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Evidence Guide: ICAT4194B - Ensure basic website security

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ICAT4194B - Ensure basic website security

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Determine business security requirements

  1. Identify the level of security required based on the business and commercial intent of the website
  2. Identify whether password protection is needed for all or part of the site
  3. Decide minimum or maximum password protection solutions based on business requirements
Identify the level of security required based on the business and commercial intent of the website

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Identify whether password protection is needed for all or part of the site

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Decide minimum or maximum password protection solutions based on business requirements

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Ensure web server security

  1. Ensure that the web server password is obscure and non-traceable
  2. Install and maintain an effective intrusiondetection system in line with business requirements
  3. Ensure that user accounts have only the required permissions on the server
  4. Ensure that interpreters (programs that run CGIs) are not stored in the CGI-bin directory
  5. Ensure that web forms check data before passing it to the server
Ensure that the web server password is obscure and non-traceable

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Install and maintain an effective intrusiondetection system in line with business requirements

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Ensure that user accounts have only the required permissions on the server

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Ensure that interpreters (programs that run CGIs) are not stored in the CGI-bin directory

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Ensure that web forms check data before passing it to the server

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Ensure protocol security

  1. Protect fixed internet connection and IP address
  2. Protect shared network resources from intrusion according to businessrequirements
  3. Ensure that PC protocols and preferences follow securityprotocols
  4. Disable the TCP/IP bindings for file and printer sharing
  5. Ensure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is disabled
Protect fixed internet connection and IP address

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Protect shared network resources from intrusion according to businessrequirements

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Ensure that PC protocols and preferences follow securityprotocols

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Disable the TCP/IP bindings for file and printer sharing

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Ensure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is disabled

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Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Overview of assessment

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

Evidence of the following is essential:

Assessment must confirm the ability to provide basic website security.

To demonstrate competency in this unit the person will require access to:

Web servers

Basic website

Context of and specific resources for assessment

The breadth, depth and complexity of knowledge and skills in this competency would cover a broad range of varied activities or application in a wider variety of contexts most of which are complex and non-routine. Leadership and guidance would be involved when organising activities of self and others as well as contributing to technical solutions of a non-routine or contingency nature.

Assessment must ensure:

Performance of a broad range of skilled applications including the requirement to evaluate and analyse current practices, develop new criteria and procedures for performing current practices and provision of some leadership and guidance to others in the application and planning of the skills would be characteristic.

Applications may involve responsibility for, and limited organisation of, others.

Method of assessment

The purpose of this unit is to define the standard of performance to be achieved in the workplace. In undertaking training and assessment activities related to this unit, consideration should be given to the implementation of appropriate diversity and accessibility practices in order to accommodate people who may have special needs. Additional guidance on these and related matters is provided in ICA05 Section 1.

Competency in this unit should be assessed using summative assessment to ensure consistency of performance in a range of contexts. This unit can be assessed either in the workplace or in a simulated environment. However, simulated activities must closely reflect the workplace to enable full demonstration of competency.

Assessment will usually include observation of real or simulated work processes and procedures and/or performance in a project context as well as questioning on underpinning knowledge and skills. The questioning of team members, supervisors, subordinates, peers and clients where appropriate may provide valuable input to the assessment process. The interdependence of units for assessment purposes may vary with the particular project or scenario.

Guidance information for assessment

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, for example:

ICAT4195B Ensure dynamic website security

An individual demonstrating this competency would be able to:

Demonstrate understanding of a broad knowledge base incorporating some theoretical concepts

Apply solutions to a defined range of unpredictable problems

Identify and apply skill and knowledge areas to a wide variety of contexts, with depth in some areas

Identify, analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources

Take responsibility for own outputs in relation to specified quality standards

Take limited responsibility for the quantity and quality of the output of others

Maintain knowledge of industry products and services

Required Skills and Knowledge

Required skills

Write Javascript/Vbscript

Write HTML

Required knowledge

Firewall functionality

Bastion hosts

HTTP daemons

Web server operating systems

Security patches

Secure socket layer (SSL) protocol

Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Business requirements may be in reference to:

business

system

network

people in the organisation

Intrusion detection systems may include but is not limited to:

Tripwire

Cisco

HP

Symantec

Server may include:

Application/web servers

BEA Weblogic servers

IBM VisualAge and WebSphere

Novell NDS servers

Email servers

File and print servers

FTP servers

Firewall servers

Proxy/cache servers

Connection may include:

cable

ADSL

fixed line

User may include:

a person within a department

a department within the organisation

a third party

Network may include but is not limited to:

large and small LANs

national WANs

VPNs

the internet

the use of the PSTN for dial-up modems only

private lines

data

voice

Security protocols may include:

Secure multipurpose internet mail extensions

Secure socket layer and transport layer security

IP security protocol

(domain name system security extensions)

(data over cable service interface specification)

IEEE 802.11 Protocol standard for secure wireless local area network products

Point-to-point network tunnelling protocol (PPTP)/Layer 2 tunnelling protocol (L2TP)

Internet protocol security (IPSec)

(secure electronic transactions)

(Secure shell)