Personal information management

Information security has arguably been around for centuries. Around the fifth century BC, the time of Herodotus, information was secured by shaving the head of a slave, tattooing a message, and before the slave was given orders to deliver the message, the hair was allowed to grow back, thus concealing the message and having rudimentary information security (Patterson, 2010). This ancient method of protecting information is highlighted to articulate information security methods are in need of…

Human Dimensional Impacts upon Information Security Infrastructure William Fisher University of Maryland University College CSEC610 Cyberspace and Cybersecurity Professor Hall Abstract Evaluating the vulnerabilities of an organization’s information security starts with the risk assessment. The process includes the method performed and current protocols to both measure the risk involved and address attacks. Typically, businesses will have a network tailored to their particular needs balancing…

dangerous. This is a very well written common sense report. It acknowledges that no matter how much they are disdained, nothing beats the password in terms of usability and ease of implementation. It also attacks many of the rules of password management and demonstrate how they are not effective. It actually does advocate password reuse (a rare occurrence) but limits the advice. It only states that passwords should not be reused for “important” accounts but other than that it is ok. The…

YAMMER NETWORK Guidelines and Best Practices Find what you need, right when you need it. Yammer seamlessly enables connections to people and information across your organization that you never knew existed, making it easier to move your work forward. 1 INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..2 1.1 Purpose Of The Guidelines and Best Practices document……………………………………2 1.2 Lennar IT Communication Policies ……………………………………………………………………………2 2 HELPFUL TIPS FOR USING…

regulations. For Information Technology specifically, security policies often are associated with IT Security guidelines, rules and parameters users of devices attached to the corporate network must operate within. In order to gain a better understanding of how security policies are implemented and enforced in the Healthcare industry, an interview was conducted with an IT Security Analyst working for a CRO focusing on Clinical Research. The discussion included a focus on the Mobile Device…

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…

external audiences, about the need to protect against emerging cyber threats. Today, we need to use Internet more than ever, to do everything from shopping, banking, to socializing, and in this interconnected world, we are constantly sharing sensitive information, which cyber criminals are always on the lookout for. Cyber threats are continually improving in sophistication and advancing capabilities, from both state and non-state actors, therefore everyone has to be increasingly diligent,…

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…

Our society is constantly evolving and changing and information is being added on the internet constantly by the second. Decision support systems have been around since the end of the 1960’s. The Decision support systems became introduced fully in the 1970’s. Decision Support System has been developing for almost…

Digital divide is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology, and those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone, television, personal computers and the Internet. The digital divide refers to the separation between those who have access to digital information and communications technology (ICT) and those who do not. Many believe that universal access to ICT would bring…