Objective: Assess the vulnerabilities of an organization's hardware and software systems, transmission media, local area networks, wide area networks, enterprise networks, Intranets, and its use of the Internet to cyber intrusions.

Competencies: Critical thinking

Instructions: In 12 -14 double-spaced pages develop arguments:

1. How to model and determine threats and

2. How to conduct vulnerability assessment.

The paper should be based on leading industry practices and include at a minimum complete strategies of modeling threats and assessing vulnerabilities, the reasons why these are good strategies, the impact of threats and vulnerabilities on organizations and how organizations can best address its potential impacts.

Illustrations (figures) should be included in explaining and supporting your arguments. Experiments data should be included while possible.

Prepare your paper in Word. Include a cover page, an abstract, table of content, main text with section headings, conclusions, and a minimum of 7 references. The page count starts with Abstract and ends with the Conclusions. The citations and the reference list in the paper should be formatted in accordance with APA 6th edition guidelines.