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    Current IT security threats to organisations Phishing Posing to be someone else either through email to gain sensitive information Bring your own device to work To attacks, leaks or viruses towards the company. Bringing your own device causes many issues for one, security: The employee doesn't normally have as much security if any on their device leaving it possible. This is a disadvantage as the company will have to pay a large amount of money to get security on the device. To prevent this you

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    Points from Chairman McCaul Questions Witnesses at Hearing on Threats to Homeland Security With this being a small section of the overall interview a lot was played to the bear of reality of how much still needs to be learned. With the point about our nation, intellectual property, cyber warfare, and attacks on financial institutions. This was a video recording from 2013 about situations happening during that time. Not being able to see into the future of what would happen what still needs to be

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    This paper will discuss the possibility of large scale information security breaches, the hardware and software hacked, the hardware and software needed to perform a real-time attack, and the consequences with performing such an attack. This paper will first define any related terms, then describe the information security systems seen in the ‘WATCH_DOGS’ video game, then discuss the various hardware and software involved in an attack in regards to the game and real life, and finally conclude with

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    Virtual Machine Security Though the universal adoption of virtualization is a fairly fresh phenomenon, threats to the virtualized environment are progressing rapidly. The hypervisor and virtual machines that are used used by SaaS vendors may also have vulnerabilities as shown in (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, 2012). Such exposures signifies an even more severe difficulty in multi-tenant environments such as in the field involved, where if there compromise of even one virtual machine can distress

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    Information systems security policies mainly address threats. Devoid of threats, policies are unnecessary—one could very well do as they desires with information. Unfortunately, threats do exist and data systems safety policies are essential to provide a structure for choosing and implementing reverse measures against them. An enforceable drafted policy assures that everyone within the organization coherently behaves in a suitable manner with regards to information security. A sophisticated information

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    The Faceless Threat: Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Our society continues to promote a culture that perpetuates overdependence on technology to monitor complex Internet-based systems. Thus, the U.S cannot ignore the devastation that could ensue from an attack by a nation-state, cyber terrorist, or hacker. As discussed in the 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, the number of CIKR systems that depend on the Internet or data processing networks for seamless operations are increasing

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    Biological threats to the homeland are one of six strategic challenges outlined in The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. Biological threats are sometimes viewed as underrated threat to homeland security compared to the threat of terrorism and nuclear weapons. The following will explain the nature the threat of biological weapons pose on the homeland and the ongoing steps the federal government is implementing to meet this challenge. The nature of

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    Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report and Presentation – Top Threats CMGT/400 December 2, 2013 Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report and Presentation – Top Threats Team B has been commissioned to examine the Kudler Fine Foods’ (KFF), frequent shopper, Customer Loyalty Program that is currently in development. The team has also been asked to direct the system development team to ensure the system is established securely so that it properly protects company data and customer

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    2. Introduction: Businesses, be it small-scale or large-scale, use cloud computing for the storage of data since it is cheaper than buying hardware and software separately. Services such as, data storage and security, are provided by cloud computing over the internet. In cloud computing, users can pay for what they consume (Bisong & Rahman, An Overview of the Securtiy Concerns in Enterprise Cloud Computing, 2011). Cloud computing is an emerging information technology, which can make it easier for

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    When it comes to technology and security threats, the employees working with information systems and technology have a great weight on their shoulder. It is their job to create mitigation plans to reduce risk exposure, so a company can have a quick recovery if something unforeseen were to arise. They have the role of designing, provisioning, and executing these recovery plans to keep the company from major failures. Some ways risks can be mitigated are by the Murphy’s Law and risk assessment, backup/recovery

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