NETWORK SECURITY

Introduction Network security is a major issue when developing a new computer system. A few of the issues that the new WInt must address are accidental disruptions to the system, loss or theft of sensitive data by employees, malicious attacks to system, and theft of intellectual property by employees (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014). The accidental disruption to systems are caused by employees who input mistakes or leave out important data during input; these mistakes and omissions are typically caused by data entry clerks that input a lot data every day or other system users who create and edit system data. WInt would need to implement applications that use quality control protocols, as well as requiring all users with system access to be trained to help reduce this type problems (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014). Loss or theft of sensitive data by employees can be described as computer crimes by people who have or get access to the system and steal or destroy sensitive information on the system. The majority of these crimes are committed by disgruntled, current employees, although some are committed by former employees who keep all their system log-in information, who use their access to commit fraud, theft or destruction of system data (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014). Malicious attacks to the system are caused by malicious software like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, etc and human attacks that involve spoofing, phishing, sniffing, Denial of service, to name just a few and these attacks are effective on all computer platforms (Ramakić, & Bundalo, 2014). Hackers, the human attackers are also called crackers, can be current employees or system outsiders out to do damage to the network (National Institute of Standards and Technology,