Week 6 Assignment: “Case Study #C1: Bibliofind” ECOM544: Electronic Commerce Strategy Management 1. Explain how Bibliofind might have used firewalls to prevent the intruders from gaining access to its transaction servers. Firewalls need to be placed at a company’s Internet entry point as a first layer of protection in a company’s IT security system, so, however many entry points, Bibliofind may have had, they should have had a firewall installed on each one. A firewall could have helped Bibliofind in preventing crackers from accessing their network and their customers personal data, but may not have eliminated it altogether; firewalls use a combination of tools, including encryption, and intrusion detection systems which are the …show more content…
3. Present arguments for and against the type of legislation that requires companies to inform customers whose private information might have been exposed during a security breach. It is difficult to provide an argument against this type of legislation since it is ethically the right thing to do on a behalf of a company. If a customer’s private/personal information or data has been obtained by someone that the customer did not give permission to do so, and happened because of a security hole or breach by the business the customer has an account with, then it only makes common, business, and legal sense, that a customer should be informed of this violation, as it is their personal data, not the ownership of the business by which the customer engages in any type of transaction. That being said, the argument for this type of legislation is that it makes common sense and business sense for ethical and legal reasons. The argument against this type of legislation usually comes in the form of conversations and debates on “tort reform,” and “frivolous lawsuits,” from
Information security is a business requirement and also a legal requirement, subsequently firewalls are set up as security from viruses and backups are implemented to ensure no information is lost.
During the last Christmas season, Target announced that their data security was breached. According to David Lazarus in Los Angeles Times, Target stated that roughly 110 million customers’ information was illegally taken from their database. The information included their credit/debit card info, phone numbers, and email addresses. Target is one of the most popular grocery stores in the U.S.; they have a substantial amount of consumers. Because of this incident, consumers' trusts for the store have been decreasing. Worrying about losing its customers, the company offered a free year of credit monitoring and identity-theft protection, so the customers will feel more secure. Not only Target, some other large retailers also faced the same issues. They want their customers to trust that the companies can protect private data. However, should we not worry? Data breaches have been going on for about a decade, but we have not seriously thought about the issue. In order to protect people’s privacy, the federal government should make new laws concerning companies’ handling of customer information.
Companies have an obligation to protect their customer’s information, which goes beyond that of complying with state and federal regulations. If the company loses the trust of their customers, they risk the chance of damaging
By using the border, internal and host firewalls, this is what creates defense in depth. Because an attacker must defeat all of these devices in order to get into a company’s network to cause great damage (Boyle & Panko, 2015, pp.
California’s SB 1386 takes the FTC’s efforts one step further by requiring companies to notify California residents when a security lapse has resulted in disclosure of personal information so that immediate action may be taken to mitigate damages. In 2002, the California state employee payroll database was breached. Confidential information about 265,000 employees was available to hackers including names, addresses, bank account numbers, and social security numbers. The data center didn’t notify anyone for several weeks, leaving the employees vulnerable to identity theft longer than necessary. In response, SB 1386 was enacted as a means to ensure that Californians receive prompt notification so they may take immediate steps to protect their personal information.
P1. Identify the threats and the consequences of a failure in securities that exist to the security of people, property and premises in a public service.
Firewall is the first step to good defense from intruders or attackers. Firewall security has gotten to be big business, because it’s can be programmed to fit Kudler’s network and infrastructure form the inside out. For one reason a good firewall is essential in the verification of all authenticated user either internal or external. One of the top firewalls out there is” Barracuda’s powerful, best-of-breed security products secure your organizations threat vectors – email, web applications, remote access, web browsing, mobile Internet, and network perimeters whether on premises or in the cloud” (2015). Having one of these and maintaining the firewall is critical to Kudler’s Fine Foods
This is an open exposure due to the uncertainties of the internet. Controlling access to information systems and associated networks is necessary for the preservation of their confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Confidentiality assures that the information is not disclosed to unauthorized persons or processes. Any automated attacks or personal attack or attack to exploit the company secrets/statistics/data is the biggest threat to that may occur without the firewall.
* Discuss three (3) security concerns of corporations in the U.S. Next, analyze the overall manner in which you would use security analysis to identify levels of concern and propose one (1) strategy to mitigate the concerns in question. Provide a rationale to support your response.
The system was armed with a firewall to hinder unauthorized access, by analysing and directing the incoming and outgoing data network traffic, it is a software or hardware-based network security but it blocked all of the network traffic, slowing down and causing a great hassle. DMV had intended to begin performing e-commerce and this would have needed to take extra care involving security.
While all of these technologies have enabled exciting changes and opportunities for businesses, they have also created a unique set of challenges for business managers. Chief among all concerns about technology is the issue of information security. It seems to be almost a weekly occurrence to see a news article about yet another breach of security and loss of sensitive data. Many people will remember high profile data breaches from companies such as T.J Maxx, Boston Market, Sports Authority, and OfficeMax. In the case of T.J. Maxx, a data breach resulted in the loss of more than 45 million credit and debit card numbers. In many of these incidents, the root cause is a lack of adequate security practices within the company. The same technologies that enable managers can also be used against them. Because of this, businesses must take appropriate steps to ensure their data remains secure and their communications remain
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The tension between national security and individual privacy has long existed even before the development of digitized information. Recently, two main forces have advanced the debate over this balance to the forefront of the public eye: 1) the proliferation of data by private sector companies and 2) the heightened need for homeland security and public defense. With the rapid evolution of technology, companies have aggregated pools of consumer data to improve upon internal decision making. In some cases, however, this data can be leveraged to ensure national security and public safety. This juxtaposition of enterprise and security results in a blurring of the line dividing public and private sector responsibilities. The question becomes an issue of moral obligation versus legal responsibility. What are we as consumers and citizens willing to sacrifice in exchange for safety? And does the private sector inevitably succumb to obligations originating from the public sector?
Security plays a major role in both the business and government worlds. We will discuss the legal aspects of organizational security management. Discuss both the positive and negative influences regarding organizational security. We will also be discussing what consequences will both business and government operations have to overcome if they fail to achieve security goals and objectives. The value private security management brings to businesses will also be discussed.
Ied. A widely accepted alternative or at least complement to host-based security services is the firewall. The firewall is inserted between the premises network and the Internet to establish a controlled link and to erect an outer security wall or perimeter. The aim of this perimeter is to protect the premises network from Internet-based attacks and to provide a single choke