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Human Nature - A Threat to Security

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    1 Human Nature - A Threat to Security Human Nature - A Threat to Security Title: Student’s Name: Professor’s Name: Date: Discuss the various security threats faced by organizations and the techniques that can be implemented to mitigate these risks. In your answer, explain the importance of physical security measures, biometric systems, firewalls, and access control strategies. Additionally, analyze how human behavior impacts organizational security and describe the effective measures that can be taken during the hiring process to ensure the security of an organization. Finally, provide recommendations for organizations to improve their overall security posture. Requirements:  Your response should be 3 to 4 pages in length (double - spaced).  Ensure your paper is formatted according to APA style .

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    2 Human Nature - A Threat to Security Introduction In every business organization, security is one of the most important aspects of any business p rocess because it’s the first most priority that has to be taken care in order to secure organization from security threats. Security threats can be in many forms may be human interaction, attacking sites and blogs, hijacking servers and spying on personal information and mails. These threats results in loss of confidential data and sensitive information belonging to any organization. Intruders capture ongoing traffic of any business organization and they manipulates and retrieves confidential information related to business organization. There are so many techniques through which an intruder or attacker may attack any organization or steals data such as: social engineering, phishing, cross - site scripting and Denial of Service attack. The most common attacking technique that attackers use is social engineering. Social Engineering is a kind of attack in which detailed information about victim is extracted from personal blogs, sites them visiting and by following him physically. The re are many ways in which personal information can be breached by attackers such as gathering of information from social media sites because most of the users share information on media sites. Techniques to Mitigate Risks The techniques that organizations should implement to mitigate the security threats varies from organization to organization. The security measures have to be taken care from a small paper to physical drives that can be carried by visitors or users inside the organizations. The first technique that has to be implemented is the scanning system at the entrance of an organization from where the individuals used to come inside and every small items or devices has to be

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    3 Human Nature - A Threat to Security scanned thoroughly. The scanners have to be updated that can triggers whenever found any physical media devices or hard material inside bags, so that security incidents can be prevented. The scanning machines has to be implemented such that they can read codes even on small chips that remains undetected in some scanning machines. These electronic chips can store large amount of data just by attaching them with any storage device using some mediator. The other threat is the hiding of drives within shielded plastic case through which scanner cannot scan inside. The second technique that has to be used in order to prevent security threats is the biometric systems, which has to be implemented to identify physical identity of a person. The simple identity card scanning system can be bypassed using electronic chips, so as to make sure that the person entering the zone is the authorized individual, biometric system has to be implemented. These biometric systems have to be configured in such a way that they can recognize palm or eyes or any other identity of a person that has already there in the database. There are numerous biometric systems already present in the market like face detection systems, palm reading, thumb detection and eye scanning system and various other biometric systems. These biometric systems has to be triggered in such a way that if any identity of an individual did not match to the database, then it has to raise an alarm and locks the door of the zone, so that security incident can be measured and person doing this taken under security. The third technique that has to be done is by implementing firewall within the internal and external network. The firewall is one of the most important security aspect because whatever the traffic that is passing through firewall will be filtered out by organizations security administrators while configuring the firewalls. Consider a situation in which a user visited virus prone site or unauthorized that can collect cookies from website automatically without users’

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