التدابير الوقائية لتجنب الثغرات الأمنية في شبكات الحاسوب المحلية : دراسة مسحية تحليلية

Abstract EN

This study aimed to avoid dangerous security holes inside Local Area Computer networks and determine the necessary measures in order to avoid gaps and remove existing ones, by applying the questionnaire as a tool to collect data on the study sample that consisting of experts in information technology professors, engineers, technicians and managers working in IT departments in the educational institutions in Riyadh, where the number of questionnaires viable analysis of 105 questionnaire. Statistical analysis results showed the existence of statistically significant differences between the seriousness of vulnerabilities and the preventive measures taken to avoid, for the benefit of the seriousness vulnerabilities, which indicates a lack of complete preventive measures taken by the educational institutions to avoid security holes.

The study recommended the need to increase the pay attention to the human resources that working in protection of local networks, in terms of efficiency and adequacy of the number, training and efficiency.

To enable them to do physical protection measures and the preparation, operation, configuration and updating of protection equipments and protection programs, as well as the implementation of the periodic tests to detect security vulnerabilities, in addition to the need for security policies that necessary to implementation of the protection work.