With a growing use of technology in modern society, it is not surprising that many businesses have to take significant measures to protect their company data and keep it secure. It is interesting to know to what lengths a company should go to avoid security beach and ID theft.
I had an opportunity to sit down and meet with a senior manager of the project management office at CVS Health. She stated that computers and mobile phones were an essential part of her workday. When asked how she used technology in the office setting, she discussed how she uses technology to communicate with others, document information, give presentations during meetings, and share live web conferencing. She also added that her laptop is what carries the majority of
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There is also added security for vpn (virtual private network) when work employees work remotely. Most importantly, there is a document that you have to sign before you get hired which states confidentiality of company information. CVS also has mandatory classes on PII ( personal identifiable identity) and PHI ( protected health information). These classes, which are required every month or so, explain the new policies to protect company information and also explains the non-disclosure of company information that you have to sign at the class.
Some last minute tips and advice that came up at the end of our conversation were: always lock your computer, never leave wireless devices unattended, always have your ID with you, don't share any of your passwords, and always monitor emails for any spoofs/ viruses.
Although I had the inside information I decided to compare what CVS does to protect their company data and security information to what a Business Insiders' article: "10 Essential Data- Security Measures Every Business Should Take" highly recommends a company should do. As I compared the two sources, they both agreed and followed the same security measures. These
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4. Update your programs regularly. By updating your programs frequently, you stay up to date with any recent issues or holes that programmers have fixed.
5. Secure your laptops. Since laptops are portable by nature, they are also at a higher risk of being lost or stolen than your average company desktop. If your laptop has important information than it is highly recommended that you encrypt it. Encryption software changes the way the information looks on the hard drive so that, without the correct password, it can’t be read. It is highly stressed that you should never, ever leave your laptop in your car, where it’s an easy target for thieves. If you must, lock it in your trunk, but be aware of the consequences of leaving your laptop unattended.
6. Secure your mobile phones. Since smartphones hold so much data these days that you should consider them almost as valuable as company computers—and they’re much more easily lost or stolen. Must haves for mobile phones are an encryption software, password protection, and remote wiping enabled. Remote wiping is “extremely effective” because if the phone is lost or stolen and is carrying valuable information, it can be wiped clean before it can get hacked
According to Rosen, the main reason why people acquire a cell phone is because of security. After the tragic event that occurred on September 11, 2001 in the United States cell phones started to play an important role in our lives. Rosen states that after this e...
When an organization first starts out, they start gaining things. They have new buildings, offices, and equipment in them. Their buildings and offices have value. With everything of value this organization has, they will need some sort of protection to make sure the business as well as the employees stay safe at all times. The conversation should go from the “we have acquired all of this stuff, now what are we going to do to keep it safe?” Then the company needs to decide how they will handle the issue of protecting all the things that they own.
As a daily phone user, whether it is checking my email to see if my classes are canceled or calling my friends to see where they are at, a day without my phone would basically handicap my daily routine. However, owning a phone is also a liability. Especially smartphones, smartphones store a lot of vital information about the user, even our credit card number, and with the right device, people can obtain our information without us knowing. Even though cellphones are an important part of our life, is security worth sacrificing our personal privacy? According to the article “Dilemmas of the Internet age: privacy vs. security” written by Deena Zaru, yes, it is, but it comes at a price. “Owning a smart phone comes at a price but it is often a price that consumers are willing to pay.” (Zaru)
According to Davis (2012), “Nine out of 10 technology pros think smartphones and tablets will become more important to business productivity in the next couple of years. Seventy-two percent expect to offer more bring-your-own-device options so that employees can access company data with their personal gadgets.” The use of personal electronic device usage is on the rise in the corporate workplace. Although there are opportunities associated with this; there are also risks involved. Companies and government IT divisions need to evaluate these risks, and put specific mitigation plans in place to establish policies to assure that business information is secure.
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
Millions of people all around the world are using Smartphones, like iPhones, which turns out to be crucial part of our lives. We are using them not only for calling but we also store unbelievably huge amount of personal information. We have there all our contacts, calls and messages and all our pictures that we save and keep in the phones. A
Regulations are entrenched in licensures and inspections of providers and organizations in order to provide the practice of safe medical care to its recipients and to hold providers responsible for their actions and performances. Regulatory standards improve the safety of consumers’ health and quality of care through regular yearly inspections performed by regulatory bodies to monitor and evaluate facilities and providers for occurrences of violations. Regulation compliance requirements in these areas are necessary to ensure that consumers are receiving safe and proper care to meet their healthcare needs in order to serve three purposes.
...nna doesn’t know much about computers and she says she only uses her laptop for school and the internet (Joanna, Personal Interview, February 2010).
With the purchase of a smart phone, does not come the immediate thought that this is a personal tracking device that will let the government or anyone who wants to, know where you are at that exact moment. Timothy Lee wrote “Smartphones Have Privacy Risks” an article letting people know of hackers around the world and how easy it is to get information. This article is an immediate red flag to what information really is protected from other people. The smart phones that we use today are almost exact to what George Orwell wrote about in 1984. In Orwell's book he called these objects telescreens
One way to do this is by installing cameras to capture overviews of workplace activity. Another way, is to have law enforcements on the workplace premises, to monitor, cameras, buildings, and people. Both of the above is vital to taking security measures, but ultimately, the workplace employer needs to have knowledge of what to do and should take measures in training the employees themselves. Without proper training, an employee would not have the knowledge to know what they should or should not do if workplace does occur.
From the Research that I have done I have found quite a lot of risks for mobile phones. Every phone from different countries has different Security risks. Different risks affect people differently; some are on a really small scale and some risks which can ruin people’s lives.
People are more apt these days to pay bills over the phone using credit cards than ever before. Without giving a second thought that, the information may be stolen. Now, not only can someone pay bills and purchase items using the phone, but also people can pay and buy using a computer. Even though this is quick, easy, and convenient it does come with risk. Unfortunately, the average person does not consider the risk or even the possibility of their privacy being invaded. It is just a cell phone, right?
As more and more employees bring their own devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops) to work to connect to the corporate network, organizations started adopting a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy. This policy, although has some merits in offering organizations benefits in terms of costs, employee satisfaction, productivity, and innovation, also exposes the organizations to security vulnerabilities and loss of sensitive information due to the use of personal devices in the
Since 2008, the smartphone, a device that combines a normal cell phone with a computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, e-mail capability, etc. all in your hand was deemed as ground-breaking technology and created one of the largest and most competitive markets in terms of technology to date. Their increased popularity continued to grow and today, it is very hard to encounter someone without a smartphone. These devices allow people to disconnect from reality and grant them access to the world as a whole. People use these devices to manage their daily routine, dictating what they should do and when they should do it.
The following memorandum written by a director of a security and safety consulting service discusses a critical issue effecting business in our economy today, that of employee theft. "Our research indicated that, over past six years, no incident of employee theft have been reported within ten of the companies that have been our clients. In analyzing the security practices of these ten companies, we have further learned that each of them requires its employees to wear photo identification badges while at work. In the future, we should recommend the uses of such identification badges to all of our clients." The issue of employee theft is a broad problem and has different labels to identify it, shrinkage for the retail industry and hidden profit loss in the technology sector are serval examples of common terms used for employee theft. The author of this memorandum presents several data points and suggests one recommendation to effect the issue of employee theft based on a sampling of the client population.