Study the scenario and complete the question(s) that follow: John owns MXY, a small company that...

 

  

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Study the scenario and complete the question(s) that follow: John owns MXY, a small company that sells books. John also doubles as the accountant for the business. John is the only one who creates the financial reports at the end of each month. When John is not on the business premises, the Credit Controller is given John's password to log in and carry out some basic functions in the accountant's profile. John had been advised to give the Credit Controller access to some of the functionalities that they are likely to need from the accountant's profile. Unfortunately, John did not have the time to add some of those functionalities to the Credit Controller's profile in the system. Since John travels a lot, he has a book with of passwords that he keeps at home. If John is out of the office and unreachable, the Credit Controller can always call John's house and request the password. At the end of the financial month in August, John realised that some unauthorised payments had been approved from the system on the day that he was in the office. However, he had not authorised those payments. Upon checking further into the system, other transactions that were not sanctioned by him were processed in the months of June and July of the same financial year. Source: Mapaso, N. (2020) Question 6 Advise John on which social engineering techniques could have been used to facilitate the creation of the unauthorised payments from the system by an employee in the Credit Controller's office. (20 Marks) Question 7 Assuming that they had not been in John's office or called John's home, how do you think the unauthorised user had managed to gain access to John's passwords? What are the possible solutions to each of the methods? (20 Marks) Question 8 How can the Systems Administrator setup John's business computer system to have secure passwords if they are running a Windows operating system network? (20 Marks) End of Section B Question 1 Identify and describe two types of malware that can affect your computer. Question 2 Describe in detail why a Systems Administrator has to restrict user privileges on their workstations. (10 Marks) (10 Marks) Question 3 How does a system attacker blindside the user into believing that they are working in the system that they normally use for their day to day transactions? (10 Marks) Question 4 Which methods can an aggrieved company use to make all of your company servers unusable or experience massive delays in processing information? (15 Marks) Question 5 5.1 How do you create security for a computer with Windows 10 to allow the allocated user to go for a tea break without switching off the computer? (7 Marks) End of Section A 5.2 What are the steps that you would follow to allow a new user to have access to the system network? (8 Marks) [Sub Total 15 Marks] Study the scenario and complete the question(s) that follow: John owns MXY, a small company that sells books. John also doubles as the accountant for the business. John is the only one who creates the financial reports at the end of each month. When John is not on the business premises, the Credit Controller is given John's password to log in and carry out some basic functions in the accountant's profile. John had been advised to give the Credit Controller access to some of the functionalities that they are likely to need from the accountant's profile. Unfortunately, John did not have the time to add some of those functionalities to the Credit Controller's profile in the system. Since John travels a lot, he has a book with of passwords that he keeps at home. If John is out of the office and unreachable, the Credit Controller can always call John's house and request the password. At the end of the financial month in August, John realised that some unauthorised payments had been approved from the system on the day that he was in the office. However, he had not authorised those payments. Upon checking further into the system, other transactions that were not sanctioned by him were processed in the months of June and July of the same financial year. Source: Mapaso, N. (2020) Question 6 Advise John on which social engineering techniques could have been used to facilitate the creation of the unauthorised payments from the system by an employee in the Credit Controller's office. (20 Marks) Question 7 Assuming that they had not been in John's office or called John's home, how do you think the unauthorised user had managed to gain access to John's passwords? What are the possible solutions to each of the methods? (20 Marks) Question 8 How can the Systems Administrator setup John's business computer system to have secure passwords if they are running a Windows operating system network? (20 Marks) End of Section B Question 1 Identify and describe two types of malware that can affect your computer. Question 2 Describe in detail why a Systems Administrator has to restrict user privileges on their workstations. (10 Marks) (10 Marks) Question 3 How does a system attacker blindside the user into believing that they are working in the system that they normally use for their day to day transactions? (10 Marks) Question 4 Which methods can an aggrieved company use to make all of your company servers unusable or experience massive delays in processing information? (15 Marks) Question 5 5.1 How do you create security for a computer with Windows 10 to allow the allocated user to go for a tea break without switching off the computer? (7 Marks) End of Section A 5.2 What are the steps that you would follow to allow a new user to have access to the system network? (8 Marks) [Sub Total 15 Marks]

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