Emerging Threats and Counter Measures Discussion

GGUSF Emerging Threats and Counter Measures Discussion

Let us consider a company EnergyA that is a global leader in producing energy from diversified fuel sources for the U.S and U.K consumer markets with approximately 8.9 million electricity and gas consumers worldwide. Recently, the company’s website was under attack from a botnet titled fringe47. The company is under major scrutiny and is under pressure from several sources.

Discuss how the security principles that we learned this week -Diversity and Commonality- can help to prevent Botnet attacks against EnergyA. Ensure to discuss why the concept of diversity and commonality is paradoxical. Discuss the challenges that are involved in implementing diversity and commonality at the national infrastructure level. Please provide examples to support your discussion.

You must do the following:

1) Create a new thread and share your perspectives with examples and references to course material

2) Select AT LEAST 2 other students' threads and post substantive comments on those threads. Your comments should extend the conversation started with the thread.

ALL original posts and comments must be

You must do the following:

1) Create a new thread and share your perspectives with examples and references to course material with APA guidelines

2) Please make your initial post with 500 words and two response posts substantive with at least 150 words . A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following:

• Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
• Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience
• Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)
• Make an argument concerning the topic.