Security

secrets is one of the worst things imaginable. Unfortunately, data security breaches are happening more often. “But I have a small business,” you’re thinking. “No one would take the time to hack into my systems and steal my information.” Quite the contrary. According to Stephen Cobb, a senior security researcher, small businesses are the perfect target for hacking. Large companies use a great deal of resources to ensure data security. However, small businesses do not follow the same…

Based on the three principles of computer security; Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, they have clear relations to database management systems. Integrity and confidentiality is a major concern within database security since data is constantly being stolen leaving it unprotected against malicious users. Confidentiality is the protection against disclosure of sensitive information…

trying to figure out the balance between national security and freedom for their citizens. For many years now many had a feeling that their government was monitoring their calls. After the U.S. had established their foothold in the middle east, they have known that with the amount of negativity they were receiving one person would be bound to take it upon themselves and attack the United States. At what price will Americans have to pay for the security of our nation? Is it truly necessary to…

us as much as we, the people, allow them to. Looking as far back as the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years War in Europe and the Civil War in England, it was established that the nation-state should have sovereign control over external security as well as domestic affairs. Though there were probably many different interpretations on intervening in general external affairs, such as the control of foreign countries for protection, expansion is…

As a security analyst in the Information technology environment at the Aim Higher College, I have seen many attacks from the hackers that attempt to steal the sensitive data of the college and expose it to the whole world or alter it in some way. I have seen the many threats that have existed on the college’s data and systems at one point. Furthermore, I discovered many vulnerabilities in college’s systems, I captured them before the intruders can get their hands on them and make an effort to…

officers and private security officers generally has the same functions, but each officer has their own tasks and priorities while on duty. Private security guards have a wide variety of job tasks. According to Mulone (2011), several malls in the United Kingdom has found that security officers tasks devote a lot of their time to non-security functions, such as customer service. Private security officers has the power of citizen’s arrest, but in case of an emergency, security officers are not…

LBCC security budget is $169,400, for expenses other than wages for the employees. This amount is called the community services budget. This has to cover the insurance and other expenses. To have security guards trained and have the right equipment is will cost money that LBCC security does not have. However, LBCC makes a profit of $31,5595,769. Glock pistols,the average policeman carries, will cost an average of $540 a gun. Bulletproof vests would be about $800 per person. The safe to safely…

In today’s ever changing technological world, network security is a necessity. According to The SANS Institute, a research and educational organization dedicated to “information security training and security certification”, network security is “the process of taking physical and software preventative measures to protect the underlying networking infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, malfunction, modification, destruction, or improper disclosure, thereby creating a secure platform for…

false sense of security? Security controls are technical, physical or administrative defenses to evade, neutralize or diminish harm or inaccessibility because of risks operating on their corresponding weakness, i.e., security risk. Organizations add security controls, which is no surprise; however, it is easier than most think to bypass these controls. The business “goes through the motions of deploying a security tool or following an oversight procedure, but the benefit to the security posture…

monitoring. This phase monitors all the controls put in place to ensure that it does not adversely affect the mission or cause more risk. If a seven of these stages are followed, the benefits to the Homeland security are immeasurable. Benefits The effectiveness of risk management in homeland security and the benefits are staggering. This next few paragraphs will touch on just a few of the many benefits. The first and perhaps interesting benefit is its use in real world events. As most…