You work at a help desk tecthnician in a mid-sized business. As your organization has been growing, there has been an increase of issues dealing with malware, viruses, and other threats to the systems. There hasn't been a consistent means of securing the various data assets, PCs and network. Your IT Manager would like you to create a proposal in order to implement measures to combat malware, viruses, and other threats to the organizational data assets. The proposal should also address security concepts and mitigation strategies to keep the PCs and networks secure.
The organization has all of its workers in a single building but has multiple floors split up based on departments. All of the users are on Windows PCs with a mix of Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. The servers consist of a database server, file server, email server, web application servers as well as other business application servers. Due to the fact that the organization has multiple floors, most users currently use a wireless connection. Throughout the project, you will be building on your proposal document. Your proposal should address the following scenarios using the resources provided:
• Some users in your sales department have been noticing their browsers being "taken over". When they go on a particular site, they get directed to another site. This has only started happening when they were exploring some new products and have navigated to sites that may have installed malware on their browsers. Provide details of solutions that can be implemented to combat malware.
• In the HR department, they have been sharing files sent from recruiting agencies. One of the agencies has reached out as they noticed that one of the files they had sent to our HR department had a virus. Provide ways of implementing measures to combat these viruses.
• There have been an increased number of other issues in the organization in which the users need training on. In particular, the areas of phishing emails, personal mobile devices at work, removal media, and poor passwords have been problematic. Provide ways of implementing measures to deal with other issues such as phishing, mobile devices, removal media, and poor passwords.
In addition, in order to create consistency in terms of security concepts, your proposal should also address the following points:
• Apply the mitigation strategies to manage the PC issues listed above.
• Apply the security concepts to ensure the security of networks for wired and wireless networks.