Subject: Advanced Network Technologies

Topic: Network Security

Difficulty: Low

As the internet evolves and computer networks become bigger and bigger, network security has become one of the most important factors for companies to consider. Big enterprises like Microsoft are designing and building software products that need to be protected against foreign attacks.

By increasing network security, you decrease the chance of privacy spoofing, identity or information theft and so on. Piracy is a big concern to enterprises that are victims of its effects.

Anything from software, music and movies to books, games, etc. are stolen and copied because security is breached by malicious individuals.

Because hacker tools have become more and more sophisticated, super-intelligence is no longer a requirement to hack someone’s computer or server. Of course, there are individuals that have developed sophisticated skills and know how to breach into a user’s privacy in several ways, but these types of individuals are less common than in the past.

Today, most malicious users do not possess a high level of programming skills and instead make use of tools available on the Internet. There are several stages that an attacker has to pass through to successfully carry out an attack