Mcbride Financial: Web Site Review

The Executive Summary opened a service request SR-mf-001 to create a design to improve and enhance the current Internet site of McBride Financial Services at the request of Mr. Hugh McBride. This site is important for McBride's success. By adopting only a small number of brokers and one support staff in each office, we will ensure reduction of operating expenses. To introduce the variety of available loans to customers, use the company's website and the self-service kiosk of the office.

McBride Financials computer network must provide 1) web service, 2) file and print, 3) secure local and remote access, 4) email, and 5) robust database system. There are 8 sites across the network in the network. We purchased two sites, a headquarters site in Boise, Idaho, and a branch in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Five servers are required to provide basic services required by McBride Financials. Due to security concerns it may be necessary to purchase additional servers or hardware devices.

McBride Financial Services requires network resource protection, data protection, and identity protection for users accessing the service from the Web. To protect a resource, you need to specify access to the resource. McBride Financial Services allows remote access and local access to resources. In Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS), you can protect resource access by using the Internet Acceleration and Security Server (ISA) firewall function and policies and scripts on the VPN feature of RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server). The VPN function of RRAS includes the use of L2TP and IPSec to create Layer 2 tunnels and Layer 3 tunnels for the network. SBS itself also provides state-of-the-art certificate services, and when used with ISA and RRAS, the security provided is only possible with the most powerful security agencies (Fossen, 2006). In MS Outlook 2003, you can further enhance protection by further encrypting the message.

Most websites, including many financial websites, have problems. Google's great people posted a new report indicating that many popular sites are not using additional encryption layers to protect consumer data. According to reports, PayPal and Gmail provide this layer by default - it is called HTTPS - 79 of the top 100 non-Google sites on the network do not meet the requirements. Google also released a comprehensive list of the most popular sites divided into three parts: By default running HTTPS, running the latest HTTPS, and other categorical naughty companies