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You are the network administrator for Contoso, Ltd. The Contoso headquarters' network consists of a single domain, contoso.com, which is protected from the Internet by a firewall.
As part of your project to assess security risks for the computing infrastructure, you've found that other managers often have different ideas on the severity and levels of risk associated with specif
If you were asked to design a secure network, and you had to choose a single operating system to deploy to all of the client PCs, what operating system would you use?
Should an IS system be implemented if end-users do not accept it? Please explain your position. (minimum 50 words).
Coming up with a common understanding of security terminology, and vulnerability is one of those fundamental terms. While the word weakness seems to define it pretty well
It's a pretty rough world out there for data. While a large percentage of information technology security budgets is devoted to reducing the risk of malicious attacks, there are other ways in which sy
Which spyware and malware detectors do you use and assuming that "there is no such thing as a free lunch," why are there so-called free spyware detectors?in 3-5 sentences
What are the ethical considerations involved when a security professional contacts a vendor regarding a vulnerability in their product and the vendor does not act quickly enough to inform customers an
Discuss in scholarly detail at least "2" examples of how attacking companies can use information technology to increase the impact of the five forces in Porter's model. The answer needs to be at least
If a person with malicious intent were to get into your network and have read/write access to your IDS log or rule set how could they use that information to their advantage?
What is a hot issue this week in the security arena as it relates to Information Security and the Health Care Industry?
What are some security policies you can define to protect against someone learning administrator passwords?
You have just been promoted to manager of computer security for a large enterprise (XYZ Corporation). Your first project as the security manager is to evaluate the principal physical characteristics u
How can you identify the various cyber crimes and what measures can you take in your business to ward them off before they happen?
Provide a scenario of a cyber crime by way of example that will demonstrate to your business a situation that might occur and explain how it should be managed to protect the business.
What types of security issues might UPS encounter with the tracking technology it has placed in its trucks?
Every company needs a backup plan to recover data that has been wiped out by operator error, viruses, or hardware failures. Please define each of these terms: backup, file synchronization, restore poi
Two approaches to the problem of protecting personal information are (a) the free market view and (b) the consumer protection view. How do these points of view differ on the issue of a company disclos
When reading code top-down, we try to use our expectations about the application domain to predict what the major functional components of the code will be. Imagine that you have been asked
Look up "the paper that started the study of computer security." Prepare a summary of the key points. What in this paper specifically addresses security in areas previously unexamined?
Using sources such as Internet, newspaper, magazine, or journal; find a recent article on cyber attack or information security breach. Submit a summary of the article.
Consider a program to accept and tabulate votes in an election.
Discuss the functions of the security manager, and what are the qualifications and requirements for the positions?
Explain the threat of account harvesting and propose a method to execute an account harvesting attack on a Windows platform. Provide examples and/or details to support your ideas.
Find a white paper or a case study on a company that implemented an IT Security plan. What factors, costs, timeline, and controls did the company go through to implement the security plan?