Lab 2 – The goals of Information Technology Security

Date: 23-7-2009

The lab session for today is a bit “special” from the previous week. Although the lab session is cancelled because Mr Zaki has a course to attend, if I am not mistaken, we were required to download the lab module from eftmk and complete it at home during the lecture yesterday. We were told that this is a very simple lab module, so it won’t be any problem if we do it ourselves.
The lab this week was mainly about the three goals of the Information security which are confidentiality, integrity and availability as shown in the diagram below:

Basically, there were four tasks in this lab module. We used VM to complete the four tasks. Before that, I have taken a snapshot before start to do the tasks in case any unpredicted problems occur. The first task was about the use of NTFS to Secure Local Resources. Two main outcomes from this task were:

1. To check whether a drive is in NTFS format or not, type the command “chkntfs d:” in command prompt.


2. To convert a FAT disk to NTFS, type the command “convert d: /fs:ntfsd”.

The rest of the tasks were about data confidentiality, data availability and data integrity accordingly.