Southern New Hampshire University IT 320 Final Project | Vulnerability Report 2021

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ABC Manufacturing Dec 2021 Vulnerability Report Lutes Inc. Jerry Lutes Overveiw The purpose of this vulnerability report is to ID and classifies hole in the security of device on the network. I... t should be interpreted as know issues that need to be reviewed in a risk management review, to determine what actions should be taken. To identify the security gaps, I scanned the pc with to different software scanning tools. I used Window Vulnerabilities scanner and Window Baseline Security Analyzer 2.3, on the devices. These two window pc are running window 7 and the other is running window 8 operating system. I also review the network firewall incoming rules. Summary of Finding This network currently is not secure at all. The firewall as all incoming traffic there is not rule in place at all. The vulnerability scan showed that there are 8 critical and 12 important risks on the window 7 pc. The window 7 device has 108 security patches missing while the window 8 is missing 68. Both PC have failed the administrator scan for password standards. On top of this there is a shortcut on the file server to the firewall that has the login credentials saved. The firewall is allowing all incoming traffic. This is a major issue, any traffic on any port is allowed in, since the pc is using administrator account with password as the password. The firewall should be configured, with rules that consist of destination addresses and service ports allowed. They should be a global deny any address on any service port to prevent unapproved traffic. The firewall also does not have an IPS ruling on it. Since there is not IPS scanning the packets could in there is nothing stop malicious software on the network level. The IPS will also allow you to create additional rule to using URL, content filter, and Geo blocking. This will provide you with a network intrusion solution. [Show More]

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