Questions Question 1: On July 15th, 2020, several Twitter accounts associated with prominent figures were hijacked and sent out a bitcoin scam

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Question 1:

On July 15th, 2020, several Twitter accounts associated with prominent figures were hijacked and sent out a bitcoin scam.

· Describe the breach, including the type of attack and its ramifications.

· How did human nature factor into the breach?

· What type of access controls could be implemented to mitigate or minimize the effects of this type of breach?

 

Question 2:

Open and review the  2020 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index [PDF] .

· Describe the purpose of this report and how this information would be useful to a business.

· Provide insightful reasoning on why:

. Phishing decreased from nearly half of the total incidents in 2018 to less than a third by 2019, while scanning and exploitation of vulnerabilities increased to nearly a third of the incidents up from only eight percent in 2018.

. Ransomware and building out botnets have returned significantly to the malware landscape.

 

Question 3:

Single Sign On (SSO) simplifies login to multiple applications. Secure Assertion Markup Language (SAML) can be used to define how to provide both authentication and authorization.

· Address the pros and cons of using SSO.

· Describe SAML, how it works, and how it can be used to enable single sign on (SSO).

. Provide at least two alternatives to SAML and the pros and cons of each, including SAML.

. Select two tools for implementing SSO and justify your selections.