Running head: Network Security The Importance of Network Security to Safeguard Organizational Proprietary Data Donald Shipman Strayer University Dr. Kwang Lee June 10, 2012 Abstract Cyber-criminal activity is on the rise in a world that thrives on the use of technology in everyday living. The close-minded thought process of simple theft of a credit card number or a social security number are long gone. Crimes in today’s business are much more extreme to include attacks that disable key
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Chapter 10 – Security for Electronic Commerce |Chapter Case | | |General Accounting Office |http://www.gao.gov/ | | | | |Online Security Issues Overview
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the security and privacy requirements is being pushed to the limits. With the capability of data mining algorithms to gather and correlate such large volumes of data at such speeds there exists the potential for extreme privacy and ethical concerns; as companies become experts at slicing and dicing data to reveal details as personal as mortgage defaults and heart attack risks, the threat of egregious privacy violations grows(Waxer, 2013). The requirements to maintain the privacy and security of
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management/search services * Non-intrusive network scanning Phase 2 - Scanning Once the attacker has enough information to understand how the business works and what information of value might be available, he or she begins the process of scanning perimeter and internal network devices looking for weaknesses, including * Open ports * Open services * Vulnerable applications, including operating systems * Weak protection of data in transit * Make and model of each piece of LAN/WAN equipment Phase 3
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Maintaining internet security is of the utmost importance to higher education systems. The majority of universities’ administrative, financial, and clinical systems are available through a campus-wide network (Rasmussen, 2011). This means that highly confidential documents, such as student’s personal information, medical records, and much more are housed on campus servers. This information is vulnerable to security threats and puts the university at risk for lawsuits if the information is exposed. Student’s
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A threat: Flood, earthquake, severe storms. 2. Laws to protect private financial information * Federal information security management act(FISMA) * Sarbanes Oxley act (SOX) * Gramm leach Bliley act(GLBA) * Health insurance portability and accountability act(HIPAA) * Children’s internet protection (CIPA) * Family educational rights and privacy act (FERPA) 3. Parts of layered security that supports confidentiality * Defining organization wide policies, standard, procedures
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CSS200-1401B-01 Principals of Network Security Instructor: Gregory Roby Phase 2, Individual Project Date: March 08, 2014 By: Gil Palacio Lab #3 Overview: In this Lab I am learning how to use the Zenmap Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the free Nmap Security Scanner application. This application is an open source tool that automates network exploration to perform several different types of security audit scans of large IP networks (LAB 3, CTU. 2014). SO here is what I gather while
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Name: Sunil Kumar Buttagandla Student Id: 10000126442 Course name: CMP 630 Network Security Audit & Forensics Professor Name: Dr. Nigel Basta Title: Week1- Assignment2 In the table below, identify compliance laws that are applicable to a large public health care organization. In the second column, include a description of each law. In the third column, justify your rationale for including the law by indicating why it applies to a large public health care organization Answer: Compliance
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network structure that controls all the operations of the company. Every company has its own sensitive information about their success and why they such a good reputation. Because of the growing technology various enchantments have been develop to make sure that its investments are secured and locked hidden in its networks. However network attacks have been around for decades and each new security can be breach. This is one of the major causes of any company to lose money or its capital after being
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secure information for the consumer; without trust, a business cannot profit from the consumer, and the consumer will be dissatisfied. ETrust defines what ordinary citizens both fear and desire: privacy and security. ETrust understands information needs of both consumers and businesses in key areas where consumers perceive the most risk in online transactions, which is the safety of their information. This makes the concept a valid and important one when it comes to the safety and security of all
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