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WK6 Discussion Questions W6: Compliance/Information Protection and Training How would you describe the purpose, importance, and relevance of the FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance acts as they relate to security? How has training of security officers improved or not since 9/11? Provide three factors regarding why training is essential in high performance security programs. Lastly, identify and assess countermeasures used by organizations to mitigate electronic espionage. “Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was established in 1974 to protect the privacy of student educational records.” ( Kiel & Knoblauch, 2010) and “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) had its first part implemented in 2002 with the goal of protecting the privacy of patient health information.” ( Kiel & Knoblauch, 2010). They both are important and relevant when it comes to security because they both protect the information records, whether it be educational or medical, in their way under their specific act. I think since 9/11, the training of security officers has been improved and maintained. Before 9/11, the United States had rules and regulation, but it was lax. That is how the terrorists in my opinion, found loophole and infiltrated our border. It was found out that the terrorists were able to come to this country on a student visa to enroll in a flight school. It was easy to follow the rules and regulations at the time to obtain student status. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, “The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has responsibility for ensuring that foreign students seeking training at flight schools do not pose a threat to aviation or national security. TSA performs background checks, including government watchlist matching, a criminal history check, and an immigration status check” (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2011). That is how it is maintained to this day. During the hijackers, the only weapons were the ones of the terrorists which is how they were able to gain the upper hand. According to the 9/11 Commission, “Following 9/11, all commercial aircraft have been secured through the hardening of cockpit doors. In addition, the riskbased deployment of Federal Air Marshals, the Federal Flight Deck Officer program, in which eligible flight crewmembers are authorized by TSA to use firearms to defend against violence, and the crewmember behavior recognition and response training program, all provide additional layers of aviation security.”(U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2011) and that is how they trained and implemented the rules with not only flight attendants but for U.S Air Marshalls. The three reasons why training is important for high-performance security officers is because for the one being reducing liability if the security guards are better trained they have the opportunity to prevent incidents and minimize liability of lawsuits. As stated in the article “ In essence, being proactive and having specialized training may potentially save a company significant dollars.” (Security, 2014) The second reason is the high turnover rate if you invest more in training your security officer so they can become familiar with the procedures and third
the more training they receive they will be able to stay updated with the current times when comes to technology. Some of the countermeasure counters used by the organizations are the very first immediately the employees of the most vulnerable and may have a high rate of comprise because, without the proper training, they are most likely to comprise the information of the company. Employees must understand the importance of the information that they are safeguarding from other entities. The organization needs to understand that when visitors on visiting the company all employees should understand that they should not allow an outside entity to access the network or allowed on the network. Another one that people forget to do is to proper shutdown down their computers properly even though they are inside the company no everybody has access to the same information. Citation: Kiel, J. M., PhD., & Knoblauch, L. M., M.B.A. (2010). HIPAA and FERPA: Competing or Collaborating? Journal of Allied Health, 39 (4), e161-5. http://ezproxy.apus.edu.ezproxy2.apus.edu/login? qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fscholarly-journals%2Fhipaa-ferpa-competing- collaborating%2Fdocview%2F874211059%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D8289 U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (n.d.). Implementing 9/11 Commission Recommendations . Website. Retrieved October 26,2023, from https://www.dhs.gov/implementing-911- commissionrecommendations#:~:text=Following%209%2F11%2C%20the%20federal,threats%20and %20disasters%20at%20home . SECURITY Services: The Importance of Being Trained. (2014, February). Security Magazine. https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/76715-security-services-the-importance-of-being- trained-1 Mitigating the Threat of Corporate Espionage. (2011, May). https://www.tcdi.com/mitigating-the- threat-of-corporate-espionage/
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