concerns about online banking is security. Since 2006 to date, advanced internet technologies have been designed to protect your account information throughout the entire online banking process, from your computer through the bank's own systems and back again. Although absolute confidentiality of data transmitted over the public internet is not guaranteed, the strongest available industry-standard SSL protocols are used to encrypt all data transmissions between your computer and data center. Messages are
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Assignment # 2 1. Why is information security a management problem? What can management do that technology cannot? Both general management and IT management are responsible for implementing information security to protect the ability of the organization to function. Decision-makers in organizations must set policy and operate their organization in a manner that complies with the complex, shifting political legislation on the use of technology. Management is responsible for informed policy choices
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disseminating the tasks and associated privileges for a specific security process among multiple people (Coleman, 2008). Separation of duty, as it relates to security, has two primary objectives. The first is the prevention of conflict of interest, the appearance of conflict of interest, wrongful acts, fraud, abuse, and errors. The second is the detection of control failures that include security breaches, information theft, and circumvention of security controls (Coleman, 2008). By establishing separation
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Section 1 - Introduction Information Resources are strategic assets of the Richman Investments and must be treated and managed as valuable resources. Richman Investments provides various computer resources to its employees for the purpose of assisting them in the performance of their job-related duties. State law permits incidental access to state resources for personal use. This policy clearly documents expectations for appropriate use of Richman Investments assets. This Acceptable Use Policy
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You have been hired as the Chief Security Officer for a local University. For this role you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise wide information security program to ensure that all information and data assets are not compromised. Knowing the concepts that are presented in the course, you will develop a plan to carry out a security program that deters computer crimes, establishes a process for investigation and outlines which laws are applicable for possible offenders
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has expanded to two locations, New York, NY and Reston, VA which has led to an expanded computer network in support of business communications and research. ARC has been the victim of cyber-attacks on its network and web site, as well as false alegations of unethical practices. ARC’s network is growing, with over two thousand devices currently and reaching from VA to NY. ARC needs to ensure better security of communications, intellectual property (IP) and public image, all of which affect ARC’s
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attacks, financial damage done by the attacks could bring the organization down. Organization would lose their customers, because many people would not want to put their information at risk once a security has been breached. Breaching the information happens more often through human error than computer system; once the information is gained from an employee the gate is wide open for the hackers. According to Hadnagy (2010) FBI has reported that 77% of attacks happened because of disgruntled employees
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can remember sitting and listening to it beep, gurgle and churn as it processed commands. I remember how the screen lit up in front of my face. There was something intoxicating about the idea of dictating everything the computer did, down to the smallest of functions. The computer gave me, a six year old, a sense of control and command. Nothing else in my world operated that way."[3] Project Rivolta On February 7, 2000, Calce targeted Yahoo! with a project he named Rivolta, meaning “riot” in Italian
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Network Security & Ethical Hacking ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Neal Patrick and his friends did not realise they were doing anything unethical, in fact: when asked by Congress “At what point he questioned the ethics of his actions” – he answered “Once the FBI knocked upon my door.” “I have found that inadequate network security is usually caused by a failure to implement security policies and make use of the security tools
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THE ART OF DECEPTION Controlling the Human Element of Security KEVIN D. MITNICK & William L. Simon Foreword by Steve Wozniak Scanned by kineticstomp, revised and enlarged by swift For Reba Vartanian, Shelly Jaffe, Chickie Leventhal, and Mitchell Mitnick, and for the late Alan Mitnick, Adam Mitnick, and Jack Biello For Arynne, Victoria, and David, Sheldon,Vincent, and Elena. Social Engineering Social Engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the
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