Assignment Requirements

Research and select a well-known malicious code attack that occurred within the last year. Write a summary report explaining what kind of malicious attack it was, how it spread and attacked other devices, and how it was mitigated. Indicate how you would prevent the attack from recurring on a network you control. You may use the Internet for research.

Consider the following:

The severity of the outbreak

The propagation methods and speed

The targets of the attack

The success rate of the attack vector

Additional complexity: for example, self-armoring and self-updating

The ways to defend infection in every IT infrastructure domain

The ways to defend intrusion at every layer

Self-Assessment Checklist

I included the following in my summary report:

The type of malicious attack

How it spread and attacked other devices

How it was mitigated

I specified details on how to prevent the attack from recurring on a network.