... 1. Create a Word document and name it CS680-Assignment_7_FirstName_LastName.doc(x) (with your name substituted for first name and last name). 2. Part I: put questions in the above file with their respective question numbers and answers, for the following: • From the SINN book – Chapter 7, Review Questions 2 to 22 even p. 292 • From the GREMB book -- Chapter 10, Review Questions 2 to 20 even pp. 275-277 3. Part II: visit the following three sites: • http://www.ieee.org • http://www.PMI.org • http://www.webappsec.org For Each of the three sides find three societies or special interest groups that deal with security, application security, or Web application security. Write a synopsis of what the organization does, and how the society or special interest group can help you become more successful Web developer when it comes to implementing security into your software design. This question must be answered with at least 60 words each part with proper citations, proper references, and formatting. Combine the answers into the same above file. From the SINN book – Chapter 7, Review Questions 2 to 22 even p. 292 2. _____________ is concerned with what an identity is allowed to do. Authorization 4. What is the main purpose of the "Negotiate" authentication protocol? Negotiate is one of the six authentication protocols that are widely used today. Negotiate is the protocol that picks one of the available authentication methods for a system. Negotiate implements RFC-2478:...
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...they provide is so vital that the Army is piloting their use as standard field issue to every soldier, complete with combat-focused applications [1]. However, smartphones and tablets raise new security issues. They are more likely to be lost or stolen, exposing sensitive data. Malware risks are increased because they connect to the Internet directly rather than from behind corporate firewalls and intrusion-protection systems. Security of mobile devices focuses on controlling access through the use of device locks and hardware data encryption. While this may be sufficient for individual users, it is insufficient for defense needs. Many documented examples exist of hacking of the device lock, as well as defeats of the hardware-level encryption. Once the device is unlocked, there is generally unfettered access to all apps and their associated data. Military applications require additional application-level access controls to provide data security. Unfortunately, there are gaps in the application-level security model of the two predominant mobile operating systems: iOS from Apple and Google Android. Our ongoing research1 looks to address these gaps by developing innovative approaches for fine-grained data protection and access control, taking into account mobile device usage patterns, device characteristics, and usability. Mobile Applications Security Threat Vectors Many threat vectors for infecting personal computers arise from social-engineering attacks that bypass anti-virus...
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...Abstract This document will briefly discuss the need and methods of patch management, the importance and considerations of a written business security policy and cross-platform security. Contents Table of Contents 1 Abstract 2 Contents 2.1 Table of Contents 2.2 Table of Figures 2.3 List of Tables 3 Patch Management 3.1 Patch Management Defined 3.2 Patch Management Applications 3.3 Patch Management Scripting 4 The Written Business Security Policies 4.1 Importance of the Written Business Security Policy 4.2 Considerations of Creating the Written Business Security Policy 5 Cross-Platform Security Configurations 6 Conclusion Table of Figures Figure 1: Windows to Linux Authentication List of Tables Table 1: Patch Management Applications Patch Management Patch Management Defined Over the years common security practices have evolved. With these practices the view on patch management has evolved as well. Just a few years ago the common mentality regarding patches was to install and forget. Many systems were deployed and left to their own, few were ever updated. With the rise of worms and malicious code such mentality is no longer accepted. With the new threat levels comes a new focus on patch management. In today’s network environment different methods of deploying and managing patches exist. Networks are unique, like fingerprints, most often no...
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...National Instituate of Technology,Rourkela Department of Computer Science and Engineering Term Paper on Directions for Web and E-Commerce Applications Security SupervisorProf.P.M. Khilar Submitted byDinesh Shende Roll No-212CS2102 M.Tech(1st year) Directions for Web and E-Commerce Applications Security Abstract: This paper provides directions for web and e-commerce applications security. In particular, access control policies, workflow security, XML security and federated database security issues pertaining to the web and e-commerce applications are discussed. These security measures must be implemented so that they do not inhibit or dissuade the intended e-commerce operation. This paper will discuss pertinent network and computer security issues and will present some of the threats to e-commerce and customer privacy. These threats originate from both hackers as well as the e-commerce site itself. Another threat may originate at ostensibly friendly companies such as DoubleClick, MemberWorks and similar firms that collect customer information and route it to other firms. Much of this transaction information is able to be associated with a specific person making these seemingly friendly actions potential threats to consumer privacy. Many of the issues and countermeasure discussed here come from experiences derived with consulting with clients on how to maintain secure e-commerce facilities. These methods and techniques can be useful in a variety of client and server...
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...real-world applications, so for this assignment I decided to discuss the Sarbanes-Oxley Act I am going to explain what it is then list two real life businesses this Act falls under. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in 2002 and was enacted in response to a series of high-profile scandals that took place in the early 2000’s at companies such as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom they rattled the confidence of investors. Sox was drafted by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley what they aimed for was improvement on corporate governance and accountability. Sox was not just intended for corporations it was also meant for IT Departments that were in charge of storing the corporation’s electronic records. This law has a tremendous amount of regulatory standards all companies must comply with these standards. This law helps keep the corporation form going downhill and having to deal with a massive burden. This law asks that both corporations and IT financial department work together in ensuring that financial, corporate and technological controls provide accurate financial reports. The most important element of sox compliance is providing evidence that the financial applications and the supporting systems and services are completely secure to make sure that the financial reports can be trusted. This isn’t just used for corporations or IT departments it is also used for the public as well here are a couple of examples are places like the District attorney’s office (DA), and the Securities and...
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...EXAMINE REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF SECURITY STANDARDS AND COMPLIANCE Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a bill that the United States Congress proposed to limit children's exposure to pornography and explicit content online. Once the bill was passed the Congress required schools and libraries to E-Rate discounts on Internet access and internal connections to purchase and use a technology protection measure on every computer connected to the Internet. These conditions also applied to a small subset of grants authorized through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). In order for the schools and libraries that use the E-Rate discount is to have an internet safety policy that will include technology protection measure for each computer with Internet access. They must be able to block or filter to pictures that are obscene, child pornography, and/or harmful to minors. This only applies when access my minors. Adults can disable the technology protection measure while using the computers. Schools or libraries that don’t use the technology protection measure on received discount for telecommunication. If the schools or libraries use the technology protection measure must hold at least one public hearing to address the internet safety policy. Below you will find the items that need to be address during the hearing: • Access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet; • The safety and security of minors when using electronic mail, chat rooms and other forms...
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...Web Server Application Attacks Brooks Gunn Professor Nyeanchi CIS 502 July 10, 2013 Web Server Application Attacks Many organizations have begun to use web applications instead of client/server or distributed applications. These applications has provided organizations with better network performance, lower cost of ownership, thinner clients, and a way for any user to access the application. We applications significantly reduce the number of software programs that must be installed and maintained in end user workstations (Gregory 2010). Web applications are becoming a primary target for cyber criminals and hackers. They have become major targets because of the enormous amounts of data being shared through these applications and they are so often used to manage valuable information. Some criminals simply just want vandalize and cause harm to operations. There are several different types of web application attacks. Directory traversal, buffer overflows, and SQL injections are three of the more common attacks. One of the most common attacks on web based applications is directory traversal. This attack’s main purpose is the have an application access a computer file that is not intended to be accessible. It is a form of HTTP exploit in which the hacker will use the software on a Web server to access data in a directory other than the server’s root directory. The hacker could possibly execute commands...
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...Build a Web Applications and Security Development Life Cycle Plan What are the elements of a successful SDL? The elements of a successful SDL include a central group within the company (or software development organization) that drives the development and evolution of security best practices and process improvements, serves as a source of expertise for the organization as a whole, and performs a review (the Final Security Review or FSR) before software is released. What are the activities that occur within each phase? Training Phase- Core Security Training Requirements Phase- Establish security requirements, create Quality Gates/Bug Bars, perform Privacy Risk assesments. Design Phase-Establish Design Requirements, perform Attack Surface Analysis/Reduction, use Threat Modeling Implementation Phase- Use approved tools, Deprecate unsafe functions perform static analysis Verification Phase- Perform Dynamic Analysis, Perform Fuzz Testing, Conduct Attack Surface Review Release Phase- Create an incident Response Plan, Conduct Final Security Review, Certify release and archive Response Phase- Execute Incident Response Plan Phase Activities Roles Tools Requirements - Establish Security Requirements -Create Quality Gates/Bug Bars -Perform Security and Privacy Risk Assessments -Project Managers -Security Analysts -Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System - MSF-Agile + SDL Process Template Design -Establish Design Requirements -Perform Attack Surface...
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...RECENT CYBER ATTACKS SANDEEP VEMULAPALLI 12917417 IA-606 ST.CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY SEP4, 2015 Cyber Attack: The attempt of breaching the security layers of an organization or a system by disrupting the network and there by accessing, stealing, modifying or destroying the valuable data and using the data for fraudulent purposes, causing a loss to the organization is called a Cyber Attack Origin: The idea of cyber attacks began at the earlier development of World Wide Web (www) in this stage there was not much harm to the organization but as there was advancement in technology the number of hackers increased day by day and also the effectiveness of the hacking technology has increased a lot which results a severe damage to the organization In more recent times many organizations like manufacturing companies, IT companies, banks and health care providers have been prone to the cyber theft and they lost huge volume of information which incurred huge losses to the companies. Some of the examples include the attack on Target, Primera Blue Cross, E-Bay, JP Morgan Chase bank Sony PSN and many other. These attacks have happened because of poor security measures and the loopholes in the system by which hackers gained access and made the companies to compromise a huge volume of information. Cyber Attack on Primera Blue Cross: Primera blue cross is one of the leading insurance company in Washington .It has undergone a cyber attack on May 5th and the breach...
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...com 3 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh bikasbd@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Nowadays it is very important to maintain a high level security to ensure safe and trusted communication of information between various organizations. But secured data communication over internet and any other network is always under threat of intrusions and misuses. So Intrusion Detection Systems have become a needful component in terms of computer and network security. There are various approaches being utilized in intrusion detections, but unfortunately any of the systems so far is not completely flawless. So, the quest of betterment continues. In this progression, here we present an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), by applying genetic algorithm (GA) to efficiently detect various types of network intrusions. Parameters and evolution processes for GA are discussed in details and implemented. This approach uses evolution theory to information evolution in order to filter the traffic data and thus reduce the complexity. To implement and measure the performance of our system we used the KDD99 benchmark dataset and obtained reasonable detection rate. KEYWORDS Computer & Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Detection System, Genetic Algorithm, KDD Cup 1999 Dataset. 1. INTRODUCTION In 1987 Dorothy E. Denning proposed intrusion detection as is an...
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...Security Issues and Solutions in Ecommerce Applications The rise in popularity of conducting business online via ecommerce sites has not gone unnoticed by hackers and other cyber-criminals. A rise in the number of transactions and an increase in businesses that have an online presence have provided hackers with increased opportunities to exploit security vulnerabilities in ecommerce applications for personal profit, at the expense of legitimate businesses and users. A successful attack can result in downtime, the theft of user financial and personal information, loss of revenue, and loss of customers. This paper will offer an overview of some common types of security vulnerabilities and attacks on ecommerce platforms as well as some common tactics to prevent such attacks. Additional suggestions for maximizing information security on an application level as well as within an origination will be made with the goal emphasizing the prevention of attacks. There are numerous tactics that exploiters use to gain access to user personal and financial information on ecommerce sites. One common attack is SQL injection, which is a tactic where a hacker inserts SQL query data into user input fields on a web site, with the goal of that query being executed by the database. With the strategic placement of apostrophes, dashes and semi-colons, the hacker can execute queries that bring a web site down, provide access to customer financial and other personal information, and even manipulate...
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...Unit 9 Discussion 1: Business anywhere-Security and the mobile User The need for employees to check their emails and keep in touch with customers is becoming more and more of a frequent need to keep business moving. National Express Packaging’s employees are in need of using end point devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops and USB devices to access company information. There have been various requests upon this subject per department and it is necessary to provide specific end point devices to the various departments only depending on what they need. The sales team only needs to check email and their work contacts frequently. A mobile device such as a cell phone can be used in this case for this department. The sales employees will be able to check their email at any time providing they have an encrypted connection to go along with their email. This device can be provided by the company or they can use their own device but a policy must be in place if the personal mobile device will be used. The Service team needs to be able to check online for packaging rates and be able to chat with users. In this department, it is best to use a tablet in the case that the tablet will have internet access and will use a specific application to be able to chat with customers. For the IT department, users should have the ability to use a laptop as they will be doing more rigorous activities. The laptop must be secured and hardened to prevent remote attacks. In order to connect to to...
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...Linux Security Lab 5 Apply Hardened Security for Linux Services & Applications 1. /etc 2. Edit skip-networking in the document. This is disabled by default so I think it is a best practice. Init Level | Comments | 0 | Runlevel 0 is reserved for the "shutdown" phase. Entering init 0 from the shell prompt will shutdown the system and usually power off the machine. | 1 | Runlevel 1 is usually for very basic commands. This is the equivalent to "safe mode" used by Windows. This level is usually only used to asses repairs or maintenance to the system. This is a single-user mode and does not allow other users to login to the machine. | 2 | Runlevel 2 is used to start most of the machines services. However, it does not start the network file sharing service (SMB, NFS). This will allows multiple users to login to the machine. | 3 | Runlevel 3 is commonly used by servers. This loads all services except the X windows system. This means the system will boot to the equivalent of DOS. No GUIs (KDE, Gnome) will start. This level allows multiple users to login to the machine. | 4 | Runlevel 4 is usually a "custom" level. By default it will start a few more services than level 3. This level is usually only used under special circumstances. | 5 | Runlevel 5 is everything! This will start any GUIs, extra services for printing, and 3rd party services. Full multi-users support also. This runlevel is generally used on by workstations. | 6 | Runlevel 6 is reserved for...
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...Jayveu Diaz Instructions: Given the network security applications and countermeasures in the first column of the table below, explore answers to the following questions: ▪ Where does the countermeasure belong in the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure? ▪ What CIA functions does the countermeasure provide? Provide your answers in the table below. |Network Security Applications and Countermeasures |Domains |CIA Function | |Ethical hacker | | | | |User |Integrity | |Intrusion detection system/intrusion prevention system (IDS/IPS) | | | | | | | | |LAN-to-WAN | | | |Workstation |Integrity | |Access controls | ...
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...VOLUME 5 State of Software Security Report The Intractable Problem of Insecure Software APRIL 2013 Read Our Predictions for 2013 and Beyond Dear SoSS Report Reader, As some of you may know I have spent most of my 25 year career in the IT Security industry, more specifically, I’ve been focused on application security as the use of web and mobile applications has flourished. For the past five years I have been an active participant in the preparation of the report before you today—our annual State of Software Security Report, or as we fondly refer to it at Veracode, the SoSS Report. Throughout my career I have been evangelizing the need for more secure application development practices, and with the release of each new SoSS report I find myself of two minds. The optimist in me is proud of the vast improvement in general awareness of the importance of securing the application layer. But the pessimist remains very concerned that we are not seeing the dramatic decreases in exploitable coding flaws that I expect to see with each passing year. It’s as if for each customer, development team, or application that has become more secure, there are an equal number or more that do not. While the benefits of web applications are clear to organizations, the risks to their brands, infrastructure, and their data are seemingly not as clear, despite being more apparent than ever. It’s at this point of my letter that I could mention that a cyber-Vesuvius is about to bubble over and create...
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