Essays Tagged: "sensitive data"

How to protect yourself from hacking.

firms are particularly tempting targets for hackers, since they handle a great deal of financially sensitive data. Imagine losing half your client's important electronic records -- or even worse, hav ... s.In addition to confidential financial information, accounting firms also maintain a great deal of sensitive personal information about their clients. CPA firms (along with law firms and medical prac ...

(7 pages) 224 1 3.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

This essay is about secruity risk List four possible security risks that the bank and the clients are facing in the present network setup. Explain clearly why these security risks exist.

rty gain access to an asset. Because client send their transaction data which contains personal and sensitive data to the bank's Web server through the Internet. Without any security measures to prote ...

(6 pages) 222 0 4.1 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

What possible issues associated with consumer behaviour and consumption patterns might be extremely sensitive ones to directly question respondents about?

What possible issues associated with consumer behaviour and consumption patterns might be extremely sensitive ones to directly question respondents about? How might researchers overcome the difficulti ... ion respondents about? How might researchers overcome the difficulties of collecting these types of sensitive data?There are various issues and subject matters related to consumer behaviour and consum ...

(4 pages) 98 0 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Discuss the ethical and legal issues of Information Sercurity, Privacy and Accuracy with reference to your own Organisation.

ncies are strongly advised. Furthermore, adopting security policies and restricting staff access to sensitive data is a DPA pre-requisite.The DPA also tackles the issue of privacy referring to the han ... der, age or disability. Similarly the processing of staff medical records would also be considered 'sensitive' and therefore required under the Act to be handled by a health professional or one workin ...

(8 pages) 187 0 0.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Firewall

Nowadays, computers and internet become more and more popular, companies and people will save their sensitive data or their little secrets which they want to protect on their computers. However, inter ... thing that do not pass through it, such as DVDs, CDs, USB flash drives, all these can easily export sensitive data out or import viruses or other bad stuff into your computer. Firewalls cannot protect ...

(7 pages) 208 1 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Legal Issues Paper

r Internet abuse at work, because they are putting the company at risk. Depending upon the company, sensitive data is always in transit via email or on server for access, and if an employee is neglige ...

(10 pages) 201 1 3.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Scheier's (2006) article

employee threat, authentication and authorization along with data encryption can help protect this sensitive data.Today, my company uses all of the defenses identified by Scheier. We require authoriz ... have mandatory expirations and things like that.I'm my realm of government service, where data of a sensitive nature is processed, whenever an employee is fired or quits, all security access passwords ...

(23 pages) 72 0 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computer Virus Protection and Security Procedures

information from one network to another and reduces the risk of hackers gaining unwanted access to sensitive information. A firewall is essential for businesses that conduct financial transactions vi ... s essential for businesses that conduct financial transactions via their website and collect highly sensitive data such as credit card numbers from customers.Your organisation should also have securit ...

(2 pages) 49 1 5.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

Network security

is to tap a telephone- Although it is illegal unauthorised access is gained, damage can be done to sensitive data if leaked from one company to another which can provide criminals with the electroni ... ple and inexpensive access on a wide-reach basis even protect the physical securities from harm and sensitive information from unauthorised users. Therefore, the organisations can define their own se ...

(11 pages) 213 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Video Conferencing and Security Issues

managers." (Weinstein, 2006).The Need for Network and Systems SecurityTo help organizations protect sensitive data there must be enforceable security policies in place that everyone is aware of and th ... to do. When an attack does occur management simply ignores the issue that a violation occurred and sensitive data could have been stolen. Furthermore they promote the person to a management position ...

(5 pages) 39 0 3.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Review Online Data Storage Sites

ata storage. Some offer small utilities that a user can download, install, and configure to back-up sensitive data automatically. What are some reason to store important documents and data on these si ...

(3 pages) 26 0 3.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Nursing ethics at workplace

electronic formats has increased the likelihood of individuals to access and use and disclosure of sensitive data and personal health" (Aulisio and Arnold, 2003) despite the fact that the employee ha ...

(3 pages) 5 0 0.0 Jan/2013

Subjects: Social Science Essays