...Information Security Article Evaluation CMGT 441 August 12th, 2013 Information Security Article Evaluation In today’s era where technology is always improving and moving forward faster than most people realize one thing stand consistent, company assets. Of these assets none seem more important in the era of “information highway” or “instant media” than information. Protecting information can be the key to a failure or success of a company. A group of security experts from government, industry, and academia put together a list of the 20 most critical security threats on the Internet. Released in 2001 by the Bethesda, Md.-based System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute (SANS), the list is to help network administrators steer clear of the most exploited Internet security flaws (Savage, June 2000). According to (Savage, June 2000) "The main message we're trying to deliver is that there are a few vulnerabilities that are comprising the vast majority of attacks and attempted attacks that we're seeing," said Jim Magdych, research manager at PGP Security, a division of Network Associates Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., and a project participant.” This list is for network administrators who are inundated with the security risks...
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...& Brown, L. (2008). Computer security principles and practice. Pearson Education, Inc. Software Microsoft® Project 2010 (Virtual Desktop) Microsoft® Visio® 2010 (Virtual Desktop) Microsoft® Excel® 2010 (Virtual Desktop) Microsoft® Word 2010 (Virtual Desktop) All electronic materials are available on the student website. Supplemental Resource Microsoft. (2012). Microsoft Office Project 2010. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Article References Barr, J. G. (2012). Business continuity for web sites. Faulkner Information Services, 1-9. Barr, J. G. (2012). Identity management market trends. Faulkner Information Services, 1-10. Barr, J. G. (2013). Common criteria overview. Faulkner Information Services, 1-10. Barr, J. G. (2013). Biometrics market trends. Faulkner Information Services, 1-7. Week One: IT Security Overview Details Due Points Objectives 1.1 Recognize the importance of IT security implementation. 1.2 Identify major security issues associated with physical and operating system security. 1.3 Describe basic advantages and disadvantages among the various security implementations. Course Preparation Read the course description and objectives. Review the Learning Team Toolkit. NOTE: TestOut LabSims are available for this course. See Week One, Course Materials Page. Reading Read Ch. 1, “Overview,” of Computer Security Principles and Practice. Reading Read Ch. 2, “Cryptographic Tools,” of Computer Security Principles and Practice. ...
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...Information Security Article Evaluation Kathy Newman CMGT/ 441 October 02, 2013 Matthew R. Ahrens, MSIT Information Security Article Evaluation There are several ways to evaluate a website or article. Evaluating allows people, especially students; an opportunity to obtain a better understanding on the value of the objects that is evaluated. This paper will allow the reader to obtain information about one of the major errors in Information Security. Error: Believe it or not, people are still the biggest threat to information security. Most companies report that 78 percent of their errors are because of a breach created by malicious acts or negligence of either past or present employees. But, not everyone has to be within a company to end up with a system that has been breached. Systems can have breaches because of several risks that were taken by people in general. According to a blog [ (Dell - Andrea B, 2012) ], there are at least “10 risky practices employees routinely engage in that are directly related to information security”. The practices are as following: 1) Linking systems to an Internet with an unprotected wireless net. 2) Not getting ride of data on their system when it is no further needed. 3) Giving out security codes. 4) Reusing the identical security codes and screen names on various sites. 5) Using common USB devices not protected or encrypted. 6) Leaving systems logged on while not being in the office. 7) Misplacing...
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...is much information and answers you find on the net can be accurate, valid and verified. In the following paragraph I will attempt to explain why there are differences in the results you obtained from each of the two types or search tools There is a vast difference between what the validity and accuracy of the information that is provided by an Internet search using Google.com and a search using EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier Database. Two separate sources producing different results on the same topic. My Google search and EBSCO search was on “articles on privacy and security on the internet”. The top results from Google were foobes.com and socci.org. When I evaluate this article from the techniques from the Berkeley site, I was amazed that Forbes rated very well while SOSSI did not rate so well; SOSSI which is the Scouts on Stamps Society International created by Keith Larson in 2001. This is from a .gov website but yet still. But in using Berkeley Evaluation Technique I have come to realized that you a site do not have to me all five criteria. Thinking about why the page was created, the intentions of its author. I can determine the accuracy by comparing the information to another source such as that of Forbes and also determine the purpose of information or article. The purpose of this article was to inform and educate, there were no other intentions other than to inform and educate. On the EBSCO, the evaluative information that I found on Privacy and Security was...
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...Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle ENISA: Risk Management and Isms activities An information security management system[1] (ISMS) is a set of policies concerned with information security management or IT related risks. The idioms arose primarily out of BS 7799. The governing principle behind an ISMS is that an organization should design, implement and maintain a coherent set of policies, processes and systems to manage risks to its information assets, thus ensuring acceptable levels of information security risk. Contents * 1 ISMS description * 2 Need for an ISMS * 3 Critical success factors for ISMS * 4 Dynamic issues in ISMS * 5 See also * 6 Notes and references ISMS description As with all management processes, an ISMS must remain effective and efficient in the long term, adapting to changes in the internal organization and external environment. ISO/IEC 27001:2005 therefore incorporated the "Plan-Do-Check-Act" (PDCA), or Deming cycle, approach: * The Plan phase is about designing the ISMS, assessing information security risks and selecting appropriate controls. * The Do phase involves implementing and operating the controls. * The Check phase objective is to review and evaluate the performance (efficiency and effectiveness) of the ISMS. * In the Act phase, changes are made where necessary to bring the ISMS back to peak performance. ISO/IEC 27001:2005 is a risk based information security standard, which means that organizations need to have a risk management...
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...WEEK 10 TERM PAPER “The Rookie Chief Information Security Officer” Terri Cooks Professor Parker SEC 402 June 15, 2014 Part 1: Organization Chart When looking at the many different roles within the management of any organization’s security program there are some titles that stand out. One would be the CISO. The CISO is the executive whose responsibility is to maintain entire security backbone, both physical and digital. In an article written for the Sans Institute by Matthew Cho, “CISO Roles and Responsibilities: According to the latest information, almost sixty percent of the organizations in the United States acknowledge the existence of a CISO dedicated entirely to security (Ware). Responsibilities for these individuals include ensuring proper protection for all physical and technical aspects of the organization. Technical aspects ranging from securing communications, applications, and business systems to performing risk assessments of IT assets exposed to outsiders on the Internet. Physical aspects including non-electronic factors such as physical site access as well as drafting policies and procedures for secure daily operations. Along with overseeing the organization’s physical and technical security implementation, CISOs are also responsible for security management activities. These activities may include training others for security awareness, purchasing security products, planning for and managing disaster recovery, developing secure business and communication...
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...Attack Prevention – Article Evaluation At every level of an organization’s structure there is a constant treat of attacks from numerous sources which can include but not limited to spyware, network policies, weak password, and personell lack of training. To analyze this attack rick prevention topic I chose an article from Information today by Phillip Britt titled “Data Security: an Ounce of Prevention”. This article captures the readers attention by using and example of a real incident in which a laptop was stolen from an individual who worked for Aetna and had about 38,000 personal files information from clients which included their social security numbers. With this example the author emphazises the need for stricter security measures and informs the readers how can they protect the information on their computers whether it is a personal computer or a laptop. The article highlight some of the major computer and system attack prevention methods in a condense but precise way from the top security experts. It advises the organizations to constanly educate the user about security issues with the machines and the information they manipulate on them. Recommends assigning security responsibility by someone in the firm or a third party vendor and establish and enforce user policies which include acceptable use of instant messaging, internet and other eqipment that may be available. A firewal it a must in the recommendation, since it will look for abnormal behavior in the...
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...the Ledford article, what special issues must be considered for corporate data which is not fully digitized? What are the potential risks associated with the loss of this type of data? CMGT 442 Week 1 DQ 2 DQ 2: Based on the Barr article, what special issues must be addressed for a risk management strategy that supports Web-based systems? Why the risks are associated with disruption of these web-based systems critical and require diligent consideration? CMGT 442 Week 1 Summary For this first week’s weekly summary topic, please find and summarize an IS risk management related current event. You may reference any source (Newspaper, Magazine, e-article, etc.) but please be sure to cite your source based on APA standards. Please keep your summary concise (1 paragraph) and include your perspective(s) and conclusion(s). If your source is web based, you may include a hyperlink to the reference website. You may post your article summary at any time during the week. Please provide peer feedback to at least one of your fellow class member’s article summary. CMGT 442 Week 2 DQ 1 Based on the Keston (2008) article, how important is enterprise identity management for reducing risk throughout the enterprise? Explain why a viable risk management strategy must include, at a minimum, a solid enterprise identity management process. CMGT 442 Week 2 DQ 2 DQ 2: Based on the Barr (2009) article, what type of software should be considered to provide adequate security management...
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...data and information from around the world. It is use in so many different ways from entertainment, shopping, school to work researches. In using the internet, one normally starts by performing a search using their favorite search engine like Bing, Google or Yahoo. The results of these site engines can be great or not so great, depending what the person is looking for. And then there are databases which not a lot of people use or aware of. A database is an organized list of facts and information also available through the internet. Both search engines and databases are accessed through the internet but produce different types of result for the same topic. I started by my search by using Bing as my preferred search engine and EBSCO provided by the school as my database. I used the topic “articles on privacy and security on the internet” for my internet search. I used “Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask” from Berkley for an evaluation guide. The number one result for Bing was www.ftc.gov; I think the results are based on popularity and the number of “hits” the website generate. Underneath the link you can find an unfinished description of what the site is all about. Using the evaluation guide, this site did not do well. Upon clicking on the link, it brought me to a page that has a microsite containing three different links. When I clicked on the first link, there were no article to be found, the second link had an article and an author...
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...difference between what evaluative and assessment information is provided by an Internet search using Google.com and a search using EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier Database is extremely different. I started my searches by open two different internet windows, Google on one and EBSCO on another. My Google search and EBSCO search was “articles on privacy and security on the internet”. The top result from Google was ftc.gov. This page had a list of three different microsites, two did not have any articles and the other one did. The article I found was on Malware. When I evaluate this article from the techniques from the Berkeley site, it does not rate well. It has no author and it does not cite any sources. The one plus it does have is that it is from a .gov site. Even though it does not rate well I do trust this site. The reason why I trust the site is because in the fifth step of the evaluation process, listen to your gut reaction. Think about why the page was created, the intentions of its author. My gut reaction tells me the information is coming from a government cite so I trust it. The purpose of this article was to inform and educate, there were no other intentions other than to inform and educate. My top result from EBSCO was an article from Communications of the ACM called Privacy and Security as Simple as Possible, But Not More So. The authors of this article are very creditable and qualified on the topic. This article was published to inform, give facts and some opinion...
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...- 87041) Mrinalini Shah (Student # - 86701) Use of Data mining by government agencies and practical applications * Abstract (Sneha Garg) With an enormous amount of data stored in databases and data warehouses, it is increasingly important to develop powerful tools for analysis of such data and mining interesting knowledge from it. Data mining is a process of inferring knowledge from such huge data. It is a modern and powerful tool, automatizing the process of discovering relationships and combinations in raw data and using the results in an automatic decision support. This project provides an overview of data mining, how government uses it quoting some practical examples. Data mining can help in extracting predictive information from large quantities of data. It uses mathematical and statistical calculations to uncover trends and correlations among the large quantities of data stored in a database. It is a blend of artificial intelligence technology, statistics, data warehousing, and machine learning. These patterns play a very important role in the decision making because they emphasize areas where business processes require improvement. Using the data mining solutions, organizations can increase their profitability, can detect fraud, or may enhance the risk management activities. The models discovered by using data mining solutions are helping organizations to make better decisions in a shorter amount of...
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...their services enjoy fast and reliable way, including flexible payment at any circumstance before headed to consumers. In addition, Jingdong mall also offer third-party sellers with online-selling platform carriers a series of value added services like logistics information, etc. Products of Jingdong mall JD provides abundant commodity, type includes computers, mobile phones and other digital products, home appliances, auto parts, clothing and footwear, luxury goods (such as: handbags , watches and jewelry) , home and household articles, cosmetics and other personal care things, food and nutrition , books, electronic books , music, movies and other media products , baby articles and toys, sports and fitness equipment, as well as virtual goods ( such as: domestic air tickets , hotel reservations , etc.). Process of Jingdong mall’s electronic commerce Order received Check availability Article available Procurement no Ship article yes Late delivery Inform customer Customer informed Financial settlement Payment received undeliverable Inform customer Remove article from catalogue Article removed Order received Check availability Article available Procurement no Ship article yes Late delivery Inform customer Customer informed Financial settlement Payment received undeliverable...
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...Information Security Evaluation CMGT 441 June 16, 2014 Information Security Evaluation Introduction In today's age where technology is constantly developing and shifting faster than most individuals can recognize, one feature stand dependable is company resources. Of these resources, none seems more significant in the age of instant media than information. Safeguarding information can be crucial to a failure or achievement of the company. Around 2008 to 2009, a consortium of security specialists from the United States government, private industry, and international organizations generate a list of the 20 most critical security controls against threats on the Internet. Transferred in 2013 by SANS Institute the list is to assist network administrators with the most developed Internet security faults (SANS Institute, 2000-2014). This list was intended for network administrators who are flooded with the security threats that are revealed day by day and not known where to begin. Some software defenselessness is because most effective strikes on computer systems because attackers are opportunistic, and take the simplest path by utilizing the most weaknesses in the systems with extensively accessible attack tools. Hackers rely on individuals and organizations not correcting the faults and frequently attack unsystematically by scanning the cyberspace for defenseless systems. According to SANS Institute (2000-2014), "the present 20 Critical Security...
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...(Prerequisite: FIN 100) Quarter: Spring 2013 Meeting Days/Time: Tuesday’s, 5:45, Prince George’s Campus Instructor: Jason Powers Instructor Phone: 443-599-9525 Academic Office: 301-505-3332 / 301-505-3311 Instructor E-mail: Jason.Powers@strayer.edu Instructor Office Hours/Location: Tuesday’s from 3:30pm – 5:30pm. Online Academic Office Phone Number: 877-540-1733 http://icampus.strayer.edu Technical Support Contact Information: 877-642-2999 Backboard Helpdesk: 866-350-9427 Inclement Weather Policy In the event of inclement weather, consult the Strayer University student website at www.strayer.edu for information on University closings and delays. Be sure to monitor the website for updates as they occur. Additionally, the student is required to contact me at Jason.Powers@strayer.edu. |4/8/2013 |Term Start Date | | | | | | |Week 1 | |Week 7 | | | |4/9/2013 | |5/21/2013 | |Week 2 | |Week 8 | | | |4/16/2013 | |5/28/2013 | |Week 3 | |Week 9 | | | |4/23/2013 | |6/4/2013 | ...
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...Nadja D. Maravi Information Security Article Evaluation Abstract When people think about security they think about things like additional locks on doors, alarms, security guards at the entrance gate, and so on. Others believe that they should not have any sense of security. Technology has advanced so much that if a company does not secure its documents, it may be vulnerable to attacks from a simple code to injected attacks by someone who has the credentials and privileges to complete the attack. When people think about security they think about things like additional locks on doors, alarms, security guards at the entrance gate, and so on. Others believe that they should not have any sense of security. Technology has advanced so much that if a company does not secure its documents, it may be vulnerable to attacks from a simple code to injected attacks by someone who has the credentials and privileges to complete the attack. Recently, Oracle addressed a security issue in its database server that a researcher disclosed at the Black Hat Briefings. The database would be vulnerable to SQL injection attack if the attacker would have the credentials needed to pull it off. The description of the Oracle Security Alert states that the vulnerability is not remotely exploitable without authentication (Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2012-3132). David Litchfield, a database security consultant, showed at Black Hat some attacks that target the database management server. He...
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