assignment 12

Discussion 1:

This cyber-attack main objective is to destroy the organization computer system which consists of many series of action. It has been said that, this happened because administrators or managers in the organization did not have the good control on their framework and they were depending on one person altogether to work on framework, they never wanted administrator approval for any framework and proceeded agreeing this way. It would have been nice if the organization had some free boundaries, administrator access and decision is very much required for any framework approval whether in reprogramming the framework or closing, one should always send the notification to managers and administrators if they want to reprogram anything in their software’s (William, 2004).

The organization should set the special passwords to access few reprograms for SCADA administrators and updating the system frequently is very much necessary and make sure that protection, antivirus installed, and all the operating systems are up to date. Organizations should always think forward about threats and security barriers, some solutions for this must be installed like VPN and firewall (William, 2004).

Employees must use the mobile devices which has been provided by management if they want to execute any applications, having the strong and secure passwords to their systems is very important and changing the passwords on time to time for securing the passwords is very much necessary. Every necessary employee in the organization must be trained to fight against the attack or should have good understanding towards prevention or how to deal with the attack.

Discussion 2:

The attack happens after a fall in the city of Fringe. The attack was on the SCADA system of the water utility. The control over the whole system was given to a single person. The person can do any activity on the system while not notifying other authorities about them. The governance and familiarity of these types of systems to only one person can create such types of problems. The solution and measures that can be adopted for the coming years exclude the concept of given control to only one person. New countermeasure includes the control of the system, which should be lined with more than one person (Krambeck, 2015).

The measure could be taken as an example to implement it in the future. The closing and opening of a lock with more than one key. There will be more persons that will be able to control the system. They can handle the situation if anybody is not doing it properly or creating problems because they have the authority to govern it. Any individual could not prevent access to the SCADA system. The shut-offs of pumps will give an alarming message to other persons, and before the time of the attack, it will be working in normal operation. The proactive method is helpful to manage the affluence fixates on pushing issues and supplier should use obstruction to watch structures that can control the security endeavors.

1.Evaluate one pro and con above proposed above discussions

Response Requirements:

1. Be 1 paragraphs in length for each Discussion

2. Your responses to above discussions must be more than a simple "Good job" or "I agree with your post". They must also not just be "Let me add to your post..." Instead, your responses to each other should do three things:

1. Acknowledge the above discussions with some form of recognition.

2. Relate the discussions to something you have learned or are familiar with

3. Add to the conversation by asking additional questions about the discussion, or discussing the topic further.