Assignment

Complete Case Project 7: Read the following Case Study and answer the questions at the end in paragraph form.

Bay Pointe Security Consulting (BPSC) provides security consulting services to a wide range of businesses, individuals, schools, and organizations. BPSC has hired you as a technology student to help them with a new project and provide real-world experience to students who are interested in the security field.

Eagle Trail Real Estate is a statewide residential and commercial real estate company. Because the company was the victim of several recent attacks, Eagle Trail wants to completely change its network infrastructure. Currently the company has a small IT staff, so they have contracted with BPSC to make recommendations and install the new equipment. First, however, they have asked BPSC to give a presentation to their executive staff about network security.

Eagle Trail has been working with BPSC and is debating if they should use UTM network security appliances or separate devices (firewall, Internet content filters, NIDS, etc.). Because they appreciated your first presentation, they want your opinion on this subject. Create a memo that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and give your recommendation.

Case Project 8-6: Read the following Case Study and answer the questions at the end in paragraph form.

Bay Pointe Security Consulting (BPSC) provides security consulting services to a wide range of businesses, individuals, schools, and organizations. BPSC has hired you as a technology student to help them with a new project and provide real-world experience to students who are interested in the security field.

Pack ‘n Go (PnG) offers to customers large portable storage units delivered to their home that the customers pack with their personal items. PnG then transports the units locally or over long distance to the end destination. Recently PnG's customer information system, which allows customers to reserve a portable storage unit, was compromised by an attacker. It appears that the attack was the result of a PnG employee's home computer that was successfully attacked and then was used to attack the PnG computers. The result was that storage units were delivered to the driveways of homes where the customers never requested them, which resulted in a large amount of unfavorable media attention. Pack ‘n Go has asked BPSC to make a presentation to the staff about securing their staff's home computers, and BPSC has asked you to help the company train its staff on the basics of host security.

After the presentation, one of PnG's IT staff has contacted you. She has been reading about DLP systems in a trade magazine and wants to know if PnG should look into purchasing a system. Create a memo to PnG's IT department about DLP, explaining what its features are and whether it would be beneficial to the company.