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You are an enterprise security architect for a company in a semiconductor manufacturing industry where maintaining competitive advantage and protecting intellectual property is vital. You're in charge of security operations and strategic security planning. Your responsibilities include devising the security protocols for identification, access, and authorization management. You recently implemented cryptography algorithms to protect the information organization.
Leadership is pleased with your efforts and would like you to take protection methods even further. They've asked you to study cyber¬attacks against different cryptography mechanisms and deploy access control programs to prevent those types of attacks.
We'd like you to create plans for future security technology deployments, says one senior manager. And provide documentation so that others can carry out the deployments. A director chimes in, but you should also devise a method for ensuring the identification, integrity, and non-repudiation of information in transit at rest and in use within the organization. As the enterprise security architect, you are responsible for providing the following deliverables.
Create a network security vulnerability and threat table in which you outline the security architecture of the organization, the cryptographic means of protecting the assets of the organizations, the types of known attacks against those protections, and means to ward off the attacks. This document will help you manage the current configuration of the security architecture.
Create a Common Access Card, CAC deployment strategy, in which you describe the CAC implementation and deployment and encryption methodology for information security professionals. Create an email security strategy in which you provide the public key, private key hashing methodology to determine the best key management system for your organization. These documents will provide a security overview for the leadership in your company.
The deliverables for this project are as follows:
1. Technical report: Your report should be a 6-7 page double-spaced Word document with citations in APA format. The page count does not include figures, diagrams, tables or citations.
2. Executive summary: This should be a 2-3 page double-spaced Word document.
Note: your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.
• 1.5: Use sentence structure appropriate to the task, message and audience.
• 1.6: Follow conventions of Standard Written English.
• 1.7: Create neat and professional looking documents appropriate for the project or presentation.
• 2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.
• 2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem.
• 2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem.
• 2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem.
• 3.2: Employ mathematical or statistical operations and data analysis techniques to arrive at a correct or optimal solution.
• 5.1: Knowledge of procedures, tools, and applications used to keep data or information secure, including public key infrastructure, point-to-point encryption, and smart cards.
Notes: These steps below will help you in putting this report together. I advice you may attention to these steps carefully as the grading of this paper will depend on how you relate and pay attention to these 6 steps.
Step 1: IT Systems Architecture
You are a senior-level employee and you must tailor your deliverables to suit your audience: the leadership of the organization. You may choose to use a fictitious organization, or model your organization on an existing organization, including proper citations.
Leadership is not familiar with the architecture of the IT systems, nor are they familiar with the types of threats that are likely or the security mechanisms in place to ward off those threats. You will provide this information in tabular format and call it the Network Security and Vulnerability Threat Table. Refer to this threat table template for guidance on creating this document.
Before you begin, select the links below to review some material on information security. These resources will help you complete the network security and vulnerability threat table.
• LAN security
• Availability
Now you're ready to create your table. Include and define the following components of security in the architecture of your organization, and explain if threats to these components are likely, or unlikely:
• LAN security
• identity management
• physical security
• personal security
• availability
• privacy
Next, review the different types of cyberattacks described in the following resource: cyberattacks. As you're reading take note of which attacks are most likely to affect your organization. Then list the security defenses you employ in your organization to mitigate these types of attacks. Include this information in your Network Security and Vulnerability Threat Table.
cyberattacks.
Cyberattacks refer to attacks launched against computer systems, networks, and infrastructure with the intention of committing theft of sensitive data, gaining unauthorized access, and sniffing passwords. These attacks are implemented by individuals, groups, or states and may use malicious software like viruses and worms. The problem of cyberattacks has been acknowledged by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Johnson, Badger, Waltermire, Snyder, & Skorupka, 2016).
Cyberattacks have increased in frequency and sophistication, resulting in significant challenges for organizations in defending their data and systems from capable threat actors. These actors range from individual, autonomous attackers to well-resourced groups operating in a coordinated manner as part of a criminal enterprise or on behalf of a nation-state. These actors can be persistent, motivated, and agile, and they employ a variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to compromise systems, disrupt services, commit financial fraud, and expose or steal intellectual property and other sensitive information.
Cyberattacks can be prevented or their risks minimized if organizations who have faced attack share information with others so that they can deploy resources to combat the threat.
Reference
Johnson, C., Badger, L., Waltermire, D., Snyder, J., & Skorupka, C. (2016). Computer security: Guide to cyber threat information sharing.(NIST Special Publication 800-150, 2nd draft).
Lab work space. (See the attached lab document to reference to the lab work)
In this lab exercise, you will learn more about the transmission of files that do not seem suspicious but that actually have embedded malicious payload, undetectable to human hearing or vision. This type of threat can enter your organization's networks and databases undetected through the use of steganography or data hiding. You should include this type of threat vector to an organization in your report to leadership. Research how organizations can monitor, identify and remedy those files with embedded files and data, and provide these as recommendations for your leadership.
You will have to provide the leadership of your organization with your plan for protecting identity, access, authorization and non-repudiation of information transmission, storage, and usage.
Research scholarly works on nonrepudiation measures and discuss options for protecting the integrity of an organization's information assets, which include files, networks, databases, and e-mail, and include this in your lab report.
Step 3: Data Hiding Technologies
You will describe to your organization the various cryptographic means of protecting its assets. Select the links below to review encryption techniques and encryption technologies, then provide your organization with a brief overview of each.
Encryption Technologies
1. Shift / Caesar cipher
2. Polyalphabetic cipher
3. One time pad cipher/Vernam cipher/perfect cipher
4. Block ciphers
5. triple DES
6. RSA
7. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
8. Symmetric encryption
9. Text block coding
Data Hiding Technologies
1. Information hiding and steganography
2. Digital watermarking
3. Masks and filtering
Note: These descriptions will be included in the network security vulnerability and threat table for leadership.
Step 4: Creating the Network Security Vulnerability and Threat Table
Using the information you've gathered from the previous steps, prepare the network security vulnerability and threat table, in which you outline the following:
• security architecture of the organization
• the cryptographic means of protecting the assets of the organization
• the types of known attacks against those types of protections
• means to ward off the attacks
Create your Network Security Vulnerability and Threat Table, and include it in your submission to the organization. Please refer to this threat table template below for guidance on creating this document.
Network Security and Vulnerability Threats Template
You will identify the IT system assets of the system architecture of your organization. These can be fictitious or modeled after existing architectures. Be sure to cite using APA format. You will identify threats and vulnerabilities to IT system assets and the security mechanisms used to address them.
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Step 5: Access Control Based on Smart Card Strategies
Smart cards use encryption chips to identify the user, their identity, role, and sometimes use their personal identifiable information (PII). Two examples of smart cards are the federal government's use of common access cards (CACs), and the financial sector's use of encryption chips in credit cards.
You have completed your threat table, and you've decided that you want to modernize the access control methods for your organization. To that end, you read the following resources to gather some background information on access control and the various encryption schemas associated with the Common Access Card (CAC):
• Access control
• Common access Card (CAC)
You plan to deploy CAC to the company and you are tasked with devising that CAC deployment strategy, which includes the cryptographic solutions used with the CAC.
In the Common Access Card Deployment Strategy final deliverable, describe how identity management would be a part of your overall security program and your CAC deployment plan:
Create your Common Access Card Deployment Strategy and include it in your submission to the organization.
Step 6: The Email Security Strategy
After completing the CAC, your next step is to build the Secure Email Strategy for the organization. You will present this tool to your leadership.
Provide an overview of the types of public-private key pairing, and show how this provides authentication and nonrepudiation. You will also add hashing, and describe how this added security benefit ensures the integrity of messaging.
Begin preparing your strategy by reviewing the following resources that will aid you in becoming well informed on encryption technologies for e-mail:
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• iOS encryption
• Blackberry encryption
Then start developing your strategy. Define these strong encryption technologies as general principles in secure email:
Pretty Good Policy (PGP algorithm)
• GNU Privacy Guard (GPG)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Digital signature
• Mobile device encryption (e.g., iOS encryption and Blackberry encryption)
In your report, also consider how the use of smart card readers tied to computer systems might be beneficial in the future enhancements to system and data access protection. This may help you define long-term solutions for your leadership.
Leadership does not know the costs and technical complexity of these email encryption strategies. To further their understanding, compare the complexities of each in relation to the security benefits, and then make a recommendation and a deployment plan.
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