{"id":199341,"date":"2018-09-13T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/ac-554-unit-5-homework-assignment\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:10:50","slug":"ac-554-unit-5-homework-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/ac-554-unit-5-homework-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"AC 554 Unit 5 Homework Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise 2\t \ufffd \ufffd\u00a0 Question:\tMany companies offer their employees the ability to connect to the network from home computers.\u00a0 Because companies don&#8217;t have control over the home user&#8217;s machine, they can be exposed to viruses from these machines.\u00a0 What steps&#8221;\ufffdtechnical and procedural&#8221;\ufffddo you think are necessary in protecting the company network from insecurities of home computers?\tExercise 3\t \ufffd \ufffd\u00a0 Question:\t \ufffd \ufffd\u00a0 To ensure security of a system and to apply patches as required, an inventory of the existing environment is required.\u00a0 After all, you can&#8217;t have total security when you do not know what to secure.\u00a0 Meet with your organization&#8217;s information technology staff to understand their process to inventory their environment.\u00a0 Do they have a process? Does it work? What enhancement would you recommend?\tExercise 3\t \ufffd \ufffd\u00a0 Question:\tReview various applications that you use on your computers and on the Internet.\u00a0 Classify them by the ones that require authentication and the ones that do not.\u00a0 For the ones that do, analyze their method of authentication.\u00a0 For example, are they using cookies, are they using pass-through authentication, and if so, are they relying on client operating system?\tExercise 4\t \ufffd \ufffd\u00a0 Question:\tReview the programming practices adopted within your organization or an organization of your choice.\u00a0 What security best practices do they adopt in ensuring application security?\u00a0 What controls do they implement to protect against attacks like SQL injection and buffer overflow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise 2 \ufffd \ufffd\u00a0 Question: Many companies offer their employees the ability to connect to the network from home computers.\u00a0 Because companies don&#8217;t have control over the home user&#8217;s machine, they can be exposed to viruses from these machines.\u00a0 What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/ac-554-unit-5-homework-assignment\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}