Production Support Security Vulnerability Attack

Production Support

The production support is always a touch job to do . The development is a lean process and it follows the timeline, process, planning and execution within the given timeline. There is liberty to give estimation and do planning whereas with support the planning is never the case. One can never know what next.
Security vulnerability sometimes taken lightly in support production and there is always a kind of disconnect among different groups like application, database and infrastructure support. When these groups work in a very disconnected mode and communication channel is not so apparent among them then there is a chance of high lapse in support paralysis.

Poddle Attack

 Unused certificates

Check for expired SSL certificates.

 

Step by step of how to disable SSL V3.

 

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/19/how-to-disable-ssl-3-0-in-azure-websites-roles-and-virtual-machines/

 

Use the following site to see if your site is poodle free.

 

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html

 

You need to get GRADE A after you have applied the fix.

DOS-DDOS- Distributed Denial of Service

Look out of requests from most common source . Someone must be screwing your system calling /loading or making requests to your website. If you check netstat, IIS logs, windows event application logs, webstats or google analytics something which gives you a indication that there is something wrong with your application. This will tell you the unusual behaviour within the systems when requests common to your server from most common sources.

There are chances your application login attempts of all users will be exhausted and thus users accounts are locked. This is a very huge business impact. Just imagine if this is your E-commerce or banking or financial sites. The day loss of business would be enormous. Hence we have something called captha introduced in early web world to tackle this.

Sr.No	Period	User Session
1	Diwali	4,00,000
2	Christmas	2,00,000
3	Normal Day	50,000

If see for given day and timeperiod the session building up in the system is going exponentially there is something serious activity going on in the system. Splunk ,HP and other tools help you find out that.
Check the size of iis log . Compare with previous days and can help you analyse the situations more clearly.