Bibliofind
Fundamentals of E-Business – BUS107
August 31, 2011

The computers we use in today’s society are advancing every day. Every child and adult can operate or manipulate most home computers. We are being taught that to succeed in today’s electronic world, the computer will help in providing all the answers. One of the problems we face with the computer is that there are so many rights versus wrong, or good versus bad things that can be done using a computer. In this report we will discuss how Bibliofind might have used firewalls to prevent the intruders from gaining access to its transaction servers, how encryption might have helped prevent or lessen the effects of Bibliofind’s security breach, and the California law requiring companies to inform customers when private information might have been exposed during a security breach.
How Bibliofind might have used firewalls to prevent the intruders from gaining access to its transaction servers, where the firewalls should have been placed in the network, and what kinds of rules they should have used to filter network traffic at each point. For people who are not familiar with a lot of computer terms, “a firewall is software or a hardware-software combination that is installed in a network to control the packet traffic moving through it. The firewall provides a defense between a network and the Internet or between a network and any other network that could pose a problem (Schneider, 2011, p.479)”. If Bibliofind had wanted to prevent intruders from gaining access to its transaction servers they should have used “trusted” networks where they had the client information. It is known that networks outside the firewall are unreliable (untrusted) and could cause a problem. The firewall acts as a filter to allow selected messages to flow in and out of the network. The firewall should not stop people who want to do