Monitoring Intrusion Detection Team Act

Planning, organizing, directing, and controlling will build on each other during this emergency. The planning process in the scenario started with the initial response to the incident. The IC will use the planning process to provide strategic, operational, and tactical planning to develop an Incident Action Plan (IAP) once he gets and understanding of the situation. Once the IC has formulated reasonable incident objects and strategies, then the IC will prioritize them. This will help the IC plan for and determine what specific resources and support requirements are necessary for an effective response, and develop a plan to make the best use of these resources and support functions.

Immediately bring down any affected systems shut them down and power down switches and/or routers to entire segment that were hacked. The servers that were hacked need to be immediately reset meaning passwords, backup system and its applications. But before doing this to any system the company should take an image of the affected systems for forensic investigation, this will be the evidence against the hacker. Virus software needs to be run as soon as possible and security patches need to be installed on the entire company’s network system. The computers that were hacked need to be shut down and retrieve specially the one from the employee that hacked the system. Reroute network traffic to back up servers. This will help the company to minimalize the incident from reoccurring. The company should also remove/reset accounts and/or backdoors left on hacked systems.

7. Why do you want to have the incident response handled by the security incident response team and not the IT organization?

“Security needs to be addressed as a continued lifecycle to be effective. Daily, there are new attack signatures being developed, viruses and worms being written, natural disasters occurring, changes in the organization workplace taking place and new technologies evolving, these all effect the security posture in the organization” (King, 2002). This being said, it is important to evaluate firewall and router rule sets more frequently. The possible threats against this policy include improperly configured network infrastructure which leads to a domino effect that could start with malicious programming which could end in data loss. Many of these threats may be unintentional as some users may not be aware of the risks and how their processes and procedures open the door for such attacks. For this reason alone, a more frequent evaluation is needed. This vulnerability could lead to data loss and the exposure of trade secrets, client lists and product design. The exposure of such information for most companies could mean a financial collapse as it no longer has the competitive edge that makes it the industry leader. While the likelihood of this threat is very high, “security risks to the network exist if users do not follow the security policy. Security weaknesses emerge when there is no clear cut or written security policy document. A security policy meets these goals:

Incident response is written as a policy to ensure correct handling of an incident such as lost or stolen technology resources and gives the appropriate procedures on what to do if an incident happens.

Network Edge Security is the second-generation firewall architecture which changes 1st generation firewall paradigms. Network Edge Security pushes network security policy enforcement to the edge of the network (in other words all the way to the host) to address the insider problem. The architecture is not host-based software such as personal firewall but it is a host operating system independent and hardware based implementation on NIC (network interface card), with its own processor and memory that cannot be accessed by the host [5]. Network Edge Security

I have known how to use the firewall for a while but never have I taken the time to dive this deep into the settings of it. There was really a lot that you can do in the settings, more than one would think. Such as the inbound and outbound rules (I already knew of these ones) for example. There is really a lot you can do with a firewall.

As preparedness is the foundation to the National Preparedness System (NPS), the National Incident Management System (NIMS) is the common approach for managing incidents with concepts that provide for flexible but standardized sets of incident management practices; and provides the template for the management of incidents and operations in support of “all five National Planning Frameworks”. (FEMA NIMS 2015). The NIMS established the standardization of incident management protocols and procedures that all Federal, State, and local responders should use to conduct and coordinate response actions. Furthermore, the NIMS sets forth a “core set of doctrine, concepts, principles, terminology and organizational processes to enable effective, efficient,

The risks that face an organization are going to always be present. However, an incident response plan outlines procedures for handling security incidents that occur within the organization and for correcting and documenting the security issue in a timely manner. The incident response team is trained to effectively implement the incident response plan. By containing an attack, and limiting the amount of time that an attack is allowed to continue, further risks to the organization can be mitigated.

The IR planning team seeks to develop a series of pre-defined responses which will guide the team and information security staff through the steps needed for responding to an incident.

Response plan is the action taken during the incident to lockdown, evacuate and employers must save their lives.

Policies This document applies to all staff and supersedes all other strategies, practices, and guidelines relating to the matters set forth herein. The reason for this document is to define the Incident Response strategies by GCU on the occasion of a Security

Identification of controls already in place – including policies, firewalls, applications, intrusion and detection prevention systems, virtual private networks, data loss prevention and encryption.

In an e-commerce world, organizations are susceptible to hackers and intruders. Thus creating the information technology protection systems which is used to reduce the possibility of intrusions from occurring. Intrusions occur by uninvited outsiders (sometimes intruders can be internal users like employees) who try to access an organization’s information system using the internet with the intent to gain competitive advantage of some sort. Organizations depend on security technology to avoid loss from security breach, as well as to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. However, firewalls are also vulnerable to errors, and implementing a security technology comes with challenges and critical decisions that can possibly cause a financial burden on the organization if done without seriousness and commitment. “Information security is about managing risk, and managing risk is about discovering and measuring threats to information assets; and taking actions to respond to those threats” (Al-Awadi, & Renaud, 2007, p.3). This paper will discuss a few aspects that are involved with firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

The always and ever increasing quantity of products with IP routers are incorporating packet filtering as a tool to help in improving the network security if utilized in the proper way, packet filtering is a great tool for a network’s security or networks administrators that are security conscious but in order for it to be used effectively one must have an in-depth understanding of its many capabilities and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages and what type of particular protocol that the filters are being applied to. This paper begin by defining firewall and identifying the different types of firewall then goes into Packet filtering describing some of the characteristics and some of the application protocol then the paper identified