There are a myriad of potential threats and vulnerabilities that leave a system open to malicious attack, anytime you have a computer network that connects to the internet there is a potential for malicious attack so it is important that you know the vulnerabilities of a system to protect it from potential threats and malicious attacks. “A vulnerability is any weakness in a system that makes it possible for a threat to cause harm.” (Kim & Solomon, 2012, p. 96). There are
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Vulnerability Assessment Penetration Analysis A. Memo For Record: IDS upgrade or replacement Summary of Events: The health care clinic’s network security appliance (combined router/firewall/wireless access point) was hacked and passwords were cracked. Configuration changes to this device opened the network to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The result of this attack prevented access to patient records and insurance claims as part of their daily routine. The network Intrusion Detection
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| | |http://csc.csudh.edu | |Course Title: |Communication Systems Security | |Course Number: |CTC 362 | |Instructor
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This is a multi-layered security plan. First, Assign people that are fully trained and/or provide the training that makes it possible to do the job. To prevent malicious software and etc. in the 7 domains of an IT infrastructure, you can isolate and install preventions for each domain. The domains are as follows: User Domain, Workstation Domain, LAN Domain, and LAN to WAN Domain, Remote Access Domain, WAN Domain, and the System/Application Domain. The first part of the IT infrastructure is the
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Area networks are essential to connecting Kudler Fine Foods together. As are the hardware and software needed to create and secure the networks. Each location will be set up with its own Wireless local area connection and they will all utilize the Internet to provide a Wide Area connection for the company as a whole. LAN, WAN and Wireless technologies Local Area Networks, or LANs, are a grouping of computers networked together in a generally small geographic area. LAN technology refers to the
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negatives of the top four widely used Internet browsers, which will ultimately help determine which browser is the best available for consumers to use. The purpose of this study is to determine which browser is the best out of the four, and to highlight the best features from each browser, and determine their significance on how each feature is. The significance of the study is to analyze the information given on each browser and translate it into information that Internet users can take away to help them
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How to Secure Your Systems Networking Security Fundamentals CIS 333 July 28, 2012 How to Secure Your Systems When we think about technology we think of all the capabilities it gives us and also the headaches it brings. In today's technological world there are many vulnerabilities to the computer networks that we have. If there is a malicious attacker exposes these vulnerabilities can affect the company in many ways. We know that your business could be interrupted causing you thousands of dollars
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others are concerned with the impact it could have on our lives. The twentieth century was particularly marked by the growth of the Internet and the rise of social media programs. This has raised the population’s awareness about their privacy rights. A lot of information can be found online including credit
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1.Potential act of Human Error Ans: An organisation can face information security breach from various sources. Employees and stakeholders are the threat agents closest to the organisational data. Employees uses data especially who are in an important role they can access all kind of data. Any mistake happens from employees can take the organisation losing its confidentiality, integrity. Now this kind of mistake happens sometimes intuitionally or accidentally. When an employee leaves classified data
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Working of EDI 1. Preparation of electronic documents The first step in the sequence of EDI is the collection of information and data. The way to collect the required information should be same as the way to do it in the traditional system. However, instead of printing out the data on paper in tradition, the system has to build an electronic file or database to store those data. In the case of companies who already use computer to issue their documents like purchase orders, they may already
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