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Best practices in creating a vulnerability assessment programme: Measure twice and cut once, avoiding costly mistakes
Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal,
2
(2),
114-121
(2018)
Abstract
This paper has two goals. The first is to help define the Dark Web and how it fits into the larger World Wide Web (WWW); secondly, to understand the Dark Web’s dangers and how to avoid the landmines contained therein. This paper utilises open source material to break down the three parts to the WWW: Surface Web, Deep Web and Dark Web. The paper views all three areas as distinctly important within our modern society, with the caveat that due caution needs to be exercised before exploring the second two areas of the Deep Web and the Dark Web. It’s important for security researchers to have a good understanding of these areas in order to protect organisations, as well as themselves, from potential cyber exploitation.
Keywords: dark web; deep web; surface web; Tor
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Author's Biography
Christopher Cowen is a cyber security expert with the US Department of Defense (DOD/Contractor). Christopher has worked within Information Technology for over 20 years in both the corporate and government spaces. He is currently focused in areas of Nuclear Material Inventory Management Systems (NMIMS), enterprise infrastructure security and Security Operations Centers (SOC). Christopher is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). He has been a featured speaker at conferences around the world, which includes speaking in Qatar, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Ukraine, UK, Kingdom of Jordan, China and India. He has published articles in Cyber Defense Magazine.
