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Introduction to Information Assurance Engineering - Homework 6 | CPE 449, Assignments of Engineering
Material Type: Assignment; Class: INTRO INFORM ASSURANCE ENGR; Subject: Computer Engineering; University: University of Alabama - Huntsville; Term: Unknown 1989;
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Risk Assessment
This homework assignment should be based primarily on the reading assignments of: Assessing_Risk.pdf If you have any suspicion that your answer is weak or insufficient, it probably is, conduct some Internet research before submitting your final answers.
- Before starting a Risk Assessment, what 5 questions should you ask yourself:
- Explain “requirements driven” relating to making security expenditures.
CPE 449/549 INFORMATION ASSURANCE ENGINEERING I
Homework 6
- According to the reading, why perform a “technical assessment”?
- According to the reading, why do companies still perform “Internet Security Assessments”?
- Describe the use of Ping to support our Risk Assessment?
- According to the reading, what are 5 different ways to compromise a system?
- What are the three general types of vulnerability scanners, why do we need three types?
- According to this article, what are the three most pervasive services on the Internet?
- Explain how web application vulnerability testing is different from standard OS or network vulnerability testing.
- List the eight most common web application vulnerability categories:
- If you wanted to make a mirror copy of a website and save it to your local hard drive, which tool described in the reading would be best suited to do this for you?
- Describe the WebSleuth tool?