Vulnerabilities In Health And Social Care

P4 - Explain possible priorities and responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health and social care setting.

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.

Cyber security, also referred to as information technology security, focuses on protecting computers, networks, software programs and data from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction. Post 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, the United States grows its endeavors to repulse cyberattacks, U.S. corporate organizations and the government agencies wind up in strife over how to adjust to new methods of security and privacy. The current state of security measure protocols and privacy policies placed by the US government in cyberspace raises concerns for the 99%. This is due to the recent cyber-attacks on American corporate organization systems and government alike, where their digital information and network infrastructures within the systems were compromised, and personal data was hacked and stolen.

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.

Incident response and planning is very critical to a business. It’s important Greiblock Credit Union (GCU) financial firm maintain control of these incidents in a timely manner which could reduce cost, and risks. When responding to incidents one should always minimize the severity of all security incidents. The analyst should have a clear plan to resolving incidents, while containing the damage and reducing risks (Cichonski et al., 2012). According to Cichonski et all, (2012) most departments have a Computer Security Incident Response team, or designated personnel to handle the variety of incident responses related to Cyber Security. Based on the below, the information can be used in a technique to help an organization to determine the threat against the organization and identify if it’s truly a security breach or serious

NIST (2011), Managing Information Security Risk -- Organization, Mission and Information System View, National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-39.

The information age is the age we live in today, hence we must make sure that the use of the information readily available to many people is not abused. There are many different types of security threats to the average person, business or even government. The risks faced by individuals and entities are rising, thus measures to avoid these privacy and security breaches would be discussed accordingly assisting and allowing firms to remain, fraud free and protected.

During an initial review of data for Jacket-X from last year, several potential threats and vulnerabilities were identified. Specifically, the payroll business process was highlighted as containing threats and vulnerabilities requiring immediate attention from management in order to prevent a data breach. Recall threats and vulnerabilities, although often utilized together in discussing cybersecurity risks, are two separate concepts. To review, a threat is defined as an undesirable event that can cause harm”. It is also important to note that threats can be internal or external to an organization (Valacich). Alternately, a vulnerability is defined as a “weakness in an organization’s systems or security policies that

In today's information age, Information Technology (IT) is changing rapidly and a range of cybersecurity vulnerabilities come about. Because of the increases in exploitations, safeguarding personal information and computing resources has become a vital part of the daily operations of organizations. Organizations that use computers have a hugely added advantage over how they do business. Any organization that has a computer system is susceptible to vulnerabilities. In analyzing some the most threatening web vulnerabilities, the conclusion of this essay is that the most critical vulnerability facing IT managers today is humans. This paper will talk about how organizations can secure their businesses to protect their sensitive data.

To help assess the vulnerabilities that those systems may introduce and the countermeasures that can be employed to address them, healthcare organizations should collect the following information:

Before my team assessed the efficacy of an insider threat program, we lacked several essential aspects crucial for mitigating, detecting, and preventing insider threats. Our former insider threat program lacked a lot of essential things and thus, made Goliath National Bank vulnerable to insider threats that could have potentially harmed its assets and intellectual property like trade secrets, strategic plans, and other confidential information. In order to protect the organization, Avatar should have placed more emphasis upon behavioral indicators instead of directing most of their effort and attention on technical indicators. If Goliath National Bank had noticed the red flags and realized that the insider threat was a disgruntled employee, he wouldn’t have been able to create and inflict so much damage through espionage. Thus, it is crucial for organizations to monitor their employee’s network on their personal or work device. In addition, our insider threat program lacked two of the five NIST framework core functions (i.e. identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover), which are important for risk management. Our insider threat program failed to address the respond and recover function. Since all the functions are interdependent upon one another and are necessary for proper, prompt, and efficient risk management, without any one of them, a lot of damage can result. The response function is essential because it has to do with the actions needed to be taken after a cyber security threat is detected. An organization has to know prior what specific action they want to take, whether it plans to gather data for law enforcement or take legal action to prevent the situation from escalating. The decision is crucial because it impacts the direction the organization takes. The recover function is crucial because it serves to decrease the impact and restore

It takes time and money to adjust IT security measures in response to evolving attack tactics. As defenders gradually update their security measures, attackers respond accordingly. Such arms-race dynamics lead to threats of increasing sophistication and efficiency. Today’s cybercriminals often have a long-term interest in their targets and often employ social engineering to get inside a protected environment. Their tactics commonly include malicious payload that attempts to compromise the victim’s system and may continue spreading within the organization. They also increasingly focus on weaknesses at the application, rather than system or network levels, to obtain data that provide the most value.

Information security professional’s job is to deploy the right safeguards, evaluating risks against critical assets and to mitigate those threats and vulnerabilities. Management can ensure their company’s assets, such as data, remain intact by finding the latest technology and implementing the right policies. Risk management focuses on analyzing risk and mitigating actions to reduce that risk. Successful implementation of security safeguards depends on the knowledge and experience of information security staff. This paper addresses the methods and fundamentals on how to systematically conduct risk assessments on the security risks of information systems.

Safety of information is the most valuable asset in any organization particular those who provide financial service to others. Threats can come from a variety of sources such as human threats, natural disasters and technical threats. By identifying the potential threats to the network, security measure can be taken to combat these threats, eliminate them or reduce the likelihood and impact if they should occur.

Information technology has become so pervasive in our lives that acts and ordinances are being enacted and amended on a regular basis in order to keep a check on its exponential growth. Nearly every field has a law that institutions need to be in compliance with; the healthcare segment has the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, retail has the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, the banking sector needs to comply with the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, and educational institutions receiving funding from the government have the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Even though these acts are as comprehensive as possible in terms of covering security features organizations need to implement, there always exist circumstances wherein certain entities exploit vulnerabilities in an institution’s security program, thereby compromising the sensitive data of its stakeholders. Therefore, in order to supplement the controls set in place by the aforementioned acts, individual institutions need to evaluate their current security frameworks and accordingly deploy monitoring, metrics, reporting tools and analysis (MMRA) so that they can either proactively fix gaps in their system, or react in the shortest time possible to any security threats to the system.