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Assignment 1 – Security Architecture & Design

Chapter 8: Business Analytics

Chapter 9: Endpoint Anti-malware

Briefly respond to all the following questions. Make sure to explain and backup your responses with facts and examples. This assignment should be in APA format and have to include at least two references with 600 words minimum.

One of the big challenges with cloud-based reputation checks is performance. Users do not typically want to wait a few seconds while the reputation of potential URLs is checked. Most of us have come to expect that websites are at the immediate tips of our fingers and that access and loading of the content should take place rapidly and immediately. This presents a tricky security problem. Since the reputation service exists in the cloud, the challenge can be summed up as, “How can a reputation be securely retrieved without slowing Web access down so much as to create a poor user experience?"

TextBook:

Title: Securing Systems

Subtitle: *PLEASE SEE BOOKSTORE LINK BELOW TO PURCHASE REQUIRED MATERIALS

ISBN: 9781482233971

Authors: Brook S. E. Schoenfield

Publisher: CRC Press

Publication Date: 2015-05-20