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title: "IDS/IPS Test"
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date: 2020-08-12T13:07:47+03:00
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draft: false
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description: "Test your network defence solutions."
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weight: 5
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---
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## Overview
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The Infection Monkey can help you verify that your security solutions are working the way you expected them to.
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These may include your IR and SOC teams, your SIEM, your firewall, your endpoint security solution, and more.
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## Configuration
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- **Monkey -> Post breach** simulate the actions an attacker would make on an infected system.
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To test something not present on the tool, you can provide your own file or command to be run.
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The default configuration is good enough for many cases, but configuring testing scope and adding brute-force
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credentials is a good bet in any scenario.
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## Suggested run mode
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Running the Monkey on both the Island and on a few other machines in the network manually is also recommended,
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as it increases coverage and propagation rates.
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## Assessing results
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After running the Monkey, follow the Monkeys’ actions on the Monkey Island’s infection map.
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Now you can match this activity from the Monkey timeline display to your internal SIEM and make sure your security
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solutions are identifying and correctly alerting on different attacks.
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- The red arrows indicate successful exploitations. If you see red arrows, those incidents ought to be reported as
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exploitation attempts, so check whether you are receiving alerts from your security systems as expected.
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- The orange arrows indicate scanning activity, usually used by attackers to locate potential vulnerabilities.
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If you see orange arrows, those incidents ought to be reported as scanning attempts (and possibly as segmentation violations).
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- The blue arrows indicate tunneling activity, usually used by attackers to infiltrate “protected” networks from
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the Internet. Perhaps someone is trying to bypass your firewall to gain access to a protected service in your network?
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Check if your micro-segmentation / firewall solution identifies or reports anything.
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While running this scenario, be on the lookout for the action that should arise:
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Did you get a phone call telling you about suspicious activity inside your network? Are events flowing
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into your security events aggregators? Are you getting emails from your IR teams?
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Is the endpoint protection software you installed on machines in the network reporting on anything? Are your
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compliance scanners detecting anything wrong?
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Lastly, check Zero Trust and Mitre ATT&CK reports, to see which attacks can be executed on the network and how to
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fix it.
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