Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Security Measure for assignment

Question
Relate the following questions to your selected IS/IT discussed in your assignment

1. what is/are the potential/ current risk identified? 

2.What is/are the consequences of (1)?
3.Which security measures might be suitable / to be recommended in solving(2)? 

Please prepare the draft of requirement No.3 of the assignment question and post in on blog.

*Aim of this is to help  you to figure out how you should be writing the section on 'Risk, Security and Disaster Recovery Plan in your assignment.


Risk
Risks to the system:
  • The virus infections which may cause the computer unable to work.
  •  It attacks by hackers; the hackers can try to gain unauthorized access to the system in order to compromise system and data integrity, availability or confidentiality.
  • Theft of data by insiders. They might steal the company’s or the student data and sell it to other competitors company.

Security
Securities that can be taken to reduce the risk are:-
  • Use the anti-virus software and make sure the software is always up-to-date. 
  •   Make sure that the firewall is on.
  •  Need to control the employee access to the system by using the password.
  • Make sure there is least than 2 computers that are able to use in the Studio. To in case one of the computers was breaks down, and there is still another one that can be functioning.
Recovery
Disaster recovery plan is in case something happen, the company needs to do backup to protect the company important data. By the new system Student Record System, it needs to create another backup file to in case there is anything happen.

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