George McShane Research Paper 07/13/2012 Linux Security Technologies In today’s world there are many ways to gain access to the internet. You can go to your local library, a Starbucks, any airport, or even a McDonald’s. With all of these ways to have free access to the Web, the opportunity for hacker’s to get to your personal information is at an all time high. Linux programming has many ways to combat this situation with security technologies such as SELinux, chroot jail, iptables, and virtual
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1 ENC1102 CMB Final Research Proposal Introduction and Articulation of Problem or Topic: I selected a Cyber Security topic because it is a big concern for me how my information (the data) is stored online. This is a topic that everybody worries about because nobody knows where the cloud is or who has access to it. It seems to me that every week there are new headlines about hackers bringing an organization to its knees by doing things such as stolen funds, bad publicity, and embarrassing
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iPad’s Security Breach Samantha Phillips Dr. Prakash G. Menon BUS 508: The Business Enterprise May 29, 2011 Justifying Hacking into a Web site In 2010, McDonald’s said that customer information was exposed after a security breach involving an email marketing managing firm. McDonald’s released a statement explaining that information was obtained by an “unauthorized third party”, but added that financial information and social security numbers were not part of the data accidentally exposed
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Data governance (DG) refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data employed in an enterprise. Data Governance practices provide the framework for maintaining company’s investment in their data management activities (MDM, Data Profiling and Data Quality, and Metadata Management). Data Governance provides a mechanism to rationalize and control organization’s collection, storage, analyses and dissemination of its data. Most companies accomplish
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Maintaining Information Security CMGT-400 Assurance and Security 5-25-2013 Maintaining Information Security Maintaining the security of information couldn’t have been said any clearer than by Lindsey Walker of InfoSec Island, when in 2010 she wrote an article about sensitive information becoming breached. She said “Preventing information security breaches needs to become a main priority for any company when handling both customer and company information”. Sharing information has become much
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Introduction This policy establishes minimum practices to ensure the Department of Defense systems and organizations with direct ties to the U.S. Government are in compliance with current directives and requirements. Networks are audited to maintain awareness of the operating environment, to detect indications of security problems, and to ensure systems and networks are used for authorized purposes. Security is a mission critical function of the Department of Defense and its proper execution has a
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WEEK 10 TERM PAPER “The Rookie Chief Information Security Officer” Terri Cooks Professor Parker SEC 402 June 15, 2014 Part 1: Organization Chart When looking at the many different roles within the management of any organization’s security program there are some titles that stand out. One would be the CISO. The CISO is the executive whose responsibility is to maintain entire security backbone, both physical and digital. In an article written for the Sans Institute by Matthew Cho, “CISO
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means of acquiring information by deceiving and tricking the human element of an information system. Hackers know that people are the weak link in any Information System. Attackers trick users into revealing valuable information and coerce users into performing tasks that may cause harm to their organization. The social engineering attack can be broken down into two logical stages; the physical settings and psychological methods stages. Physical settings stage would gather information by accessing the
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MGS 555 Final Project TEAM RAKSHA Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services Table of Contents SL NO | CONTENTS | PAGE NUMBERS | 1 | Introduction | 3 | 2 | Summary | 4 | 3 | Application of IT enabled services | 5 | 4 | Technologies involved | 6 | 5 | Challenges | 7 | 6 | Threat to management | 9 | 7 | Conclusion | 10 | Introduction Information Technology that enables the business by improving the quality of service is IT enabled services. ITES is the acronym
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Case Study 1: The Critical Need for Information Security Due Week 2 and worth 100 points Access the ACM Digital Library by following the steps below: Students: 1. Login to iCampus. 2. From iCampus, click STUDENT SERVICES>> Learning Resources Center >> Databases. 3. Scroll down to "Information Systems/Computing". 4. Select “ACM Digital Library” below the heading. 5. Enter your library username and password. Faculty: 1. Login to Blackboard: bb.strayer
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