Security awareness

plan did not include a section for bullying. Bullying intervention programs are needed to deal with the rise of intimidation. Also, the current plan does not address the direct involvement of school security. School security members play a very vital role in the prevention of school violence. Security officers plan a vital role in the safety of students and in the promotion of a positive school…

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…

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…

Although Bill Clinton, George Bush, and President Obama have passed laws and put forward executive orders; cybercrime is still a prominent threat to our country. Obama further extended Bush’s Patriot Act through executive orders, improving the security to sixteen sectors by providing more in order to prevent future breaches and threats. Cybersecurity has become a prominent issue in politics and how our government reacts to cyber threats. The stakeholders from a political lens focus on how…

bank account anymore? If you haven’t, count yourself lucky, because Security Researchers state that almost half of the population of the United States has been hacked, or have had their private information leaked to the web. Many times you don’t even know it’s happened. Companies don’t like sharing information about breaches with the public, as it sheds “bad” light on them. But, when they do share the information that their security has been breached, it’s usually catastrophic. Just this last…

I believe that government surveillance does greatly cause loss of individuality and was explained extremely well in the “Chilling Effects” section; basically because people are now aware of government surveillance, due to Snowden, the way that people search on their computer and how they talk, has changed. Its self-censorship, in the fear that their private thoughts are not private anymore, society is beginning to not exercise their individual freedom to speech, they are not questioning laws,…

Transformation to electronic health records (EHR) has made patient records more vulnerable to data breaches. The top causes of medical data breaches that compromised PHI included theft, computer hacking, error by third-party custodians, and human negligence. Theft can be from an insider working at a health care facility who abuses their access privileges to information. Such employees seek information for the purpose of committing fraud. Theft can also be attempted by an outsider who can…

History of ransom ware Ransomware virus are carried out by trojan program. According to …, a trojan is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software. This malicious program allows cyber criminals to 1) Deleting data 2) Blocking data 3) Modifying data 4) Copying data 5) Disruption the performance of computer or computer network. First ransomware virus In 1989, according to the “”. The AIDS Trojan, also known as the PC Cyborg virus, was the first ever ransomware virus…

000 employees that all work to provide the highest level of quality for every patient every day. As a Risk Manager for CAMC and working with Administration and our Information Services Department, we would first need to acknowledge the HIPAA-HITECH Security Rule that governs privacy in healthcare. The ruling states that we will pursue practices for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic PHI of its patients.…

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 this…