Question

Regarding Risk Assessment:

Describe at least three assets that a company will protect. Also, what action can the IT team to ensure they are protected? Please elaborate.

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Answer 1

The key assets that every company should protect are

Customer data

Companies financial data

Network of the company

There are many actions to be taken by the IT team to ensure all those assets are protected.

• The first thing is to maintain the authentication for accessing those assets
• Maintaing the Password and as well as pre shared key kind of authentication and also helpful if the high end securities like iris authentication will be more helpful to keep those protected.
• Having usefull security polcies is one of the best way to protect the assets.
• Classification of assets as per the sector will be more helpful to keep them safe and secured.
• Maintaining stronger network security with next gen firewalls to protect both the database and network of a company.
• Classifying the data into public/private will be more useful while giving permission to outer people to access.
• Impact assessments are important to secure
• Monthly checkings and updating the softwares quickly when new one out is important.
• Not alowing unauthorized people to access the internal network softwares and data.
• Training to all the employees regarding the security and to create awareness on attacks.
• Maintaing Access ports and secured wifi in the local network.
• Using antivirus softwares to protect and IPS and IDS for network security.

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