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Aircraft Solution Inc . Security Weaknesses

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Aircraft Solution Inc . Security Weaknesses

A security weakness in IT terminology refers to vulnerability of a resource . A venerable resource is one which is susceptible to attack either from within the organization or outside . The measure of the vulnerability is expressed by the ease with which a resource can be incapacitated by an attack on it , resulting in paralysis of business operations (Schellenberg , 1995

Aircraft Solutions , a designer and fabricator of

component products and services for firms in the electronic , commercial , defense and aerospace industry may be particularly exposed . This exposure could stem from its business operations as illustrated by its network infrastructure . The Network infrastructure , of a firm of Aircraft Solutions stature incorporates contractors , suppliers and customers . With such a big pool of users on the network , weaknesses in hardware , software and policy inevitably emerge in network . This is because , most network infrastructures are most vulnerable from inside attacks than from outside . Generally , an insider can easily launch an attack on the Network than an outsider as most networks are fortified from outside attacks using firewalls within and without their virtual private networks (Basole , 2008

On Aircraft Solution 's network , the hardware and policy are vulnerable to both inside and outside attacks . The company 's servers can be attacked easily by an employee as the employees have the access inside the network . Though system access by users at different levels of the network...