Introduction This essay discusses security design options for a problem faced by a newspaper company. National newspaper would like to conceal their activities regarding to publish government’s sensitive information. For months, national newspaper is going to do research involving many allies like government whistle-blower, international collaborator, and other resources. Therefore, the teams who responsible to this issue may need a suggestion about security design between them. They are going to exchange a large volume of data and use communication system between journalists and resources. Besides prerequisite a strong secure communication system, newspaper company also concerns about confidentiality of work-in-progress stored inside their local storage. They may want to apply secure inventory management to store data securely until it is published. They may give different privileged among their staffs to access their data. They should prevent “a snake in the grass” that probably leak their asset to government, and only trust to small group of people. This essay will further talk about two main things, how to build secure communication system and how to manage secure inventory management. The thing that should be considered first is the threat. The threat would most probably come from government, who has powerful capability as an adversary. This essay also discusses what kind of threat system can be handled. Threat Capablities Most country has its intelligence agencies that doe some secrets activities in order to keep secure their country. Some of them achieve it with mass-surveillance program that now is widely known by public. In India, government owns Centralized Monitoring System (CMS) program that able them to collect ... ... middle of paper ... ... Conclussion Building a secure communication system and maintaining policy regarding the data inventory should be concerned by Newspaper Company who held sensitive information about the government. Though Government seems like has unlimited power to gather whole information, still it is not impossible to minimize the risk but still by using the reasonable cost. Hiding identity by randomize header data using open-source program, and being a costumer of encrypted mail provider are recommended things to do for a basic protection when contact and collaborate with informer. Bring the results from informant to safe storage and maintain its security regularly is the next steps to continue work-in-progress. Building the awareness of security regarding to protect temporary data storage on private devices should be also built individually to decrease the unwanted accident.
Created by Philip Zimmermann in 1991, this program has been widely used throughout the global computer community to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the users’ data, giving them the privacy of delivering messages and files only to their intended individual or authorized person (Singh, 2012). Not only being useful for individuals as a privacy-ensuring program, it has also been used in many corporations to protect their company’s data from falling into the wrong hands (Rouse, 2005).
All the developed countries (developing countries are also in no way lagging behind) the incidence of the people being monitored under various surveillance systems is high of which closed circuit television system (CCTV) is gaining dominance. For instance, the UK has over 4.2 million of them, giving it a ratio of one for every 14 persons and the USA is reported to have been installing it on a rapid pace in every conceivable location as town centers, schools, public transportation systems etc with a spiraling budget estimated at $100 million. With the terrorists attacks looming large in the wake of 9/11 attacks and despite the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the trends are going towards more and more technology oriented surveillance methods. This has naturally caused widespread concerns about the privacy issues and necessitated more evidence based research to inform policy and practice.
What concerns the government of the United States most is the security of the critical infrastructure from the cyber threats. The nation is depending heavily on the technology in most of its critical sectors to keep it up and running. Thus, this makes its more vulnerable to cyber-attacks from outsiders and insiders. Therefore, its protection must be a priority.
Within any society, information gathering and surveillance mechanisms exist. The sophistication of this information gathering varies, but at all levels; the information gathered can be received voluntarily or involuntarily. The collection of information, whether it is surveillance received at a traffic road crossing, or satellite images from outer space, occurs every day. Everyday life is subject to monitoring, checking and scrutinizing. To find a place or an activity, which is shielded from some kind of surveillance device is difficult. The ability for governments to have such surveillance capabilities is due to the growth of computer application areas and technical enhancement that are central to surveillance. The ability of nation states to guarantee civil, political, economic, and human rights is made possible only through systematic surveillance of and data-collection about their citizens. The ability of a nation to defend its borders, against aggression depends on the ability of the military to prepare for such incidents, and be capable to react. The level of surveillance and information gathering that exists continues to be discussed by scholars. There are many perspectives when discussing surveillance in nation states, each discussing an individual aspect of surveillance, and its significance. Three such perspectives include, the role of the nation state, the military and the citizenry, and how each play a role in this debate.
Now with the introduction of the internet it is becoming increasingly difficult to control the publication of personal and private information. Any information that is collected should not be used for any other purpose except for what it was originally accepted.
Law enforcement uses several methods to solve all types of crimes. Having a variety of ways to help solve an investigation gives officials an advantage. If one method fails or isn’t helpful, there are several others they can rely on. For instance, if there are no physical witnesses to a crime, the criminal may have left a fingerprint at the crime scene. An individual’s fingerprint is unique, “no two persons have exactly the same arrangement of ridge patterns” (“Fingerprint ID”). Fingerprints of criminals and of civilians are collected and stored. Also, “People who apply for government jobs, jobs that handle confidential information, banking jobs, teaching jobs, law enforcement jobs, and any job that involves security issues can be fingerprinted” (“The First ID”). Fingerprints are processed within hours and minutes through the Integrated Automated Fingerprint ID System. This system was developed in 1991, and made it easier for different law enforcement agencies to store and share fingerprints.
The video is of President Bush when he is signing the Bill for the “Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act” from the White House on the 17th of Dec, 2004. A key point that I took away from this video is with the Presidents opening statement, “In a few minutes, I will sign into law the most dramatic reform of our nation's intelligence capabilities since President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947. “ The reason that I feel that this statement is so profound is that it took a stateside terrorist attack to realize that there was a discrepancy with the way that the intelligence community operated. In these times many can not go two years without the need to purchase the next big thing. The way that any community has positive progression is by reviews and improvements. Not only did the intelligence community change 55 years, but the way that society started a change to the entitlement generation where society now feels as if they are entitled to information regardless of the impact to national security.
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
In this paper, I have attempted to examine how could a company contract with a bank to create a security system for it, at the beginning of the contract the company will search the best way to create the system, and also the company should have a good impression of experience, so for that the owner of the bank decide the and direct the company to create the security system for their bank, and also the company will have look at the public acceptance, costs and how to design the system for the bank, and also my recommendation of this paper is, the bank should the first step decide to trust on the company that have contract with them, to work hard for them, and also for the company, is the way that they have worked before and have a good impression of the experiences of works that they worked before for the other places that had do the security system for them.
Data encryption refers to the process of transforming electronic information into a scrambled form that can only be read by someone who knows how to translate the code. In nowadays business world, it’s the easiest and most practical way to secure the information that we stored and processed, and it’s significant for our sensitive information. For example, as electronic commerce is popular now, the vendors and retailers must protect the customers’ personal information from hackers or competitors. They also have many business files or contracts that need to be strictly protected. Without data encryption, these important information may fall into wrong hands and be misused by others. Besides, data encryption may be used to secure sensitive information that exists on company networks, or create digital signatures, and help to authorize in business. No one should underestimate the importance of encryption. A little mistake in encryption may make sensitive information revealing, or even result in illegal and criminal accuse.
Principle of Security Management by Brian R. Johnson, Published by Prentice-Hall copyright 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc.
ABSTRACT : This paper describes the basic threats to the network security and the basic issues of interest in designing a secure network. it describes the important aspects of network security. A secure network is one which is free of unauthorized entries and hackers. INTRODUCTION
The transfer and preservation of Information is a major part of the digital age. People try to control their flow of information and the amount of information websites,organisations and even the government has on them. And even with the various ways of protecting information, there are still issues of privacy, freedom of information and the conflict between the public and private domains on who really owns or governs these information.
In order to have an effective physical security program you need to know what you are protecting and why you are protecting it. Physical Security encompasses the protection of people, places, things, and data. Protecting each of these elements requires different pieces of equipment or different avenues but the philosophy of the protection is the same. In this I mean that you are protecting from unauthorized access to the places, people, things, and data.
Moreover, E-commerce has widely recognized nowadays among people. Therefore such data should be secure in databases and privacy of data should be maintained.