From the course: ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) (2024) Cert Prep
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Legal and ethical issues in monitoring
From the course: ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) (2024) Cert Prep
Legal and ethical issues in monitoring
- [Instructor] Security monitoring provides analysts with access to a wide variety of information. Let's think for a moment about some of the kinds of data that we have in our log files. We might use a tool like Wireshark to sniff network traffic giving us real-time access to packets that travel on the network. We can use this access to reconstruct a user's activity and see everything that they send, and receive on the network. We also have access to firewall logs that capture connection activity to and from external systems, giving us an idea of the systems involved in those communications. Other log records provide other personal and sensitive details, we might have access to a user's browsing history, the contents of files that they store on servers, personally identifiable information stored in databases, and geolocation information for their mobile devices. It's important to remember that just because we can access…
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