database last week, potentially compromising the personal information of approximately 80 million former and current customers, as well as employees, according to multiple reports. The information potentially compromised includes names, dates of birth, medical IDs or Social Security numbers, street addresses, and email addresses, according to a statement from Anthem president and CEO Joseph Swedish posted on the company website. Employment information, some of which included income data, might also be
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CIB Project Intro/Definition 1. Cyber security is a type of technology where it takes preparatory measure to ensure user protection and information privacy. (http://www.idigitaltimes.com/cybersecurity-information-sharing-act-advances-senate-heres-why-apple-twitter-485485) Cyber security growing challenges (2 prominent topics) Complexity of the joined environment * The technique with movement of the web is represent by a huge measure of data. * The advanced economy dynamically
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Cyber Security by American Military University Professor Derrick Thomas June 22, 2014 Cyber security is a difficulty that everyone faces in today’s society. It is defined in a variety of ways by many. One definition is that cyber security focuses on protecting computer networks, systems, data, and programs from unwanted access. Cyber security is sometimes referred to as information security, information network security, cyberspace security, or even computer security. There are many viewpoints
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minds of the DoD Chief Information Officer and Secretary of Defense. As the organization that laid the foundation for the internet, the DoD has evolved over the years reacting to the vulnerabilities and threats to their vast information systems. Past breaches have illustrated how vulnerable the networks are, and we can look at history to see the development of the defense networks and security. The DoD made a large impact across the computer security field with their security handbook called the “Orange
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Proposed solution... All organizations, whether big or small operate off data whether customers information database, or business operation database. In this document, we provide a general explanation of the business need for information security even in the smallest of businesses, explain information security threats or risks and vulnerabilities, explain the concepts of confidentiality, integrity, availability, non-repudiation, authentication, and authorization. This document also recommends
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expanded at a rapid pace, its network security has not kept up with company growth (NIST, 2012). GFI’s network is fairly stable as it has not experienced many outages due to network failures. Global Finance Inc. has hired three network engineers to keep up with the network growth and bandwidth demand by the company employees and the clients. However, this company has not hired any security personnel who can take care of the operational security responsibility. The trusted
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In the competitive world of healthcare, it is important that organizations establish data security measures to protect a patient’s confidentiality and privacy. Electronic health records (EHRs) must be protected against unauthorized users to prevent the misuse of protected health information (PHI). Health care organizations must protect their information systems from a variety of potential threats. This can include “intentional or unintentional damage to hardware, software, or data or misuse of the
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iTrust Database Software Security Assessment Security Champions Corporation (fictitious) Assessment for client Urgent Care Clinic (fictitious) Amy Wees, Brooks Rogalski, Kevin Zhang, Stephen Scaramuzzino and Timothy Root University of Maryland University College Author Note Amy Wees, Brooks Rogalski, Kevin Zhang, Stephen Scaramuzzino and Timothy Root, Department of Information and Technology Systems, University of Maryland University College. This research was not supported by any
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People can now use the Internet to share information with each other. Internet can also be used as a communication tool and people sitting in places half way across the globe can communicate with each other with a click of a button. At the same time, the Internet can also be a dangerous place. People share information through their computers and this means that their computers are online in a cyber world. This means that the person’s computer is open to threats and risks from anyone who knows how to
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Logistics Information Systems Designers: Matthew Gugumuck Michael Mawyer Daryl Giggetts | Overview | * The goal of the Risk Management plan is to design and execute the implementation of various security policies and different counter-measures in the event of any type of risk, threat, and/or vulnerabilities against the organizations daily operations and sensitive information. By combining both hardware devices and software applications will boost the effectiveness of security and preventing
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