I believe that this breach was the result of a social engineering attack on our company. This is a very popular kind of attack where an employee is tricked into compromising or giving up valuable company information. In our case I believe that the hacker may have called the complaint department earlier in the day with an issue that needed a supervisor’s assistance. At that time he spoke to the supervisor and got his name. He might have then waited until shifts changed to call back and ask for the supervisor by name. The likely scenario is that the hacker called and posed as our company’s attorney saying; “Hello, I am the company’s attorney and I am defending your company in a multi-million dollars case that is about to start in two minutes. …show more content…
The ones who are lagging will be given customized training based on their weaknesses. Also the program on a hold will be evaluated and modified if needs be (Tipton & Krause, 2007).
C. What techniques you should use to test for social engineering vulnerability.
We will base our testing for social engineering vulnerability on the inoculation training framework. Our goal will be to determine how familiar everyone are with all the different types of social engineering threats that they might face. These tests will be structured to address the roll of each associate in our company. The theory is based on the fact that if our employees are constantly facing these attacks, they will eventually become immune to them. So, using the inoculation theory as our testing framework will reap great rewards (Tipton & Krause, 2007).
Vulnerability testing will be done periodically by doing unannounced social engineering penetration testing. This will be conducted by an external company to make it more realistic. They will try to use various social engineering tricks to gather personal and company information from
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Social engineering testing will be done on all employees who are in contact with our customers. So, this mean our supervisors and call center customer service associates. Since these are the entry points for social engineering attacks, we must train them to cope with these deceptive and dangerous individuals.
What questions you would ask.
Hello, I work in the information security department and I just got an alert that hackers are in our computers. Unfortunately I’m not in the office now so I need your help quickly before they put us out of business. This could cost us millions is it’s not taken care of immediately. Can I login as you and stop them quickly? It will only take a few minutes plus you’ll be saving the company million and may even save our jobs. I just need a few details from you.
What is your name?
What is your username and
Personal privacy is a very serious case. Your personal items should stay personal to avoid the risk of someone stealing your information. Three key ideas that can help keep your information safe are less information giving, reading guidelines before agreeing to it, and downloading less risky apps that can potential give out any information.
Commencing penetration tests within the infrastructure of Alexander Rocco Corporation may be a strenuous, yet beneficial process. However, before commencing penetration tests, much planning, strategizing, and research is necessary in order to ensure successful, seamless, and legal operations. Based on information provided by the SANS Institute, an initial meeting should be coordinated between those responsible for conducting the tests, along with the appropriate leadership personnel of the company (source). Within the meeting, the scope of the project should be established, classifying company data appropriately, and determining which components of the company’s infrastructure require penetration testing, which may include Alexander Rocco Corporation’s
When it comes to personal information in America, the genie is out of the bottle. As such, information security will continue to be a pressing concern especially to most of our top three-letter-agencies such as the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), NSA (National Security Agency), DOD (Department of Defense), and HS (Homeland Security) as most of them are staffed with employees with top secret security clearances (also known as TS).When someone is given this clearance, not only are they slated to uphold an allegiance to core values but they are also entrusted with our nations’ sensitive secrets and are held to the highest standards. Many of these professionals are honest and loyal to their country, but all humans are susceptible to preservation, desires, and needs that the famous psychologist Maslow showed in his famous hierarchy of needs pyramid. As such, without undue temptation and trickery most handle their jobs well and uphold their commitments to quietly (sometimes loudly) dedicate their lives to patriotism.
Some of the testing at the unit level would be White Box testing. Making sure that different parts of processes or objects were executing properly during state transitions. It would look at the accuracy of logical operations for financial transactions and functions such as keeping double booking of appointment times from occurring.
resolve. At first it seemed to just be an unauthorized user, who had used up nine seconds of computer time and refused to pay for it. Further investigation led him to an outside hacker that gained access to Berkley computers, by sneaking through an obscure security breach and gained administrative privileges over...
What happened: In November, Sony Pictures Entertainment was the target of a cyberattacks that leaked internal documents, including embarrassing emails and the annual salaries of senior executives. The attack also compromised employee names, social security numbers, credit card information and bank account information.
Privacy and security issues have become one of the top concerns among computer users in today’s market. It has become a game of survival of the fittest in protection of your security. The only true way to defend yourself is knowledge. You should prepare your self against hackers, spammers and potential system crashing viruses and web bugs. Lets focus on how you can protect yourselves from the would be thieves.
Social media is everywhere and very popular all over the world. Social media is used on computers, tablets, smartphones, etc and along with the use of social media there are privacy issues that come along with it. Social media is part of everyone’s life and is hard to give up. Even though we might not think there is isn’t anything wrong with it, there is which comes down to our privacy. Our privacy is being invaded when using these popular networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Social media is here to communicate with others and build relationships not invade our privacy.
In this case, a large health services organization (HSO) in Florida, that has a world-renowned AIDS treatment center had information breach of 4,000 HIV+ patient records, and the list was sent to newspapers, magazines, and the internet. Consequently, this issue was featured in every media vehicle in the world and as CEO, you are requested by the board of trustees to come up a better management information system (MIS) to resolve all information security issues or you will face termination. After hiring an undercover computer security consultant to help determine where the security leak came from, she quickly identifies numerous breaches in computer security and provides a report with the issues identified. The report furnished by the consultant revealed that facility had major problems with the MIS and the staff. In order to determine how to address the issues, the CEO must first answer the following questions: what law is being violated by the employees, why was this law enacted, what are the penalties for such violations, what are the penalties for sharing celebrity information, and should he be updating his resume and looking for another job (Buchbinder, 378).
Cross training can be provided to ensure there is minimal interruption to
In December 2013, Target was attacked by a cyber-attack due to a data breach. Target is a widely known retailer that has millions of consumers flocking every day to the retailer to partake in the stores wonders. The Target Data Breach is now known as the largest data breach/attack surpassing the TJX data breach in 2007. “The second-biggest attack struck TJX Companies, the parent company of TJMaxx and Marshall’s, which said in 2007 that about 45 million credit cards and debit cards had been compromised.” (Timberg, Yang, & Tsukayama, 2013) The data breach occurred to Target was a strong swift kick to the guts to not only the retailer/corporation, but to employees and consumers. The December 2013 data breach, exposed Target in a way that many would not expect to see and happen to any major retailer/corporation.
One type of surveillance is employee monitoring. Many employers monitor their workers’ activities for one reason or another. Companies monitor employees using many methods. They may use access panels that requires employees to identify themselves to control entry to various area in the building, allowing them to create a log of employee movements. They may also use software to monitor attendance and work hours. Additionally, many programs allows companies to monitor activities performed on work computers, inspect employee emails, log keystrokes, etc. An emerging methods of employee monitor also include social network and search engine monitoring. Employers can find out who their employees are associated with, as well as other potentially incriminating information. (Ciocchetti)
To combat these and other issues that can arise due to a lack of training, the development of a training program will wan...
National Institute of Standards and Technology. (2012, March/April). Basing Cybersecurity Training on User Perceptions. (IEEE Report 1540-7993/12). (pp. 40-49). Retrieved from University of Maryland University College IEEE Computer Society website: http://www.computer.org.ezproxy.umuc.edu/portal/web/csdl
...he hostile environment that was occurring was in direct relation to the violated privacy of Mr. Cronan. NET internal management it is believed could see for itself the exact nature of the harassment and fear problem.