Privacy, Laws, and Security Measures

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Today, there are many threats to information systems and the information contain contained on the servers by customers and employees. There are major privacies issues facing organizations from hackers, employees, natural disasters, and other threats. Some of the privacies issues can be risk to the sporting goods store and justify the concerns of the CEO. There are security risks and application laws which governs the privacy risks. Security measures can be implement by organizations which can mitigate the risk to private information.
Organizations face major privacy issues when it comes to working with employee and customers’ information. Customers often buy items online from stores and the store gives the option to store payment information and other customer private information such as names, address, phone number, login name, password, and other information the organization may require. The organization also keep employee files on the servers such as names, address, phone numbers, social security, and other information. Attackers try to get into organizations networks to steal this information which can be sold to others who use the information for identity theft. The threats to private information are malicious software such a viruses, keyloggers, man in the middle programs and more which could steal or forward private information. A Denial of Service attack (DoS) is another threat the privacy in that it can prevent other people from accessing a server while the attacker steal or damage information on the server. For an example, according to Schreiver (2011), the hack on PlayStation Network potentially leaves about 70 million people credit cards at risk, (Schreiver, 2011). Another threat to private information are employees ...

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