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arabera Franklin Hines 16 years ago

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Security Fundamentals

Organizations must be vigilant in addressing both internal and external security threats to protect sensitive data. Internal threats often stem from individuals with insider knowledge and access, making traditional security measures like firewalls less effective.

Security Fundamentals

Security Fundamentals

Security Incident

Ramifications
Administrative Law
Civil Law
Criminal Law
Effective Argument
Opportunity
Means
Motive

Contols

Technical

1)Security appliances (firewalls, IPS, VPN termination)

2)Authorizations appliances (RADIUS or TACACS+ servers)

Physical

1)Security systems

2)Physical security barriers

3)Climate protection systems

4)Security personnel

Detective
Deterrent
Preventive
Administrative

1)Routine security awarness training

2)Clearly defined security policies

3)Logging config changes

4)Properly screening potential employees

Data Classifications

Roles
User

1)Accesses and uses data in accordance with an established security policy

2)Takes reasonable measures to protect the data he or she has access to

3)Uses data for only organizational purposes

Custodian

1)Keeps up to date backups

2)Verifies the intergrity of backups

3)Restores data from backups

4)Follows policy guidelines to maintain data

Owner

1)Initally determines the classification level

2)Routinely reviews documented procedures for classifying data

3)Gives the custodian the resoponsibilty of protecting the data

Charateristics
Personal Association

How personal the data is

Useful Life

How long is the data will be considered relevant

Age

How old is the data

Value

How valuable the date is to the organization

Government
Top-Secret

Reasonable probability of causing exceptionally grave damage if disclosed

Secret

Reasonalbe probability of casuing serious damage if disclosed

Confidential

Reasonaable probability of causing damage if disclosed

Sensitive but Unclassified

Could casue embarrassment but not a security threat

Unclassified

Few or no privacy requirements

Types of Threats

External

Tend to be more technical (i.e ping sweeps or port scans)

Internal

1)Have knowledge of network and available resources

2)Some level of access granted b/c of job

3)Traditional sec. mechanisms (i.e. IPS and firewalls) are ineffective against

Goals

Availability

1)Send improperly formatted data to create an unhandled exception error

2)Flood network with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack

Integrity

1)Modifying the appearance of a corporate website

2)Intercepting and altering and e-commerce transaction

3)Modifying finacial records

Confidentiality

1)Use network security mechanisms (firewalls & ACLs)

2)Require credentials (usernames & passwords)

3)Encrypt traffic