Security Engineering

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ASSIGNMENT 4 AWARENESS OF CURRENT EVENTS Introduction: The security engineering is the environment of engineering science which deals with security and integrity of real world organizations. It also deals with system engineering in order to enforce security policies in an organization. In the modern world, the systems cut across various areas of human efforts, therefore the security engineers need not consider the substantial and logical properties of the organization. They have to concentrate on the attacks or the threats on the people of the organization utilizing the social engineering attacks. These secured systems have to defend with force, fraud and trick by confidence tricksters along with the technical attacks. They also make use of various like fault tree analysis techniques from the field of safety engineering. Roles and responsibilities of a security engineer: The main role of the network security engineer involves planning, designing, implementing, auditing, optimizing and troubleshooting network security solutions based on the customer needs. • To provide assistance in growth, implementation and safeguarding the IT security solutions like firewalls, antivirus solutions and any intrusion detection systems. • To make sure the Information and security policies. • To investigate the real time information security incidents. • To produce cyclic reports on information security issues or threats. • Before implementation of new system, he has to review the implications of security methods. • Have to give security awareness to the employees. • Has to participate in the project management tasks like tracking of projects, scheduling of the projects and final report submission. • Has to offer support for remote projects in th... ... middle of paper ... ...BIND regularly • Don’t put all DNS servers on the same sub net. • Confine the queries to minimum level Conclusion: The security issues and threats are not new and it has been around for some time. The emerging techniques help to crack it and get better solutions. Fighting against the new evolving techniques is still a hurdle and to maintain the compatibility. The specific recommendations as a security engineer is keep updating the things with regard to the security features like building firewalls and engaging with latest security happenings. References: (1) http://www.bayuk.com/publications/Bayuk-SOS.pdf (2) http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/428122/security_threats_explained_social_engineering/ (3) Www. Zdnet.com (4) www.itworld.com (5) ww.technews.acm.org (6) www.auscert.org.au (7) www. Sans.org/newsletters (8) www.slashdot.org (9) www.securityfocus.com

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