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Using proxy software Burp Suite it was discovered that the shopping site contained a hidden form field that could be manipulated.

It is not uncommon to find various organizations complaining about security flaws in their information systems. Failing to prevent or mitigate the security flaws may lead to system breakdown, errors, and loss of crucial information. This is why it is important for users of information systems to find the right solutions that can help counter and mitigate security flaws. One common problem with security flaws connected with information systems or networks is that the security flaws occur in multiples. Technological advances have, fortunately, made it possible for people and organizations to prevent and detect such security flaws using security strategies. Layered Security and Defense in Depth are two strategies that can help prevent attacks and protect information systems against security flaws. The two strategies are similar but are based on completely two different concepts. This paper compares and contrasts the Layered Security and Defense in Depth Strategies by explaining how each of the two functions. Additionally, the paper includes an explanation about the advantages and disadvantages of the two strategies.

One of the important part of system administration should be secure, so it is very important to understand which factors can affect security inside and outside our system. There are many key decisions that have to be made, for example, what server operating system should a system use to which

     On September 24, 2010, a laptop was stolen from an unlocked Urology office at the Henry Ford Health Systems hospital. The laptop did contain password protection software; however, it may not have been enough to permit access if the thief had advanced knowledge in computers. Additionally, the information stored on the laptop did not include social security or health insurance information, but instead held “patient names, medical record numbers, dates of birth, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and treatment and doctor visits” (Moscaritolo, 2010, p. 1). It is unknown how many records were contained on the laptop, but all records were related to prostate services that were provided during an eleven year span.

As basic users, security is one feature that most of us overlook when it comes to operating systems until it is too late. In this paper we will discuss the security flaws within the Windows Operating system, and then discuss countermeasures to fix the system flaw.

The early version of the worm functioned as a man-in-the-middle attack. It sat between the engineering software and the Siemens controllers for the input and output valves feeding into each centrifuge. The worm would accept commands from the engineering software and give false responses to indicate that these commands were being processed by the controllers. In reality, the worm was regularly allowing the centrifuges to be over-pressurized, which had the effect of causing the centrifuges to wear out and break more quickly. The later version of the software was much more crude. It would take over the centrifuges and refuse to acknowledge signals from the engineering software while an attack was active. The attack operated about once a month and worked by slowing down the centrifuges and then spinning them back up to past their normal full speed. This would cause damage as the centrifuges passed through what was known as a resonance speed, which would destabilize the rotor. Stuxnet managed to increase the rotor speeds at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility from a normal speed of 63,000 rpm to 84,600 rpm. The worms were carefully designed so that it would not be obvious to someone in the facility that their mechanical systems were being sabotaged. For example, the worm would randomly affect different centrifuges at

Computer systems evolve over time in response to new requirements, businesses rarely have a blank slate to work with – so compromises and security gaps will develop, it is almost guaranteed.

The framework of security policy is defined to construct a structure by the help of which policy gaps can be identified in an easy manner. A system specific policy would assist to ensure that all employees and management comply with the policies. This is also used to maintain the confidentiality for user authentication would assist in the confidentiality aspect of security, maintain integrity (There are several limiting rules or constraints which are distinct in the relational data model and whose work is to maintain the data’s accuracy and maintain its integrity.), availability and authenticity of the system. Access controls are a collection of mechanisms that work together to create security architecture to protect the assets of an information system. One of the goals of access control is personal accountability, which is the mechanism that proves someone performed a computer activity at a specific point in time. So, the framework acts as the guideline

This paper serves to direct the development team along a pathway of security, with the intent to share information about the most secured manner to implement this project. It must first be acknowledged that for information to be secured, information security must be integrated into the SDLC from system inception. The early integration of security in the

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) is an information security certification entity that specialises in technical and practical certification as well as new research in the form of its GIAC Gold program. SANS Institute founded the certification entity in 1999 and the term GIAC is trademarked by The Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies.

Security flaws or vulnerabilities have increased and spread rapidly over the past several years. More and more vulnerabilities are being discovered by security experts worldwide. Some of these flaws have proved to be extremely dangerous and lethal as they have caused unmeasurable damages to industries and organizations as well as individual users. Security vulnerability can be identified as a fault or weakness in a product or system that allows an attacker to exploit and manipulate that particular vulnerability and compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of that product or system (Definition of a Security Vulnerability ).

This article brings us into a world of an Information Security Analyst. The analyst must stay ahead of the different methods of hacking and also

Network security has changed significantly over the past years. There is more and more data to monitor and analyze in order to detect the activity of your data and systems. Securing a network has many variables. Password authentication, network access, patches, anti-virus protection, intrusion detection, firewall and network monitoring tools are just a few of the things you can do to protect yourself.

In innovation world, the software is being utilizing expanding and updating and producing for the propelled gimmicks. At the same time of the software has been assembled and has been released with a set of deformities. The deformities originates from execution and the configuration blemishes. The engineers have been for the most part concentrating on discovering execution bugs while about the recognizing defects they are not concentrating on that distinguishing imperfections generally. They are have engage for the most part on usage bugs instead of distinguishing the configuration defects. The IEEE computer security, the main relationship for registering experts had been dispatched a digital security which is activity with the point of growing and raising its continuous association in the field of digital security. In the first venture for the activity was to dispatch the IEEE computer society designs to move happen to the concentrate in security structure discovering bugs to distinguishing basic outline blemishes with the expectation that the product draftsman can gain from other 's misstep.

Software is rarely defect-free, and due to the defects and weakness in software, it can be exploited by unauthorized parties to change security properties and hamper functionality of the software. Exploitation can occur accidentally or intentionally, and users of that software have limited ways to find and correct these defects. As supply chain concept is global, it is difficult to detect involvement of attackers in the chain. At each