Assume you have a computing environment consisting of a mix of machines running

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Assume you have a computing environment consisting of a mix of machines running three (3) Windows platforms with the following operating systems; XP, Vista and Windows 7. There are also machines running Linux. Your environment runs a mix of email, various office applications (e.g. word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database) and there is regular use of internet sites both for business and some personal use. There are also laptops that connect wirelessly to your network. Additionally, there are mobile phones and tablets being used for email.

The environment is spread across a wide geographic area. While it might be tempting to have a solution that uses one type of system, such as Windows 7 this is not a possibility given the problem statement. The environment is as defined and you must deal with the variation and complexity.

Part A:

What do you consider to be the major risks to your environment and why? Describe the risks and vulnerabilities involved in the above stated environment. There are many risks to consider. You must provide a minimum of 10 risks with explanations.

Part B.

The risks you identified in Part A need to be dealt with. Address each of the risks you identified in Part A and explain the requirements you would have for mitigating the risk. Several of the risks might be able to be dealt with by implementing a comprehensive malware protection package; however you must explicitly identify the requirement of that package to address the specific risk.

If some of the risks you identified in Part A are not addressed by a malware protection package, describe how you would address those risks.

You need to describe your requirements in a vendor neutral fashion. That is, you have certain requirements to address your problems that are independent of any vendor or product.

Your answer should be specific and provide detail. For example, to say

Explanation / Answer

A

Major risk is portability of applications. We need to install every application according to OS.

This may come up as a burden and a hectic task to maintain each type of application separately.

B.

One approach is there to avoid risk in part A.

Use a central system for computing.

Like, a centralized system will have OS system installed and all applications can be executed on it.

It will save memory and be cost effective and there won't be any problem in maintaining the system

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