Access control

When developing a security policy framework for XYZ Health Care Organization it’s important to understand guidelines needed to establish an effective policy. Such guidelines like Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and The Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) must be included and followed to the letter. This will eliminate nearly all guesswork and fill in the blanks where HIPAA and SOX do not. Finally, while following these set ground rules it is also important to understand that…

The goal of an APT is to gain access into the power grid network and collect as much information as possible. They use the exfiltration techniques that allow them to transfer sensitive information to their data-miner area also know as Command and Control Center. It is important for the APT to mask the data to resemble normal network traffic so that it detection can be made difficult or almost impossible (Cruz, 2013). Method for data exfiltration includes: Backdoors: This method used by the…

Information access is restricted and categorized by the damage it could cause. (Rouse, 1999) But the CIA triad are not just for information security. It can also used for recovery. There are other areas in business such as quality assurance or regulatory…

Question 1: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was implemented due to big corporations mismanaging their business and accounting frauds within those big corporations (dummies). A big reason for implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was due to Enron and their scandal back in 2001, there was fraud, embezzlement, illegal manipulation, pumped up earnings, and misrepresenting how the company was doing (enron). Enron was not the only company doing this, during this time and age companies were becoming larger and…

the importance of the Industrial Control Systems (ISC) in our daily life whether it is related to power, transport, water, gas, and other critical infrastructures. Each of these infrastructures is needed at all time and any downtime could be disastrous for the persons and businesses. The following safeguards will help the Western Interconnection power grid as well as any other entity that uses ICS from running a safe system while keeping attackers away on under control. • Developing a strict…

as the residential technician. A commercial locksmith can also perform security assessments of your business, and they can respond in an emergency. Locksmiths are responsible for using their knowledge in their client's best interest since they have access to most forms of secure doors. They are held responsible for not allowing any information or any tools that they use to fall into the wrongs hands. In, addition a locksmith must be skilled enough not to cause any damage while attempting to gain…

advances in security based technology, that number continues to rise as the number of breached businesses continues to rise yearly (Doshi & Trivedi, 2014). Target Corporation experienced a security breach in 2013, which occurred because a vendor gained access to the internal Target networks via the network connections available through the HVAC systems affecting more than 70 million customers (Gray & Ladig, 2015). Another notable breach, Adobe Systems, began in July 2013 and went undetected for…

Task 1 In Unix/Linux operating system a user can have root access or not, the root access provides complete access to user of a system. There are some following risks to have a single root user on Unix/Linux operating system. Easy to hack: If any security error broke the security then a hacker can get the access of all data and can get the whole control of hardware. It allow to retrieve all files and data without root access. So, it is a big risk of losing and stolen data and important…

How could Administrative, Technical, and Physical Controls introduce a false sense of security? Security controls are technical, physical or administrative defenses to evade, neutralize or diminish harm or inaccessibility because of risks operating on their corresponding weakness, i.e., security risk. Organizations add security controls, which is no surprise; however, it is easier than most think to bypass these controls. The business “goes through the motions of deploying a security tool or…

Penetration tests assesses the overall security. It is the process of attempting to gain access to resources without knowledge of specific user names, their passwords, or other normal means of access (similar to what an attacker would do). The big different between a penetration tester and an attacker basically is permission. A penetration tester will already have some permissions (such as an normal user account) in place from the owner or managers of the computing resources that are to be…