Aircraft Solution
Aircraft Solutions (AS)
Security Overview
Introduction
Aircraft Solutions is a well respected equipment and component fabrication company who
provides a full spectrum design and implementation solutions to several industries which
includes; electronics, aerospace, commercial and the defense sectors. Aircraft Solutions employs
a range of highly qualified professionals and houses an immense production plant, with an
overall goal of providing high-quality solutions to accommodate specifications from a wide
range of customer demands.
The following report is a security assessment on Aircraft Solutions and the primary objective in this assessment is to identify the existence of vulnerabilities present within the global context of Aircraft Solutions’ operations. An evaluation of the associated threats will be deduced, accompanied by the exposed weaknesses. This will be followed by an analysis of the degree of risk present. Finally, there will be a focus on the consideration of the consequences resulting from revealing of potential threats. Assessment Hardware and policy will be the main focus of this investigation. It will be narrowed down more to hardware issues.
It is very curious that there is no firewall implemented between the commercial division and the Internet. The Defense Department must be routed through Headquarters, but the Commercial department is connected straight to the Internet. This is a significant vulnerability. The second weakness that will be examined is the security policy stating router and firewall rule sets should be evaluated every two years. Such a time span between rule-set evaluations is also a substantial liability to the continued and unimpeded success of the organization. Further elaboration of the identified security vulnerabilities is presented.
Hardware Vulnerabilities:
The issue pertaining to Aircraft Solution’s hardware weakness is that of the lack of adequate protection implemented between its
The following report is a security assessment on Aircraft Solutions and the primary objective in this assessment is to identify the existence of vulnerabilities present within the global context of Aircraft Solutions’ operations. An evaluation of the associated threats will be deduced, accompanied by the exposed weaknesses. This will be followed by an analysis of the degree of risk present. Finally, there will be a focus on the consideration of the consequences resulting from revealing of potential threats. Assessment Hardware and policy will be the main focus of this investigation. It will be narrowed down more to hardware issues.
It is very curious that there is no firewall implemented between the commercial division and the Internet. The Defense Department must be routed through Headquarters, but the Commercial department is connected straight to the Internet. This is a significant vulnerability. The second weakness that will be examined is the security policy stating router and firewall rule sets should be evaluated every two years. Such a time span between rule-set evaluations is also a substantial liability to the continued and unimpeded success of the organization. Further elaboration of the identified security vulnerabilities is presented.
Hardware Vulnerabilities:
The issue pertaining to Aircraft Solution’s hardware weakness is that of the lack of adequate protection implemented between its
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