Alexander Rocco Corporation has multiple OSs running in its many offices. Before

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Alexander Rocco Corporation has multiple OSs running in its many offices. Before conducting a security test to determine the vulnerabilities you need to correct, you want to determine whether any OSs are running that you’re not aware of. Christy Fitzgerald, the network administrator/security officer, is resis- tant to giving you information after he learns you’re there to discover network security vulnerabilities. He sees you as a threat to his position. After several hours of interviews, you can ascertain only that Mike’s personal e-mail address is vetman2601@gmai.com, and an old RHEL server is running on one of the company’s systems. Based on this information, answer the following questions:

1. What tools might you use after learning Mike’s e-mail address?

2. What can you determine by entering Mike’s e-mail address into Google? What about just the handle “vetman2601”?

3. Could the information you learned from Google be used to conduct vul- nerability testing? Write a memo to the IT manager, Bob Jones, about the potential issues with running a old RHEL 5.8 server, and mention the importance of patch hygiene. Make sure your memo explains how you gathered this information and offers constructive feedback. Your memo shouldn’t point a finger at any company employees; it should discuss problems on a general level.

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Tools To be Used & What is determined by e-mail address:

Information Obtained From Google and Memo:

Memo:

Mr. Jones,

It was an immense pleasure to meet your staff today and was great to discuss with them the various aspects of the state of the cybersecurity at Alexander Rocco Corporation. After listening carefully to all the discussion today I am certainly relating some of the challenges that your staff is been facing as the older version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) server can become tricky at times for maintaining a complete solid security posture in an environment like your company consists of.As, I am sure that your staff has performed well till date.

Now, I would recommend to update the server so that your staff won't face any problem further and all the things would run smoothly in the company. I would request you to give a shot to this issue and plan with your officials.

Thankyou for the precious time you gave me.

Hence ,this is the memo for the above situation.

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