One accountability regarding information security is confidentiality. Confidentiality is a requirement whose purpose is to keep sensitive information from being disclosed to unauthorized recipients. It is roughly equivalent to privacy.
Measures undertaken to ensure confidentiality are designed to prevent sensitive information from reaching the wrong people, while making sure that the right people can in fact get it. Access must be restricted to those authorized to view the data in question. It is common, as well, for data to be categorized according to the amount and type of damage that could be done should it fall into unintended hands. More or less stringent measures can then be implemented according to those categories. Information has value,
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Further aspects of training can include strong passwords and password-related best practices and information about social engineering methods, to prevent them from bending data-handling rules with good intentions and potentially disastrous results.
A good example of methods used to ensure confidentiality is an account number or routing number when banking online. Data encryption is a common method of ensuring confidentiality. User IDs and passwords constitute a standard procedure; two-factor authentication is becoming the norm. Other options include biometric verification and security tokens, key fobs or soft tokens. In addition, users can take precautions to minimize the number of places where the information appears and the number of times it is actually transmitted to complete a required transaction. Extra measures might be taken in the case of extremely sensitive documents, precautions such as storing only on air gapped computers, disconnected storage devices or, for highly sensitive information, in hard copy form only. Secondly, is integrity which is one of the main areas of accountability regarding information security. Integrity is
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In addition, some means must be in place to detect any changes in data that might occur as a result of non-human-caused events such as an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or server crash. Some data might include checksums, even cryptographic checksums, for verification of integrity. Backups or redundancies must be available to restore the affected data to its correct state.
For example, if you were sending an online money transfer for $100, but the information was tampered in such a way that you actually sent $10,000, it could prove to be very costly for you.
Lastly, is availability which is one of the main areas of accountability regarding information security. Availability is a requirement intended to ensure that systems work promptly and service is not denied to authorized users.
Availability is best ensured by rigorously maintaining all hardware, performing hardware repairs immediately when needed and maintaining a correctly functioning operating system environment that is free of software conflicts. It’s also important to keep current with all necessary system upgrades. Providing adequate communication
For Tenth National Bank, we have reason to believe that the client intercepted the paper confirmation. After we sent the paper confirmation to the bank, we received an email from Lou Jennings stating that the bank forwarded the confirmation directly to their office instead of sending it to the audit team. In addition, Mr. Jennings provided login credentials and a link to the bank’s website, which did not appear to be reliable. As per the video, “How to Fight Confirmation Fraud”, presented by the founder of confirmation.com, Brian Fox, a fictitious website can be created easily. Our skepticism toward the reliability of the website is based on the unresponsiveness of most of the links on the site; the only link that works is the login button. In addition the website appeared dated and rudimentary. Another factor we found quite strange is that the website only offers paper statement deliveries, which we find highly unusual since paper statements are easier to modify. Furthermore, based on the tracking provided by USPS, the letter is still in the shipping process with no indication that Tenth National Bank has officially received the request for confirmation. This further supports our theory that Lou Jennings intercepted the Tenth National Bank confirmation letter. In our o...
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...ds and also for providing full fledge confidentiality of their sensitive data’s and audit reports.
Confidentiality has been a huge issue not only in the counseling area but in many others, like education and business in between many others. An example could be business, banks, their number one policy besides customer experience is protecting customers privacy and confidentiality, to continue to keep that bank- client relationship and to keep customer’s business with them. When you enter a bank wanting to process a transaction where information needs to be disclosed, the first thing they do is request a method of identification,(Driver’s License, State ID, Passport, etc.) and the reason behind this is because they cannot disclose any information to anybody but the person that owns the account, why?, to protect their privacy and their confidential information. Just how there is employees at the bank f...
Issues that will fall under this umbrella will be management accountability, fiscal liability, internal and external audits and protection of stockholder and stakeholder interests” (Fisher, 2004). An area of concern for both customers and vendors will be how well the organization can protect the information system that houses secured information such as a customer’s financial institution, bank routing numbers and account numbers. The same will apply to a vendor’s need of protection. If an organizations electronic accounting data base where to be hacked into and the information were to fall into the wrong hands, a company could be destroyed financially. An organization’s performance review also plays a vital role in the homeland security assessment. In conducting a review on this level I will obtain information as to “how the senior leaders translate organizational performance review findings into priorities for continuous and breakthrough improvement of key business results and into opportunities for innovation” (Fisher,
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security — one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear.
...sing disk space to enable high logging levels, and updating virus signature files and other security patches (Keri and Carol, 2010). The company also needs to come up with a well designed and documented recovery plan. Last, the Company needs to educate its staff about security and threats.
With technology being as worldwide and as it is today, such information can easily get into the wrong hands. Such as hackers or people who steal
In a company, a senior management needs to address management tasks and have an information security governance. The information security governance (ISG) is a way for a company to protect information in the information systems. According to Grama, the responsibility of the ISG falls on the executive management team to protect the information assets, (p. 373, 2011). The company will need to have its information security goals align with its business needs to help protect information. For example, a company needs to make a profit to stay in business and it should include goals to protect information from hackers. If a company gets a reputation of having security breaches, people would not want to do business with the company and they would lose profits. The CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability can be used by the ISG to meet the goals. Confidentiality is to protect information by allowing the correct people to have the permissions to access and use information. Integrity makes for the information is accurate and changes cannot be made to the information without the correct permission. Availability is making sure the information systems are always up and that information can be accessed. There are many tasks that senior management needs to address such as to make sure everyone understands the needs for the security of information to be governed. This can be done by informing the board and other senior management who may not be as familiar with information systems, how the threats and damage form the threats can disrupt operations and profits in the company. Another task for senior management to help with the development of the security framework by creating policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines. Thes...
Confidentiality has an equivalent meaning with privacy (Whitman, Mattord, 1997). Some information is so private that access to unauthorized parties is a great offense. That is why measures are designed to protect sensitive information from reaching unauthorized people. In many organizations data is categorized by the type of damage that is likely to
...tal part of lives just like privacy. Using cryptology provides mechanisms through a digital signature. This signature is inserted using a key (that only the writer of the email possesses) whilst a timestamp binds itself to the document. This type of cryptography is used to control access of security installations or pay-per-view television channels.
That an individual will attack or corrupt the data in the electronic system, either as vandalism or to extort money from the sponsoring financial institutions.
Encryption: - Data encryption is the best way to reduce risks associated with misplaced, lost or stolen data.
Nowadays, the information is the most treasured asset in an organization, due to it along with the experience represents the input necessary to take appropriate decisions and consequently to have success in the business. Almost all the information and knowledge related with the processes business, goods and services offered by a company, is processed, managed and stored through technology and information systems, thus the security of information has become increasingly important and plays a critical role in the enterprise government.
The first thing that we must consider about Information Security is that there is not a final destination at which we can arrive. IT Security is an ongoing set of processes and activities that requires attention and expertise on a daily basis. It is important to understand that systems are not secured by themselves and it is our responsibility to maintain and improve them periodically as required. It is of vital importance to establish the appropriate mechanisms and requirements in order to support the company’s CIA triad. The following report will provide you guidance about auditing and hardening techniques applied though the 7 Domains by utilizing IT Security Best Practices.