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

COUGAR CORPORATION

To: The Superviser

From: VIKAS AGARWAL,IT Manager

Date: 18 September,2019

Subject: Suggestions for safeguarding firm’s information

I wish to bring to your notice that I am concerned about safeguarding firms information.

So,I wish to provide some suggestions regarding this.First of all I feel we must invest on an effective antivirus as it is the first line of defense against security attacks and also prevents damage to sensitive data.

Secondly we should install the best firewall as it will keep our network secure by managing internet traffic coming in and going out of the network.

And Lastly we should install an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) which monitors network traffic for suspicious activity and issues alerts when such activity is discovered. It is a software application that scans a network or a system for harmful activity or policy breaching. Any malicious venture or violation is normally reported either to an administrator or collected centrally using a security information and event management (SIEM) system.

I feel we should have a meeting regarding above suggestions and should try to find the best security software for the company.I would be highly obliged if you could look into this suggestions.

Thanks and Regards,

Vikas Agarwal

IT Manager,Cougar Corporation