Corporate Network Management

As we all know people are where we see the biggest problems in security breaches and problems on any computer or network system. People need to understand what they are allowed and not allowed to do, this is where policies, procedures, and training come in to play.

Every Single day it is indeed a full-time job for the network administrator to keep up with the changing technologies. These new technologies come with new challenges, threats, and vulnerabilities which a smart network administrator must solve to keep the system secure. The network administrator must keep up with new hacking techniques, latest countermeasures, and in-depth knowledge of company’s data to address the suspicious activities and minimize their effects. But then comes the question of Ethics. Should the network administrator access employees’ private emails or websites logs to ensure company’s rules aren’t violated? Is it ok to browse employees’ documents or graphics files stored on the computers or on file servers? So, the network administrator has both charms and pitfalls as he has a huge responsibility to secure the company by carrying out his duties in an ethical way. This paper explains some ethical and social challenges a future network administrator may encounter in a company. The paper also introduces some basic ways the new network administrator can use to maintain a healthy, trustful, and ethical relationship between his work and the society.

Security and ethical employees will continue to be a vital aspect of ensuring the success of an organization. There will always be a need for ethical IT security professional as hackers will continue to force organizations to make adjustments in their business models to protect their employees, data and customers. Many organizations and managers believe application security requires simply installing a perimeter firewall, or taking a few configuration measures to prevent applications or operating systems from being attacked. This is a risky misconception. By understanding threats and respect impacts, organizations will be equipped to maintain confidentiality, availability and

As such, our company’s people resources pose the greatest risk for security breach. Our way to help mitigate risk in this area is to keep communication lines open in this area and to continually mandate security knowledge training, with mandatory updates on a regular basis. When the employees are informed of company policy when facing a security matter, they are better equipped to act in the best or right way. In this way knowledge is power – or at least empowerment to act in the best interest of the company’s information security.

Our managers face a range of threats and consequences for security failures including financial loss, civil liability and criminal liability. Threats can come in many forms including physical probing, invalid input, and linkage of multiple operations. In order to limit these types of threats, Sobota will comply with the following organizational security objectives: audit, information leakage, and risk analysis. A risk analysis will identify portions of Sobota’s network, assign a threat rating to each portion, and apply the appropriate level of security. They will

The first line of defense for almost every organization is typically the system administrator. This is the person that actively interacts with the company network on a daily basis, and by extension has intimate knowledge of it. So it stands to reason that this person would hopefully be the first to notice any signs of possible compromise would it not? Sadly that is often not the case. Whether it is due to a lack of IT Training, complacency, or laziness is anyone’s guess.

Below the top leadership of an organization comes a body of supervisors who deal with employees on a daily basis. Similar to the management situation, if supervisors are more engaged with employees when it comes to information security, employees are likely to comply with the guidelines regulating information within the organization (Chen, Ramamurthy, Wen, 2012).

This organization to be networked has about 600 workers distributed evenly among six different user departments. Its headquarters is located in Los Angeles, CA, and it has major offices in Madrid, Spain, Tokyo, Japan, and Sydney, Australia. It doesn 't have an effective line of communication between the user departments and the head office. The aim is to develop a network system capable of securing and making sure of effective communication between the smaller companies (owned by larger companies) in different countries and between the different user departments with the organizations head office. In order to design and build a well secured network, many factors must be taken into the process of carefully thinking about something.

In addition, these policies provide solutions to management on tackling issues that pertains to the security problems that arises from daily operation of the company. Such cases include what to do to an employee who is found compromising the security breaches of the company.

Heartbleed Bug has had an extraordinary impact all across the globe, and put millions in danger of identity theft, financial loss, and a tremendous violation of privacy. For an incident such as this, that can be detected only when it is too late, it is close to impossible to limit its reach, which is what happened in 2014, before the developers patched OpenSSL. The vast range of people and organisations that it affected is simply shocking, from fortified IT giants to an ordinary teenager browsing their

It is important for a company to set up regulations and protocols in order to help prevent the potential risk of an insider attack. It is unusual for one to fathom that an attack could happen from the inside instead of the outside, which is what usually puts most companies and groups off guard for the more commonly occurring attacks which come from within. That said, your company appears to have some holes and openings for potential threats that could occur from within. It would be advisable that you and your company begin to implement (A), (B), and (C) into your methods of running the company in order for you to ensure a safer environment from

Regardless of the fact that they happen quite often, both internal and external security breaches are surprisingly unforeseen by many corporations. It is imperative that companies know how to go about dealing with one when a breach does occur. It seems that “the best approach to forensic response is to plan the response before an incident occurs” (Week 5 Lecture). There should be a way for employees to know how to handle a security breach and prevent future occurrences. Each individual company needs to have a standard operating procedure that discusses the processes for e-mail, acceptable use, physical security, and incident response.

Networks are very vulnerable to any holes that are within its infrastructure. In fact, many may believe that they have the best security measures in place, but no system or network of any type is impenetrable (Trim & Lee, 2014). Risk assessments are extremely necessary so that corrective countermeasures can be applied and overall security can be enhanced (Broder & Tucker, 2011). Security should ensure that this is the top priority for any company or organization. A detailed risk assessment shows which policies are essential and how well the company complies with those specific policies (Broder & Tucker, 2011). For those that manage the budget and spending need measurable justification for all of the company’s spending. By having

This report will now cover what the purchaser of my services can expect from the analysis and changes to come. The first thing that should and must be addressed is the basic structure of the networks themselves. If there is a mismatch between the basic structures of the two networks, the singular approach that will be followed with the new network must be figured out first. This does not mean that one network's general approach has to be chosen over the other, far from it. Instead, the singular best approach that covers the needed capabilities and metrics of the combined company has to be defined and mapped out. This will then lead to the structure and strategy for the new network.

Effectiveness of any network is determined by its management. Effective management invests into relations with other members of the network to ensure it benefits from inter-firm networking than loses (Lichtenthaler 2005; Teece 1998 in Huggins, 2010).