Research Paper

For my project I am going to discuss cyber security trends. It always has intrigued me about how network managers adapt to changes in technology. The cyber security field constantly challenges the workers to grow and learn new things. I am excited to research network penetration, cyber investigations, and assessing overall network security for different organizations.

References

Kaminsky, D. (2006). EXPLORATIONS IN NAMESPACE: WHITE-HAT HACKING ACROSS THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM. Communications Of The ACM, 49(6), 62-68.

The author describes a technique he employed to determine the global penetration of Sony Corp.'s rootkit installations on computers. By using the Domain Name System (DNS), he was able to trace connections to a Sony Web site and estimate the extent to which personal computers had been infected by the Sony rootkit installation, which sent information to Sony about computer users' music copying and also made it difficult for purchasers of Sony Music to copy their music to iTunes or other music players.

Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook. (2013). Network Security, 2013(11), 4. doi:10.1016/S1353-4858(13)70125-9

Metasploit is a favorite tool of people wearing white hats, black hats and every shade in between. As a penetration testing tool, it is immensely powerful (sometimes dangerously so). And the same goes for its use as aa hacking tool. This is a very interesting article showing how powerful tools can be used for both good and bad.

Sández, M. R. (2015). A Review of Technical Problems when Conducting an Investigation in Cloud Based Environments.

This article shines the light on how difficult it is to maintain security and adopt new technologies. It explains how cloud base computing has done wonders for businesses by making resources easier to access and cheaper. It also divulges how criminals can steal data from clouds and also hide nefarious data in other peoples’ cloud storage.

Schut, H., Scanlon, M., Farina, J., & Le-Khac, N. (2015). Towards the Forensic Identification and Investigation of Cloud Hosted Servers through Noninvasive Wiretaps. doi:10.1109/ARES.2015.77

This article actually gets into the nuts in bolts of conducting a cyber investigation in a cloud environment. It discusses one of the big challenges as conducting an investigation when you might not have the cooperation of the people who own the server.

Liu, V., Tesfamicael, A. D., Caelli, W., & Sahama, T. R. (2015). Network security and performance testing for health information system management.

This article discusses the unique challenges that a hospital presents fornetwork security. One of the main focuses is on encryption (hospital traffic needs to be secure as it as patient data in it).

Dixit, S. (2016). Holding the fort: a business case for testing security. Network Security, 2016(6), 16-18. doi:10.1016/S1353-4858(16)30059-9

This article talks about what to do when the costs of data breaches keep skyrocketing year after year. An interesting note is what can you do when the companies you hire keep being breached.