Computer Security Careers Blake Eubank Harrisburg Community College 1 A. After going to http://www.giac.org I learned it is a great place to get certified in more than 20 different specialized information security areas. It targets specific skills sets rather than generalizing. They offer more disciplines and focus on the skills required to master specific jobs. (Northcutt, 2011) The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is a non-profit organization which provides forums
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Discussion Questions - Unit 1 1. Consider the information stored on your personal computer. Do you, at this moment, have information stored in your computer that is critical to your personal life? If that information became compromised or lost, what effect would it have on you? (150 - 200 words) I do have personal information stored on my computer that is very critical to my personal life. My personal computer holds credit card numbers, bank account details, passwords, medical information, websites
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8/31/14 Computer Operation and Security Task 1 AMI - 6 beeps AMI – BIOS cannot switch CPU into protected mode Phoenix - beep - pause - beep beep beep - pause - beep beep beep beep- pause - beep beep + 1-3-4-3 Phoenix – Test 512K base memory Task 2 Both hardware and software firewalls prevent unauthorized access and unauthorized use to the network. These firewalls ignore information that is not secured and comes from locations that are unknown and suspicious. Hardware firewalls can
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tremendous increasing number of connected people and devices, it is a bigger risk there to be resolved. A rough definition for the term cybercrime is a crime which is influenced by some kind of computer or cyber aspect. To be more specific, it is a crime that has illegal activities through it by using computers or network or hardware devices as its primary medium for some commissions. The commissions depend on how huge the illegal activities are. There are lots of cases that the performers of the cybercrime
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Michael Anderson Principles of Info Security Professor Corey Jackson Outline In order for a company to be successful it needs to ensure that the security of its network is up to par and can protect the data from 2.0 Incident-Response Policy for Gem Infosys. |Gem Infosys Policy Sections | |1.0 |Identification of Incidents/Threats
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Computer and Network security Problem statement Unauthorized Access “As the threat of unauthorized access grows companies and people continue to look for security to upgrade.” (Howard, 2009)``Unauthorized access'' is a very high-level term that can refer to a number of different sorts of attacks. The goal of these attacks is to access some resource that your machine should not provide the attacker. For example, a host might be a web server, and should provide anyone with requested web pages
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CSS150 – Introduction to Information Security Phase 5 Individual Project Kenneth A. Crawford Dr. Shawn P. Murray June 23, 2013 Table of Contents Phase 1 Discussion Board 2 3 Phase 1 Individual Project 5 Phase 2 Discussion Board 8 Richmond Investments: Remote Access Policy 8 Phase 2 Individual Project 11 Richmond Investments: LAN-to-WAN, Internet, and Web Surfing Acceptable Use Policy 11 Phase 3 Discussion Board: Blaster Worm 17 Phase 3 Individual Project 19 Phase 4 Individual
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user or admin have a guessable password in Windows NT (CVE, 2013). In the first article it discusses the use of USB devices in the workplace. USB’s are used for transporting data from one computer to another. These allow for business requirements to be reached at a faster pace but they also pose a number of security challenges. Those challenges may be “disgruntled workers, careless users and malicious individuals” (Couture, 2009, p. 6). Ways to migrate this issue is by gluing shut the ports, disable
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November 2015 Computer Security: Worms and viruses Nowadays, in the domain of computer sciences, there is a big problem to face: Worms and viruses. Being in the technology is a good thing, but being n the technology without knowing how to avoid the consequences of the technology is worse. Viruses and worms affect the computer and damage, or in other words corrupt some files that are important to the good functioning of the computer. Viruses have many ways of penetration that computers user ignore
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Maintaining internet security is of the utmost importance to higher education systems. The majority of universities’ administrative, financial, and clinical systems are available through a campus-wide network (Rasmussen, 2011). This means that highly confidential documents, such as student’s personal information, medical records, and much more are housed on campus servers. This information is vulnerable to security threats and puts the university at risk for lawsuits if the information is exposed
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