your concern about information security. I hope this will help to clarify what a “strong” password is, why you should care, and what a reasonable approach would be. First we will start with my opinion regarding what a “strong” password is. To me a strong password follows these rules. It’s a password that is 6-8 alpha-numeric (numbers, letters, symbols) characters in length. For an example for this we will pretend that the password for you to log on to your computer is example. Instead of using the
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* Explain what you believe to be the most important difference between internal and external penetration tests. Imagine you are the manager of an information security program. Determine which you believe to be the most useful and justify your answer. Internal pen-testing takes a different approach -- one that simulates what an insider attack could accomplish. The target is typically the same as external pen-testing, but the major differentiator is the "attacker" either has some sort of authorized
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Gizmodo, and usernames and passwords were stolen from there as well. A security firm, Duo Security, came in and did an analysis of the hack. They found out that many of the passwords were very easy to guess with passwords such as 12345678 and letmein. Duo Security brute-forced 400,000 password hashes of the 1.3 million stolen by Gnosis and 200,000 of them were cracked in less than an hour. Other interesting things that Duo Security found out were that 99.45% of the cracked passwords were only alphanumeric
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TFT2 Task 4 As the chief information security officer for VL Bank, we were notified by several of our commercial customers of unauthorized wire transfers in an amount greater than $290,000. This is very concerning since we take pride in our information security. As soon as we were notified of the fraudulent transactions my security team, along with the network engineers, performed a thorough investigation of how such attack had occurred. Once we were able to view all logs and audit data it came
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What are the three main categories of objects to be protected by Access Controls? | | Information – any type of data asset Technology – Applications, Systems, and networksPhysical Location – buildings and rooms | What are the three elements of an Access Control System? | | Policies – RulesProcedures – nontechnical methods used to enforce policies Tools – Technical methods used to enforce policies | What are
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activities undertaken to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities. It helps confirm the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the security measures that have been implemented. This proposal provides an understanding of penetration testing. It discusses the benefits, the strategies and the mythology of conducting penetration testing. The mythology of penetration testing includes three phases: test preparation, test and test analysis. Key Words: Security Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration
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Lastpass is a program, which allows you to have one master password throughout every web site a user has an account with. Having just one password may be convenient, but also very bad. On Monday lastpass had announced that hackers hacked into its computer system and got access to user email addresses, password reminders, and encrypted versions of peoples master password. According to the article, hackers grabbed encoded versions of people’s passwords. So if your master password is an easy password
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level of security which provides security to all types of system levels. It provides the security rules with IDS to alert systems. It allows the administrator to provide action upon alert. An ID informs of a potential attack and IPS makes attempts to stop it. IPS has the capability to prevent known intrusion signatures and also some unknown attacks because of its database with generic attack behaviors. IPS is generally considered to be the "next generation" of IDS. An IDS is a reactive security mechanism
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_____________________________________________________________ I am a highly motivated and professional Security Engineer with (Linux Professional Institute (LPI 102) certification and willing to pass CEH Certified Ethical Hacking). Capable of delivering at the highest level. With excellent interpersonal skills, I am confident in my ability to become the most valuable member of your company. I have developed expertise in networks security, pentesting and managing IT functions on day-to-day basis. Never give up is my lethal
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Case No. 61 .Epsilon 2011 Name : Kartik Kapoor Roll No. 32 Question 1: Study the incident and prepare a write up in your own words describing the incident with focus on the specific information security failure (Maximum of 150 words). Answer 1: The breach occurred on March 30 ‘2011 at Epsilon, a Texas-based firm that handles email communications for more than 2,500 clients worldwide, including seven of the Fortune 10 companies. Epsilon sends 40 billion emails annually. Epsilon is the largest
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