Security requirements and goals for the preliminary security baseline activity

Introduction

Security Analysis baseline

Scope

The scope should include network IT security for the whole organization.

Include the following areas in this portion of the SAR:

· Security requirements and goals for the preliminary security baseline activity.

· Typical attacks to enterprise networks and their descriptions. Include Trojans, viruses, worms, denial of service, session hijacking, and social engineering. Include the impacts these attacks have on an organization.

· Network infrastructure and diagram, including configuration and connections. Describe the security posture with respect to these components and the security employed: local area network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), wide area network (WAN), enterprise. Use these questions to guide you:

· What are the security risks and concerns?

· What are ways to get real-time understanding of the security posture at any time?

· How regularly should the security of the enterprise network be tested, and what type of tests should be used?

· What are the processes in play, or to be established to respond to an incident?

· Workforce skill is a critical success factor in any security program, and any security assessment must also review this component. Lack of a skilled workforce could also be a security vulnerability. Does the security workforce have the requisite technical skills and command of the necessary toolsets to do the job required?

· Is there an adequate professional development roadmap in place to maintain and/or improve the skill set as needed?

· Describe the ways to detect these malicious codes and what tactics bad actors use for evading detection.

· Public and private access areas, web access points. Include in the network diagram the delineation between open and closed networks, where they coexist, and show the connections to the internet.

· Physical hardware components. Include routers and switches. What security weaknesses or vulnerabilities are within these devices?

· Operating systems, servers, network management systems as they relate to data in transit vulnerabilities:

· endpoint access vulnerabilities

· external storage vulnerabilities

· media access control and Ethernet vulnerabilities

· virtual private network vulnerabilities

· Possible applications. This network will incorporate a BYOD (bring your own device) policy in the future. The IT auditing team and leadership need to understand current mobile applications and possible future applications and other wireless integrations. You will use some of this information in Project 2 and also in Project 5.

The overall SAR should detail the security measures needed, or implementation status of those in progress, to address the identified vulnerabilities. Include:

· remediation

· mitigation

· countermeasures

· recovery

Through your research, provide the methods used to provide the protections and defenses.

From the identification of risk factors in the risk model, identify the appropriate security controls from NIST SP 800-53A and determine their applicability to the risks identified.

The baseline should make up at least three of the 12 pages of the overall report.

When you have completed your security analysis baseline, move on to the next step, in which you will use testing procedures that will help determine the company's overall network defense strategy.

Step 2

Within this portion of the SAR, explain the different testing types (black, white, and gray box testing).

Include these test plans in the SAR. The strategy should take up at least two of the 12 pages of the overall report.

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Step 3 :

it's time to define your penetration testing process. Include all involved processes, people, and time frame. Develop a letter of intent to the organization, and within the letter, include some formal rules of engagement (ROE). The process and any documents can be notional or can refer to actual use cases. If actual use cases are included, cite them using APA format.

This portion should be about two pages.

Step 4

Within this analysis, think about the cost of violations and other areas if you do not add the controls. Then add in the cost for implementing your controls.

When you have finished with the cost benefit analysis, which should be at least one page of your overall report,