Infrastructure security

their online bank has been hacked into. Digitization, the process of making information digitally stored on a computer, should not have been fully implemented in many venues, such as healthcare, retail, and government entities, because inadequate security measures have not been taken to properly protect digitized information. Recently a major problem…

Winter’s Tale Publishing; a Hack job The case centers around the liabilities in which poor management can expose a company as well as the side effects that a cyber-intruder can have on a business' operations. Secondary issues explored include, auditing the company’s framework to evaluate their internal control structure, designing a secure IT network for start-up businesses, and address their legal and marketing worries if the organization were to be hacked. The Winter's Tale Publishing case…

Compliance and Beyond With 40+ years of security excellence, Unisys understands the importance of PCI compliance in the security equation of your institution. As per our Unisys experience, not being compliant is not as much an issue of penalties, as it is of risk and resulting liability. Though non-compliance penalties can run up to $500k or terminate your ability to process card payments, we are more concerned about your organization survival because of security compromises. When they do…

traffic control systems. Some other challenges that the federal government still needs to address include; developing and implementing procedures to help protect national security-related agencies’ systems from information technology supply chain risk, enhancing the oversight of contractors providing IT services, improving security incident response…

forcing most organizations to focus more attention on information security. It is critical that organizations must find a way to protect their data. This article will describe how to plan, develop and create an Information Security Operation Center (ISOC). Basically, an ISOC brings together the many isolated monitoring and response functions in a unified framework. Therefore, having an ISOC will benefit organizations in real time security incident management, monitoring and improving threat…

This chapter began with a brief introduction of physical security. This chapter described physical security as an important issue to organizations and their infrastructure. Indeed, physical security was addressed as a mechanism that protect data, systems, equipment, facilities, people and all company assets. This chapter equally observed that the issue of physical security in today’s world is very alarming and at a raising costs for companies because environment are now becoming more dynamically…

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…

Homeland Security Just like any other agency, the Department of Homeland Security has both a vision and a mission statement – the vision they have stated on their website is stated as follows: “Three key concepts form the foundation of our national homeland security strategy designed to achieve this vision: Security, Resilience, and Customs and Exchange,” (Department of Homeland Security, 2016). Nevertheless, these 3 concepts are what drive and motivate all the areas of the Department of…

for a government contract. There is a need to lessen the number of running hardware services, implement high level security access for both physical access as well as any needed remote connections, to lessen the overall possible attack surfaces for the environment from potential attackers, make this a unilateral implementation anywhere, as well as follow and apply any and all Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). We will be convert an older antiquated hardware server environment that…

How to conduct security patrols Where and when is security patrols needed? In modern times, security officers may be called on to perform duties that were previously considered to be functions for the law enforcement officers. The security officer’s jobs is now shifting from just sitting in a guard check and controlling the access of people to the factory. Security patrols are the bedrock of effective security operations. It is paramount to carry out the security patrols since it affords the…