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This 4 page paper discusses computer security in four areas: auditing and monitoring; cryptosecurity; transmission security; and TEMPEST. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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from deliberate attempts to gain unauthorized access, or because of systems failure. This paper considers several various types of computer security issues. Discussion Please note: the prompt for this paper
included a list of some 42 separate terms that were to be discussed, which is not possible in a paper this short. It must concentrate only on one or two
principle ideas. We begin with auditing and monitoring. Auditing is "a review and analysis of management, operational, and technical controls" (Audit trails). An auditor can use what are called "audit
trails" to see what sort of activity has taken place on the system (Audit trails). Audit trails are series of "records of computer events, about an operating system, an application
or user activities" (Audit trails). They maintain a "record of system activity both by system and application processes and by user activity of systems and applications" (Audit trails). An auditor
using these trails can detect problems with system performance, security violations, and application flaws (Audit trails). Because they monitor system activity constantly, audit trails can detect unauthorized intruders as
well as identifying problems in real time (Audit trails). The records of audit trails are called audit logs, of which there are two types, event-oriented logs and keystroke logs (Audit
trails). Event logs, as the name implies, record system events, while keystroke logs keep track of every keystroke (Audit trails). An event log in general specifies "when the event occurred,
the user ID associated with the event, the program or command used to initiate the event, and the result" (Audit trails). The log also notes the date and time of
the event, which can help determine "if the user was a masquerader or the actual person specified" (Audit trails). Keystroke monitoring is a special type of log: "Examples of
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