Security breaches

Security – Engineering for Everyone! Corporations in all sectors share a common goal: to make money. This is not an eye opening statement, but the following might be: “Corporations in all sectors share a common theme – they barely (if ever) care about security.” While some reading this may simply stop at that statement and whisper “he is insane,” many tasked with information security would wholeheartedly agree with me after reading this in its entirety. During my thought process while writing…

Information security Audit Services Information Security Audit Services Manage Legal and Security Issues Compliance has become a four-letter word in many of today 's organizations where IT audit findings could costs thousands of dollars, interrupt business, generate fines and damage your reputation. Depending on your industry, you might be required to demonstrate security procedures, track internal processes, coordinate departments for systemwide audits or upgrade your security capabilities to…

1. There were numerous security and control weaknesses mentioned in this case. At first glance, Target had done everything they needed to do to prevent this hack from happening. They had a security staff of more than 300 people and spent over $1M for malware detection software. If anything looked suspicious, Target was to be notified immediately. The minute the malware was detected, the software could’ve been automatically deleted. The Target security team made an executive decision to…

associate screening, insider employee theft, and failure to update information security methods (Matwyshyn, 2009, p. 584). A breach incident is the unauthorized access to confidential or sensitive information which can result in the compromise or probable compromise of this data. This Information which could be confidential, protected, or sensitive can include personal identity information, health information, intellectual property or professional trade secrets of an organization, and…

On December 2014, Anthem’s databased was compromised by someone that used their credentials to run a query. The breach was not discovered until January 2015. Anthem Inc. security breach was made public in February 2015, and affected at least 80 millions of people. Anthem was at the moment the second-largest health insurance company in the nation. Their president and CEO, Joseph Swedish said to the media: “Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber-attack. These attackers…

With massive data breaches populating the headlines in recent years such as the recent breaches at Target and Home Depot, healthcare institutions are actively strengthening their arsenal against threats to patient history information (PHI). According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC, 2015), data breaches in healthcare accounted for 44 percent of all breaches in 2013, and that is expected to only inflate each year. A data breach is an incident when confidential data has been stolen…

The government nor the private sector are immune to security breaches, but which group is better equipped to protect America’s interests? Some critics will claim the private sector should set the standard for companies to follow. Opponents believe only the government has the power to establish a baseline for which the government and the…

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…

fences approaching the entrance to a facility will channel visitors towards the point of entry where secondary security measures are in place (manned guarding) this allows a steady flow of people in and out while maintaining discreet security protocols to take place. They can also be used to deter break-ins, the planting of fast growing thorny bushes at places of potential security breaches (ground floor windows, medium height walls) will deter any thief from attempting to gain entry. While…

as a result of cyberattacks. The $4.5 million Predator military drone, had its camera feed hacked by a $26 dollar piece of software widely available on the Internet (Marshall,1). Neither the government nor the private sector is immune to security breaches, but which group is better equipped to protect America’s interests? Some critics will claim the forward-thinking private sector should set the standard for companies to follow. Opponents believe only the government has the power to…