BITS3423 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECURITY

  LastPass (Encryption Tool) Mini Tool (Data Recovery Tool) Email (Email Application) Confidentiality LastPass’s user are protected through LastPass’ zero-knowledge security model. Zero-knowledge means that no one has access to user decrypted Master Password, vault, or vault data except the account owner. To ensure that only authorized access is granted to user vault, we use industry-standard mechanisms, such as AES-256 encryption and PBKDF2 hashing plus salting, to keep user Master Password safe. This is an industry standard that all password managers should adhere to. MiniTool Power Data Recovery cannot just simply recover the disks or files that is encrypted with data protection feature such as BitLocker. Only the user knows or possess the password for the BitLocker encryption. This is to ensure that only the users of that particular drive or files can have access and recovers the lo...

  3.1          Background Subtopic Electronic mail, commonly shortened to “email,” is a communication method that uses electronic devices to deliver messages across computer networks. "Email" refers to both the delivery system and individual messages that are sent and received. Email has existed in some form since the 1970s, when programmer Ray Tomlinson created a way to transmit messages between computer systems on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). Modern forms of email became available for widespread public use with the development of email client software (e.g. Outlook) and web browsers, the latter of which enables users to send and receive messages over the Internet using web-based email clients (e.g. Gmail). Gmail is a free web-based email service provided by Google. It allows users to send and receive e-mail over the Internet. It provides 15 GB of storage which is shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Phot...

               2.0          Background of Data Recovery Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted, or made inaccessible. Data recovery is needed because of data loss. Most common causes of data loss include accidental deletion of files or folders, file system formatting, logical damage to the file system and storage failure. The data recovery process relies on backups to work. Without a backup, you would need to rebuild lost data from scratch, which could take a lot of time and effort. The first known data recovery attempt dates back to the first programmable computer, created in the 1800s. The developers of the earliest programmable analogue computer, the English polymath Charles Babbage and English mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace, were also the first to attempt data recovery. The data recovery tools chosen is MiniTool Power Data Rec...