and consider some of the Critical Controls that could have been used to both prevent this breach and mitigate losses. From what is known about the Target breach, there were multiple factors that led to data loss: vendors were subject to phishing attacks, network segregation was lacking, point of sale systems were vulnerable to memory scraping malware and detection strategies employed by Target failed. A possible solution for preventing and mitigating similar breaches using a defense in depth model
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the company’s security assets. Risk management also works to support managers and increase their confidence when making decisions. Security risk plans are used to help management develop coherent and comprehensive strategies for managing risk prevention. An important part of a security risk plan is evaluating the level and type of countermeasures needed to guard against security threats capable of causing security breaches (Stoneburner, Goguen, & Feringa, 2002). The security management process
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Penetration testing Penetration testing A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman San Francisco Penetration testing. Copyright © 2014 by Georgia Weidman. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. Printed in USA First printing 18
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Network 9 V. Conclusion 13 I. Introduction Access control mechanisms operate at a number of levels in a system, from applications down through the operating system to the hardware. Higher-level mechanisms can be more expressive, but also tend to be more vulnerable to attack, for a variety of reasons ranging from intrinsic complexity to implementer skill levels. Most attacks involve the opportunistic exploitation of bugs; and software that is very large, very widely used, or both (as with operating
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Cyber warfare One of the first cyber-attacks was the Morris worm in the year 1988. It had affected the world cyber infrastructure. This worm utilized the weak areas of UNIX system Noun1. This worm has replicated adversely and slowed down the computers in all of the US and made them unusable. Cyber warfare has become a societal issue now. Though the roots of cyber warfare aimed at military areas primarily, it extended its effects to non-military areas too. The information infrastructure based companies
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Mining Algorithms and Statistical Analysis, and show how they lead to increased accuracy in the detection of fraud by at least 78% in our reference dataset. We also discuss how a combination of these strategies can be embedded in a Stream-based application to detect fraud in real-time. From this perspective, our experiments lead to an average processing time of 111,702ms per transaction, while strategies to further improve the performance are discussed. Keywords: Fraud Detection, Stream Computing
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Authentication & KPI IS421 Legal & Security Issues IS423 Securing Windows Platforms & Applications IS411 Security Policies & Implementation Issues IS415 System Forensics Investigation & Response IS416 Securing Windows Platforms & Applications Securing Linux Platforms & Applications 300 Level IS305 Managing Risk in Information Systems IS308 Security Strategies for Web Applications & Social Networking IS316 Fundamentals of Network Security Firewalls & VPNs IS317
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Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures Version 3.2 April 2016 Document Changes Date October 2008 Version 1.2 Description Pages To introduce PCI DSS v1.2 as “PCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures,” eliminating redundancy between documents, and make both general and specific changes from PCI DSS Security Audit Procedures v1.1. For complete information, see PCI Data Security Standard Summary of
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1 – Introduction to Computer Concepts History of Computer * Often referred to the different generations of computing devices. * The circuitry is smaller and more advanced than previous generation. * First Generation - 1940-1956: Vacuum Tubes * Often enormous, very expensive, use a great deal of electricity and generate a lot of heat. * E.g., UNIVAC, ENIAC * Second Generation - 1956-1963: Transistors * Computers are smaller, faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient and more
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Question 1. [Pg. 242] 1. [Challenge exercise 9.1.] Windows vulnerability (Passwords) One of windows vulnerabilities is that user accounts may have weak, nonexistent or unprotected passwords. The operating system and some third-party applications may create accounts with weak or nonexistent passwords. This in turn causes data to be vulnerable and with respect to user data it could be very damaging to a user’s organization if data is lost or removed without warning by an attacker. Also the
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