Personal and Corporate Computer Security Awareness and Countermeasures
Continuing with your efforts to educate CSII employees, you now need to provide them with the most current information about personal and corporate computer security awareness and countermeasures.
Most government agencies and employers post their own policies and procedures based on the experiences of their information technology (IT) security professionals and recommend countermeasures accordingly. Many of these government agencies and employers visit various websites (including but not limited to government websites) and offer and take advice from specialty organizations.
Here is a list of websites to consider:
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at http://www.nist.gov/index.html
• The Computer Security Resource Center of the NIST at http://csrc.nist.gov/
• The SANS Institute at http://www.sans.org/
• The CERT Coordination Center of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University at http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/
Tasks:
Using the Argosy University online library resources and the websites specified above, find three articles and analyze each on two of the following topics:
• Social engineering
• Shoulder surfing
• Password or passphrase best practices
• Hardware or software firewalls
• Antivirus protection
Prepare an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation designed to educate CSII employees about the two topics you selected. In the presentation:
• Include a definition and description of your topic as it is used in everyday life, followed by a summary of each of the three articles.
• Compare the information in the three articles and point out specific issues where the authors may disagree or emphasize different points.
The presentation should include a title slide, an objectives slide, and a reference slide. Use the Notes function to provide additional comments as though you are making this presentation to a live audience.
Cite references in APA format.