Data security

As a Chief Information Security Officer of No-Internal Controls, LLC I will make sure that no such attacks occur again in future, and take some controlling polices. No-Internal-Controls, LLC is a mid-sized pharmaceutical company in the Midwest of the US employing around 150 employees. Recently No-Internal-Controls, LLC suffered a ransomware attack. The company was able to recover from the attack with the assistance of a third-party IT Services Company. The following polices should be considered…

In the year 2013, one of the biggest retail data breaches in history occurred, where Target lost the credit and debit cards of over 40 million customers, along with the personal information of 70 million customers. It all started right before Thanksgiving on November 27, when someone installed malware in Target’s security and payments system that was designed to steal every credit card used at the company’s many stores throughout the United States. When a shopping item was scanned and the…

currently facing problems with IT security provision and business continuity their company using operating system such as Windows 7 and Windows XP senior staff using mobile and iPads to access to email their website is hosted by external hosting company. Threats The threats is human error or malicious that can be internal or external that impacts organization security this will happen in organization due poor planning, lack of policies and the lack of IT security the threats we can divide into…

physicians using PDAs or hand help devices in the field of health care, comes a concern of securing the data that are being transmitted between devices. As the physicians and patients continue to exchange data, the risk of protecting the information is high. Prevention of fraudulent activities on the patient records is one of the primary concerns. Main factors to be concerned about the health care data being transmitted are: • Privacy • Confidentiality Privacy and confidentiality is often…

display security for your device as much as is possible, whether it is an iPhone, an Android, a tablet or a laptop, and to act efficiently in the event of a problem. However, you have a lot of display security solutions, besides starting with at least an unlock code, which will discourage the majority of attempts to intrude into the system. Device systems are usually designed so that developers build their apps with the default system and file permissions and thus avoid potential security…

Project Part 1 Task 1: Outline Security Policy First World Bank Savings and Loan; a financial institution that offers banking services (loans and deposits). The bank would like to provide online banking services to the customers, which includes online credit card use for loan applications. Recommendations are based on such factors as: ownership total cost, scalability, and reliability. Decisions and recommendations made need to be appropriate from the CIA triad perspective. My team’s…

Kaplan University IT286 Unit 8.2 Jennifer Polisano Answer 8.2: As the IT Security Professional for Web Site 101, I will be recommending adjustments for recent security issues, including data loss due to employee negligence, physical break ins, identifying employee security standards, identifying network access specifics, and the recent hacking of the home page of Web Site 101. Web Site 101 currently has 300 employees working on three levels of the office building. In the previous…

Vulnerability of IT Infrastructures: Internal and External Threats Sylvester Ngoma Ph.D. Candidate Information Technology Educator March 04, 2012 Vulnerability of IT Infrastructures 1 Introduction The pervasive and complex nature of security threats to Information Technology (IT) continues to be a major concern for modern organizations and businesses. IT infrastructures, which have become the cornerstone of organizational management, are highly vulnerable to potential attacks and sabotage. IT…

Rummaging through rubbish for personal information (dumpster diving) Retrieving personal data from redundant IT equipment and storage media including PCs, servers, PDAs, mobile phones, USB memory sticks and hard drives that have been disposed of carelessly at public dump sites, given away or sold on without having been properly sanitized Using public records about individual citizens, published in official registers such as electoral rolls Stealing bank or credit cards, identification cards,…

believe that a case can be made that he did at least in part use all of the principals at some point during the data breach and especially after that same breach. The first principal of management is planning. The way in which he successfully used this principal was in putting in a system for security that could have prevented the data breach in the first place, even though the security managers under him failed to properly use the system the way that it was designed (Smith, 2014). Also,…