Computer security incident management

Defense (DoD) relies on computer and network systems to create war-fighting advantage. These systems fuse essential combat information enabling the war-fighter to respond with a decisive action. While information systems (IS) create a better-informed warfighter on the battlefield, they can also be critical point of weakness. Adversaries can exploit IS, potentially disrupting a fighting organization’s ability to complete its mission. IS managers are charged with the security state of the…

on the danger our cyber based society faces in an October 2012 meeting with business leaders, highlighting high profile cyber attacks that affected Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s energy sector. In this attack conducted by unknown actors “30 thousand computers integral to Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s energy sector were rendered useless”, and he warned that America 's critical infrastructure and corporations are in danger just as much if not more so than any other country in the world. In order to better…

Administrator, Network Analyst, Network Manager, Network Engineer, and Network Solutions Architect (tom’sIT PRO, 2014). If you want to further your career after working in one of these mentioned fields, you can specialize in these types of careers; Network Security Specialist, Cloud Networking Architect, Networking Research and Development Specialist, Wireless Networking QA Engineer, Wireless Infrastructure and Mobility Specialist, Mobility Solutions Architect, VoIP Engineer, Telecom Project…

terrorism is important to consider how the landscape of cybercrime looks into the future. Computer technology shifts and changes within time. In this paper review and explore the trends, needs, and issues related to cyber crime and terror in the future through the use of forecast.As we gain the knowledge of cybercrime and cyber terrorism, there has been researching study on the evolution of cyber threats in security. The levels of awareness of cyber threats have increased. Law enforcements…

using their computer." Reverse social engineering: getting a victim to initiate the social engineering conversation, as a result of a previous attack. When reverse social engineering occurs, there an additional layer of trust from the unsuspecting victim. Persuasion: convincing an individual to give you confidential information by either establishing a sense of trust, or simply asking for…

1. Purpose After several security incidents Greiblock Credit Union (GCU) Board of Directors needs a sound policy to address the situation. The main objective of this document is to improve the security culture of the organization. The specifications of this policy will address dynamic vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection, and incident response. This document goes into detail about what is required for a proper incidence response. 2. Scope This policy is intended to support the…

a. Information Security Risk Assessment System for Wolftech The risk management is a process to identify risks within organization and to further manage the operations through putting up necessary controls in place. The further importance of risk assessment can be ascertained through fact that about 48% of the 283 companies have been victims of the computer crimes over 12 months’ period. In some other incident the internet worm affected the largest and complex network of computer in few hours.…

Information Security Accountability The are three main areas of accountability when looking at the security of an organization. Whether is be a large corporation or a few person operation, each area to some degree is used by the organization. The three areas include I. T. security, information security and enterprise security (Gelbstein, 2013). I.T. security is security in place that protects an organizations information assets from non authorized person access in order to modify or…

collected and stored. The data collected and stored from transactions usually contains individual customer’s and vendors private and business information that must be protected and safeguarded by the company’s effective and efficient control systems. Incidents may happen to anyone, and data processed and collected from transaction may intentionally or unintentionally released to an untrusted environment and may cause more damage for the companies; therefore, these data needs to be safely and…

excellent reputation, until recently someone downloaded the names of 4,000 HIV+ patients and sent the list all around the world. The board of trustees blames me for this unforeseen incident and they are so furious that they wanted me fired. I have convinced them that it would be wise to keep me to fix the HSO’s Management Information System (MIS). I have only two options in front of me at the moment, either I fix the problem that has arisen or be prepared to resign. Major Problems and Secondary…