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We have been engaged in business for some time, and have been very successful, however we need to re-examine our network configuration and infrastructure and identify that our network defenses are still reliable, before we make any changes. We need to take a hard look at our current configuration of host, services and our protocols within our organization. Data from a large number of penetration tests in recent years show most corporate networks share common vulnerabilities. Many of these

* Identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities in the 7 domains of a typical IT infrastructure

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.

2. LAN-WAN (Local Area Network to Wide Area Network) - This domain is where the IT infrastructure of the company is connected to the World Wide Web. The way this domain is affected could be better understood by looking at a few security risks that exist on that domain. The two that directly relate to this material is unauthorized access to systems, applications, and data and rogue users on the WAN gaining access to the system remotely. Those threats are constant in any situation, but when it comes to “internal use only” classified data, it is an enormous threat. That data will affect the WAN because it will have to be filtered to ensure that type of data is not making it from the LAN to the WAN. This is data that must not reach the WAN and possibly fall into the wrong

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I would evaluate vulnerabilities and threats based against one or more of the CIA Triad principles (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) Vulnerabilities and risks are assessed based on the threat that they pose counter to one or more of the CIA Triad principles therefore the principles should be used as a guideline for security policies and solutions that are needed but at the same time not affect the stability between securing the systems and allowing the business enough breathing room to function effectively. The principles will define the goals and objectives that both policy designers and system implementation must achieve to create a secure solution.

Of the three Systems/Application Domain risks, threats, and vulnerabilities identified, which one requires a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan to maintain continued operations during a catastrophic outage?

I am hired as an Information Security Engineer for a videogame development company. The organization network structure is given in the diagram. I was notified that malicious activities are taking place in the network structure. They can effect protection of the intellectual property and highly sensitive data maintained by the organization. I am assigned to resolve these issues that arise in the network structure. In this document I will analyze and assess potential malicious attacks and threats that may be carried out against the network along with potential vulnerabilities that may exist in the documented network. Also I will tell the potential impact of all malicious attacks & threats and identified vulnerabilities to the network and

In this part, risk evaluation is conducted to identify the system framework of the Medco system. This gives an idea what type of server environment we have.

By defining key controls based on cyber threats (translated into business risks), an organization can more easily right-size the its control set and adapt it to their needs. Risk assessment processes that are near real-time, gated by the change control process, provide continuous feedback on the sufficiency of controls within an

In the three maintained products the threats and risks are to be identified. Such as the data base securing, user identification, authorizing proper managers, protections from hackers and updated firewalls and less vulnerable software.

The first domain is the user domain. The most logical thing that could go wrong is that an employee could and most likely will at some point, forget security policies and accidentally exposed the networks to malicious files or code. This is done by uploading something off a foreign data transfer device such as a flash drive. This could cause problems with the entire system if the malicious program is a virus. A more non logical problem would be if a disgruntled employee purposely tries to take down the system or steals information that is considered sensitive. While this happens it is less logical than accidently exposure. The worst thing that could happen is that the malicious code wipes out your servers, removes all data and causes massive production loss and most likely a loss of profit. This is countered with strong policies and physical security to derail these problems.

Risk assessment is one of the mitigation methods for the Networks design. The scanners or vulnerability tools are used to identify the risks or vulnerabilities within the network design. The risks can be identified by these tools as they extend beyond software detects to incorporate other easily vulnerabilities including mis-configurations (Rouse, 2010). The shareware assessment tools are accessible online and can be used to supplement commercial scanners.

 Attacks through employee systems: As the companies are issues various policies and procedures in order to improve their security systems and are even implementing latest security technologies, a direct attack has become difficult on the business networks. Therefore, the attackers are shifting their focus on

Among the wide variety of menaces that threaten the organizations network infrastructure the following items have been ranked as the most notable security risks that can lead to sophisticated flaws or jeopardize the integrity of information.