Computer security incident management

risks. a. Port Scanning Policy: 1. Purpose and Scope: The purpose of this port scan is to get the information about the devices connected in the network and get verified from the security officer so that none of the irrelevant ports are open and to make companies devices more secure. This policy is applicable to the security officer having control over devices connected in the network. 2. Policy: This policy covers the guidelines for scanning the companies’ infor-mation…

not prepared for this seventy-five minute attack. This is mainly due to the fact that they were using an outdated and unreliable internet hosting company. IPremier contracted Qdata, who was an internet hosting company that provides them with their computer equipment and internet connection. Qdata was not viewed as an industry leader and iPremier had many troubles with their systems. The reason that iPremier uses Qdata is because one of the founders’ close friends is a founder of Qdata, this…

Nemours, a Children’s Health System reported missing three unencrypted computer backup tapes that were locked and stored in a cabinet in the Nemours Health System facility in Delaware. These backup…

Question 2 The theoretical relationship between Emergency Operation Center (EOC) and Incident Command System (ICS) are to support the process of incident management. The Incident Command System is a developed concept utilized to help responders provide an organizational structure to combat any level of incident and eliminate jurisdictional boundaries (Incidents Command Systems /Unified Systems,2017). The purpose of the Emergency Operation Center is to support the physical or virtually operating…

of a network, including many computers. This isn’t an expensive thing to do anyone can do it by using simple publicly available infrastructures. VPN also makes use of encryption firewalls and authentications services when sending data across the web. This data is protected by putting one packet of data inside the other. The network only deals with the outer layer of data and allows the inside data to be left alone meaning not monitored. This creates the perfect security for a network.…

Transformation to electronic health records (EHR) has made patient records more vulnerable to data breaches. The top causes of medical data breaches that compromised PHI included theft, computer hacking, error by third-party custodians, and human negligence. Theft can be from an insider working at a health care facility who abuses their access privileges to information. Such employees seek information for the purpose of committing fraud. Theft can also be attempted by an outsider who can…

Given the University’s many diverse systems and disparate departmental roles managing the various systems the overall information security plan was not update to date nor consistent. There were obvious holes in the security plan which allowed a hacker to infiltrate the main domain server. The hacker secured administration rights on the server and they managed to infect other systems attached to the network. Thankfully, a trail of clues were found by the administrators. Various suspicious events…

A penetration test or “pentesting” is an attack on a computer system, network or Web application without actually harming it and with the owner’s permission in order to identify vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit with the intention of finding security weaknesses and potentially gaining access to its functionality and data. Why Penetration Testing Nine out of 10 businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, marking a 21% increase from 2015, according to a…

terrorism. In fact, in 2013 the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance reported that “93% of large corporations and 87% of small business reported some form of cyber breach in 2012” (Brewer, 2014). Also, President Obama labeled cyberthreats as an incredibly serious economic and national security challenge (Artlisch and Edelman, 2014). Cyber crime presents itself as an arduous task to solve given the dynamics of cyber space. Even though cyber security and culture began to take form…

information technology, because computers are a part of most people’s lives and businesses. A recurrent topic in the news today is computer hacking. Recently, several companies have been hacked into and customers’ digital information has been stolen. Even the government can’t seem to keep its information safe. Everyday, people’s identities are stolen because their online bank has been hacked into. Digitization, the process of making information digitally stored on a computer, should not have…