Preventing Vunerabilities

Preventing Vunerabilities

1. Penetration Testing

   • deliberately trying to find security holes in your own system
   • goals
     • identifying the targets of potenial attacks
     • identify possible entry points
     • attempt to break in
     • report back the findings
   • black box testing
     • testers have limited information
       • no more than any potenial hacker
   • white box testing
     • testers have informaton
       • as much as an 'insider'
         • determines the damage of a rouge employee
   • ethical hacking
     • black-hat hackers
     • grey-hat hackers
     • white-hat hackers

2. Network forensics

   • audit trails

3. encryption

4. User access levels

5. network policies

6. Firewalls

7. passwords

8. anti- malware software