Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities In order to better understand the potential attacks that can affect the network, it is best to start with the external layer. Spear phishing or phishing is a potential attack that can occur through the email server. Using this kind of attack the hacker will create a fake website that is identical to a popular website for a client ADDIN EN.CITE Kim2012318(Kim & Solomon, 2012)3183186Kim, D.Solomon, M.Fundamentals of Information
analysis by the vulnerabilities that this one presents. Many of these vulnerabilities are the cause for different types of network attacks. It should be noted that while many of these vulnerabilities may be mitigated or eliminated the possibility of an attack always exists. The first vulnerability is the email server. Although very well controlled for been within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), this is always a vulnerability with which most companies have to deal with. This vulnerability opens the way
Identifying Potential Risk 1 Assignment 1: Identifying Potential Risk, Response, and Recovery CIS333 Identifying Potential Risk 2 In this paper I have just been hired as an Information Security Engineer for a video game development company. I have previously identified all of the potential Threats, Vulnerabilities and Malicious Attacks for the videogame development company. The CIO have reviewed my report and has now requested that I draft a
Assignment 2: Identifying Potential Risk, Response, and Recovery Emory Evans August 26, 2012 Dr. Robert Whale CIS 333 There are a myriad of potential threats and vulnerabilities that leave a system open to malicious attack, anytime you have a computer network that connects to the internet there is a potential for malicious attack so it is important that you know the vulnerabilities of a system to protect it from potential threats and malicious attacks. “A
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
are the types of threats DBR may be facing? Major threats faced by DBR are: • Attacks by Advanced Persistence Threat (APT): APTs are the attacks usually carried out by some humans who stealthily targets a specific entity to steal intellectual property for personal or business gains. These are some highly sophisticated attacks which are very difficult to detect unless you have a sound cybersecurity measures put in place to prevent them to target your system. APTs are major threat in case of DBR because
handling threats, vulnerability and disaster that can break the business lifecycle. Applying information systems security to an organizations’ IT infrastructure helps maintain CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and availability), identify potential risk that could damage the business and to recover from disasters. The confidentiality aspect assures that an organization maintains valid, uncorrupted and accurate information. CIA can be compromised due to internal or external, physical or logical threats. Information
zero-day threats is utilizing Security Information and Event Management tools SIEM detection: New attack vectors and vulnerabilities are discovered every day. As previously discussed firewalls, IDS and Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS) hunt for malicious activity at various points across the network from the perimeter to endpoints. Taking the search to another level, a SIEM solution has the capability to detect zero-day attacks. This capability can detect activity associated with an attack rather
Cybercrime – Major Threats Introduction Computers suffer attacks, both at home and business atmosphere and they have develop steadily over the past twenty years. Based on the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), “…worldwide digital attacks reached an all-time high of nearly 20,000 in January, causing more than $8 billion in damages.” (Mueller, 2003). Events and occurrences on identity theft which is the act of impersonating another person for profit or gain – are increasing and growing crimes
protect assets against various threats. There are three basic questions one needs to ask in order to improve the security of a system: • What assets within the organization need protection? • What are the risks to each of these assets? • How much time, effort, and money is the organization willing to expend to upgrade or obtain new adequate protection against these threats? Identifying Type of Threat and Method of Attack • A threat is any action or incident with the potential to cause harm to an organization