Detection of compromised credentials as a network service
Techniques for detection of compromised credentials as a network service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for detection of compromised credentials as a network service includes monitoring a plurality of sessions at a firewall, logging a plurality of failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall in a log, analyzing the log for a pattern of failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall to identify potentially compromised credentials for authentication, and determining that a set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log.
1. A system, comprising:
a processor configured to:
monitor a plurality of sessions at a firewall;
log a plurality of failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall in a log;
analyze the log for a pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall to identify potentially compromised credentials for authentication;
determine that a set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log, wherein the log includes a first threshold number of successful authentication events for a first authentication factor followed by a second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for a second authentication factor, wherein the first authentication factor is distinct from the second authentication factor, and wherein the second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for the second authentication factor correspond to timed-out authentication attempts based on an authentication timeout setting associated with the second authentication factor; and
perform a responsive action based on determining that the set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log that determines that a number of monitored authentication success events for the first authentication factor exceeds the first threshold number of successful authentication events for the first authentication factor and that a number of monitored authentication failure events for the second authentication factor exceeds the second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for the second authentication factor; and
a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
2. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the firewall performs multifactor authentication as a network service.
3. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the log is an authentication log that includes logged authentication related events.
4. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor.
5. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor and a single endpoint.
6. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor and a plurality of endpoints.
7. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the second authentication factor.
8. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the second authentication factor and a single endpoint.
9. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the second authentication factor and a plurality of endpoints.
10. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
generate an alert or log a warning based on determining that an endpoint has been compromised based on the analysis of the log.
11. A method, comprising:
monitoring a plurality of sessions at a firewall;
logging a plurality of failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall in a log;
analyzing the log for a pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall to identify potentially compromised credentials for authentication;
determining that a set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log, wherein the log includes a first threshold number of successful authentication events for a first authentication factor followed by a second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for a second authentication factor, wherein the first authentication factor is distinct from the second authentication factor, and wherein the second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for the second authentication factor correspond to timed-out authentication attempts based on an authentication timeout setting associated with the second authentication factor; and
performing a responsive action based on determining that the set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log that determines that a number of monitored authentication success events for the first authentication factor exceeds the first threshold number of successful authentication events for the first authentication factor and that a number of monitored authentication failure events for the second authentication factor exceeds the second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for the second authentication factor.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor.
13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor and a single endpoint.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor and a plurality of endpoints.
15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
generating an alert or logging a warning based on determining that an endpoint has been compromised based on the analysis of the log.
16. A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
monitoring a plurality of sessions at a firewall;
logging a plurality of failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall in a log;
analyzing the log for a pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate at the firewall to identify potentially compromised credentials for authentication;
determining that a set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log, wherein the log includes a first threshold number of successful authentication events for a first authentication factor followed by a second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for a second authentication factor, wherein the first authentication factor is distinct from the second authentication factor, and wherein the second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for the second authentication factor correspond to timed-out authentication attempts based on an authentication timeout setting associated with the second authentication factor; and
performing a responsive action based on determining that the set of credentials for authentication have been compromised based on the analysis of the log that determines that a number of monitored authentication success events for the first authentication factor exceeds the first threshold number of successful authentication events for the first authentication factor and that a number of monitored authentication failure events for the second authentication factor exceeds the second threshold number of timed-out authentication events for the second authentication factor.
17. The computer program product recited in claim 16 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor.
18. The computer program product recited in claim 16 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor and a single endpoint.
19. The computer program product recited in claim 16 , wherein the pattern of the failed or timed out attempts to authenticate for a first user at the firewall corresponds to the first authentication factor and a plurality of endpoints.
20. The computer program product recited in claim 16 , further comprising computer instructions for:
generating an alert or logging a warning based on determining that an endpoint has been compromised based on the analysis of the log.
21. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
update a user ID record in the log with at least two timestamps per authentication profile in the event of a successful completion of the first authentication factor, including a first timestamp at which the first authentication factor was successfully completed and a second timestamp at which the second authentication factor was successfully completed or failed.
22. The system recited in claim 1 , wherein the log is an authentication log that includes logged authentication related events, and wherein the processor is further configured to:
correlate a plurality of authentication log events with a plurality of system log events to automatically identify a set of compromised credentials and a compromised endpoint that is attempting to request access using the set of compromised credentials.