Emerging GROUP & sELF REFLECTION
Information Technology Infrastructure of Solomon Enterprise
Group 5
Avinash Doddapaneni
Bipin Neupane
Mohan Mamidi
Neha Movva
Ramachandran Mohan
Sumpreeth Reddy Borra
Contents
Introduction
Administrative controls
Physical Controls
Technical Controls
Security Policies
Legislation/Regulations or industry standards
Network Security Tools
Conclusion
References
Introduction
Solomon Enterprises is an entrenched business entity with 500 employees across the country in 5 regional offices and generating an annual revenue of two hundred million.
The digital revolution transformed brick and mortar functional models into more sophisticated virtual entities with attractive benefits fascinating the millennials to trade in an unconventional exemplar (Sha & Mohammad, 2017). Every organization, including the most introverted financial sector, is shifting its focus on digitalization and virtual financial modes (Mishra, 2009).
Introduction Cont..
Security Posture
Business Model
Administrative Controls
Referred as procedures, policies, or guidelines
Human security factors
Security awareness training, equipment and internet usage, employee hiring and termination, Audits, data classification, separation of duties, physical access to facilities, incident response plans, and password management policies
Administrative Controls Cont..
Background Check
Identifying drug or alcohol or discipline problems of their applicants
Verifying and validating the applicant’s information
Recovery Strategies
Sustainability of Organization
Critical activities have no or short duration of halt during the event of any disaster
Training and Awareness
Educating employees regarding Phishing
Security concerns
Physical Security
Existing Physical security – Disaster Recover Site (Billings, Montana)
Areas to improve
Using elevated floors
Earthquake-proof server racks
Fire-suppression system
Have generators as backup to local power grid
Building design to accommodate safe spaces
Enforce use of ID cards and badges for proper access control
Auto-expiration of badges
Physical Security
Areas to improve (cont’d…)
Intrusion Detection and Motion Detection
Biometric Technology – fingerprints, handprints, face and voice recognition
Steel-sheathed doors
Blast resistant doors
Bullet proof glasses
Tempered glasses that block light going out
Bright lighted parking lots and aisles
Security Culture
Technical Controls
Solomon Enterprise
One of the biggest online retail trading industry
Provides high standard security features to the users
A procedure and Structure must be characterized to guarantee the changes that are not actualized without legitimate testing and endorsement
Security standards to be implemented
Authentication
Maintaining Advanced Encryption Standard
Firewalls
Securing VPN Usage
Security polices
Acceptance User Policy
Password policy
Information Security Policy
Incident Response Policy
Impacts of Cyber Security Legislations and Regulations to Governing a Company
Technology has impacted nearly every aspect of society and is expected to continue doing so in the future
Cyber security threats
Protection against the threats achieved through government interventions
Cyber-attacks
Security checks and information gathering.
Security programs
Tools to protect our organization against Unauthorized Access
Organization uses the Wireshark
Network packet
The Wireshark toolkit
How this toolkit uses
Conclusion
Solomon Enterprise needs to attend restructuring its Information Technology infrastructure and strengthen its cybersecurity policy along with physical security stipulations.
Improving cybersecurity nodes will enhance the quality of service utilizing network and server capacity to the utmost potential and deliver swift, secure, and reliable services to every customer on the platform and maximize profits to the company.
References
Bossler, A. M., & Berenblum, T. (2019) Introduction: new directions in cybercrime research, Journal of Crime and Justice, 42(5), 495-499. doi: 10.1080/0735648X.2019.1692426
Da Veiga, A. (2016). Comparing the information security culture of employees who had read the information security policy and those who had not. Information & Computer Security.
Dosal, E., 2019. What Are Administrative Security Controls? [online] Compuquip.com. https://www.compuquip.com/blog/what-are-administrative-security-controls.
Fennelly, L. J. (2012). Effective Physical Security.
Osisiogu, U. (2019). A Review on Cyber-Physical Security of Smart Buildings and Infrastructure - IEEE Conference Publication. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9043207/?arnumber=9043207
References Cont.…
Safa, N. S., Von Solms, R., & Furnell, S. (2016). Information security policy compliance model in organizations. computers & security, 56, 70-82.
Sha, N., & Mohammad, S. (2017). Virtual Banking and Online Business. Banks and Bank Systems, 12(1), 75-81. doi: 10.21511/bbs.12(1).2017.09
Shafaat, F. (2017). ONLINE BANKING A PARADIGM SHIFT IN BANKING SERVICES. ELK Asia Pacific Journals. Doi: 978-93-85537-02-8
Tran, J. L. (2016). Navigating the Cyber security Act of 2015. Chap. L. Rev., 19, 483.
Zhang, Y., Tan, R., Kong, X., Tan, Q., & Liu, X. (2019, July). Bitcoin Node Discovery: Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of Network Churn. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (pp. 385-395). Springer, Cham.
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