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Middleton, Raymond, Day, David J. and Lallie, Harjinder Singh (2012) Global network security : a vulnerability assessment of seven popular outsourcing countries. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom),, Besancon, 20-23 Nov 2012. Published in: Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2012, Conf. on Internet of Things, iThings 2012 and Conf. on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2012 pp. 102-108. ISBN 9781467351461. doi:10.1109/GreenCom.2012.25
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GreenCom.2012.25
Abstract
With increasingly more businesses engaging in offshore outsourcing, organisations need to be made aware of the global differences in network security, before entrusting a nation with sensitive information. In July 2011, Syn and Nackrst1 explored this topic by analysing seven countries from a wide spectrum across the globe for network security vulnerabilities. The countries selected were China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, India, Mexico and Romania. Their method utilises Nmap and Nessus to probe and test for network vulnerabilities from each respective nation, in order to collect quantitative data for national vulnerability volumes. The Vulnerability statistics collected are of four categories, High, Medium, Low and Open Ports. This paper extends Syn and Nackrst1's work by constructing a more detailed analysis of their results, showing the number of real-world vulnerabilities per nation, the differences between national levels of network security, the ratios of vulnerabilities/IP address, and vulnerability summary rankings. Multiple causal factors are also looked at to quantify the reasoning behind the varying levels of vulnerabilities per nation. This paper concludes that each nation has millions of vulnerabilities of varying amounts, and therefore, each nation differs in network security levels. Mexico and India exhibited the most worrying statistics, with the highest number of high level vulnerabilities/IP address ratio. Ultimately, this paper highlights the vulnerability levels that organisations are faced with when engaging in foreign and domestic outsourcing.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2012, Conf. on Internet of Things, iThings 2012 and Conf. on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2012 | ||||
| Publisher: | IEEE Press | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781467351461 | ||||
| Book Title: | 2012 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications | ||||
| Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 102-108 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1109/GreenCom.2012.25 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
| Title of Event: | 2012 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), | ||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
| Location of Event: | Besancon | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 20-23 Nov 2012 |
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