Pro: The fact that Anthem is taken the security breach seriously and has started the process of evaluating their systems and identifying solutions though their investment in Mandiant.
Con: The hacker(s) were
The first being the security of personally identifiable information. Now in this instance the company itself is not fully responsible for this release but they are indirectly responsible. The hackers are directly responsible for the dissemination of the users personal data but the company could have avoided this incident by shutting down but chose not to which directly constitutes a breach of privacy and security proposed by the company to protect the users information. The next issue is the release of users information that paid the company the fee of $19 to delete their information. The company decided not to delete the users information for some reason from their servers.…
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give an outline the fraudulent activities that take place in the healthcare world. This paper will provide information about the fraud that is ever so popular in today’s healthcare world. Overview/Summary Healthcare today is one of the most profitable businesses in America any many criminals are trying to take advantage of that and make a quick buck.…
Describe the responsibility of the medical office specialist to protect all protected health information (PHI). When it comes to protecting patient information, it’s about getting employees to understand how to best protect it and what to do if there is a data breach. Training is essential and should include not only administrative employees, like medical office specialist, but also doctors, nurses, and other clinicians throughout the organization. All employees with access to patient information need to have the understanding of how to maintain security protocols when it comes to patient care. Many clinicians tend to look at PHI breaches as simply an IT issue.…
Anthem vs The Maze Runner Why do teens like dystopian literature or films? Because it comes from the teens perspective on how it should be. Dystopian story or movies such as Anthem and The Maze Runner. These two stories are common but are also different in many ways. In Anthem by Ayn Rand there is a dystopian theme as well as in the film The Maze Runner by Wes Ball.. Anthem by Ayn Rand Equality says in chapter 11, (I guard my treasures my thought, my will, my freedom.…
The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem. -Rhetorical Analysis This is a rhetorical analysis of the article “The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem” written by Herbert Lin. Let us start with the writer himself; he is a senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Hank J. Holland fellow in Cyber policy and Security at the Hoover Institution both of which are located at Stanford University.…
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers .” This quote is significant to Anthem because the brothers all just follow each other’s lead and they do not make any decisions for themselves. They are not able to pick what they do in their life or what they want to be. They are not really given the chance to think for themselves. The quote states To be free a man must be free of his brother, this is saying that if you take them all away from each other they are going to have to learn to do things on their own.…
Take a Stand (Rough Draft) “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” (enforced by President Eisenhower, 1954). The Pledge of Allegiance should not include the phrase "under God," considering that America is not a religion based country. Based on the constitution, religion is only mentioned twice as respect but not to honor it. In this day in age equality is a big deal. We have had so many incidences where our equality has been challenged.…
Anthem Essay The people in anthem were not allowed to be individuals. They never used the word I and always used the word we because they didn’t know what an individual was. What’s more important, the individual or the group? The individual is more important than the group.…
If anybody could imagine the worst possible government it would be the one in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand. The genre of this book is fictional. This book takes place in the future and the main character is Equality. The government thinks that are time right now is bad. So in the book which takes place in the future they burn all the stuff they find from are time.…
Mrs.Rich Sophomore 1 Harrison and Anthem Comparison Have you ever heard of a dystopia ? Well in Anthem and Harrison they are the true example of dystopia. They both are being controlled mentally and they have no individualism. I'm going to describe to you the ways this dystopia went.…
Vulnerable Password Effect on HIPAA Introduction The University of Mississippi Medical Center suffered from multiple HIPAA violations. An unofficial visitor to their campus had stolen one of their laptops, and due to the fact that UMMC’s network was unprotected because they used a universal username and password. The active directory containing 67,000 files was exposed to danger! There was an estimation of 10,000 patients files dating back to 2008 and he optical character recognition affirms that the university failed to disclose the individuals whose ePHI was believed to have been accessed.…
Anthem 5 Years Later It has been five years since Gaea and I escaped the deadly grips of the council. When i first arrived into the Uncharted Forest, I had nothing but an electric light and an immaculate speck of hope for the future. Now, I have created a society of my own and, with the help of my brothers, overthrown the council. In this new society, everyone is free to be an individual.…
I think it is horrible that the the children will be kicked out of the league for not standing. I did some research, and apparently children kneeling for the National Anthem this has been a common theme in the last few months. I thought it was interesting that some states including Texas allow children to do this, but only if they get a signed letter from there parents.…
The word security has changed over time in different ways including what it means, context, and what it really stands for. Security in today’s age means the state of being in good protection from danger. However, looking back the definition was more so related to social status and economic security meaning you were making steady income. Both still mean protection from danger, as in now we think of it as protection for life but back then it was protection from what people thought you were, homeless or poor. Let's look at the text 1, Declaration of Independence, which talks about its contextual meanings.…
I conclude that the overall results of the total data records breached means that if more than one organization has all our sensitive information such as our full names, social security numbers, date of birth, credit card numbers, and etc. then we are more likely have a higher risk of getting exposed more than once if the organization’s database is maliciously attacked. To continually increase awareness in data breach protection best practices will help Businesses and other organizations to lower the risk and minimize the impact of data breach in the future as technology continues…