ABSTRACT Over the past twenty years, the Internet’s role in our lives has grown to an everyday necessity. We rely on the Internet to communicate within the scope of our employment and social lives, to conduct our banking and bill paying, we even use it to track our personal property. There is hardly one area of our lives that we can not conduct over the Internet. While the Internet is a convenience that has made our lives easier, it has also opened the door in our lives to a vulnerability that is rapidly
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vulnerability to malicious attacks and threats. Many companies are providing mobile devices to employees in order to conduct business away from the office. This has proven to be major headache for IT professionals. Normally, IT professionals control network activity through vulnerability assessments, scans, audits, and security patches; unfortunately, the same does not hold true for mobile devices. Unlike wired network connections, mobile devices favor wireless internet connectivity and are constantly
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Riordan Manufacturing INDP, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing INDP, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing Company Inc., the current Wide Area Network (WAN) and network security architecture documentation need to be updated. The purpose of this project is to evaluate and bring together the WAN and security documentation into a single format for an executive outline or summary. Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. specializes in plastics and is a leader in the industry. Riordan Manufacturing has been recognized international
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COIT 13211 Security and the Internet - Module 2 Review Questions 1. True or False. Information security is an area in which the primary mission is to ensure things change rapidly over time. 2. True or False. A sequential attack selects specific accounts to attack and uses a list of commonly used passwords with which to guess, instead of random combinations. 3. A virus or worm can have a payload that installs a(n) ____ door or trap door component in a system. (a) closed (b)
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College CSEC 620 Individual assignment # 2 Table of Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Estonia under attack……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Types of attacks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Threats actors and their motives ……………………………………………………………………………. 6 Who were responsible for the attacks ……………………………………………………………………. 7 Strategic Shifts in Response to attacks ……………………………………………………………………. 8 Conclusions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Business World Transformation – Impact of the Internet and WWW Learning Objectives and Outcomes Upon completing this lab, students will be able to complete the following tasks: * Identify the security challenges on the web as they relate to various business models and the impact that is made in e-Commerce and Internet-based deployments * Extract various businesses’ personal identifiable information (PII) that is collected and stored from Internet users by a business in a web application
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leader. However, after assessing the company’s information security, they may not be a leader for much longer. Two major security weaknesses have been identified: a hardware configuration problem and an unsound security policy for the firewalls. The company has five servers, a database, one switch, two routers, and a firewall. All of the hardware is behind the firewall except the main router. This router connects directly to the Internet, which is also the connection the commercial division in
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Common Information Security Threats for Colleges CMGT/400 August 11, 2014 Common Information Security Threats Technologic advances occur at a rapid pace, with new devices coming out at frequent intervals. These new devices are appealing to college students who want to do everything as quickly and easily as possible. Because of the numerous smartphones, tablets, and laptops used by students and employees, college campuses face various security issues from mobile devices that connect to the
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the network and security configuration to determine threats and weakness to the existing system has been completed. A list of the top five associated threats for the Server, Workstations, and Website are outlined below. The following memo discusses the likelihood of the threats occurrence and recommended security controls and countermeasures that should be used to mitigate these threats. Shown illustrated below are network drawings of the current configuration and a proposed security solution. The
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T O N e Foundations of Network Security Fundamentals of Network Security 2 Firewall Fundamentals 43 VPN Fundamentals 79 Network Security Threats and Issues 111 CHAPTer Fundamentals of Network Security 1 C OMPUTER NETWORK SECURITY is very complex. New threats from inside and outside networks appear constantly. Just as constantly, the security community is always developing new products and procedures to defend against threats of the past and unknowns of the future
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