Have you ever had a major incident with your own IT (virus, attack, loss of data
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Have you ever had a major incident with your own IT (virus, attack, loss of data, etc.)?
In your own words (NOT copy and pasting plagiarism),
If so, describe it. State whether you implemented any advice and whether it helped you and comment on the helpfulness for detecting and/or dealing with an IT incident. Write at most 2 pages.
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In the Information Technology industry we all had major incidents such as a virus, attack, loss of data, etc. occurred and losses and disruption in services were there. Security is very important to a company and thus we have firewall, anti-malware software, and anti-spam checkers to check all the problems and keep the systems safe and secure. One of the example that I am going to describe here is the attack on a company website and database. This attack was done on a website which was getting backdated with less security features and had to be reconstructed totally for security.
The attack was done using SQL injection attack where SQL statements were inserted into a space provided for inputs and commit erroneous and malicious code execution. Thus through SQL injection the attacker gained the access which was restricted to the application and gain access to restricted data. Thus here, the attacker cracked the system where the user input is not strongly typed and this allowed the attackers to gain access to the system, to falsify identity, gather private information and data, destroy data, hamper website functioning and creating a ruckus out of the website services.
Thus problem had to be rectified asap in the system. The developers then started updating the databases and architecture of the website to the latest versions and started patching with the latest security patches from the vendors who provided the software. To rectify this problem, there had also policy and architecture change such as, no shared databases were used between 2 versions of the websites. We also had to program and filter in expected input from the users and input such as drop downs and radio buttons allowed the users to input with better security. This temporarily solved our problem with the SQL injection attacks and the website was semi-updated. This certainly helped our business and company which was having problem relating to this issue.
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