NETWORK SECURITY

NETWORK SECURITY

1. Network Vulnerbrailities and Risks

   • Malware is a pice of software which is specificly writen to harm data, devices or people. It works through Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Worms, Ransomware, Adware and Bonets. Once the software is on your computer it can delete and damage your files.
   • Phishing is where a person poses to be another company by sending emails trying to find out passwords. If this works you could loose lots of personal infomation such as passwords and credit card numbers. These people will then use these paswords to comit fraud.
   • Ransomware is where someboady blocks you from accessing computer until a ransom is paid. If you dont pay then you could loose all your adta and files.
   • A trojan horce is a program designed to breach the security of a computer to breach the security of a computer systemwhyle ostensibly performing some innocuous function. this could cause you to loose all your data and have things stolen.
   • A brute atack is where somboady trys every posible combanation to find out your passwords for things such as credit cards and phone passwords. This can cause then to steel your identity and money.
   • Social engeneering is an attack that relies heavuly on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security rules
   • Man in the middle atack is an attack where the atacker secretly relays and possibly alters the cumunication between two partys who belives they are directly cumunicateing with each other.
   • A data interception is inautherised talking of computer based information. Data theft is the act of stealing computer based information.
   • packet sniffer is a program which targets packets of data transmited over the internet.
   • Message tampering is the changeing of website and files with no autherise ation.
   • An sql injection atack is a computer attck which maliicious code is embedded inside in a poorly designed aplication and then passed to the backend data base.
   • Dental of service is a cyber attck where the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resorce avalible to its intedendeed users by tempary or indefinatly distrabuting services of a host connected to the internet.

2. Network Prevention Methods

   • Antimalware software protects agaianst infections causded by many types of malware incluseing all types of viruses. This can be installed on one or more computers.
   • Firewalls only protect the computer they have being installed on. Each computer you have will need a seperate firewall. There is a wide range to choose from.
   • Password strength checker is a website where you can check the strenght of your password. This tells you ho strong it is and a persentage.It also gives you other info about it.
   • The data encryption is where you have a password to lock your data and files so they can not be accessed.
   • Antivirus scanning protects data on our storage device by kiliing malware at the source. It can detect and prevent the spred of virus code on storage networks befor data is compramised.
   • Penertrating test is a test which tests the computer and its systems and the vunribilitys that an attacker could expoit.
   • Network forensics is forencics realting to ther monetoring and analysis of computing network trafic for the purpose of information gathering.
   • Network forencics is the capture recording and analysis of network events in order to discover the sorce of security atacks.
   • Storage device virus scanning is interagation potects data on our storage device by killing malware at the sorce.