Protecting Personal Information (PPI) IFSM 201 6381 Concepts and Applications of Information Technology (2158) University of Maryland University College Understanding The Concept of Protecting Personal Information (PPI). Personally Identifiable Information or PII is information that can be used to distinctively identify, contact, or locate an individual. PPI is sensitive information that is associated with a person. These information should be accessed
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Staffing the Information Technology Department Gayle Yarbrough, PHR Webster University ITM 5600/45 - Information and Communications Security Dr. Etido Akpan February 15, 2011 Abstract Staffing the Information Technology (IT) department today is about proper workforce planning and strategic alignment. In today’s labor market, it is essential that staffing be aligned with the strategic plan of the organization. The goal of the staffing expert is to achieve the perfect balance between improving
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Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store with the very best domestic and imported fare at every location. In keeping with their motto, “Shopping the World for The Finest Food”, Kudler Fine Foods shops the world in order to provides the very best Baked and pastry products, fresh meat and seafood, fresh produce, cheese and specialty dairy products, wines, and condiments and packaged foods. Kudler Fine Foods brings those food items back to their
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Ethics in Information Security The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires financial institutions that offer consumers financial products or services like loans, financial or investment advice, or insurance to explain their information sharing practices to their customers and to safeguard sensitive data. Strengths: * Allow customers to know how confidential information will be treated. Instead of hoping a financial services company will treat their personal
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Government regulation of securities exists so that firm’s cannot bloat their profits on their financial records. This in turn causes investors to invest money in them when they are not privy to their actual records. When people think of “shady” accounting the first thing that comes to mind is most likely the Enron scandal of 2001. “The Enron collapse illustrates that government regulation can lessen asymmetric information problems, but cannot eliminate them. The Enron bankruptcy not only increased
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Mobile Computing and Social Networking Info Syst Decision-Making\CIS-500 Date: November 23, 2014 In few recent decades several revolutionary and technological steps have been taken in healthcare industry. The emergence of several mobile technologies like WiFi, smartphones, and social networking has discovered different techniques and methods for online medical healthcare. “There are several attractive things emerging in Medicare world with respect to technological innovation. Radiological
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Week Four Assignment Renee’ R0binson INF 220: IS Principles (BQE1351aA Melvin Lee May 8, 2014 Security Products are needed for all business and will help with any company that has technology involved. Most company are dealing with technology on a daily basis like the World Wide Web that takes on a whole new level and is important in every type of way. There are many software products that are out there such as virus protections, spyware, and firewalls. Spyware have many different
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them to formalize control procedures in writing. Privately held companies and other organizations also have an interest in the benefits that result from formalizing and documenting their internal control procedures. Companies must develop sound principles of control over financial reporting and continually assess that the controls are working. The new rules require management to disclose to the public any material weakness identified by management. The report must also state that the company’s independent
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water. Therefore, many thought that the mission was failing and clarification of information was no longer occurring. For this reason FASB instated its codification clarification database in 2009 with the intention of simplifying access to the rules if not the actual rules. Therefore, this searchable database has given some hope for the future, but many wish to see a move to a more principles based regulation style. They hope that a more open set of regulations would allow
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has gained its impact in almost each and every area. With each passing day, new technology is immerged; hence a proper methodology for adopting these technologies should be there, hence there is need for ethics and code ofconduct. “The use of information technology in society is creating a rather unique set of ethical issues that requires the making of new moral choices on the part of society and has spawned special implications for its members.” Technology is neither the only nor necessarily the
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