Nt1310 Unit 1 Network Design

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.

To start off with I chose to go with our banking or financial industry. The banking industry is constantly getting attacked by various methods on a daily basis. I chose this industry because I happen to know someone who works in the security sector at Wells Fargo Bank, he was a good person to get information on what he sees on a daily or weekly basis. This paper is the opinion of myself and with gathered information from various resources.

Windows Hardening Defense, starts with the basics, Log in with least amount of privileges. Always use Firewall and AV. Monitor channels for security advisories and alerts. Know your system(s). Patch early and patch often, Unpatched Systems are the lowest of low hanging fruit. Have a patch policy documented and stick with it. Review patches as they are released and determine criticality based on the exploit, threat footprint for your system(s), and whether or not there is a POC or fully weapon exploit in the wild. When possible, test patches before rolling out in production on servers. Most clients should have automatic updates enabled for the OS and any application listening

The purpose of this assessment is to identify website and network level security issues that could compromise the confidentiality of customer data on Penhaligon's servers and to provide any evidence of security issues for a forthcoming security audit.

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In order to provide a safe, secured web-browsing environment and experience, Edu Corp continually analyzes web server security aspects, provides secure web server management and practices, specifies web server operating system requirements, outlines web server application requirements, monitors web content to ensure appropriate publishing practices, protects all web content, monitors the use of active content, implements proper authentication technologies and specifies strict requirements, maintains a proper network infrastructures, and assures proper web server security and maintenance.

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.

While access to sensitive data on the network is governed via “Access Control” (Refer to Chapter 7 on Network Security), you can assist with additional privacy to users by ensuring they adopt the following secure data communication & storage practices, provided these practices constitute approaches identified during the organization’s Risk Assessment (Refer to Chapter 1). Keep laws & regulations related to encryption in mind before recommending these best practices.

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 Systems Security2012Sudbury, MAJONES & BARTLETT - U9780763790257http://books.google.co.ke/books?id=-agjhFspvFMC( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_2" o "Kim, 2012 #318" Kim & Solomon, 2012). The main purpose of this attack will be to collect information from the company users. The information can range from sensitive data regarding the company or personal employee information. The effects of this attack can be quite detrimental to the company as the users will not be aware of the phishing website. The information that the hacker collects could be used to access the network and sensitive data on the servers. The company will be faced with three main threats if this attack is successful namely data alteration, information disclosure, or data destruction. To protect against this attack, the company should install spam filters, which can detect attachments or malicious links sent via email.

The greatest area of vulnerability and potential for damage or data loss of web applications and

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Input controls are the computer tools that assist in ensuring that data are accurately processed through the application processing to ensure that data are not lost, damaged or altered. More importantly, input controls ensure that the quality of data output is as good as data input into the computer during the data processing. Thus, input controls enhance integrity of data fed into the application systems. The basic function of input controls is that they include necessary measures to ensure that input data are complete, correct and secure. Moreover, input controls ensure that information processed by the computer is valid, accurate, complete and accurately translated into the machine readable form. The input controls also prevent errors input into the computer because large number of errors identified within the computer systems is from the input errors. Thus, input controls assist in eliminating the input errors by using common

The report indicated the web application has serious vulnerabilities and various vulnerabilities affecting the major impact on the business and organizations. The main task is protecting the application from threats they need to implement better security for managing and securing the web application.

Every organization consume different forms of technology to take advantage of increased productivity and reduced cost and have a presence in the internet world through website and web application. Over the last two decades, static websites that only contain information has evolved into dynamic web sites that accepts user input and performs action based on the input given. Dynamic web application is developed and deployed to provide immediate services and increase the customer base through means of world wide web. Tasks like accepting user details and storing/retrieving from database are evolving according to business need to grow. As new and powerful HTML tags, scripting functions, asynchronous JavaScript and XML(AJAX) technologies help web development to produce versatile web application, vulnerabilities and shortcomings are exploited by hackers to compromise both innocent client and company property. The growing trend of increasing attacks through Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL-Injection methods lends itself to the effectiveness of damage caused by such attacks, inherent weakness found in client-side scripting languages likes of JavaScript and direct open connection to the SQL data servers.

The Software is used in every detail of social life and is becoming the key engine of economic and social progress which affects social and economic development. Nowadays, our live relies more and more on the correct execution of software, whether a software is on our equipment (cell phones, engine injection, etc.), in the business we undertake each day (credit or debit card purchases, fund transfer, internet usage, electronic mail, etc.), or even those that are hidden from view (back office software for transaction processing), the software simplifies our daily lives, so when it goes askew, it affects our lives.