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
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