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Network Security Threats, Mitigation Techniques, and Protocols

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    Network Security Threats, Mitigation Techniques, and Protocols Q1. Which do you think is a greater security threat in the web, Server side executables or client side executables and why? Ans. Client side executables are greater threat as compares to server side executables as anyone can access any website from any corner of the world and the can upload anything dangerous to anyone website even if they are blocked by that website permanently even then the can use various proxy server methods to access that website. From client side they can upload anything which is not appropriate for our server and also they can also take information from our server related to other person and use their information for their benefits. Also if server is configured once it is tough to reconfigure it again but if client script or executables are caught once and then blocked then a new one can be generated very easily but if any vulnerability is found out in server it took time to reconfigure it. Q2. What is the primary security vulnerability of FTP and what is the best way to mitigate it? Ans. Basically why we use FTP : i. To share file ii. To increase use of remote computing iii. To share data efficiently and reliably iv. To protect user from variation in different file storage system among hosts These are the main motive why FTP is used but It do not include security that ’ s why it is been exploited again and again. As we know FTP is used to share file from one remote system to other or we can say from anonymous location. So there can be different type of security threats to FTP: Read access: It enablesanonymous people to read and access to files you wanted to be public and in keeping them public is no risk. The primary security threats are: 1. Misconfiguration: Making file available even if it is not intended to be public. 2. Vulnerability: There must be some vulnerability in IIS code which can be used by someone to attack. Write access. Enabling anonymous person to write anything our system via FTP is the greatest security threat. If any can upload anything on our site or in our system and any one access it then it will be much big problem as anyone can upload any virus or may anything

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