Reference no: EM132407074

SUBJECT: Cyber Security Planning

QUESTION 1: (400 words with 2 JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES)

Explain in your own words why you believe planning is important. Select one of the following businesses: a large bank, a government agency, or a hospital

Explain which systems you feel are mission critical. Then explain how the loss of these systems would affect the organization.

QUESTION 2: (400 words with 2 JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES)

Have you or someone you know ever received a chain letter, phishing message, or some other fraudulent message via email? If so, please share this experience.

Explain what type of message it was and what you did to get rid of it.

QUESTION 3: (400 words with 2 JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES)

What do you think is the single greatest physical threat to information systems? Fire? Hurricanes? Sabotage? Terrorism? Discuss this question and provide support for your answer.

QUESTION 4: (3-4 paragraphs in length and 2 JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES)

Go online and search for information about companies that have been harmed or bankrupted by a disaster.

Choose one such company and create a brief case study about it.

Successful narratives will focus on the manner in which the organization was impacted, including financial losses, losses of sales, or the need for lay-offs.

Your assignment should be 3-4 paragraphs in length.

QUESTION 5: (3-4 paragraphs in length and 2 JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES)

Some organizations prohibit workers from bringing certain kinds of devices into the workplace, such as cameras, cell phones, and USB drives.

Some businesses require employees to use clear or see-through backpacks when carrying personal items.

What other devices might not be allowed in certain facilities, and why would they be restricted?

The video on Google's Data Center may give you some ideas to write about for this assignment.

SUBJECT: NETWORK SECURITY

(Answer below each question in 3 to 4 lines)

Question 1. What protocols comprise TLS?

Question 2. What is the difference between a TLS connection and a TLS session?

Question 3. List and briefly define the parameters that define a TLS session state.

Question 4. List and briefly define the parameters that define a TLS session connection.

Question 5. What services are provided by the TLS Record Protocol?

Question 6. What steps are involved in the TLS Record Protocol transmission?

Question 7. What is the purpose of HTTPS?

Question 8. For what applications is SSH useful?

Question 9. List and briefly define the SSH protocols.

Question 10. What is the basic building block of an 802.11 WLAN?

Question 11. Define an extended service set.

Question 12. List and briefly define IEEE 802.11 services.

Question 13. Is a distribution system a wireless network?

Question 14. How is the concept of an association related to that of mobility?

Question 15. What security areas are addressed by IEEE 802.11i?

Question 16. Briefly describe the five IEEE 802.11i phases of operation.

Question 17. What is the difference between TKIP and CCMP?

Question 18. What is the difference between RFC 5321 and RFC 5322?

Question 19. What are the SMTP and MIME standards?

Question 20. What is the difference between a MIME content type and a MIME transfer encoding?

Question 21. Briefly explain base64 encoding.

Question 22. Why is base64 conversion useful for an e-mail application?

Question 23. What is S/MIME?

Question 24. What are the four principal services provided by S/MIME?

Question 25. What is the utility of a detached signature?

Question 26. What is DKIM?

Question 27. What services are provided by IPsec?

Question 28. What parameters identify an SA and what parameters characterize the nature of a particular SA?

Question 29. What is the difference between the transport mode and tunnel mode?

Question 30. What is a replay attack?

Question 31. Why does ESP include a padding field?

Question 32. What are the basic approaches to bundling SAs?

Question 33. What are the roles of the Oakley key determination protocol and ISAKMP in IPsec?