Security breaches

Why is Cyber Security a rising priority? Cyber security has always been a huge concern ever since the internet came out. There are 3 main branches of Cyber Security: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Accessibility. Every cybercrime out there violates one of these branches. Confidentiality deals with information that isn’t accessible to the public, Integrity deals with information that has been altered, and Accessibility deals with something being able to access. The first…

for businesses to expect to be a target for nefarious actors who seek to procure sensitive customer data. In the assignment scenario, the retail store unwittingly became a member in the growing percentage of organizations faced with customer data breaches. In an attempt to dissect and analyze the retail store’s customer data breach, I will begin this essay with the legal obligations and repercussions that the company faces, both criminal and civil. Secondly, I will attempt to distill, from…

users are more open to data breaches and identity fraud. As a consumer of the Internet everyone should be aware of how our digital information show snippets…

In the year 2013, one of the biggest retail data breaches in history occurred, where Target lost the credit and debit cards of over 40 million customers, along with the personal information of 70 million customers. It all started right before Thanksgiving on November 27, when someone installed malware in Target’s security and payments system that was designed to steal every credit card used at the company’s many stores throughout the United States. When a shopping item was scanned and the…

or some hackers just do it for the challenge (). There are multiple different types of hackers. In basic terms there are the good guys and the bad guys. The good guys are known as white-hat hackers and they help companies find loose ends in their security systems. Then there are the bad guys and they are called black-hat hackers. Black-hat hackers break into computers to steal information for their own profit…

Information Security Policy Compliance: Stick or Carrot Approach? Yan Chen K. Ramamurthy and Kuang-Wei Wen collaborated to write an article titled Organizations’ Information Security Policy Compliance: Stick or Carrot Approach? The article suggests internal security threats are most commonly seen in the forms of insider security breaches or employee negligence. The authors discuss results from research and surveys conducted by external control groups and through their own control groups used to…

Why is it important to protect information in the food service industry to maintain competitive advantage? Information security is the process of protecting the availability, privacy, and integrity of data. Information technology and methods of securing it have been around for centuries. Whether it is hiding your diary under your pillow, keeping a secret from others, or encrypting your passwords on a desktop, the need to secure data or information has always been important. In the food service…

There are various reasons why systems in the healthcare industry specifically are under cyber-attack. The passwords to get around the security firewalls are not strong or enforced enough to where one can easily figure out or hack in. Employee education or lack thereof is another issue healthcare is faced with. Health information about a patient is a need to know basis and some healthcare…

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 cybersecurity affects our government.…

it is becoming more valuable to organizations to understand how it could affect them. Although there is a wide assortment of security tools, products and services to invest in, it is still difficult to identify the most beneficial security measures for a firm because security is dynamic. The article illustrates a multifaceted perspective to explain the major security trends of 2014. It specifically describes how the past will impact the future and the relationship between business and…