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Harris County regulations to ensure that unincorporated areas of Harris County are able to qualify for flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program. 3. The residential department is diligently working to minimize the loss of life and property from high water events (i.e. Floods, Tropical Systems, and etc.) 4. The importance of flood plain management i. During the 20th Century, floods were the number one natural disaster to cause the loss of lives and property, according to the…

Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs Introduction Manmade and natural disasters have the potential to cause great loss of property and loss of life. Disasters can also occur anytime and this is why mitigation is very important. Hazard mitigation is activities or measures that reduces or eliminates the effects to people and properties of natural or manmade hazards (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2016). According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), mitigation is…

traffic shows that hundreds of hosts are constantly sending only SYN packets to a single Web server on campus. a. This type of traffic suggests a SYN flood attack, which according to Techtarget (http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/SYN-flooding) is when half-open connections are attempted by the user only sending SYN packets. The server will respond with SYN/ACK packets (on open ports), but the client ignores them and re-sends SYN packets. This means the server cannot handle…

Secure Shell (SSH) In this paper, I will discuss the network protocol Secure shell, better known as SSH. Interest in choosing this protocol came from my frequent use of SSH to run applications on the remote servers in Coover Hall. Because of this, I will be exploring the details on how the protocol works, vulnerabilities associated with it and mitigation techniques put in place to counter attacks. SSH is a Cryptographic Network Protocol created to replace Telnet. Its purpose is to provide a…

Qdata hosted in this case provided iPremier with some floor space, power, connectivity, environmental controlled cooling, and physical security for their web hosting servers and networking equipment. On January 12th, 2007 iPremier fell victim to a SYN flood DoS attack (Denial of Service Attack) (Figure 3). This sort of attack barraged or flooded their web servers and made their website inaccessible to both employees and customers alike. At the time, Chief Information Officer Bob Turley was out…

Running head: incident response report 1 incident response report 17 Incident Response Report Rafiu Atanda University of Maryland University College Advanced Cyber Exploitation & Mitigation Methodologies CST 630 Prof., SMITH…