Miller harrison was still working his way through his attack protocol.
nmap started out as it usually did, by giving the program identification and version num-ber. then it started reporting back on the first host in the sls network. it reported all ofthe open ports on this server. the program moved on to a second host and began report-ing back the open ports on that system, too. once it reached the third host, however, itsuddenly stopped.
miller restarted nmap, using the last host ip as the starting point for the next scan. noresponse. he opened another command window and tried to ping the first host he had justport-scanned. no luck. he tried to ping the sls firewall. nothing. he happened to know theip address for the sls edge router. he pinged that and got the same result. he had beenblackholed, meaning his ip address had been put on a list of addresses from which the slsedge router would no longer accept packets. ironically, the list was his own doing. the idpshe had been sls configure seemed to be working just fine at the moment. his attemptto hack the sls network was shut down cold.
questions: 1-do you think miller is out of options as he pursues his vendetta? why or why not? 2- if you think there are additional actions he could take in his effort to damage the sls network, what are they? why? 3-suppose a system administrator at sls happened to read the details of this case. what steps should he or she take to improve the company's information security program? why?