maintaining the privacy‚ security and confidentiality of a certain files and information. This research also talks about risks and common attacks which may harm‚ delete‚ steal and lead to possible loss of your files. These threats can also show the vulnerability of your security that will lead to exposure of your files. In information security‚ there are three main objectives; these are confidentiality‚ integrity and availability. Confidentiality means the only person can access the system are the one
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Lab #5 – Assessment Worksheet Attacking a Vulnerable Web Application and Database Course Name and Number: IA5010 Student Name: Taranjit Saini Instructor Name: Paul Burke Lab Due Date: March 1st‚ 2015 Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1. Why is it critical to perform a penetration test on a Web application and a Web server prior to production implementation? Penetration testing‚ on Web applications and Web servers is a critical step in ensuring the confidentiality‚ integrity‚ and availability
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What could be presumed safe‚ could in fact present a major vulnerability in the eyes of a hacker. When accessing the Cloud‚ users depend on the security‚ which in turn subjects them to security risks in privacy‚ security‚ and data accessibility. If users avoid these risks‚ it can lead to grave results that could include losing sensitive information or worse‚ having someone’s identity stolen. David Geer states how these vulnerabilities and risks lead to problems by saying‚ “While these cloud applications
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areas (hardware‚ software‚ and policy – excluding password policies) and identify an item that requires improved security. To define the asset or policy with sufficient detail to justify your assessment‚ your assessment must include: * the vulnerability associated with the asset or policy * the possible threats against the asset or policy * the likelihood that the threat will occur (risk) * the consequences to mission critical business processes should the threat occur * how the organization’s
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GAC008 Assessment Event : Compare and Contrast “Compare and Contrast” Student’s Name: Luis Mario Takeda and Rodrigo Fernández Student ID: ESN26484 Teacher: Nina Čerenak Due Date: 17/09/14 Word Count:281 Homes in Mexico and Canada are pretty similar but they have some important difference but this eassay will show that homes in mexico are safer tan homes in Canada in many ways. Although Canada has less criminal rates tan in Mexico the homes in Mexico have more
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32 LAB #2 | Perform a Vulnerability Assessment Scan Using Nessus LAB #2 – ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET Perform a Vulnerability Assessment Scan Using Nessus Course Name and Number: Student Name: Instructor Name: Lab Due Date: Overview This lab demonstrated the first three steps in the hacking process that is typically performed when conducting ethical hacking or penetration testing. The first step in the hacking process is to perform an IP host discovery and port/services scan (Step 1: Reconnaissance
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insidious attack that involves planting a vulnerability in a processor sometime between design and fabrication that manifests as an exploit after the processor has been integrated‚ tested‚ and deployed as part of a system. Vulnerability is the existence of a weakness‚ design‚ or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected‚ undesirable event compromising the security of the computer system‚ network‚ application‚ or protocol involved. Vulnerability is a weakness which consists of three elements
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Axia College Material: Robin Mravik Appendix G Security Assessment Directions Choose two settings from Ch. 9 of the text and list each setting. Then‚ complete the following tables. List five threats appropriate to the environment from the setting you chose. Rate the risk for each threat from 0 (low) to 10 (high). Then‚ list five appropriate countermeasures‚ including at least two countermeasures specific to physical security and one countermeasure specific to personnel and security management
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identifying‚ assessing‚ prioritizing‚ and addressing various forms of risk. The difference between established security controls and controls needed to address all vulnerabilities is called the security gap. There are several reasons for security gaps including the following: Unintentional lack of security policy or procedure for a certain vulnerability Intentional and willful neglect of security policy or procedure Unintended consequence of recent IT infrastructure change Result of changes to external requirements
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issue of the window of vulnerability (WOV)‚ the LAN administrator needs to get the patch from Microsoft. Upon contact Microsoft has determined that it will take up to no less than three business days for the patch that we requested to be made available to us. Once we receive the patch we would need approximately several hours to download and then test out the patch to be certain that the patch will work and that this is the correct action to take to fix the Window of Vulnerability and seal the security
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