[SOLVED] COMP3500 - Assignment 1 -Security Attacks Analysis and Mitigation Strategies

Description

1.  Discuss any three reasons for increasing trend of cyber security attacks in the current Internet.

2.  Briefly describe the Cigital risk management framework.

3.  What approach would you recommend for applying Cigital risk management for an online healthcare company which is using password-based authentication for the staff and patients for accessing the healthcare services.

4.  Explain cross site scripting attacks, time of check and time of use race condition attacks and compare between these attacks.

5. Ransomware
   1.  Explain WanaCry ransomware.
   2. What was the impact of the attack.
   3.  Are there any lessons to be learned from this attack?
   4.  Discuss if have you noticed any changes in the recent ransomware attack behaviour compared to WanaCry.