Infrastructure security

for updating the CIRT plan Usually, computer systems manufactured today are barely meeting the minimum industry and regulatory compliance levels. This causes so many organizations to becoming more reactive than proactive when they are address cyber security threats. They usually are only addressing these threats as they are discovered. This approach, in my opinion, does not help and therefore should change. When a CIRT plan is well developed, it inspires…

EXTERNAL SECURITY 1052 India’s external security is informed by its political position on the world stage. Since 2014, Prime Minister Modi’s progressive attitude has brought Indian foreign policy on significantly. This is demonstrated through the surprise invitation of all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation leaders to his swearing-in ceremony . India is now showing global self-confidence, through strengthened defence ties with the US and Europe, and has for the first time in a…

should be set to reduce cyber security risk and not to meet a goal that is set externally, such as compliance with regulatory or industry’s best practices, although once cyber security risks (in line with business needs) are established, external compliance considerations can be easily achieved by performing an audit and closing gaps, if any are identified. At times, various agencies play conflicting roles. Clearly wide gaps between the Department of Homeland Security, DoD, the intelligence…

nature of these unconventional attacks, coupled with the impossibilities of “perfect security” only allows for a balancing of risk that can be achieved through a redundancy approach to managing these threats. The balancing of risk is optimal when the domestic and international law, the private sector, and the civilian population are working in tandem. The first section of this paper will define a realistic goal of security. The second section will explain the uniqueness of the threats mentioned…

SDN are next generation networks. They provide high flexibility, reliability, and security. The main difference between SDN and the traditional network is separation of control and data plane. In SDN, only the controller has the decision-making capabilities. Whereas switches are responsible for traffic forwarding. The controller and switches can be programmed dynamically or as needed. Applications communicate directly with the SDN controller via the northbound interface. This plane is also…

disaster. During this phase the public sector faces the challenges of mainly providing increased public safety. For instance, conducting a threat analysis to assess critical infrastructure and updating building codes to withstand potential terrorist attacks are very important. Also, the use of surveillance, metal detection, and security guards in public or private buildings to deter criminal activity…

Customs and Border Protection , through Air and Marine Operations (AMO), is responsible for identifying potential air threats to the United States, i.e. aircraft involved in the aerial transit of contraband into the United States. AMO conducts air surveillance operations by detecting, monitoring, and tracking suspect cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft. Surveillance (observation), combined with intelligence, law enforcement case work and open source information, creates air domain…

United States has become more excessive. As new advances in technology rise, new security issues in network infrastructures has increased from previous decades. For example, unknown hackers were able to achieve once of the largest breaches of OPM network in history. According to the Michelle Singletary, a Columnist for the Washington Post, stated personal information — birth dates, home addresses and Social Security numbers — for 4.2 million current and former federal government employees was…

It will change the dynamics, but GE will stay competitive if they continue to excel at innovation and acquisition of newly created products. General Electric’s current strategy does fit with the external environment at this time by expanding infrastructure and consumer industrial. The activities GE does do support this environment as well. Review of Mission Statement While GE doesn’t have a specific vision or mission statement, the strategic factors do follow the company’s core values of…

The United States homeland security environment is complex with competing requirements that must be balanced and managed to ensure the achievement of key national measures. The safety and security of the Nation faces threats by means of hazards and terrorism type attacks, as well as manmade accidents or natural disasters. Though out this ever changing environment homeland security must manage risks that can be associated with workforce management, acquisitions operations, as well as other cost…