Summary • The security policy cycle defines the overall process for developing a security policy • There are four steps in risk identification: – Inventory the assets and their attributes – Determine what threats exist against the assets and by which threat agents – Determine whether vulnerabilities exist that can be exploited by surveying ...
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Summary • Adequate physical security is one of the first lines of defense against attacks • Physical security involves restricting with access controls, minimizing social engineering attacks, and securing the environment and infrastructure • Business continuity is the process of assessing risks and developing a management strategy to ensure th...
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Summary • One of the advantages of symmetric cryptography is that encryption and decryption using a private key is usually fast and easy to implement • A digital signature solves the problem of authenticating the sender when using asymmetric cryptography • With the number of different tools required for asymmetric cryptography, an organization ...
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Summary • Cryptography seeks to fulfill five key security functions: confidentiality, authentication, integrity, nonrepudiation, and access control • Hashing, also called a one-way hash, creates a ciphertext from plaintext • Symmetric encryption algorithms use a single key to encrypt and decrypt a message
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Summary • The FTP protocol has several security vulnerabilities—it does not natively use encryption and is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks • FTP can be hardened by using secure FTP (which encrypts using SSL) • Protecting remote access transmissions is particularly important in today’s environment as more users turn to the Internet as t...
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Summary • Protecting basic communication systems is a key to resisting attacks • E-mail attacks can be malware, spam, or hoaxes • Web vulnerabilities can open systems up to a variety of attacks • A Java applet is a separate program stored on the Web server and downloaded onto the user’s computer along with the HTML code
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Summary • Cable plant: physical infrastructure (wire, connectors, and cables that carry data communication signals between equipment) • Removable media used to store information include: – Magnetic storage (removable disks, hard drives) – Optical storage (CD and DVD) – Electronic storage (USB memory sticks, FlashCards)
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Summary • Establishing a security baseline creates a basis for information security • Hardening the operating system involves applying the necessary updates to the software • Securing the file system is another step in hardening a system
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Summary • Creating and maintaining a secure environment cannot be delegated to one or two employees in an organization • Major tasks of securing information can be accomplished using a bottom-up approach, where security effort originates with low-level employees and moves up the organization chart to the CEO • In a top-down approach, the effor...
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Summary • Six categories of attackers: hackers, crackers, script kiddies, spies, employees, and cyberterrorists • Password guessing is a basic attack that attempts to learn a user’s password by a variety of means • Cryptography uses an algorithm and keys to encrypt and decrypt messages
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