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Risk Assessment Analysis for Republican Party National Committee Website

this risk assessment analysis will analyze the potential vulnerability of the Republican Party National Committee website, the likelihood, the type of attack, and the mitigation strategies to be put in place to secure the website.

The democrats and their supporters and sympathizers are the main people that are likely to attack our website. They may want crucial information on our party strategies to secure the forthcoming elections. They may also be interested in analyzing our communications and strategies to find weaknesses that they may use to win the electorates to their side. Some democrats sympathizers may like to revenge the 2015/2016 cyber attack on their national committee website that they blamed on the republic sympathizer country, Russia. Besides, other criminals may also like to attack the website to solicit money from the party or sell it to our rivals. This period preceding November polls is the prime time for such attacks. It is the time parties are pinning down their strategies and plans. The attackers would also likely instigate an attack at night when little monitoring is in place (Marylin, 2020).

Among the exposed attacks is the man in the middle attack where the criminals insert themselves between the server and client communication. It may take the form of service hijacking where the attacker engages the servers disguised as a client, IP spoofing, and replay. Phishing is also another common attack where an attacker tricks users into providing sensitive information through an email appearing to be from trusted sources. Also, SQL injection attacks, denial of service attacks, and distributed denial of service attacks may be used (Walsh, 2020).

To secure the servers, the party needs to install security plugins like iThemes Security, fail2ban, amasty, RSFirewall, antivirus website protection, among others that counters any hacking attempt. Also, the party should emphasize the use of HTTPS always to secure sensitive information from hackers. The website software and platforms should be updated with the latest security patches and users trained on using the secure password and identifying hackers' tricks (Marylin, 2020).

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