United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team : Legal Regulations, Compliance And Investigation

The Department of Homeland Security plays in a very important part in terrorism. DHS protect the United States from foreign and domestic threats to the United States. One of the missions is to find and destroy any weapon of mass destruction. Cyberspace is a threat to the United States in the technology field. DHS have to stop threats, hazards and disasters in its tracks at large public gatherings.

Issue 5: VA Policies, procedures and practices were not easy to identify, were not current, nor were they complete. The VA policies and procedures for safeguarding against disclosure of private information were inadequate with regard to preventing the data loss incident. The policies and procedures for reporting and investigating lost or stolen private data not well-defined in the VA policies (Opfer, 2006).

Incident information disclosure is an important, circuitous concern that requires acceptable centralized procedures in place to facilitate incident response processes and do not cause more harm for the organization and its audiences. Keeping information and operations secured, appropriately is of basic importance for any organization, which becomes the assignment of cyber

Grama, J. L. (2015). Legal issues in information security (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones &

After the business continuity plan is completed Incident Response (IR) planning and incident response plan should be performed and established. An incident response plan is “a detailed set of processes and procedures that anticipate, detect, and mitigate the effects of an unexpected event that might compromise information resources and assets.” (Whitman) This is done by first forming an IR committee, establishing an IR policy that integrates the business impact analysis into the incident response plan.

The client is known for taking these types of incidents to court for prosecution to the full extent of the law, so it is imperative that the investigation follows all procedures for documentation, digital evidence collection, and digital evidence storage required to ensure admissibility in court. Furthermore, XYZ, Inc. has been given four tasks that must be completed to ensure a clear and concise plan has been developed. This plan would then be implemented for utilization into the

Without a doubt, cybersecurity is one of the biggest threats the DHS faces. As technology evolves, this threat will continue to grow. What is the department doing about it? A cyber-attack could cause serious damage to our critical infrastructure if it was done properly. This is something that must be protected! The first step is to protect our federal networks and critical infrastructure. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works with each federal civilian department and agency to promote the adoption of common policies and best practices that are risk-based and able to effectively respond to the pace of ever-changing threats. As systems are protected, alerts can be issued at machine speed when events are detected

Information is an asset that, like other important personal assets, is essential to an in-dividual and should be protected. Information can exist in many forms. It can be printed or written on paper, stored electronically, transmitted by post or by using electronic means, shown, or spoken in conversation. In whatever form the information takes, or means by which it is shared or stored, it should always be appropriately secured.

Although the system-fault-risk framework consists of eight categories, this report will focus on the particulars of the initial threat followed by three elements of the actual attack. By understanding the OPM breach through classifications of the SFR framework, findings and recommendations can be deferred from the attack to improve awareness for other government agencies, implement enhanced detection and protection mechanisms, and develop policies and processes to reduce the risk of future cyber incidents. (Ye, Newman, Farley, 2006)

The investigation after an incident allows the organization to identify the attacker, tools used in the attack, the vulnerability that was exploited, and the damage caused by the attack. This post-mortem

In the event of data corruption or physical breach of ABC Healthcare, there will still be an untouched backup of ABC Healthcare’s data. If a virus or worm attacks ABC Healthcare’s network, the offsite backups will be used to restore the network to a point before the network was breached. ABC Healthcare’s SIEM, IDS, IPS will be used to hopefully notify the IT department of any incidents in a timely manner. In any case, for any possible incident we must develop and Incident Response (IR) plan. The Computer Security Incident Handling Guide has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the foundation on which an IR should be developed. In accordance with NIST, an IT department should develop a plan by developing plan to ensure that that plan is executed in its entirety. Communication guidelines should be established for internal and external communications, essential team members should be identified, establishing what services the IR team will be responsible for, and exactly how the IR team will be trained to respond to an attack, failure, or accident (Cichonski, Millar, Grance, & Scarfone, 2012). NIST recommends developing IRs for common attack vectors such as viruses or worms that target private health

The supreme threats we face are attacks on our critical infrastructure. In July of 1996, Executive Order 13010 Critical Infrastructure Protection outlines the value of critical infrastructure as “so vital if modified, shutdown or destroyed it would debilitating US economic” ("EO 13010 Critical Infrastructures 15 July 1996," 1996). Preserving infrastructure operability has always been at the forefront of our security model; human & disaster related hazards used to sit atop the list, now cyber-attacks demand most of the attention. The alarming part to this entire subset, private sectors controls 85% of America’s critical infrastructure. The concern I have not only comes in the form of infrastructure vulnerabilities; but also the timeframe it

Secretary Johnson, this memo is being addressed to you on the basis that the foreign policy issue that is threats to cyber security is of interest to the Department of Homeland Security. In brief explanation of the issue at hand, it can be concluded that the major foreign policy problem of cyber security threats has created and will continue to create imitate danger to the United States of America. The act of breaching the security sustained around private networks has become renowned as a type of terrorism, one that has rapidly evolved since the beginning of the 21st century and has gained even more strength with the increased use of computers. This threat has the potential to risk the exposure of the nation’s most valuable information including government documents, military plans that are considered top secret, and even the United States power grid. The convenience and the ease of use has made this threat greater as individuals conducting what has become known as cyber attacks can be thousands of miles away from the network they hack into. In order for this threat to be combated efficiently, a brief history based around the issue must be conducted as well as an examination of possible alternatives before concluding with the best proposed solution that will bring this threat under control and ultimately aim to eliminate it.

Although the system-fault-risk framework consists of eight categories, this report will focus on the particulars of the initial threat followed by three elements of the actual attack. By understanding the OPM breach through classifications of the SFR framework, findings and recommendations can be deferred from the attack to improve awareness for other government agencies, implement enhanced detection and protection mechanisms, and develop policies and processes to reduce the risk of future cyber incidents. (Ye, Newman, Farley, 2006)

The information security incident management policy of Blyth’s Books was created in 2010 and has been reviewed four times in five years. Those covered by its scope are clearly stated. It stresses the importance of incident management to the organisation and has the support of upper level management.