W 4 Response (CS)

Wireless communications has evolved to the next level where we are able to communicate at a faster phase. The advancement of the wireless networks can be seen in our telephone network where we are able to communicate with on another who are thousands of miles apart from each other. In the old days where one used to take minutes to get connected to each other, but now a days we can connect with each other in a fraction of second. Internet is also one such thing which has evolved with the advancement of wireless technologies. This advancement has also led to lot of insecurities like spoofing and altering the data between two parties, when interacting the company website the communication should be encrypted and a certificate should be installed on applications where the certificate will be signed by a Certificate Authority, this helps in man in the middle attack and some other third parties trying to alter the information. Along with this we need to make sure any sort of access in the organization where the user should be authenticated before letting access to wireless networks. Having unauthorized access to networks gives the person to download spam and other sorts of malware onto the network which will compromise all the effected assets and the Root Cause Analysis needs to be performed to analyze where the attack has happened to make sure it doesn’t get repeated. There numerous end point security tools that scan each and every bite of information that is on the company network and make sure it’s being protected from external and internal attacks, these tools also detects the DoS attacks and sends the logs to the organization’s SIEM log repository and the Cyber Security team will analyze this data and notify the teams to block the future communication.

Reference

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