and regional growth.
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How COVID-19 Tilted the Scale in Favor of VPNs – Infosecurity Magazine
While one situation can be catastrophic for a group, it can also be a blessing for another. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people believed that VPNs were doomed but, the reverse has happened. VPNs have become a must-have for remote workers to do their jobs during the pandemic, and whats more, we expect that this will become the norm in the post-COVID-19 world.
Though COVID-19 was reported to have started in 2019, early 2020 was when it gained ground, and that was also when the turn around for VPNs began. Without mincing words, the COVID-19 pandemic caused massive digital transformation for many businesses and office workers.
The traditional VPN connectivity
Before the pandemic, relatively few numbers of people worked from home, but now the case has changed. It has become imperative that organizations must seek ways to support workers who will have to use computers and mobile devices from home to access corporate resources.
The traditional VPN makes use of a thick client model to build a secure tunnel from the client device to the corporate network. This is the tunnel that all network communications use.
There is, however, this cost implication you must think about because of hair pinning. The model works on the basis that access to public cloud resources must go through the VPN tunnel to the corporate site, which then forwards access back out to the internet-based cloud provider.
Expected innovations in VPN technology
Advancements in technology transcend all fields, and VPN technology is not left out. While what we have seems to suffice, we must bear in mind that there is the possibility for end systems' to increase power, and that will facilitate the migration of more software-based VPN technology into endpoints.
This scenario calls for innovation in VPN technologies to take advantage of local process capabilities, hence, making VPNs easier for both users and network administrators. There will then be central systems through which network admins can control VPN administration.
Indeed, we dont need hardware in a software world but, we will still need the physical connections and that means we cant do without some form of hardware. One way out, however, is to deploy x86 compute systems to replace some dedicated devices and carry out functions we were using hardware for.
This may have to be at the network edge, where we have distributed computational resources. For now, we dont have anything in sight to replace hardware yet, as the speeds the network core requires can only be possible with dedicated hardware.
Another possible transformation is for VPNs to function like software-defined WAN products. This will ensure that connectivity does not depend on the underlying physical network that can be wired, wireless, or cellular, as well as its addressing.
The workings of the evolving VPN systems must focus on the ability to use the advantages of multiple paths and transparently switch between them.
Expected innovations in VPN security
While we must commend efforts put into VPNs to thwart cyberattacks, its obvious that they have not been outrightly efficient, as cyber-attacks have increased tremendously. Its pertinent, therefore to expect more instances of AI and machine learning being applied to these security functions to increase their effectiveness without corresponding increases in-network or security administrator support.
There must be concerted efforts by IT professionals to ensure that VPN paths are not rendered inefficient when an endpoint communicates with internet-based resources such as SaaS systems. The workings of a VPN deem it necessary that the endpoint must first send data to the VPN concentrator, which then forwards the data to the cloud-based SaaS application. This leads to an increase in network latency. Apart from that, the network overhead also increases within the VPN since the SaaS application also uses encryption.
You can, however, use split-tunneling to correct this anomaly but, its essential for IT teams to carefully select the VPN termination point to avoid creating a security hole. This can be achieved by integrating with smart DNS servers that enable split-tunneling to specific sites under the control of network or security administrators.
To ensure that your VPN system is highly secure, you need to employ the zero-trust model. Since you will have to assume that endpoints are compromised regardless of their location, you wont leave any detail to chance.
Since the introduction of the zero trust model with security components that include allow listing and micro-segmentation by Forrester Research in 2010, it has become the yardstick to measure quality performance by networks. For sound cybersecurity practices, VPNs must deploy automated methods to create and maintain these security functions.
Expectations are rife that the VPN technology will have to upgrade in the nearest future to provide a better cybersecurity environment while reducing the effort needed to implement and maintain that security.
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Internet security Market 2020: COVID19 Impact on Industry Growth, Trends, Top Manufacturer, Regional Analysis and Forecast to 2027 – The Monitor
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IT Training Market is growing at a faster pace with substantial growth rates over the last few years and is estimated that the market will grow significantly in the forecasted period i.e. 2019 to 2026.
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Market Scenario Growth, Constraints, Trends, and opportunities Segments by value and volume Status of supply and demand Competitive analysis Technological innovations Analysis of the value chain and investments
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IT Training Market, By Product
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Geographic Segmentation
The report offers an exhaustive assessment of different region-wise and country-wise Internet security markets such as the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, etc. Key regions covered in the report are North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.
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Market overview Complete market analysis Analysis of the latest market developments Events of the market scenario in recent years Emerging and regional markets Segmentations up to the second and/or third level Historical, current and estimated market size in terms of value and volume Competitive analysis with an overview of the company, products, sales, and strategies. impartial market assessment Strategic recommendations to increase the presence in the business market
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1. Study coverage2. Summary3. Internet security Market Size by Manufacturer4. Production by region5. Consumption by region6.Internet security Market Size by Type7. Internet security Market size according to application8. Manufacturer profiles9. Production forecasts10. Consumption forecasts11. Analysis of customers upstream, industrial chain and downstream12. Opportunities and challenges, threats and influencing factors13. Main results14. Appendix
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Russia got access to the files of its enemies in the FireEye hack – Business Insider – Business Insider
The recent hack of the high-profile internet-security firm FireEye included the theft of powerful hacking tools and has required a concentrated effort by European government services to mitigate damage, according to security officials in Brussels and the Baltics who specialize in counterintelligence operations.
First announced in a blog post by FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, the hack was described as very sophisticated and was quickly blamed on Russia by US officials briefing journalists in the US.
Two European intelligence officials one who specializes in countering Russian intelligence operations in the Baltics, the other a military-intelligence officer assigned to NATO headquarters told Insider the US had determined Russia was behind the hack and had briefed US allies in Europe before Tuesday's announcement. Neither source would confirm when the first briefing took place because such information could be of value to the hackers, but both said the operation was impressive.
"Frustratingly well done," the official in Brussels said. "Targeted the very tools used to protect sites from their attacks. And stealing them from a firm considered among the very best at stopping attacks just adds to it."
Mandia's blog post described some of the tools apparently captured by Russian government hackers as designed for testing website security by impersonating attacks.
"Useful stuff to the GRU and FSB or just about anyone really," the official at NATO said.
Both officials said fast action on the part of the US and FireEye had helped mitigate at least some of the negative effects of the leak.
"The response has included patches, updates, and notes it was fast, honest, and clear, as far as these things tend to go," the Baltic official said. "I believe the immediate threat of someone using these tools on highly controlled websites has been mostly mitigated."
The longer-term dangers, the officials said, are concerns that even after the most secure government and technology sites are protected by patches, the stolen tools will pose threats to less secure sites and organizations for much longer.
"Over time these tools can get into the hands of less professional hackers who will direct them at much less secure sites," the NATO official said. "And this will be a drain on resources, but it does seem like all the software solutions to try and prevent this should help. It remains to be seen how this threat will evolve."
In many ways, the Baltic official said, the biggest win for the Russian hackers would be having had access to the files of their enemies, which would provide a benefit long after the stolen software tools were patched into irrelevance.
"The real loss here other than brutal embarrassment is the value the Russian hackers gained by seeing inside the best tools used to counter them," the official said. "Software can be patched, but knowledge cannot."
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