Many organizations rely on a firewall to prevent or deter threats to information security that arise from outside the organization. Using your favorite search engine or the resources of your library, identify firewall issues that can arise when companies use cloud computing as part of their online sales systems. In about 100 words, summarize your findings in terms of the perimeter expansion problem.
Question 2
Wilderness Trailhead, Inc. (WTI) is a retailer that offers hiking, rock-climbing, and survival gear for sale on its Web site. WTI offers about 1200 different items for sale and has about 1000 visitors per day at its Web site. The company makes about 200 sales each day on its site, with an average transaction value of 372. WTI sells products primarily through its Web site to customers in the United States and Canada. WTI ships orders from its two warehouses: one in Vancouver, British Columbia, and another in Shoreline, Washington. WTI accepts four major credit cards and processes its own credit card transactions. It stores records of all transactions on a database server that shares a small room with the Web server computer at WTIs main offices in a small industrial park just outside Bellingham, Washington. In about 500 words, outline a security policy for the WTI database server. Be sure to consider the threats that exist because that server stores customer credit card numbers. Use the Web Links for this exercise to find samples of security policies and detailed guidelines for creating them.