White Papers for Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)

Detecting and Mitigating Security Risks

AT&T

There are multiple types of threats facing a given organization. Hackers might attempt to access private information resources from inside or outside the organization, for example. Meanwhile, the public Internet carries viruses, spyware and other types of malware that get introduced to unsuspecting users during everyday communications activities, such as opening an email attachment or downloading a file. Left untreated, malware usually causes disruption or complete denial of service (DoS) to one or more networked application services. To launch such attacks, intruders can tamper with packets in various ways.

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