Security Issues And Best Practices For Securing Public Access Computers

Confidentiality is the protection of information from unauthorized access. This is the assurance that information provided has not been made known to unauthorized persons, processes or devices. The application of this security service suggests information labeling and need-to-know imperatives are core aspects of the system security policy. Information, in today’s world, has value and everyone has information they wish to keep secret. Information such as credit card details, trade secrets, personal information, government documents, and many more. It was stated (Securitas Operandi™, 2008) that, we are bound to keep many secrets – corporate, staff, and personal secrets. We must keep this confidential information under wraps and earn the trust of employers, colleagues, and regulators every day. Mechanisms to enforce this include cryptography, which is, encrypting and decrypting data, access controls such as

Individual users play an important role in any form of institution or organization but concerns are raised about the security. The network administrators clearly lay down a set of rules, regulations and protocols that an individual user has to agree accordingly upon which part of the resources and what class of service that the user can obtain.

Company must also develop a clear structure for granting employees access to sensitive information. Not all employees need such data in order to fulfill their everyday job responsibilities. For those who need admission to sensitive information, a strong authentication mechanism must be developed, which cannot be bypassed. This will ensure that only authorized users are accessing compromising data.

In today’s IT world every organization has a responsibility to protect the information and sensitive data they have. Protecting data is not only responsibility of security and IT staff but every individual is involved in protecting the information. The risks to information security are not digital only, but it involves technology, people and process that an organization may have. These threats may represent the problems that are associated to complex and expensive solution, but doing nothing about these risks is not the solution.

Any enterprise has to pay special attention to computer security. Computer security is a field that is concerned with the control of risks related to computer use. A primary focus should be on the external threats to the computing environment. In enterprise with branches cross country, it is important to allow information from "trusted" external sources, and disallow intrusion from anonymous or non-trusted sources. In a secure system, the authorized users of that system are still

Restricting access to sensitive information plays a vital role in the success of any organization. Information is deemed sensitive when it needs protection from unauthorized access. Protecting this information is essential in safeguarding security and privacy of an organization. Thus, an organization such as Bank of America has taken measures geared towards protecting its sensitive information from unauthorized access. Just like other organizations, Bank of America has two types of sensitive information. The first type of sensitive information is personal information. This is data that may affect an individual if

Sunshine Machine Works started as a very small company with only three computers and ten employees. It now employees 100 people who utilize fifty computer workstations that access two servers. This increased accessibility, both by access point and by employee count, heightens the risk for a security breach. It underscores the need for a formal computer use security policy to be enacted.

Safeguarding personal information has become more difficult than ever before with so many services on the internet that require you to enter your personal information for many

In this paper we will look at defining the problem of data security and public administration. The reader will see the evidence gathered to get a better understanding of the problem of not securing data when sending it. The reader will learn different alternatives to how they can ensure the data is secure.

At Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyoming, the balance between system security and allowing staff the access they need to do their job is a tricky situation. The large number of employees and computers inspired the medical center to use a security classification system depending on the area in which devices are used and the job duty of the user. The computers are placed in categories like computers used in hallways by staff, computers moved from room to room used by nurses, and computers used in offices. Wyoming Medical Center is on the right track by understanding security must be appropriate for the user’s job to be done correctly.

The paper best known as “the paper that started the study of computer security,” is the paper titled as Rand Report R-609, Security Controls for Computer Systems. Rand Report R-609 was published for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The purpose of creating an initial report regarding the security of computers was to create an official recommendation of measures one should take when setting up a secure computing environment meant to protect classified information on a computer that contains multi-access and resource-sharing capabilities in any setting. After growing up in a technological generation surrounded by users of the Internet, wireless LANs, and portable computers, several characteristics of the computing environment during the 1960’s and 1970’s stand out.

Information is the most valuable commodity that individuals and global corporations use to grow financially, economically, and independently. The protection and security of the information is essential. One of the most vital foundations of protection information is the authentication process. The authentication process is utilized to protect computer and network systems against various types of security threats, such as password-cracking tools, password dictionary attacks, mistreatment of user access rights, and any potential unauthorized attacked. Understanding how to authenticate users and the accessible information that is readily available on system networks can help prevent future issues as well as provide insight into the developmental process for new systems. In addition, authentication is simply determining whether someone or some machine is, in fact, who or what they declared there to be. This process directly reflects on and correlates to the readiness and ease of access to information and the protection of it.

The issue of privacy has become one of the hottest topics in information. Privacy deals with both ethical and legal aspects of the organisation. The right of individuals to be left alone and secure their personal papers or data by looking at the information that customers provide to the organisation website is secured that no one but the Royal Philip Electronics staff have access to the information and protect it from the outside people. This will give confidence to the customers that their information that has been corrected will be used explicitly for providing services and not for any other purposes.

Privacy is one of the most discussed topics in modern ICT today. The question being whether or not there is any element of privacy anymore when storing personal files and data on a computer or ICT system. Although it is arguable that the main problem with privacy in the computing world is with data and information that is stored online, and information that is collected about a user when they are surfing the internet, browsing certain pages, or downloading files via ftp or http protocol. The fact of the matter is that if a user’s personal computer is disconnected from the Internet and well secured with passwords that they do not share with others, they are

All access to government servers, network devices and maintenance areas of the government agency's data center will be role-based and defined through authentication at a minimum (Amsel, 1988). Access methods will require two-party authentication and for access to server operating systems and rack-mounted servers, biometrics will also be required. One of the most critical success factors to ensuring a high level of security and stability and to guard again social engineering threats is to create and maintain authentication methods that thwart illusionary and coercive-driven access attempts (Burgess, Canright, Engø-Monsen, 2004). By having several roles requires to gain access to data,