proposal is to address the importance of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and the mythology behind this since the attacks of 9/11, as well as a brief history of Critical Infrastructure Protection pass to the present to include attacks from the cyber arena. These attacks are prone to come indirect or direct which will and could affect our need and use for resources for life as we know it based on living naturally on a daily bases, these threats maybe man made or by natural disaster.
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Project: Access Control Proposal * Phase I: Risk mitigation plan to identify critical IT assets * Phase II: Policies and procedures for protecting the IT assets Contents I. Introduction 2 II. Diagram of the proposed solution 3 III. Phase I:Access Control Risk Mitigation 3 1. Identified Treats and vulnerabilities 3 2. IT assets 4 3. Treats and vulnerabilities per IT Domain 4 4. The System Security Team 5 5. Access Control Plan 5 IV. Phase II: Policies and procedures for
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............................................................................................................... 13 Determining criticality and confidentiality levels......................................................................14 Threat and vulnerability identification...................................................................................... 15 Risk calculation.....................................................................................................................
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reactive. Hackers and attackers are constantly developing ways to penetrate infrastructures and there are several web server application vulnerabilities that companies should become familiar with. This document will discuss three common vulnerabilities and attacks; broken authentication, security misconfiguration, and sensitive date exposure. Mitigation strategies will also be discussed. Broken authentication involves the threat of an attacker stealing critical information such as passwords or other
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will happen to an asset. Threat- is any action that could damage an asst Vulnerability- is a weakness that allows a threat to be realized or to have an effort on an asset. (Know if difference) 2. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) – a U.S. federal law requiring banking and financial institutions to protect customers’ private data and have proper security controls in place. 3. Data Classification Standard – that defines how to treat data throughout your IT infrastructure. This is the road map for
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Employee’s Security Vulnerabilities and the Affects on Organization’s Information Technology University Maryland University College Employee’s Security Vulnerabilities and the Affects on Organization’s Information Technology Cyber security vulnerabilities and threats are real and constant. Information technology breakthroughs have given our adversaries cheaper and often effective cyber weapons to harm U.S. computer networks and systems (Gen Alexander, 2011). Unfortunately, our adversaries
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includes challenges that the military will face in the coming years, what kind of military will be needed, and how to build the right military. Leaving the comfort zone includes realizing there is a different set of enemies than before, new forms of weapons, and new battlegrounds. Thinking about the next war includes highlighting the kinds of challenges the military must prepare for, and how to prepare for it. The response would include collaboration from all agencies. There would be a warning about
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HAZARD, VULNERABILITY, AND RISK ANALYSIS This paper describes how preimpact conditions act together with event-specific conditions to produce a disaster’s physical and social impacts. These disaster impacts can be reduced by emergency management interventions. In addition, this chapter discusses how emergency managers can assess the preimpact conditions that produce disaster vulnerability within their communities. The chapter concludes with a discussion of vulnerability dynamics and methods for
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applications all in which require a certain level of risk assessment and security measures must be taken. Applications being used within the organization must be reviewed to determine security risks that application might have and how to protect the company from those vulnerabilities. Another factor that must be considered is a risk may vary between internal and external applications. There are many activities which can be incorporated into an organizations security plan which will help minimize possibility
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SEAPORT SECURITY: CRITICAL CHALLENGE FOR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BY COLONEL DREFUS LANE, SR. United States Army DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is Unlimited. This SRP is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Strategic Studies Degree. The views expressed in this student academic research paper are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or
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