Network Security Guidelines
The availability of the network in a reliable way may be compromised when there are no security policies and guidelines to protect the network. An appropriate network security policy would take into considerations and assess the various risks that are likely to compromise a network. After this assessment, there is a need for formulation of proper measures that are directed at the implementation of the practices that are aimed at monitoring and at the management of the network to curb security violation. In addition, there is a need for considering the remote network users. A remote network access policy would define appropriate standards to be applied in connecting to the company’s network while outlining the security standards that devices attempting to connect to the network would follow for successful connectivity. This paper outlines the various network security guidelines that are secure both for the users within an organization and for remote users as well while maintaining a high degree of reliability.
Security in Network Management
Network management processes that have the backing of senior management are paramount in ensuring that the organization develops security for its network. The management needs to play a great role and incorporate security guidance into their network. The network security guidelines provided here should govern how the network should operate in the area of security, how the network would be developed to maintain security, how security is organized to support upcoming needs, and how the network will comply with the operational and regulatory security needs (Gupta, Chandrashekhar, Sabnis, & Bastry, 2007).
Remote Access Guidelines
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...e user’s devices while they use the internet. Moreover, such policies and guidelines would offer credible protection from unauthorized connections that may compromise the resources of the company. On the other hand, the password policy and guidelines are meant to help maintain security of the organization’s network as well as protecting the various computers in the network with an aim of safeguarding the resources of an organization. Strong passwords are necessary to make this possible. To cater for the remote users, the remote access guidelines are drafted and they define the appropriate standards that are appropriate for the access of computer network in an organization and the associated security standards for the remote computers that are privileged to access the network of the organization. All these aim at balancing the access and the security of the network.
Ensure flexibility and an acceptable level of security for accessing information systems from remote locations.
With the increasing use of emerging technologies and the associated information security threat threshold, Ohio University has adopted the NIST 800-53 security control framework to support their regulatory compliance efforts. NIST 800-53 is being implemented to provide a comprehensive set of security controls. This control framework is responsible for instituting minimum requirements that meet approved standards and guidelines for information security systems. It provides a baseline for managing issues relating to mobile and cloud computing, insider threats, trustworthiness and resilience of their information systems. NIST defines the standards and guidelines to be adhered to meet the cyber security control that align to FISMA expectations.
What concerns the government of the United States most is the security of the critical infrastructure from the cyber threats. The nation is depending heavily on the technology in most of its critical sectors to keep it up and running. Thus, this makes its more vulnerable to cyber-attacks from outsiders and insiders. Therefore, its protection must be a priority.
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
The cyber security department will ensure that the organization will have continual protected access to the organization’s network. The protected access of the network will be available 24 hours a day and 7 days out of the week. The protected access will also be available during emergencies. Emergencies will not hamper or hinder the organization’s ability to access the network. Arrangements have been put in place for emergencies to have protected access to the network. The cyber security department will continual strive to improve their services. “Cyber-attacks on a Process Control Network (PCN) pose a risk to the operation” (Henry, 2009, p.223). The uninterrupted, protected access to the organization’s network is the top priority of the cyber security department.
Every organization, big or small, should have some level of security policy to protect their proprietary information. While the intensity and depth of an organization's security policy depends heavily on the nature of their business, common guidelines are mentioned in this paper that apply to all policies. One of the most important things to remember is that employees are a critical component to a successful security policy. It is the organization's job to ensure that their security policy is widely distributed and understood.
In the first place, many companies are currently on the same shape as International Produce, because they did not have a plan which can deal with confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) related incidents. Not only, International Produce has no regulatory requirements that would have made incident response planning a priority, but also this company needs to understand that Incident response is not a standalone item, but must rest on a foundation of policies and an ability to properly determine what an incident is and when one has occurred. Furthermore, “The purpose of security incident response is to bring needed resources together in an organized manner to deal with an adverse event known as an “incident” that is related to the safety and or security of the information system. The security incident response process is centered on the preparation, detection and analysis, containment, investigation, eradication, recovery, and post incident activity surrounding such an incident” (Johnson, 2013). Moreover, planning and preparedness must come before the incident, but in the case of International Produce is too late since the increase in networking traffic was not perceived as problematic until it was noticed that the traffic was not coming from Mongolia to Boston but was instead traveling from Boston to Mongolia. Given these points, an incident response consultant should assist to review available resource to solve this incident, organize step to take in order to properly assess the situation, and mitigate all legal arrangements involving theft of intellectual property.
With a rise in security breaches experienced by companies in the last few years, it is no wonder that businesses are implementing stronger security policies. Two topics that deserves to be addressed by businesses are PC protection software and external access to corporate networks. There may be no sure way to prevent attacks on the corporate network but there are steps companies can make to limit such activities. This paper will discuss the possible guidelines that companies may implement to strengthen security policies.
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This proposal is for a small office that will have users who are connected by Wi-Fi or cable. The network will include devices and resources that is shared among all the users. The network will need to have security measures in place to protect the entire network and keep the wireless access secure and available only to employees of the company.
For the most part we have addresses the needs of our sales force on a case by case basis but going forward we really need to ensure we have a defined policy to streamline remote access. To accomplish this there are a few benchmarks we need to achieve. First of all the network has to be reliable or in more technical terms it needs to have high availability. Most importantly we need to make sure that the network is secure as much as it is possible with all the different types of users asking for access. Lastly, we need to address how we handle employees using personal or non-company issued computers and how we ensure that those machines meet of other remote access policies.
A wireless network is a wireless communication system that allows electronic devices and computing workstations communicate and exchange data with each other by utilizing radio waves as the transmission medium. Wireless networking offers many advantages for organizations and users such as increased productivity, portability and flexibility, and lower installation costs. However, wireless networking is also coupled with security threats that can alter and damage an organization’s computing and networking resources. Using effective network management can help prevent attacks from occurring by having a sound and thorough assessment of potential security risks and develops guidelines that will mitigate the identified threats. This paper will discuss
ABSTRACT : This paper describes the basic threats to the network security and the basic issues of interest in designing a secure network. it describes the important aspects of network security. A secure network is one which is free of unauthorized entries and hackers. INTRODUCTION
The network management plan and security plan is important to help the company figure out how they will improve its network and security procedures for the company. Planning involves outlining objectiv...
The first thing that we must consider about Information Security is that there is not a final destination at which we can arrive. IT Security is an ongoing set of processes and activities that requires attention and expertise on a daily basis. It is important to understand that systems are not secured by themselves and it is our responsibility to maintain and improve them periodically as required. It is of vital importance to establish the appropriate mechanisms and requirements in order to support the company’s CIA triad. The following report will provide you guidance about auditing and hardening techniques applied though the 7 Domains by utilizing IT Security Best Practices.