1. Describe what you did, what you learned, your weekly activities, in what ways are you able to apply the ideas and concepts gained, and finally, describe one important thing that you are thinking about in relation to the activity.
This week we learned about various method to value and rank issues in an application or system using CVSS, CMSS, and CCSS. For that, we looked at how specific metrics were applied for base, temporal, and environmental aspects. Considering the specialization of information that each scoring system provides it made me question why certain aspects would just be considered optional, like the temporal or environmental aspects. If doing the exercise of scoring in the first place, why not obtain as much information as
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Define CVSS and CCSS with respect to the problem chosen from appendix in Unit 3.
CVSS, or Common Vulnerability Scoring System, provides a method for assessing and prioritizing previously unknown vulnerabilities in an application’s code that have been identified for IT management to address (Scarfone & Mell, 2007). CCSS, or Common Configuration Scoring System, is based off of using similar metrics to CVSS but is focused on known vulnerabilities based upon decisions regarding security configurations of the program.
My chosen unit 3 problem was for a dental practice application for scheduling appointments, maintaining patient records for in-house use and claim generation, printing out reminder letters or postcards, and performing financial transactions (Conger, 2008, p795). Both CVSS and CCSS, from the examples given in our week’s provided text, look at specific vulnerabilities in an application. As the application for the dental practice does not exist, I can only give a generalized idea of the application of each scoring system to that
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Most vulnerabilities would likely require an active attempt to exploit them but there could be passive ones, such as a configuration allowing higher privilege users to stay logged into the application to stay active for an extended period time allowing access to normally secure features. Temporal metrics would be impossible to judge without the application developed and the ability to gauge exploits in the configurations being taken advantage of. Reasonable conjecture might be able to be made beforehand, but it may end up being inaccurate. For environmental metrics, local vulnerability prevalence would be highly dependent on the specific feature being assessed and would require identification of it to really give an appropriate score. Perceived target value, for most of the system, would likely be high as storing of financial information and personal information about clients is ripe fruit for malicious actors wanting to perform identity theft. Local remediation level would again be dependent on the specific configuration vulnerability being addressed. For instance, if it were the issue of active users not logging out, is there a capability to force a log out after a set amount of time or reentry of authentication to go from screen to screen? Security configuration requirements are not specifically outlined in the application request but some
I have to pull two alleles (two straws) from the bag to represent one fish because fishes like humans get two alleles one from their father and one from their mother.
2.1 What are the coordinates for the White House in Degrees, Minutes and Seconds? 38°53'51.47"N 77° 2'11.64"W
For a smaller setup – say an office or a home, a AAA radius server is not deployed in the infrastructure. The secret key in this case is usually stored on an access point. In such environment setup, the authentication takes place between the station and the access point.
holds the record as the longest serving Representative in the history of the House of Representative. 84th – 115th his term from 1955 to 2015 were the dates of service.
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.
Overview dashboards for all report sets. For navigation consistency, it is required that a chart from each report set to be displayed on this dashboard
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
...of the OSSTMM methodology. The vulnerability identification report and types comes from the output of section C where a list of vulnerabilities as well as the types of application/service sorted by vulnerability.
Over the four years that I have spent at Good Counsel, I became part of many activities. Each helping me evolve as a person and become stronger yet. Simple lists could be made of every activity that I have ever been involved in but it could never express to a person what I have learned and how it helped me to grow. Every environmental club, science club, political science club, service work, and S.A.D.D. club I was part of had a very special message to deliver to me. Whether the message was one of responsibility, or a life lesson, I grew from it. The Political Science club opened me to many new experiences. It allowed me the chance to attend the Model U.N., where I was asked to address today's top world issues. This club was very beneficial to me because I was exposed to topics and ideas that I had not previously been able to discuss or learn about in a classroom situation. The science club allowed for me to experience extra educational situations as well. I took part in a hovercraft competition, which was very educational while also allowing me the chance to work with others for a common goal.
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The vulnerability assessment report is comprised of any exploit or possible weaknesses found in a company’s network while conducting a penetration test as well as a level of risk and how it can be addressed [2]. A penetration test is usually performed by an internal team member to exploit vulnerabilities that they find within a network. Penetration test is like a software attack targeted towards a computer system where it can look for a security weakness or a particular goal [1]. The test will try different ways to attain the desired goal. Once a security weakness or a particular goal is acquired a vulnerability assessment report is then filled out. The employee who conducted the test has to give a detailed expiation of the methods and tests they used to find the desired exploit [2]. Along with a level of risk and a description of the impact that exploit could have to the company [2]. When a vulnerability assessment is done it is usually giving to a IT Director or a technical leader who will then assess the problem and try to fix it based off of the communication within the report [1].
Penetration testing - using tools and processes to scan the network environment for vulnerabilities, [03& T, J.K et al. 2002] there are many different types of vulnerability assessments. Penetration Testing focuses on understanding the vulnerabilities of components that you’ve made available on the network as seen from the perspective of a skilful and determined attacker who has access to that network. It will provide a thorough overview of the ...
In conclusion, Web Application Developers and security professionals must constantly be on alert to identify whether these risks exist over their commercial field. Furthermore, the developers should have a custom of confirmation all the time. He should always be attentive that the input must not be trusted from any source unless it is 100 percent certain that the input has not been compromised. All enterprises should employ vulnerability tools to recognize known web security weaknesses prior to elevating any software into the production environment. As in nut shell the Application developer must pay his attention not only towards his masterpiece but also the risks and conflicts he would face in the commercial field.
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.
Hardware, software and the data that resides in and among computer systems must be protected against security threats that exploit vulnerabilities. Organizations must therefore impose appropriate controls to monitor for, deter and prevent security breaches. Three areas have been considered, in a typical sense, as the basic critical security requirements for data protection: confidentiality is used to assure privacy; principles of integrity assure systems are changed in accordance with authorized practices; and, availability is applied to maintain proper system functions to sustain service delivery (Dhillon, 2007, p. 19).