{"id":19639,"date":"2015-02-04T23:49:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T23:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2015\/02\/04\/from-castles-to-beer-a-different-approach-to-cyber-security\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:40:53","slug":"from-castles-to-beer-a-different-approach-to-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/opinions\/2015\/02\/04\/from-castles-to-beer-a-different-approach-to-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"From Castles to Beer: A different approach to cyber security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" alternate=\"Jon Watada is director of cyber security at Lockheed\" assetid=\"22890693\" assettype=\"image\" class=\"imgAsset middle\" credit=\"Courtesy\" cutline=\"Jon Watada is director of cyber security at Lockheed Martin Information Systems &amp; Global Solutions.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/b46694a27423015c5ae32f8d559c31044a796495\/r=285x400\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/02\/04\/FederalTimes\/FederalTimes\/635586725513055887-Jon-Watada.jpg\" title=\"Jon-Watada [ID=22890693]\" width=\"245px\"\/><\/i><br\/><br\/><i>Jon Watada is director of cyber security at Lockheed Martin Information Systems &amp; Global Solutions.<\/i><br\/><br\/>In the 11<sup>th<\/sup> century, England witnessed an extensive castle building program by William the Conqueror who built some of the first castles made from stone. By the 13<sup>th<\/sup> century, the design of castles evolved to a &#8220;defense in depth&#8221; approach that included constructing a series of concentric walls around the castles. The concentric walls were designed to slow the invading forces and enable the early detection of the invaders. <br\/><br\/>By the end of the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century, invaders and adversaries began to use gunpowder and artillery which quickly made the stone castles&#8217; defenses obsolete. The defenders of the castle found it to be more effective to engage the enemy on the battlefield rather than from behind castle walls. Have cyber adversaries evolved to the point where it is time to start thinking about cyber security in a different way? Do you have the confidence that your medieval-era design of using concentric circles of walls for cyber security is enough to stop your adversaries&#8217; new tactics and weapons?<br\/><br\/>Collecting and analyzing cyber data using well-defined models helps us better understand who our adversary is, where they operate, how they operate, what data they are after and how to better equip us to engage the attackers on the cyber battlefield. The basis for this approach assumes that you already have a team of cyber analysts who are monitoring your cyber defenses and reacting to incidents as they occur. <br\/><br\/>Utilizing your cyber analysts as the foundation, this approach incorporates procedures, well-known models, training modules and commercial tools to transition from today&#8217;s environment of silo solutions to a uniform and systematic approach of ingesting, fusing, analyzing and sharing cyber intelligence that includes information on cyber incidents, attributes of the attack or attackers and mitigation strategies.<br\/><br\/>There is not a &#8220;one-size fits all&#8221; strategy to cyber defense. Every organization possesses unique types of critical data and information, and with that comes a unique set of adversaries who want access to your IT enterprise. Whether your adversary&#8217;s motivation is based on economic, political, ideological or national defense goals, patterns of behavior will begin to emerge across your enterprise and across organizations who share similar types of information. <br\/><br\/>Using log data from your firewalls, routers, antivirus devices, traffic analyzers, servers, and mail scanners to better understand your adversaries, helps you to proactively protect your enterprise. This approach helps detect anomalies, facilitate gap analysis and assists in the prioritization of future cyber tool implementations or developments. The goal is to provide a high-level blueprint that an organization can use to gradually build up and enhance cyber defenses. <br\/><br\/>To describe this approach, let&#8217;s start with a simple analogy. <br\/><br\/>Those who like to brew their own beer know that there are four essential steps to make beer: (1) Soak malted barley to release the sugars; (2) Combine it with hops to flavor it; (3) Add yeast to ferment the sugars; and (4) Bottle it with a little more sugar to provide the desired amount of carbonation. <br\/><br\/>This four-step approach to cyber security can be viewed as an analogous process to making beer and includes: (1) Ingesting raw cyber data; (2) Fusing or flavoring it with other cyber information; (3) Fermenting it to create cyber intelligence; and (4) Bottling the cyber intelligence to share with others, helps us to form a more complete picture of the cyber battlefield and a more effective early warning system. <br\/><br\/>At the core of the intelligence driven approach reside four key steps that form the basis for a unified flow of cyber data for the generation of cyber intelligence: Ingest, Fuse, Analyze and Share. Each of these steps, by feeding on one another, form a continual loop of enhanced cyber intelligence by taking raw data and distilling it into cyber intelligence. This loop provides the backbone of the environment that enables your cyber defenders to become more proactive by enabling your cyber analysts to consistently be more efficient and effective in delivering timely and quality intelligence about existing or emerging cyber threats to your decision makers and critical stakeholders.<br\/><br\/>Each capability is focused on producing key outcomes or data within the overall process of generating cyber intelligence. If implemented properly, each of the steps can be dynamically scaled to meet demand without affecting one another. In addition, each step fosters evolution of your cyber defenses by allowing new techniques, technology, and tools to be brought into a capability so that the environment provided to the cyber analyst is constantly updated with the latest technologies and data, and provides flexibility so that your cyber intelligence enterprise can easily adapt to changes in organizational structure, responsibilities and methodologies. <br\/><br\/>In future articles, I&#8217;ll describe each of the steps (Ingest, Fuse, Analyze and Share) of the blueprint for transitioning your cyber defense from one that is based on the designs of a 13<sup>th<\/sup> century castle to one that is more suited to address today&#8217;s adversaries on the cyber battlefield. <br\/><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making beer and securing cyber assets can be 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