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It's common that companies reach out to the government because they've simply outgrown their existing team or provider. the next step making the transition simple. What to consider when choosing your Antivirus provider There are many things to consider when choosing your antivirus provider. We have compiled a number of fact filled articles detailed around the antivirus to help you make the right decision. Stay up to date with all Air Gapped Network: Air gaping is a security measure that isolates a secure network from unsecured networks physically, electrically and electromagnetically. Sneaker-net Antivirus: Software which attempts to identify and delete or isolate malware. Antivirus software may use both a database containing signatures of known threats and heuristics to identify malware. Usually run as a background service to scan files and email copied to the protected system. Best Practices: The processes, practices, and systems identified in public and private organizations that performed exceptionally well and are widely recognized as improving an organization's performance and efficiency in specific areas. Successfully identifying and applying best practices can reduce business expenses and improve organizational efficiency. Black Hat: A black hat is a computer hacker who works to harm others (e.g., steal identities, spread computer viruses, install bot software). White Hat Blacklist: A list of computers, IP addresses, user names or other identifiers to block from access to a computing resource. Whitelist . Botnet A portmanteau (a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others) of "robot" and "network." Refers to networks of sometimes millions of infected machines that are remotely controlled by malicious actors. A single infected computer may be referred to as a zombie computer. The owners of the computer remotely controlled is often unaware of the infection. The owners of a botnet may use the combined network processing power and bandwidth to send SPAM, install malware and mount DoS attacks or may rent out the botnet to other malicious actors. . Civilian Participation: The involvement of non-military persons in warfare. While civilians have often provided support to the military in kinetic wars, in cyber warfare civilians are able to remotely anticipate in direct attacks against opponents. This raises complicated questions of law when the combatants are not uniformed military personnel. The legal status of combatants in warfare. Existing law distinguishes between uniformed military and civilian status. Communications Privacy Law: Laws which regulate access to electronic communications. In the United States, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) protects electronic communications while in transit and prohibits the unlawful access and disclosure of communication contents. Computer Emergency Response Team: A group of experts brought together to deal with computer security issues. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) mandate is to develop and promote best management practices and technology applications to “resist attacks on networked systems, to limit damage, and to ensure continuity of critical services.” (Software Engineering Institute 2008). CERT may be formed by governments to handle security at the national level or by academic institutions or individual corporations. Computer Network Attack: Includes actions taken via computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy the information within computers and computer networks and/or the computers/networks themselves. Joint Doctrine for Information Operations too many in the past have attempted to use a software intended and designed for another business and a fast talking systems integrator convinced them this is cheaper and a better return on investment....... The infamous.... Commercial Off The Shelf Software. Software that is prepackaged and sold as a commodity rather than custom written for a specific user/organization or purpose. Examples include operating systems, database management programs, email servers, application servers and office product suites. Credit Card Fraud: Theft of goods or services using false or stolen credit card information. Software tools designed to aid criminals in perpetrating online crime. Refers only to programs not generally considered desirable or usable for ordinary tasks. Thus, while a criminal may use Internet Explorer in the commission of a cyber-crime, the Internet Explorer application itself would not be considered crimeware. Cyber Crime: In its broadest definition, cyber-crime includes all crime perpetrated with or involving a computer. Symantec defines it as any crime that is committed using a computer or network, or hardware device. The computer or device may be the agent of the crime, the facilitator of the crime, or the target of the crime. The crime may take place on the computer alone or in addition to other locations. Cyber Terrorism: A criminal act perpetrated by the use of computers and telecommunications capabilities, resulting in violence, destruction and/or disruption of services to create fear by causing confusion and uncertainty within a given population, with the goal of influencing a government or population to conform to a particular political, social, or ideological agenda Cyber Warfare : Actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation’s computers or networks for the purposes of causing damage or disruption Data Mining: The process of extracting hidden information and correlations from one or more databases or collections of data that would not normally be revealed by a simple database query. Department of Homeland Security: Cabinet level department of the United States assigned, inter alia, the task of protecting against terrorist threats and helping state and local authorities prepare for, respond to and recover from domestic disasters. The disabling of a targeted website or Internet connection by flooding it with such high levels of Internet traffic that it can no longer respond to normal connection requests. Often mounted by directing an army of zombie computers (see botnet) to connect to the targeted site simultaneously. The targeted site may crash while trying to respond to an overwhelming number of connections requests or it may be disabled because all available bandwidth and/or computing resources are tied up responding to the attack requests. . Digital Pearl Harbor : A cyber warfare attack similar in scale and surprise to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The expression is often invoked by those who argue that a cyber-based attack is either imminent or inevitable and that by not being properly prepared, the United States will suffer significant and unnecessary losses. Disclosure Policy: A policy that governs the disclosure to clients and other stakeholder by a provider of a computer program or system of defects discovered in those products. Dumpster Diving: A method of obtaining proprietary, confidential or useful information by searching through trash discarded by a target. Einstein: The operational name of the National Cyber security Protection System (NCPS). Was created in 2003 by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US.CERT)14 in order to aid in its ability to help reduce and prevent computer network vulnerabilities across the federal government. The initial version of Einstein provided an automated process for collecting, correlating, and analyzing agencies’ computer network traffic information from sensors installed at their Internet connections. The Einstein sensors collected network flow records at participating agencies, which were then analyzed by US.CERT to detect certain types of malicious activity. E.U. Cyber security: Discussions relating to cyber security of the European Union and of European Union states. Generatively is a system’s capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences. Geneva Conventions : Four treaties and three additional protocols that regulates the conduct of hostilities between states and set the standards for humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. Hacker: Advanced computer users who spend a lot of time on or with computers and work hard to find vulnerabilities in IT systems. Hacktivism: The nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. These tools include web site defacements, redirects, denial of service attacks, information theft, web site parodies, virtual sit ins, virtual sabotage, and software development. Hacktivist: A portmanteau of "hacker" and "activist." Individuals that have a political motive for their activities, and identify that motivation by their actions, such as defacing opponents’ websites with counter-information or disinformation. Honeypot: A computer, network or other information technology resource set as a trap to attract attacks. Honeypots may be used to collect metrics (how long does it take for an unprotected system to be breached), to test defenses, to examine methods of attack or to catch attackers. A honeypot system may also be used to collect SPAM so it can be added to a blacklist. Identity Fraud/Theft : The exploitation by malevolent third parties of unwarranted access to clients' or consumers' identities. Often the result of lax data security or privacy measures. Information Asymmetries: Information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This creates an imbalance of power in transactions which can sometimes cause the transactions to go awry. The software market suffers from the same information asymmetry. Vendors may make claims about the security of their products, but buyers have no reason to trust them. In many cases, even the vendor does not know how secure its software is. So buyers have no reason to pay more for protection, and vendors are disinclined to invest in it. Intelligence Infrastructure/Information Infrastructure: The network of computers and communication lines underlying critical services that American society has come to depend on: financial systems, the power grid, transportation, emergency services, and government programs. Information infrastructure includes the Internet, telecommunications networks, “embedded” systems (the built-in microprocessors that control machines from microwaves to missiles), and “dedicated” devices like individual personal computers. Council on Foreign Relations. Information Operations: Actions taken to affect adversary information and information systems while defending one’s own information and information systems.” Information Operations (IO) can occur during peacetime and at every level of warfare. Information warfare (IW), by contrast, is IO “conducted during time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries” [Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, Joint Publication] Interdependencies: The inter-connections between supposedly independent but often interdependent systems. International Humanitarian Law: That part of international law which seek, for humanitarian reasons, to limit the effects of armed conflict. It protects persons who are not or are no longer participating in the hostilities and restricts the means and methods of warfare. International humanitarian law is also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict. International law is the body of rules governing relations between States. It is contained in agreements between States (treaties or conventions), in customary rules, which consist of State practice considered by them as legally binding, and in general principles. Internet Relay Chat (IRC): A method of real-time Internet communication often used by criminals to buy and sell purloined information such as credit card numbers and personal identity information. IRC chat rooms may be open or private. Internet Service Providers (ISP): A company that offers access to the Internet. Internet Service Providers may also provide add-on services such as web hosting, electronic mail, virus scanning, SPAM filtering, etc. Key logger: Software or hardware that monitors and logs the keystrokes a user types into a computer. The key logger may store the key sequences locally for later retrieval or send them to a remote location. A hardware key logger can only be detected by physically inspecting the computer for unusual hardware. Kinetic Attack: Traditional mode of warfare in which arms are used to kill opponents and/or destroy an opponent's infrastructure. Usually used to distinguish a cyber attack in which destruction of the opponent's resources is accomplished through targeted information system attacks without resorting to bullets, bombs or explosives. Lawfare: The use of international law to damage an opponent in a war without use of arms. Laws of War: The body of law that define the legality of using armed force to resolve a conflict and the laws that define the legality of the actual hostilities and related activities. Malware: A variety of computer software designed to infiltrate a user's computer specifically for malicious purposes. Includes, inter alia, computer virus software, botnet software, computer worms, spyware, Trojan horses, crimeware and rootkits. Computer Economics Computing Research Association National Cyber security Strategy (U.S.): A comprehensive policy to secure America’s digital infrastructure as part of the Administrative Branch's Comprehensive National Cyber security Initiative. The goals of the policy are: to establish a front line of defense against current immediate threats; to defend against threats by enhancing U.S. Counter intelligence capabilities and; to strengthen the future cyber security environment by expanding cyber education and redirecting research and development efforts to define and develop strategies to deter hostile or malicious activity in cyberspace. National Security: Broadly refers to the requirement to maintain the survival of the nation-state through the use of economic, military and political power and the exercise of diplomacy. New Normalcy: New normalcy has become an episodic policy construct in U.S. strategic ideation. National leadership has relied on the new normalcy clarion call to illuminate moments in time when it is understood that the Nation faces not only a severe threat, but also a transcending reorientation. Often invoked in times of national crisis, new normalcy in the American experience signals a cardinal shift in the nature of U.S. security. Notice and Take down: Most commonly used to remove infringing web material under copyright law, a notice and takedowns regime is a procedure by which an infringing web site is removed from a service provider's (ISP) network, or access to an allegedly infringing website, disabled. Websites violating copyright are subject to notice and take down, as are phishing websites. Organized Crime: Groups having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. Such groups maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion, and generally have a significant impact on the people in their locales, region, or the country as a whole. Outreach and Collaboration: Working across government and with the private sector to share information on threats and other data, and to develop shared approaches to securing cyberspace Password Weakness: Security threats caused by the use of easily guessable passwords which protect vital stores of confidential information stored online. Patching: Patching refers to the installation of a piece of software designed to fix problems with, or update a computer program or its supporting data. This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, and improving the usability or performance. Though meant to fix problems, poorly designed patches can sometimes introduce new problems. Phishing: The criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Privacy Law: Laws which regulate the protection of confidential personal information stored in private records or disclosed to a professional. Also includes laws which regulate the gathering of electronic data in which personal information is accumulated or misappropriated. Red Team: A structured, iterative process executed by trained, educated and practiced team members that provides commanders an independent capability to continuously challenge plans, operations, concepts, organizations and capabilities in the context of the operational environment and from our partners’ and adversaries’ perspectives. Risk Modeling : The creation of a model to estimate risk exposure, policy option efficacy and cost-benefit analysis of a particular threat and solution. SCADA stands for "supervisory control and data acquisition" and in the cyber security context usually refers to industrial control systems that control infrastructure such as electrical power transmission and distribution, water treatment and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, oil and gas pipelines and large communication systems. The focus is on whether as these systems are connected to the public Internet they become vulnerable to a remote attack. Software or web site that purports to be security software reporting a threat against a user's computer to convince the user to purchase unneeded software or install malware. Computer Economics Script Kiddie: A derogatory term for a Black Hat who uses canned tools and programs written by more skillful hackers to commit cyber crime without understanding how they work. Security Tradeoff’s: There is no single correct level of security; how much security you have depends on what you’re willing to give up in order to get it. This tradeoffs is, by its very nature, subjective—security decisions are based on personal judgments. Different people have different senses of what constitutes a threat, or what level of risk is acceptable. What’s more, between different communities, or organizations, or even entire societies, there is no agreed-upon way in which to define threats or evaluate risks, and the modern technological and media-filled world makes these evaluations even harder. Shoulder Surfing: The process of obtaining passwords or other sensitive information by covertly watching an authorized user enter information into a computer system. Sneakernet: Describes the transfer of data between computers or networks that are not physically, electrically or electromagnetically connected requiring information to be shared by physically transporting media contain the shared information from one computer to another. Initially described systems lacking the technology to network together, now usually refers to systems deliberately isolated for security reasons. Conning a human into supplying passwords, computer access or other sensitive information by pretending to be a person with rights to the information or who the target believes they must surrender the information to. Social Network: A software application or website that allows a large group of users to interact with each other, often allowing the creation of online portals or identities to share with specific people or the online world at large. Software Vulnerability: A software vulnerability refers to the existence of a flaw .or "bug" .in software that may allow a third party or program to obtain unauthorized access to the flaw and exploit it. SPAM: Unwanted or junk email usually sent indiscriminately in bulk selling illegal or near illegal goods or services. Even with low response rates and heavy filtering, SPAM can still be economically viable because of the Extremely low costs in sending even huge quantities of electronic messages. Commonly believed to be Named after the Monty Python skit where the breakfast meat Spam overwhelms all other food choices. Tragedy of Commons: A situation, first described in an influential article written by ecologist Garrett Hardin for the journal Science, in 1968, in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own self interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen. The term can be applied to any issue related to the management of a shared resource, from energy to the public domain, to cyber security. Transparency: A set of policies, practices and procedures that allow citizens to have accessibility, usability, informativeness, understandability and auditability of information and process held by centers of authority. Trojan: Malware which masquerades as some other type of program such as a link to a web site, a desirable image, etc. to trick a user into installing it. Named for the Ancient Greek legend of the Trojan Horse. Virtual Military Technologies: Warfare made possible by advances in remotely controlled or semi automated military technologies which remove the operator from risk of harm while attacking an opponent White Hat: A white hat is a computer hacker who works to find and fix computer security risks. White hat consultants are often hired to attempt to break into their client's network to see if all security holes have been addressed. Whitelist: A list of computers, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, user names or other identifiers to specifically allow access to a computing resource. Normally combined with a default "no-access" policy. Worm: A type of malware that replicates itself and spreads to other computers through network connections. Zero-Day Exploit: Malware designed to exploit a newly discovered security hole unknown to the software developer. "Zero-day" refers to the amount of time a developer has between learning of a security hole and the time it becomes public or when black hat hackers find out about it and try to use the security hole for nefarious purposes.