{"id":5,"date":"2017-06-21T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typedessays.com\/explain-information-security-threats-and-vulnerabilities\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:03:08","slug":"explain-information-security-threats-and-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/explain-information-security-threats-and-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain information security threats and vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the\u00a0<em>Information Technology Security for Small Businesses\u00a0<\/em>video from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST):<\/p>\n<p>Information Technology Security for Small Business(https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajwX-7jVLo0)<\/p>\n<p>Then write an information security white paper that can be used to market your firm&#8217;s security consulting services to small businesses in the Washington, DC, area. Your white paper must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be concise-no more than three pages long.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a general explanation of the business need for information security (protection measures) even in the smallest of businesses (e.g., protect against loss of profit, damage to company&#8217;s reputation, costs of litigation, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Explain information security threats and vulnerabilities in plain English to small business owners who, while experts in their own business areas, have limited knowledge of computers, networks, and software.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the following key concepts as part of the threats and vulnerabilities discussion:\n<ul>\n<li>confidentiality<\/li>\n<li>integrity<\/li>\n<li>availability<\/li>\n<li>non-repudiation<\/li>\n<li>authentication<\/li>\n<li>authorization<\/li>\n<li>risk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Recommend technologies, processes, and policies that can be used to solve or mitigate one of the following common information security threats:\n<ul>\n<li>data breach and\/or data theft (confidential client information)<\/li>\n<li>denial-of-service (DOS) attacks<\/li>\n<li>insider theft of intellectual property<\/li>\n<li>deliberate corruption of electronic files (hacker attack or malicious insider) including virus\/worm infections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the impact or results that can be expected:\n<ul>\n<li>costs and benefits of effective protection measures<\/li>\n<li>costs and penalties of ineffective or nonexistent protection measures.Explain information security threats and vulnerabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the\u00a0Information Technology Security for Small Businesses\u00a0video from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST): Information Technology Security for Small Business(https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajwX-7jVLo0) Then write an information security white paper that can be used to market your firm&#8217;s security consulting services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/explain-information-security-threats-and-vulnerabilities\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}