1. What is the difference between a threat agent and a threat? A threat is an object, person, or other entity that poses a risk of loss to an asset—i.e., the organizational resource that is being protected. A threat agent is a specific instance of a general threat. 2. What is the difference between vulnerability and exposure? A vulnerability is a weakness or fault in the protection mechanisms that are intended to protect information and information assets from attack or damage. An exposure
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Assignment 2 Information Security for Managers Submitted By: Student Number: Submitted Date: January 22, 2009 Table of Contents 1. Information Security Policy (Word Count = approx. 1000) 3 1.1 Security: 3 1.2 Policy: 3 1.3 Information Security Policy and its importance: 4 1.4 Policies, Procedures, Practices, Guidelines 5 1.5 Example of good policy statement 6 1.6 Possible structure of information security policy documents 7 1.7 Strategies and techniques
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I learned a lot from the HIPAA tutorial. I learned that the final security rule is required for a covered entity to meet four basic requirements. The four requirements are: to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all e-PHI’s created, received. Maintained or transmitted; protect against any reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of e-PHI; protect against any reasonably anticipated uses or disclosures of e-PHI that are otherwise not permitted or
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Attack Prevention Nicole Stone University of Phoenix Introduction to Information Systems Security Management CMGT/441 Anthony Seymour March 03, 2012 Attack Prevention The article that will be reviewed is entitled “Help Combat Cyber Attacks with These Steps” written by Chris Mead. This article covers many topics on how a business or government agency can be damaged by a cyber-attack and what should be done to prevent this from happening. Cyber-attacks can “inflict economic damage,
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NETWORK SECURITY Introduction Network security is a major issue when developing a new computer system. A few of the issues that the new WInt must address are accidental disruptions to the system, loss or theft of sensitive data by employees, malicious attacks to system, and theft of intellectual property by employees (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2014). The accidental disruption to systems are caused by employees who input mistakes or leave out
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involve personal health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), trade secrets or intellectual property. A data breach is an incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data has potentially been viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Data breaches may involve personal health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), trade secrets or intellectual property. According to laws in 40 states, when a data security breach occurs, notification
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Strategic component answers the question "why do security enterprise problems exist?" This question of security leads to developing security policies that deal with people issues, and evaluates internal/external risks. Organizations are urging top executives to make information security a priority. Therefore, quality and trustworthiness of information are becoming key business issues (Ezingeard et al, 2005). To better accomplish information security in an organization, a management level infrastructure
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Term Paper: Security Regulation Compliance Giancarlos Guerra Strayer University CIS 438 - Information Security Legal Issues Abstract: In this paper I shall provide an overview that will be delivered to senior management of regulatory requirements the agency needs to be aware of, including: i. FISMA; ii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act; iii. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; iv. PCI DSS; v. HIPAA; vi. Intellectual Property Law. Describe the security methods and controls that need to be implemented in order to ensure
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Developing Security Programs Chapter Overview Chapter 5 will explore the various organizational approaches to information security and provide an explanation of the functional components of the information security program. Readers will learn how to plan and staff an organization’s information security program based on its size and other factors as well as how to evaluate the internal and external factors that influence the activities and organization of an information security program. As
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