Week 4 Reading Summary and In the News

Reading Summary:

Many business in nowadays forget about critical asset of their business; that is, Protecting Business Data. Unfortunately, most owners and management take care only about customers and business processes that directly generate revenue versus enterprise network that only provides tools to support business. For so many years, vulnerabilities have become more and more sophisticated alerting many companies of required precautions, but despite thousands of hacks, only some business owners really understand the importance of protecting data at all costs. While auditors and external consultants may be expensive service to perform proactive vulnerability scans, there are many free tools, such as Nessus, Qualisys and a few others that are free and help to build a vulnerability report that would help to assess networks and help to create mitigation reports as well as build a baseline framework for all systems to improve security hardening. While Nessus would be a good choice for network scan, it reports only what it finds in its plug-in database. Therefore, vulnerability scan internally within local network using others tools such as MBSA, Nmap, RapidFire, Nexpose/Rapid7, OpenVAS and a few others would be important to have diversity of vulnerability reports.

Question to the Class:

What solution did you use in the past? Which tool you find most comprehensive?

In the News:

New Apple products released on Wednesday Sept. 9th, will include enhanced security feature by requiring dual-factor authentication: 6-digit code + Fingerprint scan to various Apps. This new security feature should lead Enterprise Businesses to upgrade their devices in order to minimize risk of attacks.

Posted by CNBC on Friday, 11 Sep 2015 | 1:16 PM ET

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/11/apple-ramps-up-its-cybersecurity-game.html