Security Risks On The Web Problems And Solutions

Security Risks on the Web: Problems and Solutions Eric Schnitzler Management Information Systems – BADM 325 Professor Emily Holliday 13 November 2015 This expansion of the internet has allowed people to share information and communicate on a level that was not imaginable just twenty years ago. This growth has become a tool for people to participate in social media as well as an economic and strategic tool for business today. As more people gain access to the web, new markets open for companies to conduct business globally. Small and large companies can make joint ventures or buy and sell goods around the world with a few clicks of a mouse and entering a method of payment. However these benefits do come with a†¦show more content†¦The availability of the system can be compromised through a variety of ways. The inattentive maintenance worker can destroy the network connection by cutting the power to the system or destroying the lines of electronic communication. The system can also be overrun by activity which leads to shutting down the system. Companies try to mitigate their servers from crashing by using more powe rful hardware and streamlining the application systems to be as efficient as possible. The accidental interruption of the flow of information can be frustrating and costly to business but the intentional destruction of hardware, software, or other components must be mitigated through continuous security efforts. A denial of service attack is a malicious attack by hackers via the web on a system to overcome its ability to properly handle the information that it is receiving. The purpose of the denial of service attack is to prevent the authentic communication between parties and closing down the system. This is accomplished by forcing requests to verify a connection, ping requests, at an ever increasing rate until the system is tied up, flooding the system with connection requests that cannot be accomplished, or by attacking the buffer. The Buffer Overflow attack provides excessive amounts of information that exceed memory size of the buffer and allow the attacker to enter their own code in the operating system. This code