A study of online service and information exposure of public companies

S. H. Kwok, Anthony C.T. Lai, Jason C.K. Yeung

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Abstract

It is believed that public companies should have put lots of efforts and resources in designing and implementing effective security policy in their daily information processing and management against potential cyber attacks. A company web server accessible by the general public and attackers is usually a common entry point for cyber attacks. This paper studies and reports the security problems in web servers of public companies. We applied several commonly used tools and systems to collect information from publicly accessible web servers of selected public companies, and studied some known security aspects in those public companies. Our findings will provide an insight to the effectiveness of web servers in public companies against cyber attacks. This paper also proposes a risk analysis tool for cyber attacks, which is known as pyramid risk analysis tool.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics, CSI-KDD in Conjunction with SIGKDD'09
Pages85-90
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
EventACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics, CSI-KDD in Conjunction with SIGKDD'09 - Paris, France
Duration: 28 Jun 200928 Jun 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics, CSI-KDD in Conjunction with SIGKDD'09

Conference

ConferenceACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics, CSI-KDD in Conjunction with SIGKDD'09
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period28/06/0928/06/09

Keywords

  • Cyber security
  • Malicious hackers
  • Ports
  • Public company
  • Public server
  • Web server

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