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    Computer security is very essential to proyect against the threats caused to computing system which happen because of it's vulnerability. Threat to computing security takes place by a person, event or circumstance may be intentionally for sake of finance or unintentionally by deleting some of the important data. A threat agent depends on method, opportunity and motivation. Method is a knowledge to attack , oppurtinity to access the necessary information and motive behind the aatack. In olden days

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    their computers and data just as they do with anything else they deem needs to be secured. The improved rate for the need of security also applies to conceptual institutes of small businesses. Small businesses keep record of client, personal, product, and explicit company finance information and data. With this wealth of information and the increase in cybercrime, small businesses need an effective solution to defend their computer systems and data from cyber-attackers. Small business computer and

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    technology has placed multiple assets are risk from a security stand point allowing hackers/crakers and anyone on the internet to gain access to these network and gain information or try to jeopardize business to a point where it stand stills. Increase in Denial of service attacks, child pornography, virus/worms and other tools used by individuals to destroy data has lead to law enforcement and media to look into why and how these security breaches are conducted and what new statutory laws are

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    ABC Healthcare must be able to respond and recover from attacks, failures, and accident. Before a recovery plan can be put into place, first security mitigations must be in place to be able to detect attacks, failures, and accidents. ABC Healthcare must ensure that all software and applications receive the necessary updates and patches. Without this users’ accessibility to information could be affected as well as the confidentiality and integrity of any data on the network. Redundancy is the building

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    Database Security: Database security is a critical Domain of Computer and Information Security that deals with protection of an individual database or group of database from illegal access, injections or possible destruction. Data can be a customer's information, intellectual property, financial asset or any number of other records that can be maintained and managed on a system. Without Database security people are at risk of identity fraud, theft, destruction of property and much worse

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    information leaks and information insecurities. With the growing dependency on computer systems to store confidential information across the world, it is only necessary that that the information be protected by strong security systems which include both hardware and software so that both the businesses and the consumers feel safe in the transportation of information over the inter-webs. Contemporary Information security systems use many different components involving both hardware and software Primarily

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    ABSTRACT Over the past decade computer networks have rapid growth, but the computer security became a critical problem for computer systems. Thus in the recent years various soft computing technique based methods were proposed to detects the growth of intrusion. Also many researchers have reported that the large set of pattern classifications and machine learning algorithms are trained and testing is made on the knowledge discovery data intrusion detection dataset is unsuccessful in finding the

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    Defining buffer overflow Buffer overflow vulnerability considered one of the most common security exploit to exist, focuses on buffers, or memory allocations exploits eventually giving the attacker full control over a compromised system. This takes place when a process or programme writes or attempts to write data onto a static sized memory block than it was initially allocated. By taking advantage of the buffer overflow attacker are always aiming to completely take control of the whole system

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    Networking security the process of taking physical and software preemptive evaluations to protect the underlying network foundation from unauthorized admittance, misuse, glitch, modification, demolish, imprudent revelation, thereby creating a secure platform for computers, users and programs to implement their permitted critical functions within a secure environment. Network security has become significant due to the patent that can be obtained through the Internet. There are essentially two different

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    information. The security professionals have to be aware of these threats and keep up to date with all the latest threats and issues because if they do not have to be aware of these threats so there could be a great loss to an organization. An organization could be update their systems profiles if there are all systems are not working properly and have any kind of problem because some of the systems are vulnerable in the organization. Definition of Security Vulnerability The security vulnerability is

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