objects, persons, or other entities that presents a danger to an asset. Threats are always present and can be purposeful or undirected. For example, hackers purposefully threaten unprotected information systems, while severe storms incidentally threaten buildings and their contents. Threat agent: The specific instance or a component of a threat. For example, all hackers in the world present a collective threat, while Kevin Mitnick, who was convicted for hacking into phone systems, is a specific
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legal consequences are associated with the failure to secure the system—for example, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, California SB 1386. • Security breaches can have far-reaching effects. When there is a perceived or real security weakness, the organization must take immediate action to ensure that the weakness is removed and the damage is limited. • Many organizations now have customer-facing services—for example, websites. Customers may be the first people to notice the result of an attack
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security risks which can lead to hacking, as keeping them often will leave your business exposed. Viruses A computer virus is a malware program, which is something you should already know about. Viruses can be dealt with in several different ways, the most popular and effective way being installing Anti-Virus. Anti-virus protects your computer/business from a wide variety of threats, including viruses and other types of dangerous malware. Most anti-virus also includes firewall which basically deflects
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prevented while others are unstoppable. There are pedophiles, as well as hackers that use the World Wide Web to get what they want, since there is little security to stop them. Novice level hackers can be stopped by spyware installed on a computer to prevent low level viruses. However, someone faking their identity on the internet is unstoppable because there is no way of seeing if they are telling the truth. Social media is one dangerous component of the internet that has little security. Sites such
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memory management Mac Process Management For rough draft The Process Manager manages the scheduling of processes. The number of processes is limited only by available memory. The Process Manager maintains information about each process— for example, the current state of the process, the address and size of its partition, its type, its creator, a copy of all
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of software: a. System software • An operating system built up to control and operate the hardware system • Low -level software – manage computer resources at low level • Running application software • CRM • Ie. Linkers, loaders, compilers, b. General purpose software • Allowing users to accomplish simple computer related tasks • Word processing software • Internet explore c. Application specific software • For an end user • Document
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Digital Computer Crime Matthew Moeller Dr. Neal Basta CIS170 April 21, 2015 Computer crimes are criminal activities that involve using a computer and a network to gain unauthorized access with the intent of deleting, altering, or damaging computer data. Due to them being extremely versatile, establishing criminal and noncriminal behavior when in use can be very difficult at times. The four most common categories of computer crimes are computer as a target, instrument of a crime, incidental
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"This task was originally submitted during the 1301A session in CSS150-03 with Donald Wilcoxen." Categories of the Expanded C.I.A Triangle Jason Snyder Colorado Technical University CSS150-1302A-01 Introduction to Computer Security Phase 1 IP Instructor: Gregory Roby April 15, 2013 Information in IT security is a valuable resource and asset. The value of the information from the characteristics it possesses cause appreciation or depreciation for the user of the information, In IT
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resources, or applications. Validating that identity establishes a trust relationship for further interactions. Authentication is the first step in access control, and there are three common methods used for authentication: What you have method: – Examples of this method includes keys, badges, ID, pass cards/smart card, tokens. These are physical objects and go towards identifying you by what you physically “own”. A smart card is credit card sized card that has an embedded certificate used to identify
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could be just the design, then the site is handed over to the company to maintain. Sometimes the contractor has full long term. Although the latter option can be expensive and there can be communication issues between business and subcontractor. For example over design elements, with each having a different idea of how something should look – it is likely to result in a more professional website with more reliable functionality than using in-house resources. Suggestion for around the clock I
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