Health Care Data Breach The Pentagon is under a lot of pressure because one of their contractors for health care had a data breached. The data breach affected as many as 4.7 million people. The person that was affected was solders, their family members, and other government employees. The contactor of health care is TRICARE which is a pentagon run health insurance program. The data breached was caused by a pentagon contractor leaving 25 computer tapes in the back seat of a Honda civic in Texas
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Importance of Managing iPads in the Classroom. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, V78(N3), P.11-13. This article discusses a rising trend in the implementation of mobile devices into the education system. Ipad and tablets have worked their way into districts and IT managers have tackled the task of viewing the different vulnerabilities to the existing infrastructure concerning security and load management. Most devices come preexisting manufacture security features, but
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(2015). A Primer on Data Security. CPA Journal, 85(5), 58. Data breaches are becoming a common occurrence. This article brings light to the different types of security breaches, common hacks and why
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10/09/2011 APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECT MISCELLANEOUS: * Computer Ethics * Virtual Reality * Multimedia * Telecommuting * Data Security * International Issues * Computer Based-learning After reviewing several options for my discussion, I decided that exploring a publishing company, Design Space Media Group, LLC would be an excellent and diversified approach to the many miscellaneous aspects present within an organization. Design Space Media Group began publishing
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the New York Times (2013) there has been a new wave of cyber attacks that have been striking large American corporations. It has been such at problem that warnings have been given from federal officials of the Department of Homeland Security. Just recently the data breach that affected Target, the attackers stole credit card data by installing malicious software on point of sale devices in the checkout lines at Target stores. (http://krebsonsecurity.com/). Viruses are computer programs that can reproduce
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Apple Inc.’s Security Risks and Protections Provided to Their Customer’s Privacy Apple Inc.’s Security Risks and Protections Provided to Their Customer’s Privacy Apple Inc. is one of the leading innovators in today’s technology market. They have 424 stores across the globe, with 255 of those store being in the United States. Apple is expanding globally, as they announced plans to triple the number of stores in China within the next two years (Cheng, 2014). With Apple’s most popular products
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What is Cloud computing and accounting? What accountants need to know? INTRODUCTION In recent years, with the advances in technology, for example cell phones, tables and laptops, business are turning to cloud solutions to increase productivity. While the concept of having crucial data at your fingertips sounds fascinating and attracting. Business need to be quarry and resource the software in depth before they commit to a cloud solution. During this paper will explore the pros and cons about
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Information management (IM) and technology is playing a very important role in healthcare today. There are both positives and negatives when it comes to the advancement in technology and IM. Nursing is one of the last areas in the business world to take advantage of the advances in both IM and technology (Roussel, 2013). The need to search through patient records, having access to nursing measures at the bedside, quick educational sessions, and the ability to mine data for quality measures relating
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“Communicating with patients using mobile devices such as Blackberrys, iPhones, iPads, or Android phones is fast growing trend among healthcare providers” (Barrett, 2011) . In the world today physicians and patients are using mobile devices an order to communicate with each other more and more. This of course raises distresses when it comes to the security of protected health information. This article discusses the issue on security by the use of electronic transfer of protected health information between
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