...How to improve the Security Posture of a given organizational scenario. In this essay, I will be talking about how to improve the security posture of an organization while coming in with that role. It is a challenge to try to adapt to a new environment as a chief security officer or someone that will be in charge of security overall. You will be challenged with not only a new layout but also with fixing many flaws that you may see in the layout of the security framework already in place. The best way to improve the security posture is to not only apply your skills but have a great team that will work together in making it happen. When managing the security of a networked, one thing to keep in mind is to always try and stay one step ahead of the cyber criminals who want to steal, alter and destroy your data. You can’t stay in one place for very long, because hackers are always improving their methods and trying harder and using increasing creativity each day to breach your network and access all the assets it contains. Now we always have to keep in mind that in many cases the attacks aren’t even related to a network breach, since the most destructive attacks are carried out by insiders who are authorized to connect to your network. A first good step to improving your network security is to look at the physical side of it and improve it. If an attacker takes physical control of a computer in the network then they can use a number of tools to access information that is...
Words: 1237 - Pages: 5
...Officer of our company Celtic Gamers Frontier Inc. (CGF) has read of an increase in the threat space regarding the electronic game industry and he is concerned with regards to our Companies overall architecture, and the risks to our Research and Development efforts and other Intellectual Property. He has tasked the company’s corporate information technology group to produce an information paper detailing the types of cyber threats and malware are being reported on the internet. They would also like the security group to give the company’s executive leadership a detailed report regarding the threats, vulnerabilities and the overall risks that may be present in our current corporate infrastructure. The security department for the organization is relatively small and short on resources so this task has been given to me to do the research and create an executive report detailing the current vulnerabilities, risks and threats and potential impact to our network should we have any security incidents. “Unfortunately, there are inherent risks to computer usage — hackers, viruses, worms, spyware, malware, unethical use of stolen passwords and credentials, unauthorized data removal by employees with USB flash drives, or servers crashing and bringing productivity to a halt” ("Cybersecurity," 2013) . The CGF network is a typical office network composed of an external firewall with an external DMZ with public use servers, and internal firewall protecting the corporate network. The internal...
Words: 1563 - Pages: 7
...Personal Communication Monica Fisher COMM102 February 19, 2013 Terrilyn Fleming Personal Communication A. Communication is the process of transmitting messages. It can be non-verbal, verbal, or both. The fundamentals of the communication process are sender, message, channel, receiver, and feedback. The sender is the person who initiates the message. The message is the idea or thought that the sender is trying to communicate. The way the message travels to the receiver by means of a channel. The receiver is the target of the message. Feedback is the receiver’s response to the sender’s message (Pearson, Nelson, Titsworth, & Harter, 2011). The meaning is the understanding of the message. The same meaning to a message is not always shared by all. If the sender and receiver have minimal shared experiences, the message can have different interpretations. For example, if someone asks a classmate to borrow a pencil, but in their mind it means that the pencil is being given away. Things like this happen because both people do not have any shared experiences and have different meanings for what they thought the message was (Pearson, Nelson, Titsworth, & Harter, 2011). B. An example of a professional message being perceive differently is that at work there was an issue with a written communication that was posted for all employees. The sign read, “Cleaning Service Area Only, Unauthorized Staff Do Not Enter.” The message on the sign caused a lot of chaos...
Words: 1126 - Pages: 5
...some cases replacing manual penetration testing with an overall improvement in network security without increasing costs. New advances have eliminated the high management overhead and false positive rate issues that plagued open source and early market VA/VM entries. This whitepaper discusses: Speed of change in networks, equipment and applications plus the speed of exploit deployment is revealing weakness in corporate policies specifying relatively infrequent manual penetration testing. Perimeter defences (anti-virus, firewall and IPS/IDS) are vital, but can be bypassed by determined effort to reach and exploit known vulnerabilities that reside just inside the fence. The introduction of an automated network scanning mechanism and consolidated reporting to identify and track mitigation of known vulnerabilities is establishing a higher overall security level often using already existing budget and manpower. Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................................................................................... 3 The Challenges of Network Security Assessments ....................................................................................... 4 Protection of the Organisation’s Assets ..................................................................................................... 4 The Organisation’s Security Team...................................................................................
Words: 3435 - Pages: 14
...Communication in Health and Social Care organizations Introducion The purpose of this essay is introduced and analyses the central importance of communication in heath and social care organisation starting with different theories of communication. Also will explore the used communication skills, ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs because of their many different elements can influence the communication process, and advantages in communication. In addition the last session is about how to use the standard software to support the work, why important, and benefits of information and communication technology in health and social care settings. Exploring the communications skills in health and social care organisations This essay argues that the communication is one of the most important elements of civilisation, this is how people exchange of words and meanings through common understanding. Communication is the way of sending and receiving messages one person to another. (F. C. Lunenburg, 2010) Theories of communication As a result of this fact the communication is based on different theories. Namely one of the main theories is the Behaviourist theory. Lefrancoise (1988:29) argues that have two principal classes and they make use any of these classes of examples for learning. Both classes of behaviourism stated on very close to each other as for simultaneity of stimulus a response events, also stated on the effects of behaviour as for reinforcement...
Words: 3967 - Pages: 16
...company was tottering under a P47.1 billion on debt, high fixed cost and weighted down by large-scale expansion projects in China. Its three breweries in the said country were operating way below capacity. To get much needed cash infusion, Cojuangco sold off SMC's 45 percent stake to Nestle Philippines. PRODUCTS: ➢ Produces close to 300 products includes: • B-meg • Wilkins • Viva • Coca-cola • Eight O'clock ➢ SMC 3 CORE OF BUSINESS • Beverages- "beer, hard liquor, soft drinks, bottled water and fruit juices. • Food &Agri business-"chicken, feeds, pork and beef" Process meats, dairy, oils & fats. • Packaging- " glass, metal, plastic paper products, flexible pouches & laminates. B. Strategic Posture: MISSION: ➢ San Miguel Foundation, Inc. is committed to the empowerment of San Miguel host communities and various stakeholders by harnessing corporate social responsibility among the various. San Miguel business is pursuing mutually...
Words: 926 - Pages: 4
...Information sharing between federal, state and local levels How much information is shared? Since 9/11, the Federal government has underscored the need of an information sharing strategy that would allow dissemination of information across the federal, state and local levels. After 9/11, the Federal Bureau of Investigation focused on gathering information about the threat outside the United States borders (Leonard, 2009, p. 67). However, FBI still emphasis on information gathering about domestic threats that can destabilize the homeland security. The result of this process is massive information that FBI shares with other agencies to bolster the homeland security. FBI has increasingly improved the relevance and context of information it shares with other agencies because it believe information sharing is critical to its success. In particular, FBI has robust information sharing network that enables dissemination of information with other enforcement partners at the federal and local level. Given the FBI’s mandate of collecting intelligence about terrorist activities, the federal agency distributes relevant information necessary to thwart any terrorist attacks. Because information gathering is continually evolving, the FBI at the federal level shares raw and finished information product with agencies at the lower levels (Masse & Rollins, 2008, p.35). Consequently, the FBI shares as much information as it deems critical in the fight against terrorist attacks. FBI shares information...
Words: 945 - Pages: 4
...1. To what extent are the Intelligence Community’s Analytic Standards, contained in Intelligence Community Directive 203 (ICD 203), an effective framework and set of core principles for improving the quality of intelligence analysis? What, in your view, are the two most important standards, and why? Comprised of the intelligence community’s (IC) core principles, the Analytic Standards clearly convey expectations, guidelines, ethics, and responsibilities for effective analysts to follow. 1 The five analytic standards, along with the nine Analytic Tradecraft Standards, detail the desirable attributes that increase the probability of successful analysis. Objective, independent of political consideration, timely, based on all available sources...
Words: 1689 - Pages: 7
...MIS 671 CASE STUDY 2 AN INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY BREACH AT FIRST FREEDOM CREDIT UNION Introduction The case is about an information system security breach at First Freedom Credit Union, a financial institution in the Southern part of the United States. First Choice Credit Union (FFCU has seven branches located throughout the metropolitan area. One branch is located at the FFFCU headquarters. Most employees at the FFCU has at least 5 years of service. The credit card information of 200,000 members has been stolen. This is highly sensitive information and it puts the members at critical risk. The security breach might cause loss of finances and other disturbances. Frank Sanders, the CEO of FFCU called a conference with all the executives of the FFCU. The nature of the conference was to discuss a security breach. A security breach that affected card member credit card numbers and personal information. Frank was uncertain if the breach had affected all members’ information or a portion. However, Frank was aware that fraudulent activity had already taken place on some accounts. Due to the fraudulent activity that had transpired Frank had canceled all current credit cards and was sending out replacement cards. Jaime O’ Dell, the chief information officer (CIO) was appalled because nothing had ever happened like this since his tenure with the company. Jaime felt the firewall being used was the top of the line, virus protested was updated daily and an intrusion detection...
Words: 2842 - Pages: 12
...Information Security Challenge February 17, 2010 Information Security Challenges As the world becomes more saturated and dependent upon Information Access, increased opportunities await the criminal element to exploit. This creates new and more costly problem sets that must be mitigated in order to navigate in today’s business world. One of the larger challenges is, entering the criminal information market does not take an excessive capital investment. It simply requires a computer, online access and some talent. Potentiating this problem is the large legitimate market of information brokers that gather marked amounts of information today. This allows for the integration of legal identifiable information to augment those criminal activities. From far away places like Russia, Belarus and Nigeria, scores of criminal associations scour the Internet in search of information and opportunities to be used in identity theft, malware insertion or extortion through complete denial of service (DOS), (Higgins, 2008). The Bigger They are… the Harder They Fall Most of us have seen it in the news, “Veterans Administration loses Personally Identifiable Information (PII)”, “Bank of America (BOA) loses account numbers” etc… At first it seems minor but after investigation it turns out to be large amounts of PII lost (O’Brien, 2008). The criminals focus on big companies (mostly point of sale functions) as they are the slowest to adapt to change and they have the largest...
Words: 2242 - Pages: 9
...ASD(NII)/DoD CIO SUBJECT: References: DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) (a) Subchapter III of Chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, “Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002” (b) DoD Directive 8500.01E, “Information Assurance (IA),” October 24, 2002 (c) DoD Directive 8100.1, “Global Information Grid (GIG) Overarching Policy,” September 19, 2002 (d) DoD Instruction 8500.2, “Information Assurance (IA) Implementation,” February 6, 2003 (e) through (ab), see Enclosure 1 1. PURPOSE This Instruction: 1.1. Implements References (a), (b), (c), and (d) by establishing the DIACAP for authorizing the operation of DoD Information Systems (ISs). 1.2. Cancels DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5200.40; DoD 8510.1-M; and ASD(NII)/DoD CIO memorandum, “Interim Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance (IA) Certification and Accreditation (C&A) Process Guidance” (References (e), (f), and (g)). 1.3. Establishes or continues the following positions, panels, and working groups to implement the DIACAP: the Senior Information Assurance Officer (SIAO), the Principal Accrediting Authority (PAA), the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN)/Global Information Grid (GIG) Flag Panel, the IA Senior Leadership (IASL), the Defense (previously DISN) IA Security Accreditation Working Group (DSAWG), and the DIACAP Technical Advisory Group (TAG). 1.4. Establishes a C&A process to manage the implementation of IA capabilities and services and provide visibility...
Words: 16882 - Pages: 68
...towards a technology-centered society, both public and private sectors have to keep up with and evolve just as quickly, while trying to be proactive when it comes to security. The world today is not as safe as it once was, and as it changes to a more paperless, technological-based society, access to information is becoming increasingly accessible. With this, cyber-attacks and security breaches have become a significant risk of doing business. As hackers, botnets, and various other cyber-based threats have become progressively more malicious and continue to attack organizations and governments alike, a prevailing question is how to unite the public and private sectors so that they can evolve to defend against that which they cannot see. Introduction Today's reality is rapidly advancing into a world that depends exclusively on technology as an approach to work together and connect. With this move towards a technology-focused culture, both government and private sectors are needing to stay aware of and develop almost as fast, while attempting to be proactive in the matter of security. The world today is not as protected as it once seemed to be, and as it changes to a more paperless, computer-oriented culture, access to more and more data is getting to be progressively available. With this, cyber threats and security breaches have turned into a critical danger of working together. As hackers and different other digital based dangers have...
Words: 2198 - Pages: 9
...GIAC Enterprises Security Controls Implementation Plan Group Discussion and Written Project John Hally, Erik Couture 08/07/2011 GIAC Enterprises – Security Controls Implementation Plan Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Security Controls Implementation Plan Incident Response Weekend Plan Conclusions References 3 3 4 6 9 9 2 GIAC Enterprises – Security Controls Implementation Plan Executive Summary The cyber-threat landscape has evolved significantly in recent years. From primarily a threat of denial of service and website vandalism in years past, to the currently advanced and well resourced adversaries employing complex technologies to achieve financial and political benefit. At GIAC Enterprises, we have observed huge increases in suspicious network activity directed at our corporate networks, sometimes even targeting key individuals. Due to the huge global increase in demand for fortune cookie messages, it is reasonable to expect that this undesired attention will only increase in the coming months and years as cyber-criminals and possibly corporate spies attempt to closely monitor our business activities and steal vital business information. This paper presents the recommendations of the tiger team, which was recently formed, with the goals of: 1. Developing a strategy for the implementation of the SANS Top 20 Security Controls, and in particular the creation of an incident response capability; and 2. Identifying and eradicating any possible...
Words: 3167 - Pages: 13
...Suspected incidents may be detected in countless ways. Computer security incidents are normally identified when someone suspects that an unauthorised, unacceptable, or unusual event has occurred involving the computer networks or data base system. Initially, the incident may be reported by an end user, a system administrator, an IDS or Firewall alert, or discovered by many other means. Pre-incident preparation gives YONS an overall view of corporate risks as well as public reputation. Ensuring the security and privacy of data assets is a crucial and very difficult problem in our modern networked world. There is an increase in concern over Database Security, evidenced by an increase in the number of reported incidents of loss of or unauthorised exposure to sensitive data, not only here at YONS, but across the world. As the amount of data collected, retained and shared electronically expands, so does the need to understand database security. Unfortunately no organisation can ever be 100% safe from a security breach. However, I am happy to report that according to the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) in 2013; more than 97% could have been prevented by implementing simple steps and following best practices and internal controls (Imperva 2013).It is in my opinion that if we at YONS Ltd...
Words: 1729 - Pages: 7
...directly by the workers themselves. Handling and storing materials involves many different activities such as hoisting, manually carrying bags or material and stacking supplies. Employees can be injured by improperly lifting materials (manually and by machine), falling objects and improperly stacked supplies. This paper concentrates on the human ability in the movement and placement of materials and other facilities as work progresses on site. An examination of activities on an active site have been undertaken to inform this paper on the practicability and applicability of researched theories relating to human lifting capability on site. The following sites have been examined and findings discussed later in this paper: • Proposed Primary Security Screening Facility - JKIA Nairobi • Construction of a Terminal Building at Isiolo Airport • Crescent residential apartments in Kileleshwa • Riverside place apartments in Lavington. The human aspect on sites being examined relates to the handling of materials and other facilities on site. It is noted that manual handling involves activities that...
Words: 2792 - Pages: 12
