Information Technology (IT) is a department that works in the organization for Governmental affairs. The headquarter of this organization is a main building and have another 4 branchesin other cities.A Manager who is the Chief Executive Officer governs the IT Department with an assistant. This Department responsible to offering IT services and technologies to simplify business works by automating work flaw and save all work documents and data in one secured place. Also, convoy the technology development.This Departmenthas approximated of 50 employees that serve and manage 2000 organization users and support them with computer hardware and software. The organization as mentioned before has four branches that have LAN for each branch, which contains also network devices (switches, core switch, Router, Firewall, access point wireless) and these branches are connected together as WAN network by MPLS technology that provided by STC service provider Company as clarified on the diagram below:
On the other hand, the main building (HQ) has a data center contains advance network devices and data base servers that working on save organization data as well as web servers for organization systems which are :
• financial system
• HR system
• document management system (DMS)
• warehouses systems
Also, exchange server for Email service and Active directory server to manage users accounts.
From the scenario above,you are charged with the task of pointing out the security threats that should be taken into consideration of the organization network and systems,write from 5 to 6 pages in length to Identify security threats.
To solve that you must readthe modules from 1 to 6 which on the link below, then dig out the potential threats that could be happen.
The 6 modules are taken from this book (Stallings, W., Brown, L., Bauer, M. & Howard, M. (2012). Computer security : principles and practice. Boston: Pearson) so you should cite this book as a reference.