EC-Council Press | The Experts: EC-Council EC-Council’s mission is to address the need for well educated and certified information security and e-business practitioners. EC-Council is a global, member based organization comprised of hundreds of industry and subject matter experts all working together to set the standards and raise the bar in Information Security certification and education. EC-Council certifications are viewed as the essential certifications needed where standard configuration
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computer without the consumer's knowledge.[1] "Spyware" is mostly classified into four types: system monitors, trojans, adware, and tracking cookies.[2] Spyware is mostly used for the purposes of tracking and storing Internet users' movements on the Web and serving up pop-up ads to Internet users. Whenever spyware is used for malicious purposes, its presence is typically hidden from the user and can be difficult to detect. Some spyware, such askeyloggers, may be installed by the owner of a shared
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COM 540 Week #8 Course Project Saint Leo University Disaster Recovery Management COM-540-MBOL1 Contents Background 3 NIST SP 800-94 3 Intrusion Detection and Prevention Principles 4 Key Functions of IDPS Technologies 4 Detection Options 4 Types of IDPS Technologies 5 IDPS Technologies 5 Proper Installation 6 Testing and Deployment 6 Securing the IDPS 6 IDPS Updates 6 Building and Maintaining Skills – Additional Resources Required to Support 6 Using and Integrating
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Network Security Network security is a serious matter. A network allows you to share you to share information and resources, but it also lets computer viruses, human intruders, or even disgruntled employees do far more damage they could on a single machine, imagine what would happened to a company if all is data vanish, then you would understand why network security is so important to a company. Network can be group into Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Networks, Internetwork (Internets) all
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RESPONSE PROFILE Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 PROFILE 3 CYBER ATTACKS 4 REDUCING THE IMPACTS OF CYBER THREATS 6 COUNTER MEASURES TO THREATS 8 LAW 10 INTERNATIONAL SCOPE 11 CONCLUSION 12 References 13 INTRODUCTION With the rapid growth of technology in the past few decades have brought forward major aspects that actually helped the mankind in many ways. The birth of technology is a prolific boon to the mankind. Technology has made our world a better and safe place bringing
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Cyber attacks generally refer to criminal activity conducted via the Internet. These attacks can include stealing an organization’s intellectual property, confiscating online bank accounts, creating and distributing viruses on other computers, posting confidential business information on the Internet and disrupting a country’s critical national infrastructure. Consistent with the previous two studies, the loss or misuse of information is the most significant consequence of a cyber attack. Based
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of a News Release MKT/438 Public Relations September 4, 2003 In 1975 two young men Bill Gates and Paul Allen with dreams of bringing computers to life, and inspired by a Popular Electronics Magazine article, developed a software application that made the power of personal computers (PCS) useful and accessible to everyone. They developed the first programming language for PCS and begin an extraordinary, history making journey that led to the creation of the world’s largest and most
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money investments, loan applications approval and wholesale loan processing. The company success has seen it become a public traded company in the NYSE. With over one thousand employees, GFI has experienced rapid growth through a well-defined strategy that made use of technological innovation and automation of their systems. However, as GFI experienced a steady growth in its financial operation, a significant security risk lack within its network. GFI relies on its application servers; the Oracle database
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CHAPTER 3 CO M P U TE R A N D I NT E R N E T C R IME QUOTE In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you’re linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. —Dennis Miller, Saturday Night Live, U.S. television show VIGNETTE Treatment of Sasser Worm Author Sends Wrong Message Unleashed in April 2004, the Sasser worm hit IT systems around the world hard
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arranged in ten (10) groups, that are either commonly found or emerging within the information security industry. These topics include: Access Control Management, Antivirus, Audit Data Reduction, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Anomaly Detection Systems (ADS), Event Correlation Systems (ECS), Network Mapping, Password Cracking, Public Key Infrastructure, Virtual
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