how vulnerable Target’s information system was. It is important to secure information on any system, regardless if it is your personal system or a corporation’s system. The big issue with Target’s breach and other companies’ breaches is the fact that the people responsible for the cyber-attack received information on the company. However, even more importantly they received personal information on their customers including names, debit/credit card information, etc. “Security refers to the policies
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Example Policy 1. Introduction This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for IT Systems is designed to protect , our employees, customers and other partners from harm caused by the misuse of our IT systems and our data. Misuse includes both deliberate and inadvertent actions. The repercussions of misuse of our systems can be severe. Potential damage includes, but is not limited to, malware infection (e.g. computer viruses), legal and financial penalties for data leakage, and lost productivity resulting
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Information Security/Security Policies Bobbi Bruce IT 244 March 13, 2013 James Sershen Title | Week 1 - Understand Information Security and Defining Security Policies | Assessment.1 | Program-level | ☐ Serves to make sure that a system fits in the overall structure of the business. ☑ Helps you to set up a security system, assign roles and responsibilities, determine your security goals, etc. ☐ Needs to state the security goals and how to achieve them for a particular system. ☑
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Computer Security & Privacy - TJX Case Backgroud: TJX, largest apparel and home fashions retailers in the off-price segment was struck with Security Breach in all of its eight business units in US, Canada and Europe. Intruder had illegally accessed TJX payment system to hack personal and credit/debit card information of an unspecified number of customers. Security breach had affected Customers - pay for the purchases made by the intruders/ card invalidated / expiring the spending power, Financial
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breaches occur? • we suspect our information system has been • targeted and patient information exposed. After one a laptop and other portable device is lost or stolen. • We did a rapid assessment to mitigation of damage and is and define scope of the incident we discovered following facts: – – – – data are not encrypted laptop are not protected by password Information of patients are exposed. No log file exist What are consequences of these breaches ? A data security breach can have devastating consequences
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Introduction Information is a valuable corporate asset and important to our business. With regard to the situation that Brawner offers me a large sum of money for the email addresses and phone numbers of all my customers, what should I do? This essay aims to provide my response and dig out the root reasons of my business decision-making from two aspects of information ethics and information security. Information Ethics With the rapid development of information technology nowadays, people pay
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SECR 6000 Research Study – Time to update the DoD Personnel Security regulation Submitted by R. Allen Green Prepared for Dr. Beth Vivaldi SECR 6000 Security Management Fall II, 2012 Webster University December 12, 2012 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author. I have cited all sources from which I used data, ideas, or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover
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Heart-Healthy Insurance Information Security Policy Paul Ervin Western Governors University A1. New User Section New Users The REVISED portions of the new user section now stipulates: “(1) New users are assigned access with principle of least privilege. They will have a level of access commensurate with access required to do their job. This level will be predetermined by IT staff according to job title. (2) An administrators account approval form with manager’s signature must be submitted
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Abstract Information technology has become an integral part of any organization in the modern era of globalization. The organizations who have failed to use IT properly for their benefit either have declined or is in a very unproductive stage. Implementation of IT also brings in some dangers which are required to be dealt efficiently with responsibility. This efficiency comes with adequate knowledge of the nuances of the IT industry and the main drawbacks or problems regarding the system. In this
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|Assess; identify cardholder data as well as all | | | |related IT infrastructure and processes. | |Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard | |Remediate; eliminate storage of unnecessary data | |(PCI DSS) | |and fix discovered. Report; submit validation
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