The company I work for is a federal forensics lab for a major metropolitan area. The organization deals with many different investigations dealing with all types of computer crimes. Therefore the organization must have a very robust operations security because the criminals have extensive resources and are very savvy in computer techniques that might enable them to access the evidence if not protected properly. Also, the other possibility of high level corporate embezzlement where employees may
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CMGT 400 Week 3 Securing and Protecting Information Security Authentication Process It is necessary to secure your authentication method to safeguard your system against varied forms of security threats, like brute-force or wordbook attacks, impersonation of users, and reply attacks. Additionally, if you share resources on your network with alternative organizations, you need to make sure that your authentication policies are interchangeable with the organization in which you are exchanging your
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-The purpose of information system security is to develop security controls to prevent security weaknesses from being exploited by threat agents. -A threat agent is an entity who is responsible for or who materially contributes to the loss or theft of data. Threat agents may be internal or external to an organization. -Unintentional agents—Unintentional threat agents are employees, contractors, or other insiders who have no motivation to jeopardize information, but who are untrained or negligent
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grounds for termination. The user domain is the weakest link in the IT infrastructure. Some of these threats include, lack of user awareness, security policy violation, and employee blackmail. To help combat a user’s lack of awareness, you can conduct security awareness training seminars; have pop-ups warning about a security threat, and send e-mail reminders to employees about common threats. Security policy violation you can approach in a few ways, if there is a violation, place the employee on probation
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Discussion 1 Importance of Security Policies An internet security policy provides employees with rules and guidelines about the appropriate use of company equipment, network and Internet access. Having such a policy in place helps to protect both the business and the employee; the employee will be aware that browsing certain sites or downloading files is prohibited and that the policy must be adhered to or there could be serious repercussions, thus leading to fewer security risks for the business
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Lab 2 and Assessment 2 Unit 2 Crystal McLey Kaplan University Lab 2 The three most common risk/threats/vulnerabilities that are commonly found in the user domain are: The “domain enterprise Server Management System (DESMS) in HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges” (CVE, 2013), If the domain user logs into the domain with a space at the end of the domain name it will cause an error and wont accurately download a system policy (CVE, 2013), and the domain user or admin have a guessable
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was to pour money into the research and development of high tech projects and the establishment of the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). ARPA developed the ARPANET, computer-to-computer communication through packet switching networks. In 1969, the first “package switch” interface message processor allowed two computers to “talk” with each other. With this ability email was added in and dominated the traffic on the ARPANET. The addition of email created a dynamic social human network and
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NETWORK SECURITY Introduction Network security is a major issue when developing a new computer system. A few of the issues that the new WInt must address are accidental disruptions to the system, loss or theft of sensitive data by employees, malicious attacks to system, and theft of intellectual property by employees (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014). The accidental disruption to systems are caused by employees who input mistakes or leave out
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Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives For Release on Delivery Expected at 10:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 25, 2014 INFORMATION SECURITY VA Needs to Address Long-Standing Challenges Statement of Gregory C. Wilshusen, Director, Information Security Issues GAO-14-469T March 25, 2014 INFORMATION SECURITY VA Needs to Address Long-Standing Challenges Highlights of GAO-14-469T, a testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans'
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