Human security

preponderant challenges emerge in today’s society related to governmental security breaches and public mass shootings, higher education institutions are placing more accentuation than ever upon risk mitigation. Within the IT department at Southside Virginia Community College, risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to factors focusing on human characteristics behaviour and its impacts on information security ultimately associated with risks. To be prosperous,…

1. Purpose After several security incidents Greiblock Credit Union (GCU) Board of Directors needs a sound policy to address the situation. The main objective of this document is to improve the security culture of the organization. The specifications of this policy will address dynamic vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection, and incident response. This document goes into detail about what is required for a proper incidence response. 2. Scope This policy is intended to support the…

It would be recognizing that we live in a world where our right to privacy, our human liberty and dignity, is being violated. It would be easier to just shrug it off. To call it a hoax and ignore the issue. But we as a society can’t. Snowden had no vicious motives, in fact, you can see that he had more to lose than to win. So why would…

Transformation to electronic health records (EHR) has made patient records more vulnerable to data breaches. The top causes of medical data breaches that compromised PHI included theft, computer hacking, error by third-party custodians, and human negligence. Theft can be from an insider working at a health care facility who abuses their access privileges to information. Such employees seek information for the purpose of committing fraud. Theft can also be attempted by an outsider who can…

a mega event. Since 9/11 there is a need for higher security presence which cost the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics $1.5 billion (USD). “Sports mega-events not only give rise to major economic and socio-cultural opportunities for the host cities and nations but also arouse increased local, national and international security concerns.” (Klauser p. 1039)…

become a common occurrence with billions of attacks carried out on various federal agencies each year. Pew Research Center recently conducted a study, and found that the people of the United States believe that the second biggest threat to global security is cyber-attacks. Specifically, these threats pose significant risks to the Coast Guard and the National Maritime System (NMS). These operations contain cyber systems crucial…

The article Human Intelligence Collection talks about how HUMINT operations are conducted and its motives behind it. Whether it is personal greed, ideology or revenge against their mother country it will cause exceptionally grave damage to the country. It mentions a few countries such as Soviet Unit, West Germany, and China how they conducted HUMINT operations. The article elaborates intelligence source was collected from emigrate, use of sex to gain secrets, defectors during the Cold War…

In today's society there are many laws that are made to help everyone be equal and neutral with what is to come from them and ones that people do not agree on are considered as unjust. As human beings we should be able do what we want and not have anyone else manage what we are doing or explain why they are managing them. We as people shouldn’t have to worry about how safe and secure our private information that makes up our life in this world that we do. We should be able to enjoy the internet…

Armed and Unharmed “I can’t believe they haven’t instantaneously allowed pilots to defend themselves given the gaps in the current system,” said Representative John L. Mica, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on aviation (West). He is referring to pilots of commercial airliners defending themselves by use of` weapons; such as firearms. The use of these firearms would be very beneficial to airliners and should have action taken in favor of it. The benefits of…

Threat Assessment of ‘Important Security Alert From Windows’ Pop-Ups: ‘Important Security Alert From Windows’ Pop-Ups has created havoc among computer users that does not allow them to usually work in the computer. Where this adware has found its own method to attack the targeted system and to make the infected computer almost useless. In order to trouble computer user, it performs several malicious activities to use the security gaps in the system and it leads to freeze the entire running…