NETWORK SECURITY AND ITS NEEDS

Name:

Company:
The following questioner is made in a form of a survey to know the needs, knowledge and
requirements of IT professionals in the field network security. There are 20 questions that are
answered by various software and hardware professionals in different firms in UK and
around the world.

Note: Kindly answer all the questions, please do not use the internet for any of the questions,
because we are not looking for technical answers, but we are looking forward for
knowledgeable answers. Thanking you....

1. What is network security according to your company standards?

• Not sharing username and password is the main security.

• Not barging using access cards

• others

2. What do you know about network security?

• Securing a network from outside hackers

• Authenticating a user to access a network

• Chatting on facebook

• Others

3. Do you feel your company network is much secured? If yes how? If no why?

4. How do you get into your company?

• Access Cards ( this method is used by me)

• Username and Password

 • Biometric impression

• Others

Please provide brief note upon choosing a specific answer

5. What do you do if you forget to take your access card when you reach your company?

• Write a letter

• Fill in a login form

• As permission from the network administrator

• Others

Please provide brief note upon choosing a specific answer

6. What do you do think would be a good alternative to access cards?

• Username and password

• Biometric Fingerprint impression

• Voice recognition

• Face recognition

• Others

7. How do you login to your computer?

• Username and password

• Swipe an access card

• Use biometric impression

• Others

Please provide brief note upon choosing a specific answer

8. What do you think would be an alternative to usernames and passwords?

• Swipe cards

• Biometric impression

• Voice recognition

• Others

Please provide brief note upon choosing a specific answer

9. If provided a chance to speak about your company’s network faults, what would you
say? (need not explain in brief.. because i could understand that it’s against your
company policy... please try to justify your answer whatever it may be?)

10. What do you know about biometrics?

11. Do you think biometrics could give you much more security in using a network?

12. What are the different forms of biometrics that you know?

• Bertillonage - measuring body lengths (no longer used)

• Fingerprint - analysing fingertip patterns
• Facial Recognition - measuring facial characteristics
• Hand Geometry - measuring the shape of the hand
• Iris Scan - analysing features of coloured ring of the eye
• Retinal Scan - analysing blood vessels in the eye
• Vascular Patterns - analysing vein patterns
• DNA - analysing genetic makeup

Please provide brief note upon choosing a specific answer

 13. Do u think biometrics can be implemented in managing a networks server and
maintain a database?

14. How much do you think would be the cost to build a network with biometric
technology implemented in it?

15. Have you ever used a biometric tool? If yes where and what did the biometric tool do?

16. If you are allowed to login to your companies network just with your biometric
impression, do you think it would be feasible and easy for you?

• Yes

• No

17. If biomertic can replace your access cards and username and password, how would
you rate your network security in the scale of 1 being the worst and 10 being the best?

18. What do think would be drawbacks of using a biometric impression in a corporate

network?

Please provide brief note upon choosing a specific answer

19. What do you think happens when your office server crashes?

• A backup server takes the main servers place

• Entire network comes to a stand still

• Network administrator asks everyone to switch of their computer and go for

tea

• Others
20. Was this question up to the mark for a research survey? (be very straight and fair)