1. The difference between privacy law and information systems security is very simple you must apply security to ensure privacy. In IT they relate because you must have a security process that in return will have privacy as a successful action.
2. The employee should have never taken home official data because of all the information that the files had. All the files had personal information of each patient.
3. The possible consequences that are associated with data loss are financial and in the scenario mentioned identity theft.
4. Regarding the loss of privacy data, there was data containing personal healthcare information PHI making this HIPPA compliance violation because institutions want to make sure that their patients information is not jeopardize and they to ensure security with any medical records.
5. The action that any company can take against any concerned employee is training and making sure that all employees are aware the policies.
6. The response of the company would have been different if the data theft had occurred at work instead of happening at the employee’s residence because at work the company could have traced the employee and his where abouts within the premises of the company. The consequences of violating company policy would have been much simpler to implement.
7. The VA Data Analyst’s and two supervisors that were reprimanded and demoted by the VA Secretary and the action is justified because the incident had been happening over the last three years and no one did anything to correct the problem or report it.
8. Data breach was violated because the information that the VA patients provided was supposed to be kept in save place.
9. Even if the data was encrypted because of the VA policy, data loss would still be an issue because of all the personal information that could have been compromised.
10. Keep the files save and ensuring