vulnerabilities that may lead to the loss of confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, or accountability. The output of the risk assessment will determine the actions for managing security risks and for implementing the appropriate controls needed to protect the company assets. The risk assessment process consists of the following tasks: • “Identify business needs and changes to requirements that may affect overall IT and security direction. • Review adequacy of existing security
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REVENUE CYCLE CONTROLS 1. Data processing integrity controls 2. Restriction of access to master data 3. Review of all changes to master data 4. Access controls 5. Encryption 6. Backup and disaster recovery procedures 7. Managerial reports 1. ------------------------------------------------- SALES ORDER ENTRY ACTIVITIES AND THREATS | CONTROL | 1. Take order 1. Incomplete/inaccurate orders 2. Invalid orders | 3. Data entry edit controls 4.
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owned or operated by employees in the performance of their job duties, whether written, oral, or electronic. Further it establishes an effective set of security policies and controls required to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities that exist in practically all computer systems and in the current security policies and controls that guard them. This ESP will focus on four (4) primary vulnerabilities, their risks, and the associated threats to the areas of: • Equipment Security • Network Security
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46 million cardholder details were stolen over a number of years [4]. The hackers used the common method of breaching insecure wireless networks from car parks outside the shops and installing malware to steal the card details. Many of the PCI DSS controls would have avoided or mitigated this attack. For example, networks must be protected from external intruders by adequate firewalls, and wireless networks must use a recent standard for protecting data such as WPA. Organisations are advised not to
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needs to be protected against internal and external threats. A database encryption solution can be used to achieve this protection in addition to providing the regulatory requirements. In the past, access control was used as a means of protecting information against access by unauthorized users. Access control did not prove very effective and this has led to the adoption of encryption where information is transformed into some form that cannot be understood by unauthorized users. Decryption is the process
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Software firewall: Firewall software has programs which are designed to monitor the data and also control the flow of traffic between the PC’s and the network. They are used to prevent unapproved access to PC’s or networks. The programs in firewall can allow, control access, encrypt, or substitute computer traffic based on settings. Advantages and disadvantages of software firewall: The advantage of firewall software is that it runs directly on the computer where it can also know about the network
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Technology & Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE CDepartment of Computer Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait b Azzam Mourada, Hadi Otrok , Hamdi YahyaouiC and Lama Baajoura Abstract-We introduce in this paper an abstract language on top of XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) for web services security. It is based on the automatic generation of XACML security policies from abstract XACML profile(s). Our proposed approach allows first to specify the XACML profiles, which are then translated using our
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Insurance Information Security Policy 1.0 Overview HHI provides access to authorized individuals that are employed and have the appropriate training for PCI DSS standards. Access to network and any software, hardware, business related assets will be managed by roles and responsibly. HHI promotes training for policies and procedures to ensure the integrity of our customers. 2.0 Purpose The purpose of the Access Control Policy is to ensure that sensitive financial information is kept secure
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Leonardo Journal of Sciences ISSN 1583-0233 Issue 13, July-December 2008 p. 7-21 Network Security: Policies and Guidelines for Effective Network Management Jonathan Gana KOLO, Umar Suleiman DAUDA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. jgkolo@gmail.com, usdauda@gmail.com Abstract Network security and management in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the ability to maintain the integrity of a system or network
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Introduction Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. The terms information security, computer security and information assurance are frequently used interchangeably. These fields are interrelated and share the common goals of protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information; however, there are some subtle differences between them. These differences lie
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