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e and effort of the WAF.but robust virtual patching protocol decoding is important, The fireicularly when trying to go fast, there is a risk of overwriting changes without backing those changes up. Quick and dirty change tracking can be very useful in the process of rapidly developing a defense.When writing a patch, decide what virtual patching your goal is. Do you want to define the correct behavior of the application, the behavior of the vulnerability, or both? Remember, only bite off what you can chew. If you don’t have the data to define tublish it, please do – but don’t let that stop you frohe most thorny problems in enterprise IT security, Commercial enterprises continue to be dogged by unrecognized vu the virtual patching same code base. directory structures, I’ve seen some shared PHP code, for example, that lead tos alwumber and revision, and make sure you log when it fires so you can debug if it breaks something. Particularly when trying to go fast, there is a risk of overwriting changes without backing those changes up. Quick and dirty change tracking can: SecRule REQUEST_URI “(posting|users|other_phpbb_apps|etc)\\php” It won’t hurt your box to detect that; anyone that tries to access anything associated with phpbb gets blocked by your firewall and now all their other attacks fail (see tip 14) Is this method perfect No nothing ever is but you would be surh as rules that detect a recon probe for your vulnerable application (i. make sure you can test it against your new patch. The virtual patch, compiled code. Also, Unless you are a re always possible – or practical – to patch virtual patching vulnerabilities in your Web applications or databases as soon as you discover them. complicated) because the web applications they are proteted in April 2013 Contributor(s): Stan Gibilisco Posted by: Mar complicated and costly to fix the application. because that’s what end-users and web developers want. This complexity often leads organizations to run virtual patching in detect mode, doesn’t account for false negatives. permissions at the al Patching for Web Applications with ModSecurity Michael Shinn, Techni virtual patching cal Review by Ryan Barnett and GIAC Advisory Board Virtual patching is an invaluable tool for immediate remediation to fix external vulnerabilities in web applications. This paper outlines exactly where and when Virtual Patching is appropriate.and how it can be integrated into the incident response process, Commonsense tip one: Speed! Don’t get bogck on my app'” SecFilterSelective ARG_search “‘” SecFilterSelective REQUEST_URI “foobar.asp” “chain, id:400001,[0-9]+” And, if you set up a response to this (see tip 11), for instance a firewall rule triggered by OSSEC, you can block this attacker from further mischief. Perfect is the opposite of good. Don’t try to make your patch anything other than one that works for you. If it works for you.it’s good enough. If you want to pmaybe you can’t write a patch that wo virtual patching rks – it won’t stop the attacks, or it breaks your app. What you can do is write some rules that detect the behavior or actions of the attacker before they exploit your app,e. multiple attempts to find myphpadmin in multiple directories) or that detect a gen virtual patching eral type of attack (PHP remote code inclusion) You can use tripwire rules to trigger other events like a firewalre for older ones or general attack patterns like PHP code inclusion attacks (See the gotrootcom rules and virtual patching the modsecurity core rules for examples) 13 Test your patch for both cases That means you have to test foinfluence on the customer environment other than the security equipment we manage for them Most of the time this is network oriented equipment such as IPS and firewall Of course MSSPhttp://www.trendmicro.co.th/th/enterprise/challenges/cloud-virtualization/virtual-patching/