by an individual to process information about them based on their enlightened understanding of what we have planned. To include identifiable information about the patient in an e-mail message or on a website in the absence of a patient's express consent would constitute a breach of confidentiality. Obtaining consent should involve sensitizing the patient to any risk to his or her privacy and the provisions in place to protect him / her. Identifiable patient information could therefore be…
Steinbart(2006:6) that accounting information system is a system which gathers, records and process data to generate information for decision making. A company’s information system is a system which identifies records, summarizes and communicates various companies’ transactions. Accounting information system varies from manual, pencil and paper system in some organization to a complex electronic system in other organizations. These accounting information systems have different styles, even…
The goal of an APT is to gain access into the power grid network and collect as much information as possible. They use the exfiltration techniques that allow them to transfer sensitive information to their data-miner area also know as Command and Control Center. It is important for the APT to mask the data to resemble normal network traffic so that it detection can be made difficult or almost impossible (Cruz, 2013). Method for data exfiltration includes: Backdoors: This method used by the…
procedures needed to create, revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. It is used to bind public keys to entities, enables other entities to verify public key bindings, and provides the services needed for ongoing management of keys in a distributed system [1]. Public key infrastructure allows one to do business over the internet…
of Malicious Communication Defining Social Engineering Social engineering is defined by Berti (2003) as “the criminal art of tricking staff into revealing corporate information.” Social engineering can take place on various levels, and for various purposes. Social engineers can target other individuals and extract enough information to steal their identities (Brower, 2010). They can also use social engineering to perform reconnaissance on an organization, gaining critical knowledge to plan a…
NSA foreign partnerships and the scope of information these international governments shared. The tier one nations are known as the Five Eyes, where there is an agreement made between the United…
someone currently employed in the field of Information Technology, Security is very critical to ensuring that HIPAA is not breached with any of our clients. The biggest subsets as laid out in this case study are Information Privacy, Risk Management, Access Controls, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, and VPN’s. Again, as someone who works within the medical field performing IT, Privacy is incredibly important for not only my end users, but the clients. The information transmitted from select…
Background The expansion of the Internet and availability of information online has lead to an equivalent expansion in cyber crime, or cyber terrorism. In fact, in 2013 the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance reported that “93% of large corporations and 87% of small business reported some form of cyber breach in 2012” (Brewer, 2014). Also, President Obama labeled cyberthreats as an incredibly serious economic and national security challenge (Artlisch and Edelman, 2014). Cyber…
Business 4000 Legal Risk Management Plan: Shopify Jordan Loder (201213535), Shangqing Hao (201350881), Sichong Liu (201450079) August 4, 2016 Shopify is an e-commerce company with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo and Montreal (Shopify, n.d.a). According to their website, their mission is to “make commerce better for everyone” (Shopify, n.d.b), something they aim to achieve by offering a variety of ways that users can sell their products including with an online store, point of sale, a "buy…
growing demands of the business word. PKI is one of the most effective way for securing networks. The encrypted information that is sent is delivered using a public key. An individual is able to provide the public key to the sender, or the key can be retrieved from the directory from where it was published. PKI works in concert of other security mechanisms to help protect vital information (Weise, 2001). The invention of PKI by Diffie and Hellman completely changed any kind of secure…