Case Study paper



Case Study paper

Thesis Statement

“Most companies now operating in a network expect to be pinged and scanned by hackers all the time.”

Introduction

Ping sweeps and port scans are computer functions, unethical people could use to reach their personal or corporate networks. Ping sweeps and port scans can be dangerous, but preventable. Ping sweeps is when an attacker sends an ICMP ECHO to a number of machines in a network. Then the machines on the network send a signal back to the attacker so that he / she know you are.

The use of computers in this generation has been a necessity. ...