You have been hired as the security professional in your current work or school environment. Your department has experienced a recent breach within its database architecture. Your manager feels it is time to reassess the network as a first step in a phased approach to hardening the network security. You have been delegated to lead this assessment. Research your organization or school to determine its database architecture. Write a paper describing your assessment process. Include the following information in your paper:

• Define who would be included in the assessment of the database environment.

• Identify the assets that you are protecting.

• Define the threats you are protecting yourself against.

• Using the following table, assign a risk value to each threat, based on its likelihood and cost to the company.

• Prioritize your threats based on their risk value (5 being the highest risk and 1 being the lowest). Risk values 5 = high, 1 = low

 

High cost Medium cost Low cost High probability 5. 3 Medium probability 4 Low probability 3. 2. 2.