Infrastructure security

and noticed there are 79,056 openings at the time of this writing. Headed over to Monster.com and typed in “cyber” and found a few hundred more, but far less than 209,000 let alone the wondrous 1,000,000 mentioned by Forbes. Having been in the security arena for over two decades now, I have seen how much it has grown, but never have I seen such a wonderful number: “1,000,000 Cybersecurity Experts blah blah blah.” Apologies for the “blah blah blah” portion, but the geek/nerd/pessimist/realist in…

Information Security Breach these days has been a popular subject in news. Almost every companies have been hacked, if not yet, they should not consider themselves as more secure than others that have already been there. In December 2013, Target was one of the victims with more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards that were stolen by malicious people. Just right before Thanksgiving a malware was installed inside target database. So between November and December 2013, over 11GB of…

For an organization to successfully enforce its security program, it must take risk analysis and risk management into consideration. A risk analysis will identify potential threats and vulnerabilities of the systems and any existing related risks. Applying threat modeling to analyze the security of an application by identifying, quantifying, rating, and addressing the threats is crucial for the organization to prevent and mitigate any threats. Since risk is calculated by multiplying the threat…

I will be committed to improving my computer security skills and acquiring a Masters degree from a reputable school. It is a plan of mine to transition into my company’s Cyber Security Operations team in near future. I currently have flexibility in my work schedule to pursue a degree from an accredited institution. These are the reasons why I have decided that it…

threats to the system we will look into what security measures can be used to avoid such attacks. Best way to achieve an application level security in a cloud environment is to analyze and address security threat at various cloud service model such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS .For example in case of IaaS service model developers are given capability to develop and deploy application in a cloud environment. Developer may not be concerned with the application security of the application his is…

The Department of Home Affairs Mission 4 Strategic management 4 Weaknesses in the department of Home Affairs 4 eChannel Live Capture System Project 5 Benefit Realization 5 Improved Customer Service 6 Other Potential Savings 6 Electronic Banking 6 Security 6 Conclusion 6 Reference 7 Introduction The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has introduced a new Smart Identity card (Smart ID) to replace the green bar-coded identity book. The green bar-coded ID books and passport solution does…

But on the other hand, some people may say that it is ultimately for the good of the United States. According to President Barack Obama, throughout our nation’s history, people were spied on for the sake of national security. He claims that people who are not a threat to national security were not spied on (Obama). Not only is it a possibility that the government is spying on its own people, but the internet and certain corporations are gathering data on its users. When a user…

IT Security Policy Framework Darryl E. Gennie Professor Kevin Jayne Augusta CIS 462 26 July 2015 Strayer University For the healthcare insurance industry it is important to have an Information Security Policy Framework within the organization. This protects information that is accessed across the network by staff personnel and patients. ISO 27000 includes a series of international standards that provide a model for establishing, operating, maintaining, and improving an Information…

quality performance of technology. The cyber world will never be completely free of cyber attacks, cyber espionage or cyber threats same as how the physical world will never be completely free of crime. However we must seek to limit the amount of cyber security violations as well as the severity of any violations. This can only be done by full compliance and partnership between the government and the people. The government must fulfill its constitutional duties and the people must allow it.…

Department of Homeland Security is no different with their 22 departments. In the case of ports, the Coast Guard and FEMA “cybersecurity efforts in the maritime port environment have been limited” (GAO, 2014, p.1). This includes the lack of a risk assessment that is heavily followed by DHS. This shows that the cyber threat in the ports are of minimal or no concern from the agencies who are tasked with protecting this critical infrastructure. On a good note, cyber security on vessels it’s self…