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Computer Forensics - Initial Report Assignment
Brainstorm with your teammate for a simulated computer forensics task
Scenario - Our organization has an intranet that takes care of our emails and internet sites employees surf in the workplace, which is strictly for work related activities, things have been going so well for years, then suddenly, we started having malware attacks in our organization. We came to the realization that one or some of our workers that are peers have been using the intranet and company's email for personal related businesses, no illintent of course from their perspective but their carelessness and unprofessionalism has led to our intranet being infiltrated by powerful hacker group that has been targeting us for a while, as we are a huge financial company that manages a lot of liquid cash, assets and stocks for clients and organizations. Now we are at risk of losing our clients, our great reputation/status and assets in the process. Now we are prompted to halt this damage and possibly reverse it, we have to find the exploited areas to halt these malware attack, possibly find and trace these attackers, involving the law and then educate employees more on cybersecurity and how to handle cyber related activities.
Make a step by step investigation plan, including expected challenges and approaches to solve the challenges.
Conduct internal investigations to know who exactly the culprits of these exploited vulnerabilities are.
Knowing the systems and networks that opened us up to the attacks.
Gathering information about these malwares and confirming their origin.
Calling a forensic expert to do professional forensic analyses.
Tracking the attackers.
Involving law enforcement.
Educating thoroughly our employees on cybersecurity related activities.
The challenges will be the time to carry out the investigation, it will take a lot of time, then money to complete the overall project. It will be costly but surely effective to solve the challenges. Also, education of employees on cybersecurity will take a lot of financial resources and man power.
Summary of the Work - In summary, we are trying to halt malware attacks on our organization, find out how it got to us, which system and networks were compromised. We are also trying to confirm the source of the attacks, the motivation behind the attacks and move forward with the law enforcement with the help of a professional forensic expert, so as to protect our assets, clients and protect our great reputation. At the end, we properly educate all employees on cybersecurity and also harden more our systems and networks.
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