Security auditing in any company involves establishing security levels in the company’s system. It comprises of vulnerability scans, reviewing applications and systems controls, and analyzing physical access into the system. Auditing is carried out to ensure information integrity of a company’s data and reliability of data exchange process through networked environment. In most cases, security auditing is done to ensure security measures are in place to protect the company against loss of information to the outside world. This paper addresses all the issues involved in security auditing of Ariam travel agency’s network and its premises.
Security Audit
Ariam travel agency handles bulk information that contains sensitive customers and employees’ information; it contains multiple external users and various e-commerce applications. Therefore, data security at this company is very important. Information that requires protection in this agency include customers details, associated business procedures, company policies, employees’ information, network documentation, security policies, and sensitive business procedures among others.
Firstly, when trying to cover the loopholes caused by network vulnerabilities, we identify people who have access to the company’s information. These include the employees, customers, programmers and network coordinators at large. Then, we sort out the limits of access of the information and the type of information various parties can access. Another factor is the occasion at which the data is accessible and from where the data can be retrieved. At this stage, we need to identify the network configuration, connection to the external network and the protection levels portrayed.
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... the network that shares information throughout the network. Remote access to the network is restricted and therefore loopholes are intervened while monitoring software, scanning servers and network routers ensure integrity of information stored. The system is therefore competent enough to secure the company from hacker and crackers, and best for business.
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Security of the companies data is one of the most important components which allows the business to perform its day to day operation using various networking devices, services that absolutely needs to be protected from intruders. Some of these devices include online transactions, the exchange of data between users and clients both internal and external and external web data needs to be secured. There are several polices that would need to be configured such as a web sever and firewall configurations. However, with these configurations the first and most important task is to identify any vulnerabilities or loopholes in security within the company. The company has both LAN (Local Area Network) and WAN (Wireless Local Area Network) and a web sever. These resources need to be secured at all times from hackers or anyone else by implementing the appropriate security measures.
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