A data breach is an incident which involves the unauthorized access of private data. Data breaches can involve personal client information like transactions, social security number, or proprietary company information, like client list, sales invoices etc. Data breaches can occur at any place or any time primarily due to an attacker entering illegally into a corporate or private network to obtain private information. More commonly breaches occur within the organization by an employee viewing unauthorized data. Everyone can be effected by data breaches and cyber attacks, by having private and personal information viewed and possibly maliciously used.
A more recent data breach comes from oracle when a Russian organized cyber crime group breached hundred of systems gaining access and compromising a customer support portal for companies using the MICROS point of sale credit payment system. The Micros system was deployed at some 200 thousand restaurants and 100 thousand retail stores and 30 thousand hotels. If data was stolen than the data could then be sold to others wishing to take malicious action, causing thousands of dollars in loses for private citizens.
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Administrators should also receive scholarly education that discusses the principles concepts and application of network security. Many Certifications for network security are available to provide training for system specific applications, one can simply determine the system that they will be working in and search for a network security. Ideally courses should assist administrators gain skills that help them “assess network security needs…Come up with network security policies…Work on business continuity/disaster recovery strategy…Test solutions prior to implementation…Keep abreast of security system logs. Fix problems on-site and off-site.”
A more recent data breach comes from oracle when a Russian organized cyber crime group breached hundred of systems gaining access and compromising a customer support portal for companies using the MICROS point of sale credit payment system. The Micros system was deployed at some 200 thousand restaurants and 100 thousand retail stores and 30 thousand hotels. If data was stolen than the data could then be sold to others wishing to take malicious action, causing thousands of dollars in loses for private citizens.
One of the many security issues that …show more content…
Administrators should also receive scholarly education that discusses the principles concepts and application of network security. Many Certifications for network security are available to provide training for system specific applications, one can simply determine the system that they will be working in and search for a network security. Ideally courses should assist administrators gain skills that help them “assess network security needs…Come up with network security policies…Work on business continuity/disaster recovery strategy…Test solutions prior to implementation…Keep abreast of security system logs. Fix problems on-site and off-site.”