MILE Working Group T. Takahashi
Internet-Draft NICT
Intended status: Standards Track K. Landfield
Expires: May 11, 2014 McAfee
T. Millar
USCERT
Y. Kadobayashi
NAIST
Nov 7, 2013
IODEF-extension for structured cybersecurity information
draft-ietf-mile-sci-11.txt
Abstract
This document extends the Incident Object Description Exchange Format
(IODEF) defined in RFC 5070 [RFC5070] to exchange enriched
cybersecurity information among cybersecurity entities and facilitate
their operations. It provides the capability of embedding structured
information, such as identifier- and XML-based information.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Extension Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. IANA Table for Structured Cybersecurity Information . . . 5
4.2. Extended Data Type: XMLDATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. Extending IODEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.4. Basic Structure of the Extension Classes . . . . . . . . . 7
4.5. Defining Extension Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5.1. AttackPattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5.2. Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.5.3. Vulnerability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.5.4. Scoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.5.5. Weakness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.5.6. EventReport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.5.7. Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.5.8. Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Mandatory to Implement features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.1. An Example XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.2. An XML Schema for the Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.1. Transport-Specific Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8. Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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1. Introduction
The number of cyber attacks is growing day-by-day, and incident
information needs to be reported, exchanged, and shared among
organizations in order to cope with the situation. IODEF is one of
the tools already in use that enables such an exchange.
To more efficiently run cybersecurity operations, information
exchanged between organizations needs to be machine-readable. IODEF
provides a means to describe the incident information, but it often
needs to include various non-structured types of incident-related
data in order to convey more specific details about what is occuring.
Further structure within IODEF increases the machine-readability of
the document thus providing a means for better automating certain
cybersecurity operations.
Within the security community there exist various means for
specifying structured descriptions of cybersecurity information such
as [CAPEC][CCE][CCSS][CEE][CPE][CVE][CVRF][CVSS][CWE][CWSS][MAEC]
[OCIL][OVAL][SCAP][XCCDF]. Such structured descriptions facilitates
a better understanding of an incident while enabling more streamlined
automated cybersecurity operations. Because of this, it would be
beneficial to embed and convey these types of information inside
IODEF documents.
To enable that, this document extends IODEF to embed and convey
various types of structured cybersecurity information. Since IODEF
defines a flexible and extensible format and supports a granular
level of specificity, this document defines an extension to IODEF
instead of defining a new report format. For clarity, and to
eliminate duplication, only the additional structures necessary for
describing the exchange of such structured information are provided.
2. Terminology
The terminology used in this document follows the one defined in RFC
5070 [RFC5070].
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
3. Applicability
To maintain cybersecurity, organization needs to exchange
cybersecurity information, which includes the following information:
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attack pattern, platform information, vulnerability and weakness,
countermeasure instruction, computer event log, and the severity.
IODEF provides a scheme to describe and exchange such information
among interested parties. However, it does not define the detailed
formats to specify such information.
On the other hand, there already exist structured and detailed
formats for describing these types of information that can be used in
facilitating such an exchange. They are [CAPEC][CCE][CCSS][CEE][CPE]
[CVE][CVRF][CVSS][CWE][CWSS][MAEC][OCIL][OVAL][SCAP][XCCDF]. By
embedding them into the IODEF document, the document can convey more
detailed contents to the receivers, and the document can be easily
reused.
The use of structured cybersecurity information formats facilitates
more advanced cybersecurity operations on the receiver side. Since
the information is machine-readable, the data can be processed by
computers thus allowing better automation of cybersecurity
operations.
For instance, an organization wishing to report a security incident
wants to describe what vulnerability was exploited. In this case the
sender can simply use IODEF, where an XML-based [XML1.0] attack
pattern record that follows the syntax and vocabulary defined by an
industry specification is embedded, instead of describing everything
in free form text. The receiver can identify the needed details of
the attack pattern by looking up some of the XML tags defined by the
specification. The receiver can accumulate the attack pattern record
in its database and could distribute it to the interested parties as
needed, all without needing human interventions.
In another example, an administrator wishes to check the
configuration of host computers in his organization. He could send a
query to software on the host computers which could automatically
generate an XML-based software configuration description, embed it in
an IODEF document, and send the resulting IODEF document back to the
administrator for review and additional automated uses.
4. Extension Definition
This draft extends IODEF to embed structured cybersecurity
information by introducing new classes, with which these types of
information can be embedded inside IODEF document as element contents
of AdditionalData and RecordItem classes.
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4.1. IANA Table for Structured Cybersecurity Information
This extension embeds structured cybersecurity information defined by
other specifications. The list of supported specifications is
managed by IANA, and this draft defines the needed field for the
list's entry.
Each entry has namespace [XMLNames], specification name, version,
reference URI, and applicable classes for each specification.
Arbitrary URIs that may help readers to understand the specification
could be embedded inside the Reference URI field, but it is
recommended that standard/informational URI describing the
specification is prepared and is embedded here.
The initial IANA table has only one entry, as below.
Namespace: http://xml/metadataSharing.xsd
Specification Name: Malware Metadata Exchange Format
Version: 1.2
Reference URI: http://standards.ieee.org/develop
/indconn/icsg/mmdef.html,
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups
/malware/malwg/Schema1.2/
Applicable Classes: AttackPattern
Note that the specification was developed by The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE), through
the Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) of its Standards
Association.
The table is to be managed by IANA following the allocation policy
specified in Section 7.
The SpecID attributes of extension classes (Section 4.5) must allow
the values of the specifications' namespace fields, but otherwise,
implementations are not required to support all specifications of the
IANA table and may choose which specifications to support, though the
specification listed in the initial table needs to be minimally
supported, as described in Section 5. In case an implementation
received a data it does not support, it may expand its functionality
by looking up the IANA table or notify the sender of its inability to
parse the data. Note that the look-up could be done manually or
automatically, but automatic download of data from IANA's website is
not recommended since it is not designed for mass retrieval of data
by multiple devices.
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4.2. Extended Data Type: XMLDATA
This extension inherits all of the data types defined in the IODEF
model. One data type is added: XMLDATA. An embedded XML data is
represented by the XMLDATA data type. This type is defined as the
extension to the iodef:ExtensionType [RFC5070], whose dtype attribute
is set to "xml".
4.3. Extending IODEF
This draft defines eight extension classes, namely AttackPattern,
Platform, Vulnerability, Scoring, Weakness, EventReport, Verification
and Remediation. Figure 1 describes the relationships between the
IODEF Incident class [RFC5070] and the newly defined classes. It is
expressed in Unified Modeling Language (UML) syntax as with the RFC
5070 [RFC5070]. The UML representation is for illustrative purposes
only; elements are specified in XML as defined in Section 5.2.
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+---------------+
| Incident |
+---------------+
| ENUM purpose |<>---------[IncidentID]
| STRING |<>--{0..1}-[AlternativeID]
| ext-purpose |<>--{0..1}-[RelatedActivity]
| ENUM lang |<>--{0..1}-[DetectTime]
| ENUM |<>--{0..1}-[StartTime]
| restriction |<>--{0..1}-[EndTime]
| |<>---------[ReportTime]
| |<>--{0..*}-[Description]
| |<>--{1..*}-[Assessment]
| |<>--{0..*}-[Method]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[AdditionalData]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[AttackPattern]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[Vulnerability]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[Weakness]
| |<>--{1..*}-[Contact]
| |<>--{0..*}-[EventData]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[Flow]
| | | |<>--{1..*}-[System]
| | | |<>--{0..*}-[AdditionalData]
| | | |<>--{0..*}-[Platform]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[Expectation]
| | |<>--{0..1}-[Record]
| | |<>--{1..*}-[RecordData]
| | |<>--{1..*}-[RecordItem]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[EventReport]
| |<>--{0..1}-[History]
| |<>--{0..*}-[AdditionalData]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[Verification]
| | |<>--{0..*}-[Remediation]
+---------------+
Figure 1: Incident class
4.4. Basic Structure of the Extension Classes
Figure 2 shows the basic structure of the extension classes. Some of
the extension classes have extra elements as defined in Section 4.5,
but the basic structure is the same.
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+---------------------+
| New Class Name |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |
+---------------------+
Figure 2: Basic Structure
Three attributes are defined as below.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. A specification's identifier that
specifies the format of a structured cybersecurity information.
The value should be chosen from the namespaces [XMLNames] listed
in the IANA table (Section 4.1) or "private". The value "private"
is prepared for conveying structured information based on a format
that is not listed in the table. This is usually used for
conveying data formatted according to an organization's private
schema. When the value "private" is used, ext-SpecID element MUST
be used.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. A specification's identifier that
specifies the format of a structured cybersecurity information.
This is usually used to support private schema that is not listed
in the IANA table (Section 4.1). This attribute MUST be used only
when the value of SpecID element is "private."
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a structured
information. Depending on the extension classes, the content of
the structured information differs. This attribute enables IODEF
documents to covey the identifier of a structured information
instead of conveying the information itself.
Likewise, three elements are defined as below.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a structured
information. This is a complete document that is formatted
according to the specification and its version identified by the
SpecID/ext-SpecID. When this element is used, writers/senders
MUST ensure that the namespace specified by SpecID/ext-SpecID and
the one used in the RawData element are consistent; if not, the
namespace identified by SpecID SHOULD be preferred, and the
inconsistency SHOULD be logged so a human can correct the problem.
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Reference: Zero or more of iodef:Reference [RFC5070]. A reference
to a structured information. This element allows an IODEF
document to include a link to a structured information instead of
directly embedding it into a RawData element.
Though ContentID, RawData, and Reference are optional attribute and
elements, one of them MUST be used to convey structured information.
Note that only one of them SHOULD be used to avoid confusing the
receiver.
4.5. Defining Extension Classes
This draft defines the following seven extension classes.
4.5.1. AttackPattern
An AttackPattern is an extension class to the
Incident.Method.AdditionalData element with a dtype of "xml". It
describes attack patterns of incidents or events. It is recommended
that Method class SHOULD contain the extension elements whenever
available. An AttackPattern class is structured as follows.
+---------------------+
| AttackPattern |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |<>--(0..*)-[ Platform ]
+---------------------+
Figure 3: AttackPattern class
This class has the following attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of an attack pattern
information. See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
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RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of an attack pattern
information. See Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to an attack pattern
information. See Section 4.4.
Platform: Zero or more. An identifier of software platform involved
in the specific attack pattern. See Section 4.5.2.
4.5.2. Platform
A Platform is an extension class that identifies a software platform.
It is recommended that AttackPattern, Vulnerability, Weakness, and
System classes contain the extension elements whenever available. A
Platform element is structured as follows.
+---------------------+
| Platform |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |
+---------------------+
Figure 4: Platform class
This class has the following attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a platform
information. See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a platform information.
See Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to a platform information.
See Section 4.4.
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4.5.3. Vulnerability
A Vulnerability is an extension class to the
Incident.Method.AdditionalData element with a dtype of "xml". The
extension describes the vulnerabilities that are exposed or were
exploited in incidents. It is recommended that Method class SHOULD
contain the extension elements whenever available. A Vulnerability
element is structured as follows.
+---------------------+
| Vulnerability |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |<>--(0..*)-[ Platform ]
| |<>--(0..*)-[ Scoring ]
+---------------------+
Figure 5: Vulnerability class
This class has the following attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a vulnerability
information. See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a vulnerability
information. See Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to a vulnerability
information. See Section 4.4.
Platform: Zero or more. An identifier of software platform affected
by the vulnerability. See Section 4.5.2.
Scoring: Zero or more. An indicator of the severity of the
vulnerability. See Section 4.5.4.
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4.5.4. Scoring
A Scoring is an extension class that describes the severity scores in
terms of security. It is recommended that Vulnerability and Weakness
classes contain the extension elements whenever available. A Scoring
class is structured as follows.
+---------------------+
| Scoring |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |
+---------------------+
Figure 6: Scoring class
This class has two attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a score set. See
Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a score set. See
Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to a score set. See
Section 4.4.
4.5.5. Weakness
A Weakness is an extension class to the
Incident.Method.AdditionalData element with a dtype of "xml". The
extension describes the weakness types that are exposed or were
exploited in incidents. It is recommended that Method class SHOULD
contain the extension elements whenever available. A Weakness
element is structured as follows.
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+---------------------+
| Weakness |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |<>--(0..*)-[ Platform ]
| |<>--(0..*)-[ Scoring ]
+---------------------+
Figure 7: Weakness class
This class has the following attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a weakness
information. See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a weakness information.
See Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to a weakness information.
See Section 4.4.
Platform: Zero or more. An identifier of software platform affected
by the weakness. See Section 4.5.2.
Scoring: Zero or more. An indicator of the severity of the
weakness. See Section 4.5.4.
4.5.6. EventReport
An EventReport is an extension class to the
Incident.EventData.Record.RecordData.RecordItem element with a dtype
of "xml". The extension embeds structured event reports. It is
recommended that RecordItem class SHOULD contain the extension
elements whenever available. An EventReport element is structured as
follows.
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+---------------------+
| EventReport |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |
+---------------------+
Figure 8: EventReport class
This class has the following attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of an event report.
See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of an event report. See
Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to an event report. See
Section 4.4.
4.5.7. Verification
A Verification is an extension class to the Incident.AdditionalData
element with a dtype of "xml". The extension elements describes
information on verifying security, e.g., checklist, to cope with
incidents. It is recommended that Incident class SHOULD contain the
extension elements whenever available. A Verification class is
structured as follows.
+---------------------+
| Verification |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| STRING ContentID |
+---------------------+
Figure 9: Verification class
This class has the following attributes.
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SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a verification
information. See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a verification
information. See Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to a verification information.
See Section 4.4.
4.5.8. Remediation
A Remediation is an extension class to the Incident.AdditionalData
element with a dtype of "xml". The extension elements describes
incident remediation information including instructions. It is
recommended that Incident class SHOULD contain the extension elements
whenever available. A Remediation class is structured as follows.
+---------------------+
| Remediation |
+---------------------+
| ENUM SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ RawData ]
| STRING ext-SpecID |<>--(0..*)-[ Reference ]
| String ContentID |
+---------------------+
Figure 10: Remediation class
This class has the following attributes.
SpecID: REQUIRED. ENUM. See Section 4.4.
ext-SpecID: OPTIONAL. STRING. See Section 4.4.
ContentID: OPTIONAL. STRING. An identifier of a remediation
information. See Section 4.4.
Likewise, this class has the following elements.
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RawData: Zero or more. XMLDATA. An XML of a remediation
information. See Section 4.4.
Reference: Zero or more. A reference to a remediation information.
See Section 4.4.
5. Mandatory to Implement features
The implementation of this draft MUST be capable of sending and
receiving the XML conforming to the specification listed in the
initial IANA table described in Section 4.1 without error. The
receiver MUST be capable of validating received XML documents that
are embedded inside that against their schemata. Note that the
receiver can look up the namespace in the IANA table to understand
what specifications the embedded XML documents follows.
For the purpose of facilitating the understanding of mandatory to
implement features, the following subsections provide an XML
conformant to this draft, and a schema for that.
5.1. An Example XML
An example IODEF document for checking implementation's MTI
conformity is provided here. The document carries MMDEF metadata.
Note that the metadata is generated by genMMDEF [MMDEF] with EICAR
[EICAR] files. Implementations of this specification must be capable
of parsing the example XML since MMDEF is specified as the draft's
MTI specification.
1894932013-06-18T23:19:24+00:00a candidate security incidentA candidate attack event
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N/AMMDEF Generation ScriptTest MMDEF v1.2 file generated using genMMDEF
2013-03-23T15:12:50.7260006ce6f415d8475545be5ba114f208b0ffda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca4
95991b7852b855cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83
f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b9
31bd47417a81a538327af927da3e184eicar_com.zipapplication/zip44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f3395856ce81f2b7382dee72602f798b642f14140275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4
538aabf651fd0fcc805d5fab1fd71a4ab352a9c533e65fb2d5b885518f4e565e
68847223b8e6b85cb48f3afad842726d99239c9e36505c64b0
dc9a061d9e507d833277ada336ab681750191932eicar.comeicar.com
file[@id="44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f"]2013-03-23T15:12:50.744000
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iodef-sci.example.comiodef-sci.example-com
contact@csirt.example.com
192.0.2.200
57
192.0.2.16/28
80
5.2. An XML Schema for the Extension
An XML Schema describing the elements defined in this draft is given
here. Any XMLs compliant to this draft including the ones in
Section 5.1 should be verified against this schema by automated
tools.
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6. Security Considerations
This document specifies a format for encoding a particular class of
security incidents appropriate for exchange across organizations. As
merely a data representation, it does not directly introduce security
issues. However, it is guaranteed that parties exchanging instances
of this specification will have certain concerns. For this reason,
the underlying message format and transport protocol used MUST ensure
the appropriate degree of confidentiality, integrity, and
authenticity for the specific environment.
Organizations that exchange data using this document are URGED to
develop operating procedures that document the following areas of
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concern.
6.1. Transport-Specific Concerns
The underlying messaging format and protocol used to exchange
instances of the IODEF MUST provide appropriate guarantees of
confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. The use of a
standardized security protocol is encouraged. The Real-time Inter-
network Defense (RID) protocol [RFC6045] and its associated transport
binding [RFC6046] provide such security.
The critical security concerns are that these structured information
may be falsified or they may become corrupt during transit. In areas
where transmission security or secrecy is questionable, the
application of a digital signature and/or message encryption on each
report will counteract both of these concerns. We expect that each
exchanging organization will determine the need, and mechanism, for
transport protection.
7. IANA Considerations
This document uses URNs to describe XML namespaces and XML schemata
[XMLschemaPart1] [XMLschemaPart2] conforming to a registry mechanism
described in [RFC3688].
Registration request for the IODEF structured cybersecurity
information extension namespace:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iodef-sci-1.0
Registrant Contact: Refer here to the authors' addresses section
of the document.
XML: None.
Registration request for the IODEF structured cybersecurity
information extension XML schema:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:iodef-sci-1.0
Registrant Contact: Refer here to the authors' addresses section
of the document.
XML: Refer here to the XML Schema in Section 5.2.
This memo creates the following registry for IANA to manage:
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Name of the registry: "Structured Cybersecurity Information (SCI)
specifications"
Name of its parent registry: "Incident Object Description Exchange
Format (IODEF)"
URL address of the registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/iodef
Namespace details: A registry entry for a Structured Cybersecurity
Information Specification (SCI specification) consists of:
Namespace: A URI [RFC3986] that is the XML namespace name used
by the registered SCI specification.
Specification Name: A string containing the spelled-out name of
the SCI specification in human-readable form.
Reference URI: A list of one or more of the URIs [RFC3986] from
which the registered specification can be obtained. The
registered specification MUST be readily and publicly available
from that URI.
Applicable Classes: A list of one or more of the extension
classes specified in Section 4.5 of this document. The
registered SCI specification MUST only be used with the
extension classes in the registry entry.
Information that must be provided to assign a new value: The above
list of information.
Fields to record in the registry: Namespace/Specification Name/
Version/Reference URI/Applicable Classes. Note that it is not
necessary to include defining reference for all assignments in
this new registry.
Initial registry contents: only one entry with the following
values.
Namespace: http://xml/metadataSharing.xsd
Specification Name: Malware Metadata Exchange Format
Version: 1.2
Reference URI: http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/icsg/
mmdef.html,http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/malware/malwg/
Schema1.2/
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Applicable Classes: AttackPattern
Allocation Policy: Specification Required (which includes Expert
Review) [RFC5226].
The Designated Expert is expected to consult with the mile (Managed
Incident Lightweight Exchange) working group or its successor if any
such WG exists (e.g., via email to the working group's mailing list).
The Designated Expert is expected to retrieve the SCI specification
from the provided URI in order to check the public availability of
the specification and verify the correctness of the URI. An
important responsibility of the Designated Expert is to ensure that
the registered Applicable Classes are appropriate for the registered
SCI specification.
8. Acknowledgment
We would like to acknowledge David Black from EMC, who kindly
provided generous support, especially on the IANA registry issues.
We also would like to thank Jon Baker from MITRE, Eric Burger from
Georgetown University, Paul Cichonski from NIST, Panos Kampanakis
from CISCO, Pearl Liang from IANA, Ivan Kirillov from MITRE, Robert
Martin from MITRE, Alexey Melnikov from Isode, Kathleen Moriarty from
EMC, Lagadec Philippe from NATO, Sean Turner from IECA Inc., Shuhei
Yamaguchi from NICT, Anthony Rutkowski from Yaana Technology, Brian
Trammell from ETH Zurich, David Waltermire from NIST, and James
Wendorf from IEEE, for their sincere discussion and feedback on this
document.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[MMDEF] IEEE ICSG Malware Metadata Exchange Format Working Group,
"Malware Metadata Exchange Format".
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
RFC 3986, January 2005.
[RFC5070] Danyliw, R., Meijer, J., and Y. Demchenko, "The Incident
Object Description Exchange Format", RFC 5070,
December 2007.
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[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
May 2008.
[RFC6045] Moriarty, K., "Real-time Inter-network Defense (RID)",
RFC 6045, November 2010.
[RFC6046] Moriarty, K. and B. Trammell, "Transport of Real-time
Inter-network Defense (RID) Messages", RFC 6046,
November 2010.
[XML1.0] Bray, T., Maler, E., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., and
F. Yergeau, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth
Edition)", W3C Recommendation, November 2008.
[XMLschemaPart1]
Thompson, H., Beech, D., Maloney, M., and N. Mendelsohn,
"XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition",
W3C Recommendation, October 2004.
[XMLschemaPart2]
Biron, P. and A. Malhotra, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
Second Edition", W3C Recommendation, October 2004.
[XMLNames]
Bray, T., Hollander, D., Layman, A., Tobin, R., and H.
Thomson, ""Namespaces in XML (Third Edition)",
W3C Recommendation, December 2009.
9.2. Informative References
[RFC3339] Klyne, G., Ed. and C. Newman, "Date and Time on the
Internet: Timestamps", RFC 3339, July 2002.
[RFC3552] Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552,
July 2003.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
January 2004.
[RFC5322] Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322,
October 2008.
[RFC6116] Bradner, S., Conroy, L., and K. Fujiwara, "The E.164 to
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation
Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)", RFC 6116,
March 2011.
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[CAPEC] The MITRE Corporation, "Common Attack Pattern Enumeration
and Classification (CAPEC)".
[CCE] The MITRE Corporation, "Common Configuration Enumeration
(CCE)".
[CCSS] Scarfone, K. and P. Mell, "The Common Configuration
Scoring System (CCSS)", NIST Interagency Report 7502,
December 2010.
[CEE] The MITRE Corporation, "Common Event Expression (CEE)".
[CPE] National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Common
Platform Enumeration", June 2011.
[CVE] The MITRE Corporation, "Common Vulnerability and Exposures
(CVE)".
[CVRF] ICASI, "Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF)".
[CVSS] Peter Mell, Karen Scarfone, and Sasha Romanosky, "The
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Its
Applicability to Federal Agency Systems".
[CWE] The MITRE Corporation, "Common Weakness Enumeration
(CWE)".
[CWSS] The MITRE Corporation, "Common Weakness Scoring System
(CWSS)".
[EICAR] European Expert Group for IT-Security, "Anti-Malware
Testfile", 2003.
[MAEC] The MITRE Corporation, "Malware Attribute Enumeration and
Characterization".
[OCIL] David Waltermire and Karen Scarfone and Maria Casipe, "The
Open Checklist Interactive Language (OCIL) Version 2.0",
April 2011.
[OVAL] The MITRE Corporation, "Open Vulnerability and Assessment
Language (OVAL)".
[SCAP] Waltermire, D., Quinn, S., Scarfone, K., and A.
Halbardier, "The Technical Specification for the Security
Content Automation Protocol (SCAP): SCAP Version 1.2",
NIST Special Publication 800-126 Revision 2,
September 2011.
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[XCCDF] David Waltermire and Charles Schmidt and Karen Scarfone
and Neal Ziring, "Specification for the Extensible
Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) version
1.2 (DRAFT)", July 2011.
Authors' Addresses
Takeshi Takahashi
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi Koganei
184-8795 Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +80 423 27 5862
Email: takeshi_takahashi@nict.go.jp
Kent Landfield
McAfee, Inc
5000 Headquarters Drive
Plano, TX 75024
USA
Email: Kent_Landfield@McAfee.com
Thomas Millar
US Department of Homeland Security, NPPD/CS&C/NCSD/US-CERT
245 Murray Lane SW, Building 410, MS #732
Washington, DC 20598
USA
Phone: +1 888 282 0870
Email: thomas.millar@us-cert.gov
Youki Kadobayashi
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma
630-0192 Nara
Japan
Email: youki-k@is.aist-nara.ac.jp
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