Disaster Recovery Plan for a Hacked Qatar Petroleum Router Student Name Institution Affiliation Facilitator Course Date Router
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Running Head: DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN FOR A HACKED QATAR PETROLEUM ROUTER 1
Disaster Recovery Plan for a hacked Qatar Petroleum Router
Student Name
Institution Affiliation
Facilitator
Course
Date
Disaster Recovery Plan for a hacked Qatar Petroleum Router
Student Name
Institution Affiliation
Facilitator
Course
Date
DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN FOR A HACKED QATAR PETROLEUM ROUTER 2
Routers in business organizations are in many ways more important than even the devices
being used in the organization. Although they may not store personal information directly,
sensitive data usually pass through them every time the devices connected to it are accessing
various online services and can be easily manipulated or stolen when hacked. Also,
compromised routers serve as platforms for attacking other devices in an organization's local
network like laptops and phones or launching denial of service attacks.
When it dawns that a certain router has been hacked within Qatar Petroleum Company,
the first person to be contacted should be the network administrator who is responsible for all the
networking devices of the organization (Sahebjamnia, Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). This paper
assumes that the hacker was targeting certain kind of information to be conveyed in the
organization network at a certain time and therefore the first course of action by the network
would be to shut down the compromised router so as not to allow the hacker obtain the
information if he or she had not gotten it.
Considering the uncertainty factor on whether there are other routers within the
organization which might have been compromised as well, the network administrator is expected
to work closely with the IT department to shut down all the routers within the organization. This
would cut off communication within the whole organization since reaching all the staff members
and other employees using the network might take a longer time (Sahi, Lai & Li, 2016). With an
assumption that the root cause of the vulnerability was the outdated firmware of the router, the
network administrator will be expected to facilitate firmware upgrade before the routers can be
restored back.
Routers in business organizations are in many ways more important than even the devices
being used in the organization. Although they may not store personal information directly,
sensitive data usually pass through them every time the devices connected to it are accessing
various online services and can be easily manipulated or stolen when hacked. Also,
compromised routers serve as platforms for attacking other devices in an organization's local
network like laptops and phones or launching denial of service attacks.
When it dawns that a certain router has been hacked within Qatar Petroleum Company,
the first person to be contacted should be the network administrator who is responsible for all the
networking devices of the organization (Sahebjamnia, Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). This paper
assumes that the hacker was targeting certain kind of information to be conveyed in the
organization network at a certain time and therefore the first course of action by the network
would be to shut down the compromised router so as not to allow the hacker obtain the
information if he or she had not gotten it.
Considering the uncertainty factor on whether there are other routers within the
organization which might have been compromised as well, the network administrator is expected
to work closely with the IT department to shut down all the routers within the organization. This
would cut off communication within the whole organization since reaching all the staff members
and other employees using the network might take a longer time (Sahi, Lai & Li, 2016). With an
assumption that the root cause of the vulnerability was the outdated firmware of the router, the
network administrator will be expected to facilitate firmware upgrade before the routers can be
restored back.
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