Security Problems Security And Security - 1923 Words

Abstract Security is beneficial to every company, spending nothing on security may save your business money in the short term but you only have to look back at the consequences Epsilon suffered due to lack of a quality security configuration making an estimated $4 billion loss due to negligence in their own network security system. Contents Abstract 1 Introduction 1 DBA 1 Security threats 2 Security breach examples 3 Security software 3 Security planning 3 Implementation 5 Authentication 5 Legislation 5 References 6 Bibliography 6 Introduction Security is a major factor in computing today with so many companies if not all nowadays with a computer system of some sort from a basic customer database to a say confidential hospital†¦show more content†¦(Cwjobs.co.uk, 2016) Security threats The top 3 security risks as of 2015 were as follows: - Excessive and unused privileges When an employee is granted database privileges that surpass the requirements of their position, these excessive privileges could be abused. In example, a bank employee whose job requires the ability to change only basic account holder contact info could take advantage of excessive database privileges and add funds to their account balances or of a colleague’s savings account. Further, when someone changes position within a business or leaves it, usually his or her access rights to sensitive data do not change. In the latter case, if these employees depart on bad terms, they can use their old access privileges to commandeer high value data or inflict damage in a revenge attack. This tends to happen because privilege control mechanisms for job roles were not well defined or maintained. Therefore, employees may be granted generic or default access privileges that surpass their actual job requirements, or even when they just accumulate such privileges over time changing positions within the business. (Anon, 2016) Privilege