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IT cup noodles – fast step detect IoT devices on your network

Preface:

The world has been changed. Modern people all unforgotable a key word on mouth. What’s is this? The word efficiency. No matter you wait for dinner, buy lunch, queue in cinema buy the ticket.  We all looking for the final expectation is quick! Right?  Since our standard life without computation is hard to survival. How about cyber security. The headlines news alerts you daily of cyber incidents. Whereby manufacturer and business man satisfy your  expectation. For the food, we have ready to eat noodle. But how about the cyber security solution. Any Quick and done solution available in the market?  Yes, it is available. Regarding to the subject matter, below solution is the quick and dirty solution to figure out the IoT devices inside your network! Sounds like a Japan food product (Cup Noodle). Be my guest. Enjoy!

Requirement:

As of today, firm install the SIEM product is the major component to compliance standard. No matter PCI, SOX & ISO 27001 compliance standard they are all require a central log management system. The technical term so all SIEM (Security information and event management). The SIEM system carry a major powerful feature so call correlation rule.  The scenario is that SIEM system will identify and filter the specifics log event of the device on custom setup. Then provide a status update (send the notification email) alert on duty IT staff what is the current situation.

Since the function is ready. We can g to next step.

What is the theory?

As we know, the ethernet mac address contains vendor ID name field (see below diagram for reference) to determine the corresponding vendor. Since this vendor ID is unique and therefore we can make use of this vendor ID to figure out the target.

Criteria (specifications):

The SIEM system default function come with parser function to identify the MAC address of each device. Since most of the log event format are compliance to common standard. The most popular one of the standardization is the common event format (CEF).
The format called Common Event Format (CEF) can be readily adopted by vendors of both security and non-security devices. This format contains the most relevant event information, making it easy for event consumers to parse and use them.

 

Procedure:

Define rogue device detection on SIEM system.  SIEM system is able to use the first few octets of a mac address to identify a rogue device. If so, then you could then use the vendor part of mac address to enforce your company IT policy. Avoid the IoT devices hide inside your network and reduce the insider threat. Below breakdown list is the vendor MAC address for your reference. Since my vendor ID on hand more than 100 pages and therefore not going to post here.

F8A45F	Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd
8CBEBE	Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd
640980	Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd
98FAE3	Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd
185936	Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd
9C99A0	Xiaomi Communications Co Ltd
84742A	zte corporation
BC3AEA	GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.,LTD
E8BBA8	GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.,LTD
8C0EE3	GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP.,LTD
006B8E	Shanghai Feixun Communication Co.,Ltd.
C81479	Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd
54FB58	WISEWARE, Lda
A42940	Shenzhen YOUHUA Technology Co., Ltd
B00594	Liteon Technology Corporation
C0A0BB	D-Link International
28A1EB	ETEK TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO.,LTD
4CCBF5	zte corporation
F0F5AE	Adaptrum Inc.
F42896	SPECTO PAINEIS ELETRONICOS LTDA
5C36B8	TCL King Electrical Appliances (Huizhou) Ltd.
90F3B7	Kirisun Communications Co., Ltd.
DCAD9E	GreenPriz
B4827B	AKG Acoustics GmbH
3C18A0	Luxshare Precision Industry Co.,Ltd.
186472	Aruba Networks
4CB81C	SAM Electronics GmbH
2C3731	ShenZhen Yifang Digital Technology Co.,LTD
041A04	WaveIP
94E98C	Alcatel-Lucent
50206B	Emerson Climate Technologies Transportation Solutions
C8EE75	Pishion International Co. Ltd
CC3429	TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
1C7B21	Sony Mobile Communications AB
BC9680	Shenzhen Gongjin Electronics Co.,Ltd
9C2840	Discovery Technology,LTD..
F89FB8	YAZAKI Energy System Corporation
709E29	Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
E0B2F1	FN-LINK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
F037A1	Huike Electronics (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.

Conclusion:

As said, this is a fast food solution. If the above solution not suitable to your shop. The better idea is that invite your SIEM vendor to develop the appropriate solution fit for your requirement. It is now reach my lunch hour. Ok, we are stop the discussion here.

Cup Noodle please!