Week 4 Reading, Question and Article

Reading Summary

This week’s reading was about vulnerability scanning. The reading talked about how scanning for vulnerabilities is a better and more proactive solution than using a password to protect files and waiting until something bad happens. The product used to talk about vulnerability scanning was Nessus. Nessus is free, open-source and powerful remote vulnerability scanner. Nessus needs to be updated with its latest library of plugins along with other tools such as firewalls, IDS, IPS .etc. to proactively protect systems. The article also contains instructions on how to install, configure and setup Nessus to run scans.

Question

What kind of protection will you use to protect smartphones and mobile devices given to employees by your organization from information security breaches?

Article

http://sites.utexas.edu/iso/2015/09/15/android-5-lockscreen-bypass/

I found this article interesting because it talks about how Android 5.x OS phones could be “hacked” by adding enough characters in the password field to crash the lockscreen process.