Computer science : Cybersecurity

security countermeasures

1. What risk-mitigation security controls or security countermeasures do you recommend for the portion of the network for which you created a CIRT response plan? Explain your answer.

2. How does a CIRT plan help an organization mitigate risk?

3. How does the CIRT post-mortem review help mitigate risk?

4. Why is it a good idea to have a protocol analyzer as one of your incident response tools when examining Internet Protocol (IP) Local Area Network (LAN) network performance or connectivity issues?

Assignment Description Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm

Assignment Description
Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, you will discuss methods to mitigate risk to data and applications that are used in a business or organization. You will choose 3 topics from the list below and provide 3 paragraphs at a minimum that will define the technology and how it can be used to protect data and applications from risk. Use the scenario you have selected in Phase 1 to provide examples on how the technology can be used.
Topics
Online Backups (Cloud)
Disk to Disk to Other
Redundancy-Based Backup and Recovery using RAID
Database Backups
Application Backups

Assignment Description Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area,

Assignment Description
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
A contingency plan is made up of smaller plans. Think of each plan as a chapter in a book, and the book is the contingency plan. For this assignment, you will discuss 2 “chapters” or components that should be included in a contingency plan (also known as a business continuity plan). At a minimum, your discussion should cover the purpose and scope (What it is for? What are the limitations?) of each component. Please make sure that you cite your sources of information according to the undergraduate writing guide available in the library.