Security breach

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…

Introduction Hacking the Healthcare System Healthcare has the highest cyber-attacks in the industry. This is only growing. Nearly half of all health care organizations have reported criminal attacks that caused a breach in their systems (Goodman, 2015). These hackers are gaining access to the electronic health information. Identification, banking information, and pharmacies used are just some of the data that these online hackers are getting their hands on. This is costing over six billion…

the Cybercriminals looking for specific type of personal information such as mobile phone numbers, email addresses, online gaming account username and password, credit card numbers so on, so they can sell online. The example of this kind of security breach happened most recently the hacker has been posted millions of Yahoo user’s personal data to a marketplace on dark web. It is to believe that the same hacker also previously sold millions of passwords and email addresses stolen from social…

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.…

has shaped many parts of our lifestyle’s from movement from one point to another (GPS), all the way to maintaining all of our hard earned funds on a piece of plastic. The question at hand is how this is all protected and who enforces it? Network security has proven beneficial in many cases in today’s society. It continuously monitors the companies system ensuring that unauthorized access isn’t permitted, or as we like to believe keeping our information from falling into the wrong hands. Although…

The steps I took with this assignment I first searched Privacy and Security in The Internet through Googles search engine then the Library Database. I read through the title of the articles to see which one came close to the topic. I then followed same steps on the Library database looking for Scholarly articles only. This article referenced how President Obama Administration is increasing our cybersecurity against cyberattacks. The internet holds thorough information about our lives, but the…

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…

The dilemmas Cook faced, discussed in the case study (Jayakumar & Tahora, 2016), were as follows:Unlocking the terrorist’s iPhone and building a backdoor for the national security – Cook and Apple faced a dilemma in helping the U.S. government and the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the terrorists who attacked victims in San Bernardino, California that had potential to reveal the terrorist’s motives of the attack as well as evidences of terrorist networks and trails of activities (Jayakumar &…

The United States homeland security environment is complex with competing requirements that must be balanced and managed to ensure the achievement of key national measures. The safety and security of the Nation faces threats by means of hazards and terrorism type attacks, as well as manmade accidents or natural disasters. Though out this ever changing environment homeland security must manage risks that can be associated with workforce management, acquisitions operations, as well as other cost…

(Rouses) is a calendar year-end company. On February 1, 2014, Rouses announced that it was acquiring 80 percent of the outstanding common stock of Best Beans Ever Corp. (Best Beans Ever) in a business combination. On the acquisition date, Rouses paid $40 million in cash and issued two million shares of Rouses common stock to the selling shareholders of Best Beans Ever. All of the outstanding stock options granted to employees of Best Beans Ever will be replaced with Rouses stock options as…