Security Architecture and design

Securing Systems

Sandeep Kumar Davuluri

University of the Cumberlands

11/19/2021

Securing Systems

The Vestige Company is a software company that is used to sell different products online. That is why the protection or safety of the organization's database is important because they help manage an online catalogue that permits their consumers to upload and recompense for their business advertisements for publication location.

Impact on Vestige organization

Some useful practices are used in the security of the database of Vestige Company. This can help Vestige company protect the database of the company from crackers and attackers. This will help provide the organization and freedom to connect with the database of any other system with security that their data cannot be affected and can be stolen by any other hacker. That is the reason these organizations are working hard in securing their data from other attackers. These attackers are hired by someone or try to steal information to use that information against the organization(Køien 2020).

Securing logical and physical database structure

To stay away from this danger, an organization should attain something to save itself from getting hacked and many other things. Following are the things that should be done in order to get safe from these types of dangers, these things are that an organization should increase the use of firewalls for databases and web applications, an organization should have people that can maintain the firewall so that no one can crack it (Schoenfield, 2014). The organization should reduce the amount of data stored in the database; most of the data should be contained in hard copy if an organization considers any danger. There should be fewer people who can access the database; this will help reduce data loss to any attacker. An organization should track and access the operations present in the database to see if there is any irregular taking of data. These are the things that can help in protecting physical and logical database structures.

NIST Framework

The important thing that can help Vestige companies to save their database is that there should be a production of NIST framework; this framework will help in guiding the Vestige organization to determine, detect and reply to cyber-attacks. They are effective and also efficient in solving these problems and also saving them. Five steps of the NIST framework can help Vestige Company secure them; these steps are explained respectively. The first step is that Vestige Company wants to observe and make consequences of which type of attacks they can suppose. They should determine the organization's assets and necessities that are important to cyber security. In the circumstance of Vestige Company, the furthermost appreciated thing in the catalogue, which must be highlighted overhead the whole thing and it also necessitates to be safeguarded from any thoughtful damage. Step 2 is that the company should want to give revenues wisely, which means that there should be no wastage of any money. The company will spend money on defence so that they can know about any attack that can happen. Step 3 is to determine if the company has enough power to secure itself. Step 4 is to select the appropriate product that will help in facilitating the required competence for the accurate location. Step 5 is to require the company to realign the weighting of the assets of the portfolio(Køien 2020).

Conclusion

References

Schoenfield, B. S. (2014). Security Systems Applied Security Architecture and Threat Models. London: CRC Press.