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How to fight Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)? Denial of Service attacks can turn your entire organization upside down. It is almost like experiencing a worst, unpredictable disaster. Over the past few years, Denial of Service attacks made to the headlines several times and have always been frustrating the IT professionals. It’s great that each day technology is taking new phases and flourishing its potentiality, but the advancing field is also becoming a growing opportunity for invaders to…

As discussed in Subsection~\ref{aaavulnerabilities} and~\ref{aaadrawbacks}, the current solution of AAA has various vulnerabilities and limitations. These vulnerabilities has caused user data hijack and breach, identity theft and financial loss. These issues are becoming more common and frequent which has sparked the security concerns over current AAA framework and end-user are becoming more concerned about their digital identity and privacy. Beside these, repeated user registration across…

The decision to implement a converged technology within an organisation should be a conscious decision, however, with wireless there exists a very real threat of unauthorised implementations. This ultimately creates a risk to the information assets within an organisation, even when there is no perceived threat. So in the security policy the organisation can state its stance upon the installation of wireless access points, in that at the very least they must have prior authorisation and adhere to…

relations (Privacy Technical Assistance Center, 2012). If the authorities or law enforcement needs to be involved in the breach, then the team will determine whether they need to be contacted for further investigation. Once all the necessary information has been recovered, it is to determine whether the parties involved should be notified and what needs to be done in order to accommodate the persons involved, such as free credit report for a year. Once the investigation reports and analyses…

infection? A few indications that your PC may have an infection are that program symbols or records may vanish, your landing page may look changed and there might be some new included toolbars. You may encounter irregular messages or pop-ups and information records may not open since they are undermined. Your framework may need to begin take quite a while to boot up and projects can totally quit working. 13. What is a firewall and how do firewalls ensure my PC? A firewall is programming…

For organizations, using an oversaw security specialist co-op offers an approach to diminish costs and to build the level of security on your system in the meantime. While you are approaching the way toward doing your regular business, the security administration is verifying that your system is protected from dangers and, above all, the general population who work at the specialist organization are dependably progressive on the most recent dangers and ready to give you answers for manage them…

I am an IT Security Analyst in Enterprise Solutions and Technology’s (EST) Information and Cyber Security Management stream. In this role, I advise internal and external stakeholders about the ATO’s approach to contemporary risk management for corporate security practices and emerging technology My awareness of the ATO’s security posture and risk appetite is supplemented by knowledge I have gained from formal Information Security accreditations and industry conventions. I apply this proficiency…

web, Tor Network, and many others. (Weiser, 2015). Nonetheless, the first attempt to create an anonymous web was attempted not by criminals of the information age, but it was launched by the United States Naval…

Two Myths about BYOD and Cloud Security “A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.” That’s according to philosopher and psychologist Gene Rulye. And he’s right … not only in life, but especially when it comes to security. Today we’ll continue our examination of cloud security myths by diving into one of the biggest trends in the world of business, BYOD (bring your own device). According to Tech Pro Research released late…

Simply put, if your business relies on information technology, you need a disaster recovery plan in place to keep it going when the unforeseen happens. A sound disaster recovery plan includes a backup for your critical databases and a data replication solution that will allow you to get your business up and running as soon as possible after a man-made or natural disaster. Why is it so important for you to put a disaster recovery plan at the top of your already-full list of priorities? Here…