Personal information management

Smith’s ethics and information systems article “ groups typically include stockholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and the local community” (Smith, H. (2004). In Ipremier case, the stakeholders that will be affected by this crisis are their customers who has been using the website for many years and who has their credit card information and their data are already in the website and could be access by the customer’s database. What’s at stake for the customers is that their information will…

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…

store locations nation-wide. However, considering various steps taken by Target upon realization of the breaches, it is hard to defend or picture exact wrongful doings or violation of laws by Target. Let’s keep in mind that electronic data and information breaches are hard to prevent; this is mostly due to interconnectivities of globally devices. As such, laws do not persecute companies for hackers breaking into their networks; instead, there are laws binding companies to put required secure…

negligence of private information is one of the top reasons for a data breach. This includes an employee accident that leads to a data breach, and the use of a third-party that is negligent. For example, in 2009 an unencrypted laptop was stolen from the car of an Oregon Health & Science University employee which exposed the information of about 1,000 patients. This story and others shows the issue of insider negligence but also shines a light on the usage of encrypted information and device…

electronically; although this can be a good transition, it can also pose a problem. Electronic health records have not been perfected and there are still risks for breaches and potentially a big possibility of disclosing patient’s important medical and personal records. On September 8, 2011, Nemours, a Children’s Health System reported missing three unencrypted computer backup tapes that were locked and stored in a cabinet in the Nemours Health System facility in Delaware. These backup…

Introduction During the last SLP report on information security management the concerns of the organization VPN were discussed. However, in this module we would like to use a big brush and with the use of wide strokes examine the impact of continuous monitoring pertaining to information security systems. While the VPN issues are important it actually points to a bigger concern for the organization. This article will focus on two areas of information security system which are “continuous…

Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It 1. Who are the stakeholders in the Target breach? The main stakeholders are their shareholders, the clients that had their personal information stolen, and individuals with an ongoing connection with Target organization whose personal information was or might have been compromised. Stakeholders who are affected or worried that they might be harmed start to mistrust the firm and its complacent-sounding promises. 2. What is the…

The M2M ecosystem is not secured by present information security policy (Lake, Milito, Morrow, & Vargheese, 2014). A research gap is present where current security frameworks fail to address needed protections for next generation systems like M2M. Present frameworks do not adequately consider next-generation threats from a system or device that is non-human driven, which weakens countermeasure implementations and security guideline development (Wash, 2010). There is a lack of sufficient…

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…

process in the city management is more difficult. The “smart city” systems analyze huge number of data. And working with the results could help city’ managers make better decisions. At the same time, the decisions could help to improve the working processes. In this case, both New York and Barcelona get the benefits from “smart city” programs. They improved the environment protection, energy using, and public life. However, many people also worry about the public information security and the…