Vulnerabilites with Aircraft Solutions Se571

Company Overview

Aircraft Solutions (AS), a large company, located in Southern California, is a recognized leader in the design and fabrication of component products and services. AS also provides full life-cycle solutions for companies in the electronics, commercial, defense, and aerospace industry. With a large skill base workforce, a large plant, and extensive equipment, AS is able to allow its customers to development expenses by offering low-cost design and computer-aided modeling packages. AS uses Business Process Management (BPM) to handle start to finish processes that cover multiple systems and organizations. Business Process Management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. This business process is sometimes referred to as a “process optimization process.”

Security Assessment

Security weaknesses within an organizations system put the organizations assets at risk. After reading and viewing the infrastructure and architecture of AS, there are a few vulnerabilities that are very noticeable that would put their system at risk. The two evident areas are the vulnerabilities with the policy and the hardware. The first vulnerability apparent is the policy on updating the firewall and router rule sets. The security policy of AS, require that all firewalls and router rule sets are to be evaluated every two years. This is a lengthy amount of time to go without evaluating the rule sets. The intervals in the evaluation of the rule sets would put the organization at great risk for potential threats. The second vulnerability that is noticeable is that the backups are stored at the server location. This would put the company at great risk if there was ever some kind of disaster to occur. The security weaknesses mentioned above can be decreased with proper...