Question

You are the new IT Manager for the Cougar Corporation, a firm of 500 employees, with 5 buildings located in three different states. Much of the information is critical to the operation of the business and contains key customer information. As the new IT Manager, one of your employees comes to you concerned with the safeguarding of the firm's information. As you investigate this issue further, you too are concerned as it does not appear many methods of safeguarding the firm's information are in place. What methods would you want to make sure are in place to help with the safeguarding of information? What role do you see firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems playing in promoting security?

Write up a memo to your supervisor detailing methods you would like to see implemented across the firm and the role of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems in promoting better safeguarding of the firm's information.

Answer 1

Date: April 2, 2018

To: Mr Samul Hawk

From: Mary Appe

Re: Methods implemented for safeguarding information and role of firewalls, anti-virus and intrusion detection system for promoting security.

Methods implemented for safeguarding the information:

• Protecting the content with the passwords.
• Designing safe systems and regularly screening and background checks must be performed.
• Training must be provided.
• Unknown emails should be avoided.
• The virus scanner must be used and the software should be regularly updated.
• The confidential and sensitive data should be kept out of the cloud.

Role of firewalls, anti-virus and intrusion detection system for promoting security:.

• The firewall is the combination of both the hardware and the software which acts as a gatekeeper and also prevents the users who are unauthorized from accessing the private networks.
• The anti-virus software detects and usually removes malware for the data and information system.
• The intrusion detectors system is the monitoring tool which is placed at the most susceptible point of the “hot spots” of the corporate networks so as to safeguard against the network traffic and thus making an attempt for accessing the databases and files.