Encryption

The National Security Agency (NSA) has collected and analyzed the contents of emails, text messages, and mobile and landline telephone calls from nine Americans for every one foreign person it has targeted. Their main mission is “preventing foreign adversaries from gaining access to sensitive or classified national security information.”(https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/) To simplify, the initial mission was to keep America safe from the foreign. They’re responsible for the protection of U.S.…

Security and Payments: - This part plays an important role in in E-business systems during an online transaction providing security is more important to that website and site should be user friendly. So, that it will increase the reputation of an organisation and more products will be sold and organisation can gain more profits. If you didn’t provide security to an E-business website customers may lose faith. Here are few of the specifications for safe transactions. Availability integrity and…

Everyone can relate to this scenario while growing up; in school, one friend made a mistake or broke school’s law and all other friends were also held accountable for one's misdeed. Apple Vs FBI case from last year feels the same way. Somehow one bad guy used Apple’s iPhone, and FBI was asking for backdoor to the iOS operating system so that they can unlock any iPhone. Apple fulfilling FBI request will put hundreds of millions of people at security risk, and it will open the door for massive…

Digital signatures INTRODUCTION This paper will focus on Authentication and Digital Signatures, and outline strategies for Implementation, present techniques on how to apply, adapt, and extend Authentication and Digital Signatures in areas such as encryption, and verification. Digital signatures prevent persons from acting as the originator of a specific document, which is comparable to forgery on a printed text. Authentication is the primary and most critical line of defense in a system and…

Target on Friday confirmed that strongly encrypted PIN data was removed from its system during the security breach that took place between Black Friday and Dec. 15. The breach could impact 40 million shoppers who used credit cards or debit cards at Target's U.S. stores during that period; however, online shoppers have not been affected. The incident has been gathering steam in the media. Along with consumers' growing voices of frustration and anger, attorneys general in several states have…

San Bernardino case (as cited in Jayakumar & Tahora, 2016). This presented another dilemma for Cook because this might open the flood gate.oBuilding the backdoor defeated the purpose of encryption (as cited in Jayakumar & Tahora, 2016). This would make Cook defensive as to why tech companies even needed encryption to begin with.oApple worked such hard to treat its customers’ privacy seriously, believing the contents of iPhone were not the company’s business (as cited in Jayakumar & Tahora,…

In the article titled “Forcing Apple to Hack That IPhone Sets a Dangerous Precedent”, Congressman Darrell Issa argues that protecting the privacy of millions of people should be more important that forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone that a terrorist used. Congressman Issa suggests that forcing Apple to create new software to unlock the device will put privacy of millions of people at risk. Congressman Issa writes this article in response to the controversial decision of the court to force Apple…

progress of my ISM 491a capstone project. This project was to research an encryption method that would strengthen the company’s environment and protect them if there was ever a data breach. As presented in my project proposal, I identified two principal objectives for this project to be successful. The first was to perform an assessment of the environment currently in place, and the second was to come up with an encryption solution that can be implemented in the company‘s environment without…

Hospital Settings Needs The hospital needs for less bulky, easy to use and versatile devices has encouraged hospital to transition to the use of tablets. The regulations and laws from HIPAA and HITECH need to be reviewed prior to implementing different devices. Also, the providers request for tablets and the computer literacy of the staff is another aspect to consider. Most importantly, the security breaches that could occur force a thorough assessment prior to final recommendations. HIPPA:…

lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." In the fight between Apple and federal law enforcement over a locked iPhone, the government is violating Apple’s Constitutional rights by asking for backdoor encryption software to their devices. If Apple allows the government to succeed without fighting back, it will open the floodgates for the government to encroach on Americans citizens and…