How would you feel if someone hacked your bank account or broke into your house and stole all of your precious belongings? In the computer industry and military environment, these hacks or break-ins are referred to as a security breach. To prevent security breaches, you will need to know how to assess risk, follow security protocols, configure your systems, and much more.
Directions: Read these three publications below:
- Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems (Links to an external site.)
- NIST Security Compliance (Links to an external site.)
- Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments (Links to an external site.)
When you are finished with the reading, locate and read three (3) interesting articles that describe a security policy breech in the tech world. Your articles should be within the last 12 months.
Choose one of the three articles, and (in a Word document) write two paragraphs summarizing the incident. In addition to your summary, make sure to:
- Explain what the breaches were. What should have been done to prevent them from happening in the first place?
- Identify measures that you could do now to prevent these breaches from happening in the future. What security measures could you have put into place? Looking ahead, what would you do to plug those holes and prevent future breaches?