Question

For 8 marks, explain why networking components need more examination from an information security perspective than from a systems development perspective.

Answer 1

In case of a system development, a developer have a development environment to build the application and a server to host the application. The access to the application is happens through the network. In case the development environment have some issue, it will only impact the developer as it will interrupt the build. Also very few people will have access to the development environment.

In case of the network failure, the entire application will crash, no one will be able to access the application system. The impact will be high. With the network the application can't establish with database to fetch data, user can't sent client request to server. Also one of the key component, firewall plays a main role while prohibiting access to unauthorized users. With out firewall setting properly configured any one can access the application resources and even hacker can hack in to the system. So we can a good network is the first step of defence while securing the application. So clearly the networking component have more weightage.