Novell Network for Company Security
As today's businesses increase in sizes, there is a more demanding need for an increase in security needs. Many businesses today have to answer the question of, "When do I know that have too much security and which network system is more secure for my company?" To answer this question many points of views have to immerge with the best compatible solution. Companies should consider involving many systems such as cost management, and security management system. Companies don't want to have too much security when the solution cost more than the problem in money or time. Under these aspects if companies want to start a new system, which I'm considering here two major operating systems such as Windows NT, and Linux by give them close look for how they are operating and what are they using in their security system to insure businesses and companies securities and how are they reducing security threats.
The concerns about security of an organization is not directly depend on the data communication related areas but also the control mechanism which implements, restricts and protects the threats from in and out side the organization. In our age of decaying morals, we find the need for security in every aspect of life. There are far to many people that are willing and able to take anything they can that doesn't belong to them. We have security everywhere we look. There are armed guards in our stores and even schools. Police officers patrol the streets trying to keep people safe. We have people to provide security in a world where things are physical, but what to we do in a computer world, where what we want to keep safe is information? This is where computer security comes into play...
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The Operating System (OS) is the heart of computer server and client systems; therefore they are the pivotal components of the Information Technology (IT) architecture. The OS contains the crucial data, information, and applications, which are vulnerable, and can be infiltrated to cripple the entire IT architecture of the organization. Therefore, it becomes mandatory to properly safeguard the OS from an internal or external intrusion (Stallings & Brown, 2012). This critical thinking report will highlight the security concerns that may impact the OS. Further, the security guidelines and best practices for the OS in general, along with the specific fundamentals regarding the Windows and Linux OS are comprehensively illustrated.
Microsoft, the leading manufacturer of personal computer software with its windows based operating systems and application software, has decided to expand its influence beyond windows into the Linux freeware operating system world. The means for entry into this rapidly growing segment of the server operating system market is through a takeover of the Red Hat Linux Company. Currently Microsoft Corporation now owns 51% of the stock for Red Hat Linux. This expansion directly into the Linux arena will provide Microsoft with the ability to attack competitors in the network server market with the Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems on one flank and with the extremely stable Linux operating system on the other flank. Microsoft expects to use this one-two punch to significantly gain market share in the server market and to shape the future of business LANs, WANs and the internet. Additionally, Microsoft expects to gain a controlling market share of the Linux office application suite wit...
Security architecture is a major component and part of a system’s architecture and is usually designed to provide important guidance during the development of the system. It usually outlines the assurance level required and in the process outlines the possible impacts that this level of security might have on the development process of the actual system. Since security is a major component for the success of any given business unit, it is necessary to have a fully functional and operative security system that meets all the necessary requirements for any organization. Some leading business firms are usually faced with the task of achieving and maintaining high security measures and methods. SecureTek one of the leading provider of security solutions is faced with the challenge of redesigning their security architecture to assure security to the data and the other firm’s valuable assets as well as ensuring security to their customers and employees who encounter risky situations when visiting this business unit.
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
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...re to unauthorized individuals or system. For example, credit card information or bank account number of a client in a bank should not be exposed to unauthorized people. The data can be encrypting confidentially by hiding plain text data. Other than that, data should be protected from deletion or modification by unauthorized users in an organization. This is because any changes may cause unrevealed damage to the organization. Data integrity can only be achieved by hashing mechanism. Availability of data accessibility in an organization should be guaranteed by backup system or network hardening mechanisms. All the systems, channels, and mechanism should be working properly to ensure the information needed is always available. Highly available networks are designed to manage multiple network connection and deal with potential problems such as denial of service attack.
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In this paper we will discuss some basic steps to better secure your system. We will discuss the following four (4) areas:
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