Information Security

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Information Security

            The various processed and methodologies designed and implemented in protection, prevention, mitigation and eradication of any threats towards processed data is referred to as information security. It is determined by unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, use, modification, destruction, or disruption of the information contained (Vacca 13). The operating system Windows 7 has had various vulnerabilities reported in its operational use. Of significance is the alteration of administration rights within the system. The vulnerability exposes the fragile nature of development of threats through bugs, virus, and crafted packets. The bugs in Windows 7 vulnerability sources use features of power, which can be exploited by hackers at any given time without easy detection. The threat from virus uses similar administration routes through the system of the operating system. They can go unnoticed or embedding to the preinstalled programs (Prince). The level of the threats is significant to the information security and sharing from one user to another.

            Vulnerability of Windows 7 through crafted packets requires sophistication with the administration rights guaranteed by the different users towards access of information. The presence of Java Script within the tactics of social engineering, development of malware and embedding requirements increases the threshold of the contained risks. In addition, the use of attributes in cracking the win32k.sys files results in exploitation of the security availabilities within the systems. However, it is worthy to note that majority of the vulnerability measures can be mitigated with advice on the administration rights of the systems. McCallion argues that by elimination of the administration rights or reverting back to default, not tinkering with the security systems in place and authentic purchases of required packets can help offset the vulnerability threats. There is no guarantee nonetheless.

Works Cited

McCallion, Jane. “The Windows 7 and 8 Vulnerability You Need to Know.” ALPHR, 4 December 2014. Web. 27 June 2015. <http://www.alphr.com/security/1000131/the-windows-7-and-8-vulnerability-you-need-to-know-about>

Prince, Brian. “Microsoft Investigating Windows 7 Vulnerability Reported as Highly Critical.” SecurityWeek, 20 December 2014. Web. 27 June 2015. <http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-critical-windows-security-vulnerability>

Vacca, John R. Computer, and Information Security Handbook. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is an imprint of Elsevier, 2013. Print.