##Ensuring User Data Protection & Privacy##
While access to sensitive data on the network is governed via “Access Control” (Refer to Chapter 7 on Network Security), you can assist with additional privacy to users by ensuring they adopt the following secure data communication & storage practices, provided these practices constitute approaches identified during the organization’s Risk Assessment (Refer to Chapter 1). Keep laws & regulations related to encryption in mind before recommending these best practices.
###6.1 Encrypt User Data-at-Rest###
Data-at-Rest refers to user information stored on their devices, in external hard drives and on removable media such as USBs, DVDs.
**6.1.i Full disk encryption (FDE)**
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FDE 's biggest advantage is that there 's no room for error if users don 't abide by or don 't understand encryption policies.
Here are some best practices when instituting Full Disk Encryption (FDE):
- Prep the machine: Before enabling encryption on the HDD, ensure the machine is clean and running properly beforehand. It’s essential that there are no disk problems that would render code specific to the encryption engine to be unreadable.
- Its recommended to defragment the hard drive, run checkdisk several times, back up the data, administer all patches and optimize performance before encrypting.
- Test the waters: Test encryption on a few “pilot” testers - these could be your tech champions to iron out the kinks, gauge user resistance and the scope of the full deployment, before instituting FDE across the organization. (Refer to Chapter 3 for change management best practices).
- Don’t underestimate deployment time; enabling FDE takes time, especially for large drives. A good rule of thumb is that it takes anywhere between 4-6 hours depending on the size of the HDD for the software to encrypt the drive.
- Check for interference with other applications. Another reason for a pilot test is to identify if there is device-driver or BIOS interference between the encryption software and other applications. Run tests for the various operating systems of devices on your network as not all of them may be compatible with your FDE solution.
- Ensure users are employing
Confidentiality is critical when managing information because not all information is suitable for all employees/customers. For example personnel files for employees should
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The security I use a database management program such as PHPMyAdmin (with the WEE extension), select the field you need to encrypt by its name from a menu, select the public key and press the encrypt button, the protected information is ready to be stored in the database.
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Telecommuting has a foothold in businesses across the U.S. A 2015 Gallup survey revealed 37% of the workforce works remotely up from 9% in 1995 (Jones, 2015). In 2013 the cost of losing just one of these laptop was estimated to be $49,000 (Zorabedian, 2013). The potential cost for the loss of one machine should be more than enough for companies to understand the need for full disk encryption. My organization utilizes BitLocker, and users can at times be frustrated; however, with a few clicks in Active Directory users are given their recovery code, and they are able to go about their merry way.
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Every organization must have adequate control mechanisms in place to help protect sensitive information from the distribution or transmission outside the organization, inappropriate disclosure, and control of how the information accessed is used. Companies should have policies in place that outline the course of action to take should inappropriate usage or disclosure of data be
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To understand encryption, you must place yourself into the internet of the 90’s. At the time the internet was still new, all the data could be seen and accessed easily.The problem was that anyone could access your information and read it. This was a major issue because at that time, internet privacy was almost impossible.
Testing is the next phase of the implementation phase. A comprehensive testing program includes a stepwise process starting with unit testing, followed by testing of group components called integration testing and concluded with entire systems test (Satzinger et al., 2004, p. 640). Individual units or modules are tested prior to integration with more advanced modules, using driver modules. Once a set of modules are put together, integration testing can take place. These test include checking for interface compatibility, run-time exceptions, parameter values and unexpected state interactions (Satzinger et al., p. 644-645). Jeff Theobald suggests that an effort should be made to concentrate not on just errors in a single application or module, but also the system as a whole and between systems (Theobald, 2007). After these tests are completed, the project goes on to system testing. System testing often involves daily “build and smoke” tests, where the system is set to run and is observed for “smoke” or errors (McConnell, 1996). The TPI credentialing system was tested in this manner. The project made it through the first two testing
As technology grows and information has become a critical asset companies currently are devoted their resource and money to protect their data as important as their finance and human resource assets.