An Interview With Upper Management

Security and ethical employees will continue to be a vital aspect of ensuring the success of an organization. There will always be a need for ethical IT security professional as hackers will continue to force organizations to make adjustments in their business models to protect their employees, data and customers. Many organizations and managers believe application security requires simply installing a perimeter firewall, or taking a few configuration measures to prevent applications or operating systems from being attacked. This is a risky misconception. By understanding threats and respect impacts, organizations will be equipped to maintain confidentiality, availability and

The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the IT leaders who have successfully implemented security policies and procedures. Using the quantitative methodology would not be appropriate because the collected data will not be in the form of numbers and/or statistical results, and the statistical findings will not generalize the real-world problem that needs to be resolved. (Creswell, 2014). Quantitative methods are used mainly to find out the who, what, when and where and the results numerical descriptions provide where the researcher needs more of a detailed narrative (Sutton, & Austin, 2015)

As such, our company’s people resources pose the greatest risk for security breach. Our way to help mitigate risk in this area is to keep communication lines open in this area and to continually mandate security knowledge training, with mandatory updates on a regular basis. When the employees are informed of company policy when facing a security matter, they are better equipped to act in the best or right way. In this way knowledge is power – or at least empowerment to act in the best interest of the company’s information security.

In the final chapter of CompTIA Security + Study Guide eBook, it covers some great topics, key elements of implementation, support, and managing the security efforts in a company or organization. It’s important for IT Professionals to understand their role in a company/ organization. It’s also extremely important for them to understand the boundaries of security within that company/organization. Adopting best security practices while adhering to company policies will ensure that both parties are happy. There are many fines lines with security management.

Limitations of Research: Considering all the studies this paper also has limitations. Since Information security management is prominently growing area, the guidelines maybe unstable and quick changes can happen. However the loss can be overcome if the organization maintains its security policies in clear and update them timely.

The first person I discussed the concept of change with in the workplace is Michaela, our new apparel lead. I was excited to interview Michaela because she has experienced many changes during her time at Dicks Sporting Goods. Michaela was hired about two years ago as a cashier. After about three months as a cashier she was promoted to a Customer Service Specialist.

Stanton, Mastrangelo and Jolton (2004) explained the analysis they made of end user security behavior. In fact, it promotes the action of a superior end-user behavior restricting poor end user and provides an important way for efficient production of information security in the organization. In addition, Stanton, Mastrangelo and Jolton (2004) when the user's information technology organization established they can affect the security of the information required in response to describe both harmful behavior and representative of information technology experts, management implementation, and interviews with 110 regular employees. Intentionality and technical expertise As a result, they have developed a taxonomy of six elements of safety behavior

Appreciate your invested time interviewing me twice for the Digital Content Operations Specialist position. Enjoyed gaining further insight to Pearson's daily operations as well as the position itself and look forward to speaking with you in the near future as you render a decision.

I am going to interview my former boss, John Huang. I met him five years ago in North Dakota. He is an in creditable person I ever met. He is energetic and inspiring. At that time, he was 53 years old and still thought about doing a new business. He used to own over 50 restaurants nationwide, but he sold all of them because of health concerns in the later years. He had a heart surgery and can no longer work long hours. Just like me, he was not born in the US. He is from Hong Kong, but his restaurants were mainly western food. One thing that stands out to me is that he can make customer laugh in just one minute. He remembers every customer and he greets customers like a friend. How amazing! There are more than 300 customers each day, but he can call out the customer’s name right away. More importantly, I saw his former employees come back to visit him. They still maintain a great friendship even if the employees no longer work here. People have a great respect for him.

Implement a security training program for IT employees and any employee manipulating customer sensitive data

Insider threat has become a significant issue. There have been considerably more reported insider threat incidents over the past few years. According to the 2009 e-Crime Watch Survey in which 523 organizations were involved, 51% of the organizations experienced an insider attack, which increased from 39% three years ago. Since these were only reported incidents of attacks, it is likely more than 51% of organizations experience such attacks. From the recent Cyber-Ark Global Survey conducted in the spring of

The analysis of 2,260 breaches and more than 100,000 incidents at 67 organizations in 82 countries shows that organizations are still failing to address basic issues and well-known attack methods. The (DBIR, 2016) shows, for example, that nearly two-thirds of confirmed data breaches involved using weak, default or stolen passwords. Also shows that most attacks exploit known vulnerabilities that organizations have never patched, despite patches being available for months – or even years – with the top 10 known vulnerabilities accounting for 85% of successful exploit “Organizations should be investing in training to help employees know what they should and shouldn’t be doing, and

Individual employees should be protected from penalties with regard to sensitive data that has been compromised/released. Since a majority of security breaches result from corporate culture, malicious attacks, or glitches in the system, employees should be protected from misdirected penalization. Such breaches may also stem from improper training of computer illiterate employees. With the many factors involved in a data breach, a company will benefit more from providing a great employee with proper safeguard procedures than from hiring a fresh employee, one just as likely to make such mistakes.

An organization’s IT security awareness and training program can quickly become obsolete if sufficient attention is not paid to technology advancements, IT infrastructure and organizational changes, and shifts in organizational mission and priorities. CIOs and IT security program managers need to be cognizant of this potential problem and incorporate mechanisms into their strategy to ensure the program continues to be relevant and compliant with overall objectives. Continuous improvement should always be the theme for security awareness and training initiatives, as this is one area where “you can never do enough.”

Although training seems like an obvious and aged practice, there are several reasons why today’s standard security training models fail employees. First off, nearly half of companies report that cyber security training is not offered (46%) to its employees (CompTIA, 2015). Additionally, the security education that is provided usually occurs only at new employee orientation. This type of training generally only covers password protection and lacks specific information regarding targeted threats. Perhaps the most scathing statistic comes in the form of why security