Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks‚ Threats and Vulnerabilities CIS 333 Network Security Fundamentals July 23‚ 2014 We have been tasked by the CIO to draft a report identifying potentially malicious attacks‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities specific to our organization. Further‚ the CIO would like us to briefly explain each item and potential impact it could have on the organization. Malicious Network Attacks "Network attack is usually defined as an intrusion on your network infrastructure that
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Week 4 Assignment 1 Click the link above to submit your assignment. Assignment 1: Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks‚ Threats‚ and Vulnerabilities Due Week 4 and worth 100 points You have just been hired as an Information Security Engineer for a videogame development company. The organization network structure is identified in the below network diagram and specifically contains: 1) 2 – Firewalls | 5) 2 – Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain Controllers (DC) | 2) 1 – Web / FTP server
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Tiffany Kearse Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks‚ Threats and Vulnerabilities CIS/333 Robert Whale November 2‚ 2014 With any network organization you want to make sure that you keep on top of vulnerabilities of anything that reaches out to the internet. Computers and servers that touch the internet are ones that must be scanned. As a company you have to make sure that you configure the security settings for the operating system‚ internet browser and security software
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Malicious attacks basically seek to exploit vulnerabilities in a network. These threats can be passive or active and have very negative consequences. The difference between active and passive attacks are that active attacks makes changes or modifications to the data or attempt to gain some type of access to the network‚ while passive attacks do not make changes to the system at all. According to Solomon‚ 2012‚ there are many malicious attacks and threats that can be carried out against the network
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1- Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks‚ Threats and Vulnerabilities Larry F. Simmons Strayer University Online Professor Arend Clayborn February 4‚ 2015 A malicious attack can be any physical or electronic action taken with the intent of acquiring‚ destroying‚ modifying‚ or accessing a user’s data without permission of their files. Hackers attempt to gain access to information about your system which can reveal many common exploits and other vulnerabilities of your system
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Assignment 1 Threat: An unauthorized employee tries to access data that is hosted on the server. Vulnerability: The organization does not use authentication and access controls. Likelihood: The likelihood is very low‚ depending on the organization and its budget. For the most part‚ most organizations have IT specialists that are tasked to keep everything on the network secure. In the government most all data is protected by multiple forms of security. LAN DOMAIN: Weak passwords could be
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Jeramie Feenstra Richard De La Cruz Window 7 vulnerabilities Local Security Authority Subsystem Service There is a recently discovered vulnerability in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service which can cause a denial of service attack if a hacker sends a packet containing malicious files during NTLM authentication. NTLM protocol refers to the Windows NT LAN Manager which is used to authenticate logons to PCs that are connected to the network. The security update provided by Microsoft includes
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Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks‚ Threats‚ and Vulnerabilities Identifying Potential Malicious Attacks‚ Threats‚ and Vulnerabilities As a videogame development company‚ the network currently set is a sound system. However‚ security concerns are always present in an ever-changing technology. With 100 desktop / laptop computers connected to one server the potential threats and malicious attacks are a possibility. This report will analyze‚ identified and assess the potential impact of all
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Lab 1 Identify Threats and Vulnerabilities in IT Infrastructure Denise Clark‚ Joseph Huiet‚ Anthony Brown‚ Orlando Rodriguez‚ Niko Budworth‚ Cory Mooney‚ Armando Rocha‚ Denny Hoang Risk – Threat – Vulnerability Primary Domain Impacted Unauthorized access from public internet WAN User destroys data in application and deletes all files System/Application Hacker penetrates your IT infrastructure and gains access to your internal network LAN Intra-office employee romance gone bad User Fire destroys
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able to: * Define the purpose and objectives of an IT risk assessment * Align identified risks‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities to an IT risk assessment that encompasses the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure * Classify identified risks‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities according to a qualitative risk assessment template * Prioritize classified risks‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities according to the defined qualitative risk assessment scale * Craft an executive summary that addresses
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