Technical certifications are generally a proctored exam in a specific area of the IT industry that are meant to show that you understand the subject matter. So why take a certification test? The tests to certify can be costly and this is usually after taking a class or online training, so why would an IT professional or student want to take a certification test? There are many reasons and most of them are to get a good job. As an IT professional a person may want to move up the ladder and get a better
As I reach the end of my 20 year career with the United States Air Force, I have begun looking towards the next iteration of my career. Over my lengthy service, I have specialized in cybersecurity of network devices, end-point devices, and overarching policy. Currently, I am assigned as the Noncommissioned Officer in Charge (Director) of the Wing Cybersecurity Office. This position encompasses being the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber security and compliance in support HQ AFGSC, HQ 8AF,
Meaningful Use and its Development The electronic medical record (EMR) is the replacement of paper manual charts and is being used all across the country. As per Hebda and Czar (2013), the EMR is the “building block” of the electronic health record (EHR), which can be defined as “a longitudinal record that includes client data, demographics, clinician notes, medications, diagnostic findings, and other essential healthcare information” (p.293). The widespread use of EHR’s in America is foreseeable
There’s been a lot of talk about this new computer system that casts election votes. Ideally, using electronic equipment has many advantages but there are disadvantages hiding in the cave ready to attack. We’ve all seen electronic equipment often work as expected but more importantly, it’s not uncommon for electronic equipment to fail and when this sort of concept is applied to voting, miscounting is simply unacceptable. I think the best way to solve this type problem is to try to make the voting
Blaster Worm would install itself on a computer and immediately seek out other susceptible computers. Once infected, the Blaster Worm permitted individuals or an entity to take a myriad of very damaging actions from executing programs to giving others hackers full access to resources and information. Additionally, the Blaster Worm had the ability to instruct a newly discovered susceptible system to download the worm so that the infectious cycle would continue (Hoogstraten, 2003). The antidote to the
Security Specialists Mountain Top Security Specialist was incorporated in 1996 with a staff over 20 employees all certified in Certified Ethical Hacking and Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. As the testers for this project, we are both Licensed Penetrations Testers, Certified Security Specialist. My specialty also includes Certified Network Defense Architect (EC-Council Hackers are here, Where are you? 2016). Other projects we have worked with Crown incorporated and many military defense projects
the organization expenses as they don’t have to buy separate licenses for every user’s computer. However, this great development has led to a number of security threats and challenges in the organization from outsiders through intrusions, once hackers identify a loop hole in the network they can be able to attack a firm and steal data to be used for of criminal activities including cyber vandalism, revealing trade secrets, industrial espionage etc. The good
• Question 1 5 out of 5 points Which of the following files is edited to block a search engine’s bots from indexing an organizational Web site? Selected Answer: robots.txt Answers: lmhosts.txt robots.txt host.txt index.txt • Question 2 5 out of 5 points Web resources used to footprint a company include all but which one of the following? Selected Answer: Request for Comments (RFC) archive Answers: Internet archive SEC EDGAR Company Web site Request for Comments
is necessary it would be worthy of analysis to discuss what would happen if not enough of it is provided, meaning that the levels of security are not utilized to the full extents. This is exactly where the big issue of hacking and hackers becomes involved. Hackers can benefit from a wide range of weaknesses in security, break into systems, find the information they need, and eventually change them to fulfill their desire. This, over the years, has resulted in great deals of information loss
labor categories. Lab manager (Subject Matter Expert) (1).The Lab Manager establishes formal policies and processes for case management, maintains fiscal responsibilities for the lab and team needs, supports consensus decision making and enforces ethical standards ad is also responsible for ensuring the digital forensic tools (hardware and software) are procured and maintained (Nelson et al., 2014). Among the processes established and updated regularly that fall within the lab managers’ area of responsibility