Project 1 CMP 610 Step 2: Cybersecurity Background Summary

Step 2: Cybersecurity Background Summary

In Step 1, you familiarized yourself with your assigned organization. Now it is time to write a cybersecurity overview. Write a three-page background summary that includes a general overview of cybersecurity and a section on enterprise cybersecurity.

Please include the following items in your general overview of cybersecurity:

• Compare and contrast cybersecurity and computer security.
• Discuss Data flows across networks. (Review Bits and Bytes, Non-Textual Data, Evolution of Communication systems, Computer Networks, Network Devices & Cablesand Network Protocols if you do not already have a working understanding of these topics.)
• Discuss basic cybersecurity concepts and vulnerabilities, including flaws that can exist in software. (Review Systems Software, Application Software, Software Interaction and Programming if you do not already have a working understanding of these topics.)
• Discuss common cybersecurity attacks. (Review A Closer Look at the Web and Web Markup Language if you do not already have a working understanding of these topics.)
• Discuss penetration testing.
• Discuss how to employ Network forensic analysis tools (NFAT) to identify software communications vulnerabilities.

Please include the following items in your enterprise cybersecurity section:

• List and discuss the major concepts of enterprise cybersecurity.
• Discuss the principles that underlie the development of an enterprise cybersecurity policy framework and implementation plan.
• List the major types of cybersecurity threats that a modern enterprise might face.

You will attach this cybersecurity background summary to your security assessment in Step 5