Cyber Security
Brazil is the largest country in South America, and one of the world's major emerging economies. Yet, it is still a developing country that has struggled to find stable, reliable government. There are corruption issues that can potential derail any attempt at a coherent national cybersecurity strategy. Brazil has generally been without war, internal or external, for generations, and is not a participant in a major military bloc.
Brazil received a **1/2 star rating from the SDA. The country gains points for having a national cybersecurity strategy. Brazil participates in CERT communities and has its own national CERT. They set up an Information Security Department within the federal government in 2006, adding cybersecurity to this in 2010. There are many weaknesses cited in the SDA report that render Brazil's rating lower, however.
One issue identified is a lack of legislation regarding cybersecurity. The Brazilian government has an attitude that the country is unlikely to be a target of attack and this unfortunately has been used as an excuse for its poor legislative framework, and for the somewhat limited resources that have been put into cybersecurity. What resources do flow into cybersecurity are often subject to police corruption -- funds are used inefficiently as a...
The operating system faced these issues due to the lackluster approach from Apple to patch their software in time. As a result, it led to risking the data of personal users. It shows that irregularities in the patching of computers affected users adversely without any fault of their own (Daily Tech, 2012). In addition to that, the operating system of Apple is now considered as one of the most favored
Cyber Security/Cloud Computing Consider a recent cyber security breach (specific event) and address the following questions: Describe the circumstances involved Monster Com: Confidential information of 1.3 million job seekers was stolen and used in a phishing fraud Monster.Com, a United States online recruitment site reported in 2008 that hackers broke into the site using password-protected resume library. They used credentials that Monster Worldwide Inc. claims were stolen from some of its clients. Reuters reported
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The level and sophistication of this attack on the Department of Defense's systems suggests that professionals conducted this attack with significant resources at their disposal and an interest in the national security secrets of the United States. The data mining operation was so successful that, while detected, still managed to make-off with a significant amount of information. Since the attack, the United States responded in a number of critical ways.
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