In this article, the author discusses the benefits of employing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) as an Access Control. Galante makes many valid points and has demonstrated how using RBAC has many benefits to an organization. A few cases differentiate RBAC and the simple access control model. Although the author suggest RBAC as an optimal solution; RBAC certainly isn 't a cure all, however, it is ideal for a variety of circumstances. When RBAC is deployed properly and in the ideal situation, it can compensate the organization with financial, security and responsibility benefits.
The three principle components of access control in a trusted computer system infrastructure are:
• Authority: Security policies, relevant security information, and
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Notwithstanding following along, RBAC effectively oversees resource management. The author contends, however great RBAC appears to be, it is not suitable for every organization, nor will every organization reap benefits from it. That being said, RBAC is not a universal solution, nor should it be treated as such; “RBAC generally does not add value in small operations” Galante (2009), in such situations, the extreme organization can cause more harm than good. Generally, organizations with high turnover and/or lots of structure, people, roles, and resources are good RBAC candidates. In other words, RBAC is well suited to large, unstable, organized, or secure …show more content…
If well managed, it provides three main advantages: saves money, reduces risk, and increases accountability and control. How Does RBAC Reduce Risk?
RBAC’s most important contribution, risk reduction, is accomplished through three standard security control actions: preventive, detective and corrective.
1. Prevents violations by limiting resource access to persons with a verified need to know.
2. Risk reduction occurs by audit trails aiding in the detection of security
Besides the normal tasks of maintaining remote-access server (RAS) equipment, managers often find their time consumed administering access rights and authentication privileges on several, geographically dispersed remote access servers at the same time.
6. Should individuals and organizations with access to the databases be identified to the patient
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
Corning’s resource allocation process shows another ill fated effort towards an organized and objective budgeting and planning process. The inefficiencies and disorganized implementation of the plan that resulted plague company performance. The underlying problem of inadequate communication dissemination of Corning has led the managers, workers and committees to focus on different goals. The Resource Committee and Business Committee through the splitting of a previously larger group, which was believed to be slowing down innovation due to conflicts of interest between two subgroups (cost reduction and innovation). However, by just splitting the two groups, nothing was effectively put into place to arbitrate the issue, and once again the resource committee (known for having only accountants) focused mainly on cost reduction while the business plan focused on which projects had innovative ideas.
REI’s HR department description leads one to believe that HR has a larger role than just traditional functions.
Long term viability and lowering the risk of any possible action – the solution must be advantageous in the long run with the least amount of risk involved instead of just achieving short term cost advantages.
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The implementation and application of RM within the subject organisation has provided many opportunities for increased performance. Limitations and inequities have been recognised in the system employed, mainly due to the lack of assessment and changes to the system in order to align it with organisational objectives.
For the most part we have addresses the needs of our sales force on a case by case basis but going forward we really need to ensure we have a defined policy to streamline remote access. To accomplish this there are a few benchmarks we need to achieve. First of all the network has to be reliable or in more technical terms it needs to have high availability. Most importantly we need to make sure that the network is secure as much as it is possible with all the different types of users asking for access. Lastly, we need to address how we handle employees using personal or non-company issued computers and how we ensure that those machines meet of other remote access policies.
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Risk mitigation is also the process of controlling actions, which are identified, and selecting the suitable ones to reduce risk according to project objectives (Pa, 2015). Risk mitigation is important in IT organizations in so many ways. According to Ahdieh, Hashemitaba, Ow (2012), mitigation of risk provides a mechanism for managers to handle risk effectively by providing the step wise execution of the risk handling (as cited in Pa, 2015, pg. 49). Some risks, once identified, can readily be eliminated or reduced. However, most risks are much more difficult to mitigate, particularly high-impact, low-probability risks. Therefore, risk mitigation and control need to be long-term efforts by IT project managers throughout the project lifecycle. There are three types of risk mitigation strategies that hold unique to Business Continuity and Disaster
One basic principle is that, people should be informed about that their information is collected and for what purpose their information will be used and also should provide space for them to approve such use of information.
the risk of security incidents and breaches is reduced by encouraging employees to think and act in more security conscious ways;
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.