Drugsforsale.com(DFS) sells prescription medication via theinternal. From founding in 1998 until the end of 2006, DFS used itsown custom software to collect order information, but payment wereprocessed by an independent third party. Software and systemsconsists of five employees.
By the end of 2006, sales had grown to a point where it becameeconomically sensible for DFS to purchase a system and hardware toprocess online payments themeselves. DFS is planning to go publicin the next few years, and in order to demonstrate their successand impress investors, they put their new computer system behindglass windows so it clearly visible from the lobby of their newbuilding. To protect their investment, DFS equipped their newcomputer room with state of the art fire suppression equipemnt andan uninterruptible power source.
The computer center is staffed by operations personnel 16 hoursper day, five days a week. While business had increased, thesoftware and systems staff has remained at five employees. As aresult, software and programming documentation occurs only whentime is available. Backups of program and data files also occurperiodically as time allows. DFS has a secure facility for storingbackups, but no one has taken the most recent backups to the securefacility yet. Software and systems employees have offices next tothe computer center. Both operations personnel and software/systemspersonnel gain access to the computer room by swiping an ID cardand entering a four digit PIN. Because they are so busy, softwareemployees often test new programs or program changes on theweekends or late at night, when no operations staff are atwork.
1) Identify three weaknesses in computer security at DFS.
2) Identify two strengths in computer security at DFS.
3) List three components that should be part of a disasterrecovery plan so that DFS should be operational within 72 hours ofa natural disaster
Drugsforsale.com(DFS) sells prescription medication via theinternal. From founding in 1998 until the end of 2006, DFS used itsown custom software to collect order information, but payment wereprocessed by an independent third party. Software and systemsconsists of five employees.
By the end of 2006, sales had grown to a point where it becameeconomically sensible for DFS to purchase a system and hardware toprocess online payments themeselves. DFS is planning to go publicin the next few years, and in order to demonstrate their successand impress investors, they put their new computer system behindglass windows so it clearly visible from the lobby of their newbuilding. To protect their investment, DFS equipped their newcomputer room with state of the art fire suppression equipemnt andan uninterruptible power source.
The computer center is staffed by operations personnel 16 hoursper day, five days a week. While business had increased, thesoftware and systems staff has remained at five employees. As aresult, software and programming documentation occurs only whentime is available. Backups of program and data files also occurperiodically as time allows. DFS has a secure facility for storingbackups, but no one has taken the most recent backups to the securefacility yet. Software and systems employees have offices next tothe computer center. Both operations personnel and software/systemspersonnel gain access to the computer room by swiping an ID cardand entering a four digit PIN. Because they are so busy, softwareemployees often test new programs or program changes on theweekends or late at night, when no operations staff are atwork.
1) Identify three weaknesses in computer security at DFS.
2) Identify two strengths in computer security at DFS.
3) List three components that should be part of a disasterrecovery plan so that DFS should be operational within 72 hours ofa natural disaster
