distributed throughout the corporation to educate employees about new and existing threats to security and how to cope with them. All employees are responsible for promptly reporting to their management and Information Systems (IS) management any suspected insecure conditions or security violations they encounter. All employees must be made aware of their security responsibilities on their first day of employment as part of the newhire orientation program. All employees must comply with IS security po
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probably the most insidious threat facing Riordan comes not from aging servers, poor physical security, or antiquated workstations, but from their own employees; many of which may become unwitting pawns of social engineering, phishing, and malware. In recent surveys conducted across the industry, “More than 50% of businesses consider their own employees to be the greatest IT security threat, with 54% of respondents believe that insiders are the biggest threat, compared to 27% who fear criminals the
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ISSUES OF ELECTRONIC MONITORING OF EMPOYEES AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE. Introduction Actual monitoring of employees in workplace has been in existence for some time now; Frederick Taylor used time and motion studies to analyze the work practices of various types of employee. But nowadays, the electronic monitoring will give the employers the more information of all the employees’ work activities in a detailed way (Ottensmeyer and Heroux, 1991). They are some network tools that can capture
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to connecting us. The cyber industry is conquered by different industries or individuals, under numerous domain names. Search engines, social medias, blogs, e-commerce sites and news sites are one of the networks we can find on the cyber industry. Google search engine and Facebook social-network are the global core leaders of the cyber industry. Facebook with more than 642.5 million users , and Google with more than 620million visitors daily. Like any other business as big as they are, they are
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on the part of the company's employees. Hackers who do intentionally tamper with the company's network often do so because they are tempted by assets they know are poorly protected. Weak security policies present the image that a company does not truly value its assets, which in turn attracts the petty thief and curiosity seeker. Therefore, the preventive element of any network security system should include a strong and enforceable security policy for its employees to follow, re-enforced by a form
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victim of employee surveillance. As long as the software and video equipment has been around, employers have monitored their employees. Employee surveillance is not illegal, but there is a thin line between wrong and right that deserves more analysis: An analysis of employee surveillance in the workplace reveals an ethical issue of spying on employees or protecting employees and the company. When most people think of the word privacy, they are thinking about their personal space and having some
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of many kinds of social network media, like Twitter, Facebook, MySpac, blogs and YouTube. However, while there are many benefits of using social media for companies, they still face with many problems of the effects of using social network media by their workers, since many workers like to post their comments on social media freely, which may related to the company’s secret information, hence, although many organizations do not have clear guidelines for prohibiting employees from using social media
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It255 Unit5 Assignment TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT:Unit 5 Assignment 1: Testing and Monitoring Security Controls REFERENCE: Testing and Monitoring Security Controls (IT255.U5.TS1) How Grade: One hundred points total. See each section for specific points. Assignment Requirements Part 1:Identify at least two types of security events and baseline anomalies that might indicate suspicious activity. Explain why they might indicate suspicious activity.(Forty points. Twenty points for each
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Chris Browning Unit5 assignment2 Acceptable Use Policy Richman Investments holds requirements for the usage of the company network including filtering policies for network traffic LAN – WAN is where the IT infrastructure links to a wide area network and internet. For Security (Administrators and Managers) * Security monitoring controls for intrusion * Apply email server and attachment antivirus and email quadrating for unknown file types * Disablement for ping, probing, and
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company network including filtering policies for network traffic. LAN – WAN is where the IT infrastructure links to a wide area network and internet. For Security (Administrators and Managers) - Security monitoring controls for intrusion - Apply email server and attachment antivirus and email quadrating for unknown file types - Disablement for ping, probing, and port scanning on all exterior IP devices - Denying of outbound traffic using source IP addresses - Apply file transfer monitoring, scanning
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