MIDTERM QUESTION NO. 3

Internet if properly maximized can be used as a medium to the advantage of the company. However, risks and threats are there. Thus, research the following:

1. Identify the possible risks and threats (eg. virus) that can potentially attack a company with internet connection.
-----One of the risks are criminal elements, such as hackers, may beat them and steal valuable company information usually made available to corporate workers.

2. Case research and analysis:
2.a Identify one company that had experienced an attacked from the internet.
-----One day after an apparent attack on its systems slowed access to leading Web sites such as yahoo.com, google.com and microsoft.com, distributed computing company Akamai Technologies Inc. said that it was the victim of a sophisticated, large-scale attack aimed at specific customer Web sites.

2.b Describe the attack.
-----Monitoring systems at the company quickly detected the attack and the company's staff worked with customers and network providers to shut off the source of the attack. The company's DNS service had returned to normal by 10:45 a.m. Akamai apologized to customers affected by the slow downs, but took issue with estimates from Keynote Systems Inc. of San Mateo, California, that access to some sites was diminished by as much as 80 percent during the attack.Less than 1 percent of Akamai customers experienced disruptions affecting more than 20 percent of their users,2.c Identify the damages done and the solutions adopted to reverse the damages and to protect the company from future threats.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/akamai-says-attack-targeted-specific-customers-935