Authentication

Every program or every collection of programs implementing a single business function must have unique database credentials. Sharing of credentials between programs is not allowed. Database passwords used by programs are system-level passwords as defined by the Password Policy. Developer groups must have a process in place to ensure that database passwords are controlled and changed in accordance with the Password Policy. Authorized Networked Devices Policy: The security features necessary to…

My scenario takes place at a banking facility in a local town. I call it the Western bank of West Virginia. Protecting information uses the same principals as protecting your personal belongings. Would one leave their house unlocked when they left for a week’s vacation? You keep your personal belongings out of others reach by locking them up or hiding them in a safe place. Computer security is important to an Information system to ensure the Confidentiality, Integrity, and availability is…

So what can you do to be safe on the Internet? Cormier states that there is many things to do to be safe. One of them is to add a Dual/Multi-factor authentication too your accounts. “The most used Dual Factor authentication choice you see is the text message. For your account, it will ask you for your password, and then after your password, it would send you a text message to a phone number that you already setup on the site. You…

Biometrics is the science of analyzing different biological data. A example of what you could be analyzing is DNA. Biometrics also involves the use of many different technology equipment. The article Biometrics: From Reel to Real by Dan Tynan talks indepth about all the different things that can be used to determine who you are. First they talk about how they use biometrics in everyday life, like at businesses and schools. At schools they use them in the lunchrooms to make it easier for…

Logical security : Logical security consists of software safeguards for an organization's systems including user identification and password access, authentication, access rights and authority levels. These measures are to ensure that only authorized users are able to perform actions or access information in a network. Access control mechanism: As part of access control mechanism we are using MAC (mandatory access control mechanism) where users do not enjoy the privileges…

Introduction Nowadays it seems like you can’t even access half of the websites you would like to with using some sort of authentication. To help solve this issue a large number of websites have created login systems that are centralized. The centralized systems supply users with an electronic identity of sorts which is better known as a federated identity. This paper will discuss some problems that can arise when not having SSO in place, some advantages and disadvantages when using SSO for AD…

October is the designated "National Cybersecurity Awareness Month," in the United States and Canada, to educate and engage the community, from government agencies, private enterprise to external audiences, about the need to protect against emerging cyber threats. Today, we need to use Internet more than ever, to do everything from shopping, banking, to socializing, and in this interconnected world, we are constantly sharing sensitive information, which cyber criminals are always on the lookout…

Public key infrastructure is the combination of software, encryption technologies and services that enables enterprises to maintain the security of their business transactions on over the internet. It integrates digital certificates, public key cryptography and certification authorities into a complete enterprise-wide network security architecture. It is also defined as a set of roles, policies and procedures needed to create, revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. It is…

Western Governors University A. Security Faults Describe three of the security faults in this scenario that caused a security breach. 1. Some accounts existed before the electronic health record(EHR) was deployed. Important steps were missed during the import of old accounts. I suggest using a clean base line for the brand new EHR system. Users should not be able to have administrator rights without a manager innerving. The security risk that is being violated is called least privilege. This…

monitor each event to mitigate risk and minimize exposure Identify at least two types of security events and baseline anomalies that might indicate suspicious activity. One type of a security event that might indicate supicious activity is an authentication failures found in audit logs. Audit logs contain a high volume of events so particular attention on which events that should be specifically tracked and managed require consideration. An audit log can identify patterns of activity that can…