Discussion Questions Do you think Miller is out of options as he pursues his vendetta? If you think he could take additional actions in his effort to damage the SLS network, what are they? Suppose a system administrator at SLS read the details of this case. What steps should he or she take to improve the company's information security program? Consider Miller's hacking attempt in light of the intrusion kill chain described earlier and shown in Figure 7-1. At which phase in the kill chain has SLS countered his vendetta? Ethical Decision Making It seems obvious that Miller is breaking at least a few laws in his attempt at revenge. Suppose that when his scanning efforts had been detected, SLS not only added his IP address to the list of sites banned from connecting to the SLS network, the system also triggered a response to seek out his computer and delete key files on it to disable his operating system. Would such action by SLS be ethical? Do you think action would be legal? Suppose instead that Miller had written a routine to constantly change his assigned IP address to other addresses used by his ISP. If the SLS intrusion system determined what Miller was doing and then added the entire range of ISP addresses to the banned list, thus stopping any user of the ISP from connecting to the SLS network, would SLS's action be ethical? What if SLS were apart of an industry consortium that shared IP addresses flagged by its IDPS, and all companies in the group blocked all of the ISP's users for 10 minutes? These users would be blocked from accessing perhaps hundreds of company networks. Would that be an ethical response by members of the consortium?

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition)

7th Edition

ISBN:9780133594140

Author:James Kurose, Keith Ross

Publisher:James Kurose, Keith Ross

Chapter1: Computer Networks And The Internet

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Discussion Questions

Do you think Miller is out of options as he pursues his vendetta? If you think he could take additional actions in his effort to damage the SLS network, what are they?
Suppose a system administrator at SLS read the details of this case. What steps should he or she take to improve the company's information security program?
Consider Miller's hacking attempt in light of the intrusion kill chain described earlier and shown in Figure 7-1. At which phase in the kill chain has SLS countered his vendetta?

Ethical Decision Making

It seems obvious that Miller is breaking at least a few laws in his attempt at revenge. Suppose that when his scanning efforts had been detected, SLS not only added his IP address to the list of sites banned from connecting to the SLS network, the system also triggered a response to seek out his computer and delete key files on it to disable his operating system.

Would such action by SLS be ethical? Do you think action would be legal?

Suppose instead that Miller had written a routine to constantly change his assigned IP address to other addresses used by his ISP. If the SLS intrusion system determined what Miller was doing and then added the entire range of ISP addresses to the banned list, thus stopping any user of the ISP from connecting to the SLS network, would SLS's action be ethical?

What if SLS were apart of an industry consortium that shared IP addresses flagged by its IDPS, and all companies in the group blocked all of the ISP's users for 10 minutes? These users would be blocked from accessing perhaps hundreds of company networks. Would that be an ethical response by members of the consortium?

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