Two-factor authentication

Throughout our Risk Management Plan, we identified three possible risk with uniStuff.com that need to be address to avoid the project to fail. When running our SWOT analysis for the platform functionality and security, we noticed that online payment fraud and cyber security may impose major threats to the success of the project. Further analyzation of the services and legal paperwork, also allowed us to identify risks associated with customer satisfaction and refund policies. Online payment…

Allegiance Insurance Agency How to Safeguard the House You Are House Sitting In the United States, it’s estimated that burglaries of homes account for nearly 74% of all burglary instances per the Federal Bureau of Investigations. If you are a house sitter, then you don’t want to be a sitting duck if an intruder attempts to enter the home you are in while sitting. The following are some ways you can safeguard the home you are house sitting. Safety Tip #1. Secure every door and window in the home.…

around the world. The board of trustees blames me for this unforeseen incident and they are so furious that they wanted me fired. I have convinced them that it would be wise to keep me to fix the HSO’s Management Information System (MIS). I have only two options in front of me at the moment, either I fix the problem that has arisen or be prepared to resign. Major Problems and Secondary…

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…

Network intrusion takes place when an outside entity gains access to a prohibited network without authorization. A secure computer or network system should provide data confidentiality, data and communication integrity and assurance from a denial of service attack (Mukherjee, Heberlein, & Levitt., 1994, p.28). Network intrusion can have huge effects on an organization as data can be stolen, modified or erased, and equipment or programming can be harmed or annihilated. Organization in the…

Information Security Breach these days has been a popular subject in news. Almost every companies have been hacked, if not yet, they should not consider themselves as more secure than others that have already been there. In December 2013, Target was one of the victims with more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards that were stolen by malicious people. Just right before Thanksgiving a malware was installed inside target database. So between November and December 2013, over 11GB of…

Introduction In the present times when we look at the Intelligence agencies, the first thing that strikes our mind is secrecy – the services must have the benefit of operational secrecy. Because the services work clandestinely and the nature of their tasks requires them to fulfil their obligations in secret, they are at odds with the principle of open society. In cases of these agencies, there arises a conflict between there operational need of secrecy and the democratic objective of…

can be used for surveillance, access control, detection and other monitoring purposes. The most important advantage is that person walking image can be captured from long distance and the image is then processed with low resolutions. Here focus on two different techniques Principle Component Analysis (PCA) only and PCA with radon transform (RT) on machine vision for gait recognition purposes. In gait recognition silhouette defined as a region of pixels of the walking person and the silhouette…

The Aegis Secure Key 3.0 has military grade full disk AES 256-bit XTS hardware encryption and is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated. You unlock the drive by entering your 7-16 digit PIN before you connect it to your device that way hackers cannot use software on your device to capture your password, and it automatically locks when you unplug it. If an incorrect password is typed 20 consecutive times all the data and the encryption key are erased. It is also dust and water resistant as well as a wear…

When it comes to password security, we are faced with a serious conundrum. While we want to remember the password, we still need to practice safe security with a good one. The trouble with the easier to remember passwords is that they are highly insecure. What can you do to combat this problem? When you are using uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers to compensate, you can use what is known as a passpoem to resolve the problem of remembering. As Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin…