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The primary goal of network security = protect what? - answer✔Assets, information, data
3 Goals in providing security - answer✔• Confidentiality
- Protection of data from unauthorized disclosure of customers and proprietary data
• Integrity
- Assurance that data have not been altered or destroyed
• Availability
- Providing continuous operations of hardware and software so that parties involved can be
assured of uninterrupted service
In general, security threats can be put into two broad categories - answer✔- Ensuring business
continuity
Make sure that organization's data and applications will continue to operate even in the face of
disruption, destruction, or disaster
- Preventing unauthorized access
3 Main threats to business continuity - answer✔- Disruption
- Disasters (Natural or manmade disasters)
- Intrusion (Types)
Casual intruders
Hackers (Security)
Professional hackers (espionage, fraud, etc.)
Organization employess
Network controls - answer✔software
hardware
procedures that reduce threats
Types of Controls - answer✔- Preventative controls
• Mitigate or stop a person from acting or an event from occurring (e.g., locks, passwords,
backup circuits)
- Detective controls
• Reveal or discover unwanted events (e.g., auditing)
• Documenting events for potential evidence
- Corrective controls
• Remedy an unwanted event or a trespass (e.g., reinitiating a network circuit)
Risk Assessment - answer✔• A key step in developing a secure network
• Assigns level of risks to various threats
• Use a control spreadsheet
Assets - answer✔- Hardware
- Circuits
- Network Software
- Client Software
- Organizational Data
- Mission critical applications
Threats - answer✔• Virus infection is most likely event
• Intrusion
• Device failure (not necessarily by a malicious act)
• Device theft, Natural Disaster
• Denial of Service attacks
- External attacks blocking access to the network
Business Continuity - 2 parts - answer✔• Development of controls
- To prevent these events from having a major impact
• Disaster recovery plan
- To enable the organization to recover if a disaster occurs
Major threats - answer✔- Virus
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