Orascom Telecom Employees protected from spam Case Study Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (“OTH”) was established in 1998 and has grown to become a leading player in the international telecommunications market. OTH is considered among the largest and most diversified network operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with a mobile telephony penetration of approximately 48% in those regions, and more than 80 million subscribers as of March 31st, 2009. Orascom Telecom Holding operates GSM
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FIRE, FIRE, Abstract Implementing a firewall is seldom a simple task. It must be carefully planned in order to meet all of the needs of a companies complicated network design. The design objectives depend on what problems are anticipated, what services to allow or deny, and what level of risk is acceptable. How to cover these objectives is a lot to consider; how much money is available or allowed in order to implement this design, how long does the administrator have to complete this design
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Software firewall: Firewall software has programs which are designed to monitor the data and also control the flow of traffic between the PC’s and the network. They are used to prevent unapproved access to PC’s or networks. The programs in firewall can allow, control access, encrypt, or substitute computer traffic based on settings. Advantages and disadvantages of software firewall: The advantage of firewall software is that it runs directly on the computer where it can also know about the network
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Identify types of security events and baseline anomalies that might indicate suspicious activity. Different traffic patterns can be a red flag when it comes to identifying different types of suspicious activities. There are multiple ways traffic can change to point out the activities: A sudden increase in overall traffic. This may just mean that your web site has been mentioned on a popular news site, or it may mean that someone is up to no good. A sudden jump in the number of bad or malformed
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Security Evaluation Matthew Williams CMGT/441 1/21/2013 Shivie Bhagan Security Evaluation My evaluation is of the paper “Why Information Security is Hard” by Ross Anderson. This paper is an evaluation that covers an economic perspective of information security in the financial industry throughout the world. Simply summed up by the statement, “The more people use a typical network, the more valuable it becomes. The more people use the phone system - or the Internet - more people there are
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Tutorial 1 – ICT 211 Question 1 a) Describe Active Attacks and Passive Attacks. Also describe three different types of passive attacks and four different types of active attacks. How would one counter an active attack? b) Give examples of two possible scenarios when one cannot be absolutely certain that an adversary is launching a modification-of-message attack or denial-of-service attack, even when the proper security protections are in place. Explain your answer. c) How
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Chapter 2 Review Questions 1. Why is information security a management problem? What can management do that technology cannot? Managing information security has more to do with policy and enforcement rather than technology. Management must address information security in terms of business impact and the cost. 2. Why is data the most important asset an organization possesses? What other assets in the organization require protect? Data in an organization represents its transaction records and
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Security Threats Computer security is no longer just an organization’s concern but everyone’s who uses their computer to access the internet. Anyone who uses their personal computer to access the internet faces potential security threat. This document will identify all the potential security threats on a personal computer and some techniques an attacker might employ to access information on the file system. Security threats can be broadly classified into outside and inside threats. Organization
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Importance of Firewall The importance of a firewall is that it blocks malware that would be able to scan your computer to find its vulnerable areas and then attempt to break it while it is at its weakest point. First of all there is only one way to make your computer completely safe from attack and that is either when it is off or unconnected from the Internet. Other than that there are always vulnerabilities. However, you can make it as close to hacker proof as possible while it is connected
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Stephy Stitt Firewall/VPN Project 1 August 24, 2014 There are a number of risks on our network. Those risks are data confidentiality, data access and network issues. Our network has a router/firewall configuration. All files are kept on the network. The network can be accessed from home. The computers in the lab have direct access to the internet. All of these can invite potential threats at any time. The network allows potential threats through a router/firewalled device. I am assuming
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