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  • Items to consider work potentially lost

    • How quickly work in progress will need to be restored to workstations at an alternative site
    • The amout of work that can tolerably be lost without harming the organization

  • SoftWare Engineering Body of Knowledge v3

    The Ballot version of the complete SWEBOK Guide V3 has been finalized and is now available. Everyone is invited to read the manuscript and to view the report of collected public review comments and their resolutions.

    IEEE Computer Society Members Are Invited to Vote to Move Document Forward to Publication

    via SWEBOK V3 Ballot.

  • Project Initiation Phase: Business Continuity Plan

    • Secure commitment of departmental leaders who’ll be responsible for implementing the BCP.
    • Pursuade senior management of the importance of having a BCP.
    • Outline a timeline for developing a comprehensive continuity plan.
    • Determine which possible disasters should be covered in the BCP.

  • Categories of Laws

    • Tort Law
      • England and Wales
      • Deals with individuals and their rights and obligations under the law
    • Mixed Law
      • Forms the basis of the legal system in Holland, Quebec, Louisiana, South Africa and Scotland
    • Civil Law
      • Central Europe, Asia

     

    • Administrative Law
      • Defines standards of performance and conduct that organizations and their employees should follow
    • Religious Law
      • Covers aspects of social and spiritual behavior within society
    • Criminal Law
      • Is meant to regulate individuals behavior towards society

  • Computer related crime characteristics

    • Trap doors – potential offenders are system and application programmers
    • Trojan horses, viruses, worms, salamis and logic bombs – can be detected by comparing program code with backup copies of the same program
    • Masquerading – can be detected through password violations
    • Scanning – potential offenders are spies trying to access systems for targeted data
    • Dumpster diving – may be detected by analyzing the data left over after the job execution.

     

    • Timing attacks – potential offenders are advanced system analysts and computer programmers
    • Wiretapping or eavesdropping – may be detected by tracing origins of equipment and items used to commit the crime
    • Software piracy – commercial software purchasers and users are potential offenders
    • Excess privileges – potentially programmers with access to computer operations staff
    • Data diddling – possible evidence includes source and transaction data

  • Intellectual Property Laws

    • Copyrights
      • Example: A marketing / design company wants to restrict usage of designs it created.
    • Trademarks
      • Example: A company wants exclusive rights to use a particular logo or slogan.
    • Trade Secrets
      • Example: The recipe for a caffeinate, refreshing lemonade.
    • Patents
      • Example: Exclusive rights to a pharmaceutical company for a new drug it created.

  • Categories of Computer Crimes

    Breach of data security: Information stored on network or computers is altered by attackers.
    Breach of operations security: Attackers take advantage of vulnerabilities within daily procedures to access or alter information through methods like password sniffing.
    Breach of personnel security: Sensitive company information is gained from an employee by attackers
    Breach of communication security: Information is being intercepted or altered on the way across a network.
    Breach of physical security: Attackers gain access to a building or to computer/networking hardware.
    Computer as an instrument. Attackers use computers to steal or commit fraud.
    Crimes associated with the prevalence of computers. Attackers illegally use or sell computer components, software and information.
    Computer as the target. Attackers disrupt or damage computers and networks, or steal data stored on computers.
    Computer as incidental to other crimes. Attackers may use computers to facilitate crime or to make crime difficult to detect.

  • Laws related to privacy

    • Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. §552, as amended
    • Guidance on Integrity Sharing of personal data – protecting personal privacy, OMB Memorandum, M-01-05
    • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

  • Laws related to Information Security

    • 18 U.S.C. § 1029. Fraud and related activity in connection with access devices
    • 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq. Stored Wire and electronic communications and transactional records access
    • 18 U.S.C. § 3121 et seq. Recoding of dialing, routing, addressing and signaling information.

  • Security Training

    Security job skills training

    • SSCP exam
    • A series of university courses in general information security

    Security awareness training

    • A series of newsletters, with general information security
    • Business-unit walk-through