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- 11.6 Web SecurityContents:
- Forms of Attack
- Threat Posed to Networks
- Identifying and Preventing Vulnerabilities - 2Forms of Attack- Passive Attack
- Active Attack
- Insider Attack
- Brute Force Attacks
-DoS Attack
- People
- SQL Injection
- Poor Network Policy - 3Passive Attack- Monitors and Intercepts Data
- Has specialist HW/SW, e.g. Packet Sniffers
- Difficult to detect
- Encrypt data to prevent attack - 4Active Attack- Attack with Malware
- Malicious software installed without knowledge or consent
- Easy to detect
- Install Firewall/ Detection SW to prevent attack - 5Insider Attack- Attack by person within organisation
- Uses network access to install malicious SW or steal data
- Detection level depends on the attack
- Maintain passwords, access logs etc. to prevent attack - 6Brute Force Attack- Gains access by Trial and Error
- Through an Automated SW
- Detection level depends on the attack
- Strong PW, Account Logging can be used to prevent attack - 7Dos Attack (Denial of Service Attack)- Flood network with traffic to prevent access by others
- Through Automated SW/Bots
- Easy to detect
- Difficult to prevent attack. Using Employ Reverse Proxies can be used to reduce impact - 8People
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