Unit 2 Lan
Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Richman Investments requires the enforcement of strict ingress-egress filtering policies for network traffic. Certain traffic is expressly forbidden:
No peer-to-peer file sharing or externally reachable file transfer protocol (FTP) servers No downloading executables from known software sites No unauthorized redistribution of licensed or copyrighted material No exporting internal software or technical material in violation of export control laws No introduction of malicious programs into networks or onto systems No accessing unauthorized internal resources or information from external sources No port scanning or data interception on the network No denying service or circumventing authentication to legitimate users No using programs, scripts, or commands to interfere with other network users No sending unsolicited e-mail messages or junk mail to company recipients No accessing adult content from company resources No remote connections from systems failing to meet minimum security requirements
Define a LAN-to-WAN, Internet, and Web surfing AUP that restricts usage of the company’s Internet connection and permits the company to monitor usage of the corporate Internet connection. Carefully evaluate the implications of each policy and how implementations might impact the IT infrastructure, both positively and negatively. Weigh the benefits and the disadvantages of each method. Consider whether or not a proposed solution causes an interruption to the legitimate users and how it might bring security at the expense of preventing a perfectly legitimate
Richman Investments requires the enforcement of strict ingress-egress filtering policies for network traffic. Certain traffic is expressly forbidden:
No peer-to-peer file sharing or externally reachable file transfer protocol (FTP) servers No downloading executables from known software sites No unauthorized redistribution of licensed or copyrighted material No exporting internal software or technical material in violation of export control laws No introduction of malicious programs into networks or onto systems No accessing unauthorized internal resources or information from external sources No port scanning or data interception on the network No denying service or circumventing authentication to legitimate users No using programs, scripts, or commands to interfere with other network users No sending unsolicited e-mail messages or junk mail to company recipients No accessing adult content from company resources No remote connections from systems failing to meet minimum security requirements
Define a LAN-to-WAN, Internet, and Web surfing AUP that restricts usage of the company’s Internet connection and permits the company to monitor usage of the corporate Internet connection. Carefully evaluate the implications of each policy and how implementations might impact the IT infrastructure, both positively and negatively. Weigh the benefits and the disadvantages of each method. Consider whether or not a proposed solution causes an interruption to the legitimate users and how it might bring security at the expense of preventing a perfectly legitimate