safeguards for an organization's systems including user identification and password access, authentication, access rights and authority levels. These measures are to ensure that only authorized users are able to perform actions or access information in a network. Access control mechanism: As part of access control mechanism we are using MAC (mandatory access control mechanism) where users do not enjoy the privileges of deciding who can access their files. Here the operating system is the…
upon in the case study. Attackers started by performing“Reconnaissance”over one of Target’s external heating and ventilation providers, Fazio Mechanical Servicesprobably after prior deep investigation to detectan easy loophole to infiltrate Target’s network for its malicious objectives.Also,Fazio relied onfree version of a security software called, “Malwarebytes Anti-Malware”, whose license explicitly prohibited corporate use; which is a fineexample of Overreliance on knowledge versus…
come from different forms and areas such as: personal computer, hard drives, network logs, social networking sites, mobile devices. These sources can contain a vast amount of data. Hence, they lead up to many challenges in acquiring the data. For example, just in mobile devices category, there are multiple types of devices – cell phones, smartphones, tablets, PDA devices, and more. Three different events – network intrusion, malware installation, and insider file deletion – can be used to…
In today’s ever changing technological world, network security is a necessity. According to The SANS Institute, a research and educational organization dedicated to “information security training and security certification”, network security is “the process of taking physical and software preventative measures to protect the underlying networking infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, malfunction, modification, destruction, or improper disclosure, thereby creating a secure platform for…
SENSOR NETWORK (WSN): Wi-Fi sensor networks (WSN), once in a while called wireless tool and actuator networks (WSAN), are spatially disbursed autonomous sensors to monitor bodily or environmental situations, which include temperature, sound, pressure, and so forth. and to cooperatively pass their expertise through the network to a major location. The extra brand new networks are bi-directional, additionally sanctioning control of device activity. The improvement of wireless sensor…
You can respond to a security incident in a number of different ways. Your options include countermeasures designed to block intrusions to packet-filtering rules and proxy servers to block intrusions that have been detected by an Intrusion Detection System (IDS); and alterations to security policies to cover new vulnerabilities as they are detected. By developing a Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), your organization has the flexibility to implement any or all of these response options.…
Answer 8.2: As the IT Security Professional for Web Site 101, I will be recommending adjustments for recent security issues, including data loss due to employee negligence, physical break ins, identifying employee security standards, identifying network access specifics, and the recent hacking of the home page of Web Site 101. Web Site 101 currently has 300 employees working on three levels of the office building. In the previous years, this organization has grossed 2 million dollars revenue…
confidential data. There is no better example of how failing to properly secure your systems from cyber attacks can negatively effect the masses than the high profile cyber attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In June of 2015, OPM announced that the “background investigation records of millions of current, former and prospective federal employees and contractors had been stolen in a cyber intrusion” that had been ongoing since early 2014. OPM who conducts approximately 90…
worldwide. However, there are few questions that are being discussed among research institutions, standards bodies, operators, the supplier community, trade organizations and governments – What will be the 5G deployment time frame? What will characterize networks beyond 2020? What are the likely technologies that will come in to play for 5G? This paper is a survey paper, in an attempt to address these questions in a systematic way. This paper presents the 5G use cases, requirements, spectrum…
stated hackers broke into the retailer’s network using login credentials stolen from a heating, ventilation and air conditioning company that does work for Target at a number of locations. This company called Fazio had access rights to Target’s network for carrying out tasks like remotely monitoring energy consumption and temperatures at various stores. The attackers leveraged the access provided by the Fazio credentials to move around undetected on Target’s network and upload malware programs…