Social information processing

in this career was due to a lot of what I’ve saw in the news over the years and from what I’ve personally experienced over the years. A large majority of companies and government agencies hire these experts to help strengthen networks, safeguard information, or prevent cyber-attacks. That’s the part that really interested me. Cyber-attacks. With a large amount of hacker groups out there, there needs be just as many hackers that do good rather than bad. So this what I want to do. I want to be the…

security measures in place. These security measures protect the organizations assets from loss or harm (Kovacich & Halibozek, 2003). The legal environment of an organization consist of laws, regulations and policies. To insure the proper protection of information, organizational policies must comply with the laws, regulations and policies of the federal, state, local or tribal governments. Altogether, the organizations security program and legal environment should conform to the requirements set…

The Secret Weapon: Secrets as a Weapon within Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Secret Societies 100 years ago, the deadliest type of warfare was the newest version of the Heckler-Koch machine gun. Secrets have just as much power, if not more, when it comes to government and society. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, illustrates the power and effects of dangerous secrets. The article “Secret Societies Control the World” explains who forms secret societies and why…

as people have an increasing level of various registration online. Amazon for example needs information such as bank or visa account number to be able to purchase. Such information is important and can be of critical value if it was in unwanted hands. Thence we are going in this paper to discuss about the three main areas of accountability, IT security, Information Security and Enterprise 1- Information Technology (IT) Security Vulnerability is the first word that come out when we talk…

First, officers need personal information in order to do their job. Currently, a police officer has to request personal information, and that request has to go through a sort of chain of command, typically to a superior officer. Second, the information obtained through a search is not exact. It is only a general starting line, which assists police with their work (Rozenburg, 2015). The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) gives access to some common information, such as how long a…

Computer security also known as cyber security or information technology security is a extremely concerned topic in 21st century in every country and domain with increasing frequent data threats and information leakage. According to 2012 cyber attacks statistics [1] , every month, more than 70 attacks without unknown threats occurred all of the world in 2012 and in June that year, the record exceeded 120. For example, a significant hacking issue reported by BBC News online was that in 2007,…

This summer, I interned for Stonegate Mortgage Corporation’s Information Technology Department, located in Carmel, IN. During the duration of my internship I was exposed to things I had not experienced from my prior internship at Pacers Sports and Entertainment, nor from classwork at Butler University. Overall, the experience at Stonegate Mortgage has been a positive one, filled with mistakes I learned from; the primary lesson learned during the internship was that some projects may seem perfect…

negligence of private information is one of the top reasons for a data breach. This includes an employee accident that leads to a data breach, and the use of a third-party that is negligent. For example, in 2009 an unencrypted laptop was stolen from the car of an Oregon Health & Science University employee which exposed the information of about 1,000 patients. This story and others shows the issue of insider negligence but also shines a light on the usage of encrypted information and device…

on human characteristics behaviour and its impacts on information security ultimately associated with risks. To be prosperous, advanced risk management must be a process that is thoroughly embedded into the agency’s strategic plan focusing on comportments such as overall governance, physical risk, cyber risk, and data security involving all personnel to protect sensitive information, students, personnel, and the general public. Information Security Specialists was a silo a decade ago. Now…

NIST Special Publication 800-37 Revision 1 Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems A Security Life Cycle Approach JOINT TASK FORCE TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE INFORMATION SECURITY Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930 February 2010 U.S. Department of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary National Institute of Standards and Technology Patrick…