Ping Case Studies Samples For Students

Ping Sweeps and Port Scans

Introduction

Every information infrastructure of any organization is target for hackers. Hackers will always come up with new ways of trying to gain access to the network whether internally or externally. Some of the techniques that have been employed by intruders include ping sweeps and port scans (Baskin, & Kanclirz, 2008). They use these means to access network information, which would be instrumental for them in the process of hacking.

Ping sweeps

Ping sweeps is a major way through which hackers will gain access to network resources. Every IT professional should be worried about the possibility of the same happening to his or ...

Introduction

Technology, though has made it convenient to run better businesses and commercial ventures, it has brought along numerous threats with it. These threats are dangerous and malicious – they could steal data or bring down a network, and mostly occur from external sources. Some notable and common ones of these are the two network probes called Ping Sweeps and Port Scans.

Network Probes – Ping Sweeps and Port Scans

Network probes by themselves cannot be called as intrusions, but they can be used in a malicious manner that could affect a business by stealing or even bring a whole network down thus incapacitating a business. The common probes used for such intentions are ...

ASSIGNMENT 5

Please identify the current CEO of each of Cisco Systems and two of its competitors. For each CEO please examine his or her bio and any back ground information. Please summarize his or her previous successes.
Cisco system’s niche is in the computer communications industry, whose main competitors are Huawei and ZTE Corporation. The current CEO at Cisco, John Chambers worked at IBM as a technology salesperson. Seven years later, he joined Wang laboratories as an assistant to a top executive mandated with US operations. He later joined Cisco in 1991 just as the company became a public ...

Analysis and solution

Notable online retailer Amazon was faced with a lawsuit in early 2012 after its failure to guard its sensitive customer data from malicious individuals known as hackers. The attack featured cracking of online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos as subsidiary of Amazon where computers had their account and customer information stolen such as credit card numbers. As a result of this incidence the company faced lawsuits from its customers. This suit was aforementioned in principle following the company’s inability to safeguard the clients’ sensitive information, (Fowler & Vascellaro, 45).
Several lessons were learnt from the Zappos hacking incident such as ...

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Old Chinese values like trust, taking care of aged parents, mutual respect, etc. still dominate China today whereas corruption, nepotism, bureaucracy etc. which are the negative aspects of socialism, have also entrenched themselves following the communist takeover in 1949. The current political model of China today is a mixture of socialism and free-market capitalism, especially in the economic sense. China today can have their cake and eat it too. They can suppress pro-democracy uprisings in Hong Kong taking a communist-socialist stance, and at the same time, they can try to privatize their white elephant SOE’s (State Owned Enterprises).
Two ...

IPV4 has relied on ICMP throughout its functioning years. The introduction of IPV6 has further increased the reliance over ICMP. It provides number of additional features as compared to its predecessors. Yet there are number of security concerns attached with it.
IPSec and ICMP do not go along too well in case of IPv6. Manual configuration is desired in this regard. Absence of IPSec makes ICMP less potent against any external threat and makes it no more effective than IPV4 network. In case of IPV6, built in ICMP can prevent the challenges that are faced otherwise. Ping of ...