Hello P.Entester,
In addition to the good suggestion you have already received on using
Dynamic ARP Inspection (DARP) on Cisco Catalyst switches, here is
another one that I have recommended to clients (since it is so trivial
to inject MiTM attacks).
Good Security design in VLANs, server placement, and Administrative user
workstations:
Think of placing all of your servers in a separate VLAN network.
Then, place all of your Administrative users in an "Administrative
workstation" VLAN. This is a locked down VLAN in which only hard-coded,
wired ports of Administrator workstations are allowed access. You can
even implement a control of "port security" and only allow the MAC
address of Administrator's on these workstations.
Regular users are in a third VLAN, "users".
Since you are assuming that the only way to ARP Poison is when the
attacker is sourced from the same VLAN (You can't poison remote VLANs),
this does reduce the risk of exposure to MiTM ARP attacks. The attacker
would only be able to sniff traffic from other regular users in the
"user" VLAN to remote networks.
In this design, the malicious insider (or pentester) would only see
success if their machine was terminated into the server VLAN or Admin
workstation VLAN. It is assumed that all regular users are placed in
the "users" VLAN. This greatly reduces the risk. I am also assuming
that the risk is sniffing cleartext credentials of Administrator access
to these systems.
Ping me offline if you want to discuss this in much more details. This
is just a start. Hope this helps.
All the best,
Jason O.
P. Entester wrote:
Hello there,
I am not a networking expert, but in my work as a pentester i often use
arp poison attacks to intercept interesting traffic.
If i recommend our customers to bind the MAC addresses of mission
critical servers' network interfaces to their respective ports on the
routers and switches, does that migitate most of the threat or am i
missing something important?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Peter.
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