Computer security incident management

The Nature of the incident was that an employee was able to hack into the computer system and gain access to the financial payroll system, human resources and even email system. This employee used several methods in order to gain access into the system: IP spoofing, Data modification, Man in the middle attack and compromised-key attack. As a result the employee was able to tamper with payroll system. An auditor discovered the discrepancies and tried to make upper management aware of the situation

Risk Management and Incident Response Policy Risk management is a key part of information security. Specific to the phishing attack protection, there are two major effects: fixing the missing controls of the system to reduce the vulnerabilities which may be used by phishing; Implement incident response policy to prevent and reduce further damage in case phishing attack successes. I – Risk management policy for University XYZ Because our project only focuses phishing email project. We do not have

Security Metrics As the Internet becomes ubiquitous due to wireless technologies including 3G and pervasive Wi-Fi Hotspots, there is the need to continually improve security technologies. One of the most effective approaches to doing this is to define a series of metrics for measuring security levels attained (Idika, Bhargava, 2012). The following is a listing of security metrics and their definitions: In the area of Incident Management the following metrics apply: Mean Cost per Incident This

of the Cumberlands Research and Report Writing June, 25rd, 2017 United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US- CERT): The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is Incharge of shielding our country’s crucial infrastructure from physical and cyber dangers. Of the varied kinds of infrastructure, cyberspace is crucial constituting the information regarding the government and business operations, crisis management and readiness information, and our crucial digital and process control systems.

pressing technology issue facing hospitals. Recent events have highlighted how patients and hospitals are vulnerable to ransomware attacks. An example such incidents is the recent computer virus attack at the Medstar Health System in Washington DC. The virus intrusion was enabled when an employee opened a malicious email attachment. Such incidents have become too common throughout the US. Another phenomenon hitting the healthcare industry while highlighting the human factor is the “consumerization”

Weakness IT Management FFC has an IT strategic plan Strength IT Management CIO reports only to the Chief Financial Officer Weakness IT Management Applications, Operations, Information Security, and Database Administration are reported to the CIO Weakness IT Management FFC has an IT steering committee – 1. the Senior Vice President (SrVP) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) 2. the VP, Applications 3. the VP, Data Base Administration (DBA) 4. the VP, Operations 5. the VP, Information Security (IS) 6.

Introduction [RELATIVE TO AUDIENCE] Scope and Implementation In order to implement a VM program an organization must assign responsibilities to perform patching and vulnerability management. For the purposes of this document it shall be referred to as the patch and vulnerability management group (PVG). This group may be a separate entity or the responsibilities may be a subset of an IT operations or services team. There may be several PVG’s within an organization, central coordination of these

Information Management and Automated Data Processing SOP TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLE PAGE References 1 Purpose 1 Scope of Information Management (IM) 1 Responsibilities 2 Procurement of IM Equipment 4 Monthly ADP Architecture Update 5 ADPE System Accreditation 5 Software Use and Accountability 6 Maintenance 7 ADPE Software and Hardware Standards 7 Life Cycle Replacement 9 Computer Viruses

the MVAMC and related associated with families associated with Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOCs) and all security information that collected, transmitted, used, processed, stored, or disposed of by or under the direction of the staff or its contractors. b. This document is intended to address the establishment of policy and procedures for implementation of selected security controls and control enhancement in the MP, PE or SC family. Policy and procedures reflect applicable federal laws

Comprehensive Security Policy Introduction A company that experiences a social engineering attack to create or reevaluate its security plan in respect to its email, acceptable use, physical security and incident response plan. Social engineering attacks have been around forever across many different cultures and platforms. The first major social engineering attack happened during the mythological Trojan War. The Greek after a ten-year unsuccessful siege of Troy appeared to leave, and leave behind