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DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II
Enterprise Wrappers for Information Assurance
Washington, DC
April 22-April 24
ISBN: 0-7695-1897-4
Mark Feldman, Network Associates Laboratories
Network Associates Laboratories research focused on three fundamental challenges for practically deploying non-bypassable system-call and library-call wrappers across an enterprise: 1) How to securely manage multi-platform, multi-vendor wrapper configurations over a network, 2) How to manage data flow, using both "push" and "pull" models, to facilitate intelligent, network-wide detection and response capabilities, and 3) How to write wrappers that take advantage of their new, networked environment without burdening the wrapper writer with system- and network-specific details.
To meet these challenges, we: 1) Identified extensions to our Wrapper Definition Language (WDL), database, and Wrapper Query Language (WQL) to permit high-level, abstract interactions with networked components, 2) Developed policy specification, built a technology base, created APIs for host and network controllers, developed a new GUI, updated the wrappers, and demonstrated the new policy function, and 3) Developed a boundary controller and other cross-platform components for interoperability.
The results provide an architecture and prototype implementation for enforcing security policies at system-call and library-call levels across platforms and throughout an enterprise.
Citation:
Mark Feldman, "Enterprise Wrappers for Information Assurance," discex, vol. 2, pp.120, DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II, 2003
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