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Nt1330 Unit 1 Case Study

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Rob Pettigrew is the manager of technical systems and help desk center of Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyoming. Protecting networks are getting harder as there are different types of devices being used by companies. An example of this is Wyoming Medical Center has four different classifications of PCs, PCs in the hallways for the staff to use, PCs at the nursing stations, PCs in offices, and PCs on that move between patient rooms. Pettigrew deployed Novell ZenWorks to 850 of the medical centers 900 PCs to ensure each one has the right software. With having multiple applications, medical software systems, and the different machine types, and restrictions make it difficult for Pettigrew to ensure proper protection for the network. Another concern is the …show more content…

Data privacy is a concern for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services in California. Don Zimmer is a information security officer for the department that supports 18,000 desktops and laptops that operates under the restrictions of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) regulations. If the desktops and laptops are not encrypted and there is a breach then they must start calling people and inform them that patients privacy has been violated. In order to keep information from being put on movable media that can be plugged into a USB port, the department uses Safend's USB Port Protector product. As a IT department they must decide what must be protected, find out where it lives, and protect it against both inside and outside threats via encryption, multitiered security suites, or new technologies like data loss prevention (DLP). Data loss prevention protects corporate intellectual property, they can scan, internal and external connections looking for anomalies and protects data. It can also restrict access individual devices that have data. This type of protection is very effective but it does require a company to locate and classify their data in order to

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