In its current innovative state, DBR has several areas of risk and concern. First and foremost is the propensity for intellectual property loss with focus on both internal and external factors. The human factor serves as the primary threat in these situations, and internally the company faces leaks, extortion, bribery, blackmail, and conspiracy among other types of attacks. DBR also needs to comprehend the external human factor, hacktivists, social engineers, competitors, and others who have a vested interest in the design and technology.
Secondarily, hardware and software vulnerabilities pose the next greatest threat in this infrastructure. Network segregation is of the utmost importance when protecting intellectual property. Sensitive data
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If an employee doesn’t understand the level of data sensitivity, they may freely offer it to anyone who asks. In addition, the courier who retrieves the tapes for delivery to the data-warehouse may be blindly overlooked and never challenged to identify themselves.
Hardware and software vulnerabilities, malware, viruses, improper logging, and patches all increase the attack vector of a company, often leaving it in a susceptible and vulnerable state. Commonly known weaknesses/vulnerabilities are preyed upon and are those that are typically checked first by an attacker. These unmanaged states leave the company exposed to various types of attacks which typically lead to intellectual property loss and even to an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).
The human factor poses the most risk to DBR and applies to many areas of the infrastructure, for example; any lack of physical and logical access controls, data loss prevention, segregation of duties, social engineering, and employee security awareness training can, and will, wreak havoc when least
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It is clear that their primary concern is to protect their intellectual property. In order to align with the priority, a review of any and all security documentation, including but not limited to policies & procedures, plans (password, compliance, audit, risk, disaster recovery, incident response), and training. And based on the findings, provide recommendations for best practice and policy improvements where applicable. Network and architecture diagrams are necessary to understanding the infrastructure and identifying where the deficits
Physical and environmental security programs are generally considered to be a collection of mechanisms and controls put into place that help ensure the availability of information technology capabilities. These programs protect an organization from fire, flood, theft, power failure, intentional, and even unintentional damage through negligence. Implementation of these programs at the organizational level can take place in a number of ways but most organizations choose to follow the application of a body of standards, usually set forth by an organization such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Once such body of standards put forth by ISO/IEC is 27002, Information technology – Security techniques – Code of practice for information secur...
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
This document will outline the policies and practices to be used and implemented in compliance with DoD specifications and standards for the contract of services to be provided to them. This report will consist of creating security controls based on auditing frameworks within the seven domains. Also to develop information assurance (IA) plan, a list of the requirements for each of the seven domains.
By implementing effective policies and controls, and maintaining a dynamic defense strategy, DTL Power can safeguard its information systems. Team Results Unfortunately, hacktivists that were threatening DTL Power managed to penetrate our defenses and take over part of our system. This threat actor was not in our system for a long period of time, but was still able to affect the uptime of our system. However, even though DTL Power was breached, the controls that were in place prevented the threat from becoming critical. As the summary report in Figure 1 displays, our Global National Security Index was > 100 and our Security Index was > 100.
Creating secure networks and clear policies might seem as a solution to social engineering, but the unpredictable nature of humans driven by greed and curiosity, will give rise to new techniques to beat the systems. However, organizations should come up with procedures and policies defining the roles and responsibilities of each user not just the security personnel. This should be followed by ensuring policies are properly followed and there is regular training.
As electronic commerce, online business-to-business operations, and global connectivity have become vital components of a successful business strategy, enterprises have adopted security processes and practices to protect information assets. But if you look at today's computing environments, system security is a horrible game of numbers: there are currently over 9,223 publicly released vulnerabilities covering known security holes in a massive range of applications from popular Operating Systems through to obscure and relatively unknown web applications. [01] Over 300 new vulnerabilities are being discovered and released each month. Most companies work diligently to maintain an efficient, effective security policy, implementing the latest products and services to prevent fraud, vandalism, sabotage, and denial of service attacks. But the fact is you have to patch every hole of your system, but an attacker need find only one to get into your environment. Whilst many organisations subscribe to major vendor's security alerts, these are just the tip of the security iceberg and even these are often ignored. For example, the patch for the Code Red worm was available some weeks before the worm was released. [02]
Roberts, Richard M. "Network Secrurity." Networking Fundamentals. 2nd ed. Tinley Park, IL: Goodheart-Willcox, 2005. 599-639. Print.
It has been demonstrated that a number of interoperable systems must be implemented to fully protect a network; a strategy known as Defense in Depth. Due to the multitude of security devices and device categories available, it can be very difficult to identify the correct tools for meeting security goals. Using the Defense in Depth strategy will require an understanding of the interactions between devices occuring within the network.
Principle of Security Management by Brian R. Johnson, Published by Prentice-Hall copyright 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc.
capacity and performance. However, as networks enable more and more applications and are available to more and more users, they become ever more vulnerable to a wider range of security threats. To combat those threats and ensure that e-business transactions are not compromised, security technology must play a major role in today's networks.
Risk Management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to risk factors throughout the life of a project and in the best interests of its objectives (Stanleigh, 2015). This paper is focused on the trends and methods of managing risks in a project. It also analyzes different ways of mitigating risks in a project and why risk management is important in an information technology (IT) environment.
This report aim to explain how is achieved risk control through strategies and through security management of information.
The network management plan and security plan is important to help the company figure out how they will improve its network and security procedures for the company. Planning involves outlining objectiv...
The first thing that we must consider about Information Security is that there is not a final destination at which we can arrive. IT Security is an ongoing set of processes and activities that requires attention and expertise on a daily basis. It is important to understand that systems are not secured by themselves and it is our responsibility to maintain and improve them periodically as required. It is of vital importance to establish the appropriate mechanisms and requirements in order to support the company’s CIA triad. The following report will provide you guidance about auditing and hardening techniques applied though the 7 Domains by utilizing IT Security Best Practices.
A critical part of network planning involves setting up of security mechanisms. Deploying the network with security configuration provides superior visibility, continuous control and advanced threat protection across the extended network. Additionally, security procedures define policies to monitor the network for securing critical data, obtain visibility, mitigate threats, identify and correlate discrepancies.