Malware and DoS analysis

[bitshield () gmail com]

Hello

I’m trying to analyse a company’s vulnerability to malware (Viruses, Trojans, Backdoors, etc)  and DoS. I’m however a 
little bit stuck in finding an approach to do that. I’m trying to collect properties that make a corporate environment 
vulnerable to certain kinds of malware and DoS attacks.

Some of the points I want to have a closer look are:
-  Internet Access architecture
- Intranet and DMZ architecture
- General Network defences
- Anti-Virus deployment
- Deployed Operating Systems and their patch level
- Employees’ awareness regarding malware
- Proper defence-in-depth concept

Do you guys have any other ideas? What can be considered to analyze DoS susceptibility?

Thanks for your feedbacks
Joe

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