Network security

11.1 Weakness Physical security should concern more on unauthorized access and misuse, besides the integrity and availability of the sites, system and network devices. Terrorist Threat 11.2.1 Strength To protect the company from terrorism, advice from the Federal agency is needed, thus 11.2.1 is essential for a company when making policies on terrorist threat. 11.2.2 Weakness The internal procedures as well as external support and cooperation are both the support resource the Company should…

You can respond to a security incident in a number of different ways. Your options include countermeasures designed to block intrusions to packet-filtering rules and proxy servers to block intrusions that have been detected by an Intrusion Detection System (IDS); and alterations to security policies to cover new vulnerabilities as they are detected. By developing a Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), your organization has the flexibility to implement any or all of these response options.…

Western Governors University A. Security Faults Describe three of the security faults in this scenario that caused a security breach. 1. Some accounts existed before the electronic health record(EHR) was deployed. Important steps were missed during the import of old accounts. I suggest using a clean base line for the brand new EHR system. Users should not be able to have administrator rights without a manager innerving. The security risk that is being violated is called least privilege. This…

When it comes to our national security, there are many threats. For instance, some may believe that biological weapons are the biggest threat, while others feel transnational crimes are. In my opinion, though, I believe that cyber-attacks are our biggest threat when it comes to national security. Cyber-crime, as well as cyber terrorism proceeds to be the most accelerated threat to citizens of the United States. Our digital foundation is so accessible when it comes to being attacked which is just…

Information Security Breach these days has been a popular subject in news. Almost every companies have been hacked, if not yet, they should not consider themselves as more secure than others that have already been there. In December 2013, Target was one of the victims with more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards that were stolen by malicious people. Just right before Thanksgiving a malware was installed inside target database. So between November and December 2013, over 11GB of…

As a network administrator for a small company with 10 members in the sales group, that all own laptops, I would implement a policy that required staff to bring their laptop to work with them. I would inform employees that is it a BYOD (or Bring Your Own Device) work place. Employees brining their own devices to work would keep costs down and give the employees more freedom and leisure. By implementing the BYOD policy in the work place, employees are more likely to have their laptop with them…

token may be set in place where you need a username, password and pin + token in order to access the network and the data that may even be shared on a local share drive. However; sometimes certain access is restricted to make sure that there is no data that could possibly be transmitted into the wrong hands or get lost. With both cases it is important that a firewall is set in place and internet security should both be in place and monitored to make sure that the firewall is running…

On December 2014, Anthem’s databased was compromised by someone that used their credentials to run a query. The breach was not discovered until January 2015. Anthem Inc. security breach was made public in February 2015, and affected at least 80 millions of people. Anthem was at the moment the second-largest health insurance company in the nation. Their president and CEO, Joseph Swedish said to the media: “Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber-attack. These attackers…

connection provided by the hospitals or the public wifi (in case of patients) which raises high security risk as the data can be easily pulled. This risk can be minimized by ensuring that while accessing this data, the hand held device connects using VPN(Virtual Private Network) which encrypts the data and then transmits the data across the internet leading to a better security of the ePHI data. Though HIPAA Security rule permits the ePHI data to be transmitted via email, there are three…

Workstation Security Policy A workstation policy provides standards for access to information inside the facility in a controlled manner, respecting guidelines set by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines to properly ensure workstation security within healthcare companies. Workstation security policy ensures the security of information on the workstation and information accessed by the workstation. Additionally, this…