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Tuesday Class Quiz 1 – Access Basics
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Personal Security
How secure are you?
Do you secure your information?
How hackable is your digital life?
Introduction to Information Security
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Is it possible to secure the Internet?
Five Factors Increasing the Vulnerability of Information Resources
1. Today’s interconnected, interdependent, wirelessly-networked business environment
2. Smaller, faster, cheaper computers and storage devices
3. Decreasing skills necessary to be a hacker
4. Organized crime taking over cybercrime
5. Lack of management support
2. Smaller, Faster Devices
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3. Decreasing Skills Needed to be a Hacker
New & Easier Tools make it very easy to attack the Network
Attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated
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4. Organized Crime Taking Over Cybercrime
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Cost of Cybercrime
Any Guesses?
http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-economic-impact-cybercrime2.pdf
Unintentional Threats:Most Dangerous Employees
Who are the most dangerous employees?
Why are these the most dangerous?
Unintentional Threats:Human Errors
Common Human Mistakes:Carelessness
Devices E-mails Internet
Poor password selection and use Ex. Bank Employees 2014 worst passwords
Any guesses on #1?
Unintentional Threats:Social Engineering
the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.
Pretexting
Phishing
Baiting
Vishing (IVR or phone phishing)
Deliberate Threats to Information Security
Theft of equipment or information Examples
Dumpster diving Laptop stolen from breaking in
Identify theft Stealing info off org. databases Phishing
Deliberate Threats (continued)
Software attacks Virus Worm (see the rapid spread of the Slammer
worm) Trojan horse Logic Bomb Phishing attacks Distributed denial-of-service attacks
Ex. US Banks
Deliberate Threats (continued)
Alien SoftwareSpyware
Spamware
Cookies
Targeted Attack Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) attacks
Stuxnet
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What Organizations Are Doing to Protect Themselves
“The only truly secure system is powered off, cast in a block of concrete, and sealed in a lead room with armed
guards, and even then I have my doubts”
Information Security Controls
1. Physical controls
2. Access controls
3. Communications (network) controls
Information Security Controls
1. Physical controls
2. Access controls
3. Communications (network) controls
Access Controls
Access Controls: Authentication (proof of identity)
Something the user is
Something the user has
Something the user does
Something the user knows passwords passphrases
Access Controls: Authorization
Permissions issued based on verified identity
Privilege – operations that users can perform Idea of Least privilege
Information Security Controls
1. Physical controls
2. Access controls
3. Communications (network) controls
Communication Controls
Need to understand Risk
Risk Management (identify, control, minimize)
1.Risk analysis
2.Risk mitigation (take action)
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3.Controls Evaluationcontrol > cost of asset then the control is not cost effective
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Business Continuity Planning, Backup, and Recovery
Provide guidance to people who keep business operating after a disaster occurs.
Options: Hot Site Warm Site Cold Site
Personal Risk Assessment
To understand your own risk, get with another person and create an assessment.
List out the following:
1.Assets (e.g. laptop, external drive, etc.)
2.Threats (e.g. natural, virus, etc.)
3.Controls (how do you control threats)
Other ways to minimize personal risk
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Identify the five factors that contribute to the increasing vulnerability of information resources, and provide a specific example of each one.
1.Networked Environment
2.Size and cost of devices
3.Decreasing skills necessary to be a hacker
4.Organized crime taking over cybercrime
5.Lack of management support
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
2. Compare and contrast human mistakes and social engineering, and provide a specific example of each one.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES (continued)
3. Define the three risk mitigation strategies, and provide an example of each one in the context of you owning a home.
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