Cloud Computing Threats and Vulnerabilities University of Maryland University College Table of Contents I. Introduction: What is cloud computing and why is it important? II. What are Cloud Computing’s Threats and Vulnerabilities? III. Threat/Vulnerability Occurrence Likelihood‚ Risk Reduction and Customer Satisfaction A. “Abuse and Nefarious Use of the Cloud” / “Session Riding and Hijacking” B. “Insecure Interfaces and APIs” / “Virtual Machine (VM) Escape”.
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Identifying Potential Risk 1 Assignment 1: Identifying Potential Risk‚ Response‚ and Recovery CIS333 Identifying Potential Risk 2 In this paper I have just been hired as an Information Security Engineer for a video game development company. I have previously identified all of the potential Threats‚ Vulnerabilities and Malicious Attacks for the videogame development company. The CIO have reviewed my report and has now requested that I draft a report
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Risk Threats And Vulnerabilities Marisel Hernandez Professor Julian Slaughter Foundations of Cyber Security July 6‚ 2015 Assessing risk‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities Focus on the problem as soon as it occurs The severity of the companies security impact due to the data breach Investigation on the severity of incident and its damages Actions taken towards this threat Insights of similar incident Requirement policies Identifying reports Actions that need to be taken Outcomes and results
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Healthcare organizations servers. This particular breach would impact the System/Application Domain. A hacker can penetrate a vulnerable system and retrieve patient information such as SSN‚ DOB‚ and even credit card payment information. 2. Threats and vulnerabilities: a. User Domain – Unauthorized access to organization owned workstations b. Workstation Domain - User downloads an unknown e-mail attachments c. LAN Domain - WLAN access points are needed for LAN connectivity within a warehouse d. LAN-to-WAN
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Highly Toxic Seven Threats and Vulnerabilities in Cloud Computing Abstract— Cloud computing has been developed to reduce IT expenses and to provide agile IT services to individual users as well as organizations. It moves computing and data away from desktop and portable PCs into large data centers. This technology gives the opportunity for more innovation in lightweight smart devices and it forms an innovative method of performing business. Cloud computing
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Summary Report on a Malicious Code Attack: The CiH Virus CiH Virus Summary Description of CIH Virus The CIH Virus‚ also known as the Chernobyl Virus‚ was directed towards Microsoft Windows platforms. It became known as the Chernobyl Virus because the triggered payload date is April 26th‚ the same date as the Chernobyl disaster (this is purely coincidental). The name of the virus is derived from the virus’s creator‚ Chen Ing-Hau. Payload is defined as the malicious activity that is a result
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John Moura Chapter 2: Planning for Security Review Questions 1. Describe the essential parts of planning. How does the existence of resource constraints affect the need for planning? Answer: Organizational planning‚ described below‚ and Contingency planning‚ which focuses on planning or unforeseen events. Organizations must be able to forecast their needs relative to available resources as best they can to insure best decision making. 2. What are the three common
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Identifying Potential Risk‚ Response‚ and Recovery Maria A. Tisdale Strayer University CIS 333 Professor Robert Whale December 1‚ 2014 Identifying Potential Risk‚ Response‚ and Recovery The CIO has requested that we follow up with a plan that is detailing a strategy for addressing all risks identified in the previous research. This plan needs to identify controls in administration‚ preventative‚ detective and corrective. With this data‚ the business will be able to mitigate each risk that we identified
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Malicious code is the term used to describe any code in any part of a software system or script that is intended to cause undesired effects‚ security breaches or damage to a computer or system without the owner’s knowledge or consent. There are much exploitation of vulnerabilities‚ like viruses‚ worms‚ Trojan horses‚ spyware‚ adware‚ and rootkits. Malicious code describes a broad category of system security terms that includes attack scripts‚ viruses‚ worms‚ Trojan horses‚ backdoors‚ and malicious
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Analysis of Wireless Security Vulnerabilities‚ Attacks‚ and Methods of Protection Abstract - The rapid adoption and highly distributed nature of wireless networks has made it vulnerable to attacks and calls for innovative strategies of defense for network security. The lack of cables and transfer of information over airwaves makes data exchange more susceptible to interception. Furthermore‚ it is difficult to implement effective methods of security without sacrificing the quality and speed of network
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