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draft-waltermire-sacm-use-cases-03
Network Working Group                                 D. Waltermire, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                      NIST
Intended status: Informational                              A. Montville
Expires: July 23, 2013                                                TW
                                                        January 19, 2013

  Analysis of Security Automation and Continuous Monitoring (SACM) Use
                                 Cases
                   draft-waltermire-sacm-use-cases-03

Abstract

   This document identifies foundational use cases, derived functional
   capabilities, and requirements needed to provide a foundation for
   creating interoperable automation tools and continuous monitoring
   solutions that provide visibility into the state of assets, user
   activities, and network behavior.  Stakeholders will be able to use
   these tools to aggregate and analyze relevant security and
   operational data to understand the organizations security posture,
   quantify business risk, and make informed decisions that support
   organizational objectives while protecting critical information.
   Organizations will be able to use these tools to augment and automate
   information sharing activities to collaborate with partners to
   identify and mitigate threats.  Other automation tools will be able
   to integrate with these capabilities to enforce policies based on
   human decisions to harden systems, prevent misuse and reduce the
   overall attack surface.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.1.  Requirements Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.  Key Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  Use Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.1.  UC1: System State Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.1.1.  Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.1.2.  Main Success Scenario  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.2.  UC2: Enforcement of Acceptable State . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.2.1.  Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.2.2.  Main Success Scenario  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     3.3.  UC3: Security Control Verification and Monitoring  . . . .  8
       3.3.1.  Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       3.3.2.  Main Success Scenario  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   4.  Functional Capabilities and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     4.1.  Capabilities Supporting UC1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       4.1.1.  Asset Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
         4.1.1.1.  Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
         4.1.1.2.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.2.  Data Collection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
         4.1.2.1.  Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
         4.1.2.2.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       4.1.3.  Assessment Result Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
         4.1.3.1.  Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
         4.1.3.2.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       4.1.4.  Content Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
         4.1.4.1.  Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
         4.1.4.2.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     4.2.  Capabilities Supporting UC2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.2.1.  Assessment Query and Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.2.2.  Acceptable State Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     4.3.  Capabilities Supporting UC3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       4.3.1.  Tasking and Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       4.3.2.  Data Aggregation and Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   5.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   6.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   7.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   8.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     8.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     8.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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1.  Introduction

   This document addresses foundational use cases in security
   automation.  These use cases may be considered when establishing a
   charter for the Security Automation and Continuous Monitoring (SACM)
   working group within the IETF.  This working group will address a
   many of the standards needed to define an interoperable, automation
   infrastructure required to support timely, accurate and actionable
   situational awareness over an organization's IT systems.  This
   document enumerates use cases and breaks down related concepts that
   cross many IT security information domains.

   Sections Section 2, Section 3, and Section 4 of this document
   respectively focus on:

      Defining the key concepts and terminology used within the document
      providing a common frame of reference;

      Identifying foundational use cases that represent classes of
      stakeholders, goals, and usage scenarios;

      A set of derived functional capabilities and associated
      requirements that are needed to support the use cases;

   The concepts identified in this document provide a foundation for
   creating interoperable automation tools and continuous monitoring
   solutions that provide visibility into the state of assets, user
   activities, and network behavior.  Stakeholders will be able to use
   these tools to aggregate and analyze relevant security and
   operational data to understand the organizations security posture,
   quantify business risk, and make informed decisions that support
   organizational objectives while protecting critical information.
   Organizations will be able to use these tools to augment and automate
   information sharing activities to collaborate with partners to
   identify and mitigate threats.  Other automation tools will be able
   to integrate with these capabilities to enforce policies based on
   human decisions to harden systems, prevent misuse and reduce the
   overall attack surface.

1.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

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2.  Key Concepts

   The operational methods we use within the bounds of our present
   realities are failing us - we are falling behind.  We have begun to
   recognize that the evolution of threat agents, increasing system
   complexity, rapid situational security change, and scarce resources
   are detrimental to our success.  There have been efforts to remedy
   our circumstance, and these efforts are generally known as "Security
   Automation."

   Security Automation is a general term used to reference standards and
   specifications originally created by the National Institute of
   Standards and Technology (NIST) and/or the MITRE Corporation.
   Security Automation generally includes languages, protocols
   (prescribed ways by which specification collections are used),
   enumerations, and metrics.

   These specifications have provided an opportunity for tool vendors
   and enterprises building customized solutions to take the appropriate
   steps toward enabling Security Automation by defining common
   information expressions.  In effect, common expression of information
   enables interoperability between tools (whether customized,
   commercial, or freely available).  Another important capability
   common expression provides is the ability to automate portions of
   security processes to gain efficiency, react to new threats in a
   timely manner, and free up security personnel to work on more
   advanced problems within the processes in which they participate.

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     +---------------------------------------+  +-------------+
     |                                       |  |             |
     |     Operational Risk Management       |  |             |
     |                                       |  |             |
     +---------------------------------------+  |             |
                                                |             |
     +---------------------------------------+  |             |
     |                                       |  |             |
     |     Information Risk Management       |  |   Policy    |
     |                                       |  |   Process   |
     +---------------------------------------+  |   Procedure |
                                                |             |
     +---------------------------------------+  |             |
     |                                       |  |             |
     |     Control Frameworks                |  |             |
     |                                       |  |             |
     +---------------------------------------+  |             |
                                                |             |
     +---------------------------------------+  |             |
     |                                       |  |             |
     |     Controls                          |  |             |
     |                                       |  |             |
     +---------------------------------------+  +-------------+

                                 Figure 1

   The figure above provides some context for our focus area.
   Organizations of all sizes will have a more or less formal risk
   management program, depending upon their maturity and organization-
   specific needs.  A small business with only a few employees may not
   have a formally recognized risk management program, but they still
   lock the doors at night.  Typically, financial entities and
   governments sit at the other end of the spectrum with often large,
   laborious risk frameworks.  The point is that all organizations
   practice, to some degree, Operational Risk Management.  An
   Information Risk Management program is most likely a constituent of
   Operational Risk Management (another constituent might be Financial
   Risk Management).  In the Information Risk Management domain, we
   often use Control Frameworks to provide guidance for organizations
   practicing ORM in an information context, and these Control
   Frameworks define a variety of Controls.

   From ORM, IRM, Control Frameworks, and the Controls themselves,
   organizations derive a set of organization-specific policies,
   processes, and procedures.  Such policies, processes, and procedures
   make use of a library of supporting information commonly stipulated
   by the organization (i.e. enterprise acceptable use policies), but

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   often prescribed by external entities (i.e.  Payment Card Industry
   Data Security Standards, Sarbanes-Oxley, or EU Data Privacy
   Directive).  The focus of this document spans Controls, certain
   aspects of policy, process, and procedure, and Control Frameworks.

3.  Use Cases

   This document addresses three use cases: System State Assessment,
   Enforcement of Acceptable State, Security Control Verification and
   Monitoring.  Currently, the first use case, System State Assessment,
   is being pursued under the SACM charter.  The additional use cases
   are included to provide broader context to this work and represents
   additional work that may be considered by SACM or another IETF
   working group in the future.

3.1.  UC1: System State Assessment

3.1.1.  Goal

   To assess the security state of a given system to be in compliance
   with enterprise standards and, therefore, ensure alignment with
   enterprise policy.

3.1.2.  Main Success Scenario

   1.  Define target system to be assessed

   2.  Select acceptable state policies to apply to the defined target

   3.  Identify the target being assessed

   4.  Collect actual state values from target

   5.  Communicate target identity and collected state values to
       external system for evaluation

   6.  Compare actual state values collected from target with expected
       state values as expressed in acceptable state policies

3.2.  UC2: Enforcement of Acceptable State

3.2.1.  Goal

   Allow or deny access to a desired resource based on system
   characteristics compliance with enterprise policy.

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3.2.2.  Main Success Scenario

   1.  An entity (user on a system or the system itself) requests access
       to a given resource (i.e. network connection)

   2.  Assessment of system state is achieved using Section 3.1

   3.  Based on assessment results (i.e. compliance level with
       enterprise policy)

       A.  System is allowed access to requested resource, or

       B.  System is denied access to requested resource

3.3.  UC3: Security Control Verification and Monitoring

3.3.1.  Goal

   Continuous assessment of the implementation and effectiveness of
   security controls based on machine processable content.

3.3.2.  Main Success Scenario

   1.  Define set of targets to be assessed.

   2.  Select acceptable state policies to apply to set of targets

   3.  Define assessment trigger based on either a

       A.  Time period, or

       B.  System/enterprise event.

   4.  Define result reporting/alerting criteria

   5.  Enable continuous assessment

4.  Functional Capabilities and Requirements

   In general, the activities of managing assets, configurations, and
   vulnerabilities are common between UC1, UC2, and UC3.  UC2 uses these
   activities to either grant or deny an entity access to a requested
   resource.  UC3 uses these activities in support of compliance
   measurement on a periodic basis.

   At the most basic level, an enterprise needing to satisfy these use
   cases will need certain capabilities to be met.  Specifically, we are

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   talking about risk management capabilities.  This is the central
   problem domain, so it makes sense to be able to convey information
   about technical and non-technical controls, benchmarks, control
   requirements, control frameworks and other concepts in a common way.

4.1.  Capabilities Supporting UC1

   The capabilities in this section support assessing host and/or
   network state in an automated manner as described in Section
   Section 3.1.

4.1.1.  Asset Management

   Effective Asset Management is a critical foundation upon which all
   else in risk management is based.  There are two important facets to
   asset management: 1) understanding coverage (how many assets are
   under control) and, 2) understanding specific asset details.
   Coverage is fairly straightforward - assessing 80% of the enterprise
   is better than assessing 50% of the enterprise.  Getting asset
   details is comparatively subtle - if an enterprise does not have a
   precise understanding of its assets, then all acquired data and
   consequent actions are considered suspect.  Assessing assets (managed
   and unmanaged) requires that we see and properly characterize our
   assets at the outset and over time.

4.1.1.1.  Concepts

   What we need to do initially is discover and characterize our assets,
   and then identify them in a common way.  Characterization may take
   the form of logical characterization or security characterization,
   where logical characterization may include business context not
   otherwise related to security, but which may be used as information
   in support of decision making later in risk management workflows.

   The following list details the requisite Asset Management
   capabilities:

   o  Discover assets in the enterprise

   o  Characterize assets according to security and non-security asset
      properties

   o  Identify and describe assets using a common vocabulary between
      implementations

   o  Reconcile asset representations originating from disparate tools

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   o  Manage asset information throughout the asset's life cycle

4.1.1.2.  Requirements

   A method MUST be provided for identifying a target system (asset
   identification) as a unique entity within the enterprise.

   A method MUST be provided for defining a target system (asset
   classification) based on a set of organizationally relevant
   properties (e.g. organizational affiliation, criticality, function).

4.1.2.  Data Collection

   Related to managing assets, and central to any automated assessment
   solution, is the ability to collect data from (or related to) a
   target device (some might call this "harvesting").  Of particular
   interest is data representing the security state of a target, be it a
   computing device, network hardware, operating system, or application.
   The primary interest of the activities demanding data collection is
   centered on object state collection, where attributes may be
   installed software, file properties, operating system and/or
   application configuration items, and network device configuration
   items among others.

4.1.2.1.  Concepts

   There are many valid perspectives to take when considering required
   data collection capabilities.  The nature of data collected relating
   to assets supports a variety of information domains including:
   security configuration management (SCM) and vulnerability management.
   SCM deals with the configuration of computing and infrastructure
   devices, including the software installed and in use on the device.
   Vulnerability management involves identifying the patch level of
   software installed on the device and the identification of insecure
   custom code (e.g. web vulnerabilities).  All vulnerabilities need to
   be addressed as part of a comprehensive risk management program,
   which is a superset of software vulnerabilities.  Thus, the
   capability of assessing non-software vulnerabilities applicable to
   the in-scope system is required.  Additionally, it may be necessary
   to support non-technical assessment of data relating to assets such
   as aspects related to operational and management controls.

   The following assessment capabilities support SCM relative to a
   target asset:

   o  Collect the state of technical controls including, but not
      necessarily limited to:

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      *  Software inventory (e.g. operating system, applications,
         patches)

      *  Configuration settings

   o  Collect the state of non-technical controls commonly called
      administrative controls (i.e. policy, process, procedure)

4.1.2.2.  Requirements

   One or more data formats MUST be provided to describe instructions,
   data collection methods, to drive data collection (e.g. technical,
   interrogative).

   A method MUST be provided for retrieving data collection instructions
   from a remote host (see Section Section 4.1.4).

   A data format MUST be provided to capture the results of data
   collection.

      A mechanism MUST be provided to identify the device the results
      pertain to (see Section Section 4.1.1.

      A mechanism MUST be provided to identify the software inventory of
      a device.

      A mechanism MUST be provided to associate configuration settings
      values to the associated software.

      A mechanism MUST be provided to identify additional collected
      attribute/value pairs related to the device, installed software,
      or other controls.

      A mechanism MUST be provided to associate the data collection
      method with the collected value.

      Collected data

   A method of communicating data collection results to another system
   for further analysis MUST be identified.

4.1.3.  Assessment Result Analysis

   At the most basic level, the data collected needs to be analyzed for
   compliance to a standard stipulated by the enterprise.  Analysis
   methods may vary between enterprises, but commonly take a similar
   form.

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4.1.3.1.  Concepts

   The following capabilities support the analysis of assessment
   results:

   o  Comparing actual state to expected state

   o  Scoring/weighting individual comparison results

   o  Relating specific comparisons to benchmark-level requirements

   o  Relating benchmark-level requirements to one or more control
      frameworks

4.1.3.2.  Requirements

   A method MUST be provided for selecting acceptable state policy (test
   expression).

   A method MUST be provided for comparing collected data to expected
   state values (test evaluation).

4.1.4.  Content Management

   It should be clear by now that the capabilities required to support
   risk management state measurement will yield volumes of content.  The
   efficacy of risk management state measurement depends directly on the
   stability of the driving content, and, subsequently, the ability to
   change content according to enterprise needs.

4.1.4.1.  Concepts

   Capabilities supporting Content Management should provide the ability
   to create/define or modify content, as well as store and retrieve
   said content of at least the following types:

   o  Configuration Standards

   o  Scoring Models

   o  Vulnerability Information

   o  Patch Information

   o  Asset Characterization

   Note that the ability to modify content is in direct support of
   tailoring content for enterprise-specific needs.

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4.1.4.2.  Requirements

   A protocol MUST be identified for retrieving SACM content from a
   content repository

   A protocol MUST be identified for querying SACM content held in a
   content repository.  The protocol MUST support querying content by
   applicability to asset characteristics.

   A protocol MUST be identified for curating SACM content in a content
   repository.  Note: This might be an area where we can limit the scope
   of work relative to the initial SACM charter.

4.2.  Capabilities Supporting UC2

   UC2 is dependent upon UC1 and, therefore, includes all of the
   capabilities described in Section Section 4.1.  UC2 describes the
   ability to make a resource access decision based on an assessment of
   the requesting system (either by the system itself or on behalf of a
   user operating that system).  There are two chief capabilities
   required to meet the needs expressed in Section Section 3.2:
   Assessment Query and Transport, and Acceptable State Enforcement.

4.2.1.  Assessment Query and Transport

   Under certain circumstances, the system requesting access may be
   unknown, which can make querying the system problematic (consider a
   case where a system is connecting to the network and has no
   assessment software installed).  Note that The Network Endpoint
   Assessment (NEA) protocols (PA-TNC [RFC5792], PB-TNC [RFC5793], PT-
   TLS [I-D.ietf-nea-pt-tls], and PT-EAP [I-D.ietf-nea-pt-eap]) may be
   used to query and transport the things to be measured.

4.2.2.  Acceptable State Enforcement

   Once the assessment has been performed a decision to allow or deny
   access to the requested resource can be made.  Making this decision
   is a necessary but insufficient condition for enforcement of
   acceptable state, and an implementation must have the ability to
   actively allow or deny access to the requested resource.  For
   example, network enforcement may be implemented with RADIUS [RFC2865]
   or DIAMETER [RFC6733].

4.3.  Capabilities Supporting UC3

   Recall that UC3 is dependent upon UC1 and therefore includes all of
   the capabilities described in Section 4.1.  The difference in UC3 is
   the notion of when to assess rather than what to assess.  Therefore,

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   the capabilities described in this section are relevant only to the
   "when" and not to the "what."

4.3.1.  Tasking and Scheduling

   The ability to task and schedule assessments is requisite for any
   effective risk management program.  Tasking refers to the ability to
   create a set of instructions to be conveyed at a later time via
   scheduling.  Tasking, therefore, involves selecting a set of
   assessment criteria, assigning that set to a group of assets, and
   expressing that information in a manner that can be consumed by a
   collection tool.  Scheduling comes into play when the enterprise
   determines when to perform a specific assessment task (or set of
   tasks).  Scheduling may be expressed in a way that constrains tasks
   to execute only during defined periods, can be ad hoc, or may be
   triggered by the analysis of previous assessment results or events
   detected in the enterprise.

   The following capabilities support Tasking and Scheduling:

   o  Selection of assessment criteria

   o  Defining in-scope assets (i.e. targeting)

   o  Defining periodic assessments for a given set of tasks

   o  Defining assessment triggers for a given set of tasks

4.3.2.  Data Aggregation and Reporting

   Assessment results are produced for every asset assessed, and these
   results must be reported not only individually, but in the aggregate,
   and in accordance with enterprise needs.  Enterprises should be able
   to aggregate and report on the data their assessments produce in a
   number of different ways in order to support different levels of
   decision making.  At times, security operations personnel may be
   interested in understanding where the most critical risks exist in
   their enterprise so as to focus their remediation efforts in the most
   effective way (in terms of cost and return).  At other times, only
   aggregated scores will matter, as might be the case when reporting to
   an information security manager or other executive-level role.

   It is not the position of these capabilities to provide explicit
   details about how reports should be formatted for presentation, but
   only what information they should contain for a particular purpose.
   Furthermore, it is quite easy to imagine the need for a capability
   providing extensibility to aggregation and reporting.

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   Aggregating assessment results by the following capabilities supports
   Data Aggregation and Reporting

   o  By asset characterization

   o  By assessment criteria

   o  By control framework

   o  By benchmark

   o  By other attributes/properties of assessment characteristics

   o  Extensible aggregation and reporting

5.  IANA Considerations

   This memo includes no request to IANA.

   All drafts are required to have an IANA considerations section (see
   RFC 5226 [RFC5226] for a guide).  If the draft does not require IANA
   to do anything, the section contains an explicit statement that this
   is the case (as above).  If there are no requirements for IANA, the
   section will be removed during conversion into an RFC by the RFC
   Editor.

6.  Security Considerations

   All drafts are required to have a security considerations section.
   See RFC 3552 [RFC3552] for a guide.

7.  Acknowledgements

   The author would like to thank Kathleen Moriarty and Stephen Hanna
   for contributing text to this document.  The author would also like
   to acknowledge the members of the SACM mailing list for their keen
   and insightful feedback on the concepts and text within this
   document.

8.  References

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8.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

8.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-nea-pt-eap]
              Cam-Winget, N. and P. Sangster, "PT-EAP: Posture Transport
              (PT) Protocol For EAP Tunnel Methods",
              draft-ietf-nea-pt-eap-06 (work in progress),
              December 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-nea-pt-tls]
              Sangster, P., Cam-Winget, N., and J. Salowey, "PT-TLS: A
              TLS-based Posture Transport (PT) Protocol",
              draft-ietf-nea-pt-tls-08 (work in progress), October 2012.

   [RFC2865]  Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson,
              "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)",
              RFC 2865, June 2000.

   [RFC3552]  Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
              Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552,
              July 2003.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

   [RFC5792]  Sangster, P. and K. Narayan, "PA-TNC: A Posture Attribute
              (PA) Protocol Compatible with Trusted Network Connect
              (TNC)", RFC 5792, March 2010.

   [RFC5793]  Sahita, R., Hanna, S., Hurst, R., and K. Narayan, "PB-TNC:
              A Posture Broker (PB) Protocol Compatible with Trusted
              Network Connect (TNC)", RFC 5793, March 2010.

   [RFC6733]  Fajardo, V., Arkko, J., Loughney, J., and G. Zorn,
              "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 6733, October 2012.

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Authors' Addresses

   David Waltermire (editor)
   National Institute of Standards and Technology
   100 Bureau Drive
   Gaithersburg, Maryland  20877
   USA

   Phone:
   Email: david.waltermire@nist.gov

   Adam W. Montville
   Tripwire, Inc.
   101 SW Main Street, Suite 1500
   Portland, Oregon  97204
   USA

   Phone:
   Email: amontville@tripwire.com

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