System Security Risk and Vulnerability Assessment. Research Paper

Your team has been given the responsibility of conducting a baseline analysis for establishing a secure communications network for your assigned agency at the summit. The risk assessment process for a baseline analysis requires a multidisciplinary examination of the internal and external cyber environments.

The graded assignment for Project 1 is a Cybersecurity Policy and Baseline Analysis Report. Your Network Security Checklist is ready, and in this international domain, you and your team members will now prepare to assess the networks for communication and information sharing which have built-in multilevel security, based on trusted relationships between the different nations.

You have already seen that there are some suspicious behaviors involving the nations. The modes and methods of those behaviors vary, and the attack vectors are just as diverse. The attendees at the Global Economic Summit use different technologies for communications, and a cyber intelligence analyst must demonstrate an understanding of the threats to those devices. To that end, your team will collaborate in developing a System Security Risk and Vulnerability Report.



The nation in question here is United Staes, United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Canada and NewZealand.

This report refers back to the Network Security Checklist and also to the policies you have created and researched that define the levels and ways of communication and data transmission between the national teams.

Now that your team has provided the foundational network and policy information for your nation communications systems, you and your team members will identify the threats, risks, and vulnerabilities to those systems. Your team will determine the effect on your national team and the other teams if those risks and threats are exploited. Your team will provide what means should be available to address the threats from a risk management perspective.

The report, which you will continue to develop in the next step, should accomplish the following:

List the different threats to authentication and credentials.

Explain how social engineering can be a threat to credentials as well as the defenses against social engineering. How can social engineering be used to breach e-mail?

Explain the concept and use of public-key infrastructure and digital signatures (significance of public-key infrastructure) and how it is used to protect access to networks, ensure nonrepudiation of transmissions, and preserve the confidentiality of information sharing.

Describe "leapfrogging" across networks and what it means for the multiple networks. What is an escalation in the cyberattack phase?

The material in the report can come from the research of current events or your ideas or experiences.

Explain the ways you and the team members can perform remediation and mitigation against the threats you have identified? What are some of the countermeasures that can be used? Include these explanations in your System Security Risk and Vulnerability Report.

You and team members will use these findings to write a system security risk and vulnerability assessment report