Difference between revisions of "Security Duty"

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Purpose

This provides guidance for the UK NGI Security team and what the person on UK security duty should do in the absence of the GridPP Security Officer.

UKNGI Security duty rota is at SD rota

Note that this is different from the EGI CSIRT rota duty.

EGI meetings

The GridPP Security Officer attends the EGI CSIRT and IRTF meetings. Other NGI security team members are not currently expected to attend EGI security meetings as part of their team duties.

Security Duty tasks

• Respond to any e-mails to UKNGI-Security list which require a response. If a UK site needs help which you do not have the knowledge to give, ask the other UKNGI-Security members or CSIRT. Be particularly prepared to ask if sites need help dealing with incidents, critical vulnerabilities, or interpreting information sent from CSIRT to site security contacts.

• Respond if a security incident is reported in the UK NGI. If this happens you will probably have a busy week! See more information here about procedures for reporting and handling incidents.

• Report to Tuesday sites & operations meeting on Tuesday morning https://indico.cern.ch/category/4592/

• and update the live minutes for that meeting.

• Be aware of any interesting meetings or other information relevant to the UKNGI security team, and briefly inform the team.

• By the following Monday morning, send a brief summary of the week and a note of the next backup duty person to the rest of the team
  • In general, this may be done via a message to the team's KeyBase chat
  • If it is expected that a wider discussion is needed, the report may instead (or additionally) be emailed to security [at] iris.ac.uk.

Dashboard checking

When on duty check the Security Dashboard. This is now a separate panel on the same page as the ROD dashboard

Other sources of monitoring information to check include:

• ROD Dashboard
• EGI Pakiti

Critical Vulnerabilities from Pakiti are handled by EGI CSIRT duty person, and are not the UK duty responsibility. However, a polite "heads-up" to the site can sometimes be useful in avoiding a ticket (but check More Notes below on timings).

Note that the Security Dashboard results are built by combining EGI Pakiti with additional, targeted EGI Nagios tests for in-place mitigation. The Security Dashboard actually fetches its results from EGI Nagios, not directly from the EGI Pakiti server. This means that machines reported as vulnerable by Pakiti may not appear on the Security Dashboard. The result is that the Security Dashboard is generally the authoritative source.

For UK NGI Vulnerabilities which are 'High' inform sites if they remain for a day. (These should show in Pakiti)

Similarly for Nagios. Note that Nagios errors reporting 'Critical' e.g. CRL, file permission etc are handled by us. These are not what are meant by Critical Vulnerabilities.

Find the CSIRT contact for the site in the GOCDB, send e-mail to them, CC UKNGI-security

Security Duty Templates may help you draft appropriate mails.

Handover report

Prior to the Monday 1030 meeting, please provide a brief report on what has happened during your duty week to security [at] iris.ac.uk. This will assist the GridPP Security Officer and/or the follow-on rota duty person in understanding what is going on. Provide this report anyway, even if 'nothing to report'.

Be prepared to give a brief summary of relevant information at the UK Security Team meetings if appropriate.

More notes

Emails to CSIRT lists may set off alarms to on-call site security teams so communications should be sent well within office hours unless it is urgent and should not be left until the next working day.

Examples of what may be sent at any time and should not be left until the next working day (but always keep EGI CSIRT informed):

• Updates to ongoing incidents which the site may be involved in.
• Advisories on Critical vulnerabilities which are known to be being aggressively exploited.

Examples of what should be sent during office hours

• Advisories less than 'Critical'
• Information on ongoing incidents which don't require immediate response.

Emails to individuals may obviously be sent as you wish.

Always CC anything appropriate to UKNGI-Security.

Common sense is an appropriate tool!

Useful links

EGI csirt public wiki CSIRT Public Wiki

EGI CSIRT private wiki CSIRT Private Wiki

GridPP Wiki Security Information