The three most common risk/threats/vulnerabilities that are commonly found in the user domain are: The “domain enterprise Server Management System (DESMS) in HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges” (CVE, 2013), If the domain user logs into the domain with a space at the end of the domain name it will cause an error and wont accurately download a system policy (CVE, 2013), and the domain user or admin have a guessable password in Windows NT (CVE, 2013). In the first article it discusses the
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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. Student’s
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A threat: Flood, earthquake, severe storms. 2. Laws to protect private financial information * Federal information security management act(FISMA) * Sarbanes Oxley act (SOX) * Gramm leach Bliley act(GLBA) * Health insurance portability and accountability act(HIPAA) * Children’s internet protection (CIPA) * Family educational rights and privacy act (FERPA) 3. Parts of layered security that supports confidentiality * Defining organization wide policies, standard, procedures
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Responses to Attacks Responding to Attacks on Computers Threats to an organization’s computer systems come from a variety of sources. The motivations for computer attacks are as different as the attackers themselves. For example, a group of organized criminals may carefully execute an attack on your computer system, hoping to gain confidential information they can sell to competitors or use to extort money from your organization. Industrial spies may try to steal a company’s secret plans for
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vitally important. The Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is designed to mitigate and handle the dangers that come with operating in a digital environment. Before we can delve into creating or assembling the CSIRT there are a few things that must be covered. By definition what is the purpose of a CSIRT? A CSIRT is there to outline the organizational structure and delineation of roles and responsibilities and to supplement an organization’s security infrastructure to investigate
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All-in-one Computer Security Systems CIS/105 Some of the different programs that I choose to use as all-in-one security that has total protection are Norton Internet Security and McAfee has an exclusive active protection technology that analyzes and blocks threats in milliseconds. McAfee can immediately detect and remove viruses, even root kits, adware, spyware, and blocks. McAfee has a two-way firewall which blocks outsiders from hacking into your PC. The program also contains other features
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Name: Sunil Kumar Buttagandla Student Id: 10000126442 Course name: CMP 630 Network Security Audit & Forensics Professor Name: Dr. Nigel Basta Title: Week1- Assignment2 In the table below, identify compliance laws that are applicable to a large public health care organization. In the second column, include a description of each law. In the third column, justify your rationale for including the law by indicating why it applies to a large public health care organization Answer: Compliance
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was just hired as the Information Security Engineer for IDT, Inc. due to the multiple security breaches which has threatened its customer’s vital and sensitive data. There has also been suspicious activities going on during business hours and at times after hours. There are several items I will be incorporating into the policy. *The first step will be to revise, identify and classify the business IT assets down to which servers hold sensitive and confidential information. But, to determine which
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Essay Designing a Security Strategy Geo-Probe Inc. (GPI) 20 years in business, a company with constant growth and success. GPI provides construction management, engineering design, programming and environmental planning, and other A-E projects in support of a, industry, different government and commercial clients. GPI has 300 employees and ten branch office locations. GPI has many computers and network device attach to their network like any other business. Here is GPI Current network topology
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department is in some way using IT to improve current processes, assist in financial reporting, expand and create new processes, etc. Given the extensive use of the advanced IT capabilities of today, a need for the IT security objectives and business objectives to align is created. The Information Technology Governance Institute (ITGI) illustrates this best in the statement, “While many organizations recognize the potential benefits that technology can yield, the successful ones also understand and manage
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