Healthy Body Wellness Center (HBWC) Office of Grants Giveaway (OGG) business objective is to offer a proficient methodology that promotes improvement in the quality and usefulness of medical grants. HBWC disburses several medical grants through federally supported health research, and implemented the Small Hospital Grant Tracking System (SHGTS) to automate assignment and tracking of the grant disbursement, streamline review of completed evaluation submitted by grant seekers and promote sharing of health information among healthcare professionals.
A2: Security Principle
The guiding security principle that HBWC should use to meet Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) is an ISO 27002 security framework, accompanied …show more content…
The security systems will be focused on management security, operational security and technical security controls.
Management Security: These are management controls that will focus on the management of the IT security system and the management of risk for interconnected systems in HBWC environment, and includes techniques and concerns usually addressed by IT management.
Operational Security: The operational controls address security methods focusing on mechanisms primarily implemented and executed by people (as opposed to systems). These controls are put in place to improve the security of a particular system (or group of systems). Often, they require technical or specialized expertise and rely upon management activities as well as technical controls.
Technical Security: Technical controls focus on security controls that the computer system executes. The controls can provide automated protection for unauthorized access or misuse, facilitate detection of security violations, and support security requirements for applications and …show more content…
These information systems are:
• LAN – Switches, routers and firewall
• Servers -- SHGTS Microsoft Access 97 database, Remote access server (RAS)
• Workstations
• Communication network – Phone and IP phones
• Agency data processing center including its operating systems and utilities
• Tactical radio network
• Shared information processing service facilities (Bowen, Hash, & Swanson, 2006).
A5: IT infrastructure that includes a description of information flow
JINX application server is housed in room 1234, located at the HBWC’s executive office facility. This is a Microsoft Windows NT application server that is customized to run several applications including Microsoft Access 97 database that is used specifically for SHGTS. The database tracks all data and activities related to the grant distribution, grant users access the database to complete their grant