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RUNNING HEAD: WEEK 2 HOMEWORK: ASSESSING SECURITY CULTURE
WEEK 2 HOMEWORK: ASSESSING SECURITY CULTURE
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Institution
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WEEK 2 HOMEWORK: ASSESSING SECURITY CULTURE
Step 1: Measure and Set Goals
1. Using outside research indicates the potential security risks of allowing employees to access
work information on their devices. Identify at least three possible attacks that can be
carried out.

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WEEK 2 HOMEWORK: ASSESSING SECURITY CULTURE
advertisements and sends unwanted information from the smartphone. Many open-source
and mobile phone commercial applications, operating systems, and middleware are
complicated and extensive. In normal execution, these networks can change through
several states
(
Martins & Eloff, 2002). These features make it mainly hard to grow or
function software that is reliably correct or safe.
 Accessing unsecured Wi-Fi: Intruders might be looking on open Wi-Fi spots such as
airports and can see everything sent over the unencrypted networks to include the login
information at passwords to applications and sites of the company
(
Okere, Van Niekerk,
& Carroll, 2012). If the employees download or send important corporation files over the
unsecured networks, anyone using that Wi-Fi can see the files and documents.
 DoS: Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are attacks are meant to shut down networks or
machines, making them unreachable to their intended consumers (Tolah, Furnell, &
Papadaki, 2017). A DoS attack achieves this by sending the target information that
triggers crashes or flooding them with traffics. In both instances, the DoS attacks deprive