Human security

Information Security Policy Compliance: Stick or Carrot Approach? Yan Chen K. Ramamurthy and Kuang-Wei Wen collaborated to write an article titled Organizations’ Information Security Policy Compliance: Stick or Carrot Approach? The article suggests internal security threats are most commonly seen in the forms of insider security breaches or employee negligence. The authors discuss results from research and surveys conducted by external control groups and through their own control groups used to…

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS SECURITY INT7223 Research Paper On Information Security - Current Event Submitted by: Sowmya Tiruchengode Yegyanarayanan 000717417 10/06/2014 INTRODUCTION We are living in a delicate world filled with threat to sensitive information, materialistic properties and even to human soul that possess it. Information is considered to be a fragile asset of a person or an organization, which is capable of creating disastrous outcomes, if not secured. There are hackers and cyber…

Week two of our material provided us with several different elements of the homeland security assessment process. What I gathered most from the material was based on the “Baldrige Assessment Criteria and the eight step process for a successful assessment” (Fisher, 2004). However, the consensus is that the key elements in the homeland security assessment process are “a threat assessment, a vulnerability assessment and a criticality assessment” (Decker, 2001). In my opinion, these three key…

In this century, computers and other technology have become common household utilities in our everyday lives. Although computers are advanced, there are still people who are capable of bypassing our networking security and taking full control of other people’s computer systems. They are called “computer hackers.” Computer hackers have various reasons why they do what they do. For instance, just last month, my mom obtained a call from an anonymous party who offered to help remove files from the…

Retail sector is using IoT sensors for proximity advertising, security alarms, automated checkout etc. Banking industry is using it for smart payments. Manufacturing division is using it for efficiency monitoring, supply chain optimization, video monitoring, connecting warehouses with RFID. Health sector is using it…

cannot be mentioned. 4.2. Business Scope It is in the business scenario of consolidation that a security outsourcing project was executed for a major Telco. The objectives were to implement, optimize and monitor the implementation of the…

Network security has been at the head of some stories in the news. Security is an aspect of the technology field that should be considered at all times. Not only can personal security be breached, the security of others can be affected as well. For example, the incident with the retail company Target, (Vijayan 2014) retailer 's failure to properly segregate systems handling sensitive payment card data from the rest of its network. In this paper, network segment security aspects will be discussed…

Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone. When Edward Snowden found out that there was an unacceptable violation of privacy being committed by the NSA, he did what he found to be the right thing which was to give awareness to the public about this issue. Snowden discovered that the NSA was conducting surveillance of hundreds of millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including phone calls, text messages and emails. He was able to get access to…

(Outside and inside sources, including human errors and negligence). All agencies working directly or indirectly with the Western Interconnection would have to adhere to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is used as standard references by the federal government appliances and networks to protect sensitive information. It reinforces the use of the ISMS risk management process and provides guidance to meet a minimum level of information security as required by the FISMA Act of…

Nations. A report published by the top official for human rights and counter terrorism stated that the continued use of mass surveillance has effectively done away with the right to privacy of communication on the internet, and that it is incompatible with the current concept of privacy for the state to collect metadata all the time, indiscriminately (UN, 2014). The United Nation's criticism of mass surveillance displays how deeply it violates human rights, in that the way it currently operates…