Week 4 Posting - Reverse Engineering

 Withing chapter nine there is many items that stood out to me, most interesting to me was reverse engineering.

Reverse engineering is a method that is used to "undo" a completed software, program, or virus to see what is under the hood. The goal is to reverse the steps taken during the creation of the original program.

Many security engineers are required to know the basics of programs and how it relates to the OSI model. The first hurle is to replicate the software in a safe environment  if the software is unrepariable the environment can be reverted to the previous compiled state.

When I was working at a former employer we were a target for a phishing scam, after downloading the email and disconnecting the device from the primary network we were able to put on a private network and Wireshark. The traffic was pinpointed and an attack was blocked based on the return address and port.