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Protection of Information Assets

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Protection of Information Assets

MIS 5206.951 ■ Summer 2024 ■ David Lanter
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Question 3

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 30 Comments

What is the relationship between a business impact analysis and a disaster recovery plan?

Filed Under: 5a: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Tagged With:

Question 1

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 33 Comments

Do ITACS students represent information security vulnerabilities to the school, each other, or both?
Explain the nature of the vulnerabilities ITACS students represent in the context(s) you chose?

Filed Under: 0b: Understanding an Organization's Risk Environment Tagged With:

Question 2

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 30 Comments

Is information security a technical problem, a business problem that the entire organization must frame and solve, or both?  Explain the nature of the problem in the context(s) you chose.

Filed Under: 0b: Understanding an Organization's Risk Environment Tagged With:

Question 3

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 32 Comments

Provide an example of a measurement used in quantitative information security risk analysis.
What challenges are involved in calculating such a measurement?

Filed Under: 0b: Understanding an Organization's Risk Environment Tagged With:

Question 1

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 33 Comments

How would you determine if an organization’s network capacity is adequate or inadequate? What impacts could be expected if a portion of an organization’s network capacity is inadequate?

Filed Under: 6a: Network Security Tagged With:

Question 2

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 30 Comments

Suppose an organization is only able to filter and selectively block either: a) network traffic coming into its intranet from the internet (incoming) or b) network traffic going out to the internet (outbound).  With respect to each of the 3 information system security objectives (i.e. confidentiality, integrity, and availability), if you could only filter and selectively block one network traffic direction which one you would you concentrate on and why?

Filed Under: 6a: Network Security Tagged With:

Question 3

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 30 Comments

In the contexts of being attacked by or unwittingly becoming a resource for distributed denial of service (DDoS), which is a bigger threat to an organization’s network and computer resources and why: Spam phishing or Spear phishing?

Filed Under: 6a: Network Security Tagged With:

Question 1

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 32 Comments

Consider Ash Rao’s role as Dean of the Saunders College of Business. How important is his laptop to him? What information might he have on that machine?

 

Filed Under: 1a: Case Study 1 Snowfall and a stolen laptop Tagged With:

Question 1

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 30 Comments

Are employees information security risks to organizations? If so, why? If not, why not?

Filed Under: 3a: Creating a Security Aware Organization Tagged With:

Question 2

April 29, 2024 by David Lanter 30 Comments

Evaluate the steps that Dave Ballard and Nick Francesco took in response to Dean Rao’s email informing them that his laptop had been stolen.

Filed Under: 1a: Case Study 1 Snowfall and a stolen laptop Tagged With:

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Questions about the Readings and Case Studies

  • 0a: Course Introduction & Webinar (1)
  • 0b: Understanding an Organization's Risk Environment (4)
  • 1a: Case Study 1 Snowfall and a stolen laptop (4)
  • 1b: Data Classification Process and Models (4)
  • 2a: Risk Evaluation (4)
  • 2b: Case Study 2 Autopsy of a Data Breach: The Target Case (4)
  • 3a: Creating a Security Aware Organization (4)
  • 3b: Physical and Environmental Security (3)
  • 4b Case Study 3 A Hospital catches the Millennium Bug (4)
  • 5a: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (4)
  • 5b: Team Project Instructions (1)
  • 6a: Network Security (4)
  • 6b – Cryptography Public Key Encryption and Digital Signatures (4)
  • 7a: Identity Management and Access Control (4)
  • 7b: Computer Application Development Security (4)

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