Security along the E-health System Insider Threat and Combat with Insider Threat.
Introduction
With the progress of the era, most of the business tend to transform from traditional file system to the computer or web-based system, these computer system provide service to support the efficient operation to today’s society. At first, people enjoy the convenient of these system, but throughout the years, no matter how we integrate and enhance our system or the way we manage information, from traditional file system to computer system, we always facing the challenge to mitigate insider threat.
People is the greatest resource of the company or organization, but there are two side of a coin, everything comes with benefits and also the drawback. Staff
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Like hospital, nowadays almost most of the large scale hospital using computer system to manage their patient information, these information may include identity card number, age, health condition, and sometime credit card number. If these information is compromised, those information can be manipulate to create great issues to the hospital and even the society. All in all, we must be go through vary kind of process to ensure mitigate the insider threat.
Understanding insider threat?
According to the FBI web page, insider threat is harder to detect compare with outsider or non-employee, so the one that can cause most damage is the insider, which is because employee will have the legitimate access to the organization’s system. Insider may steal the organization’s confidential data for personal gain, by being a ‘spy’ and selling organization’s confidential data and sell it to competitor and gain benefits. Insider threat can be a negligence employee who accidentally spread confidential data to public, and also can be the one who is not satisfying the management decision of the organization, and cause the damage
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In most of the case, if insider threat activity is being recognized and reported to management level, the insider threat can be easily interrupted or vanish. One of the reason for the insider threat activity is that no one notices what they doing or done and no or weak information security exist, if the system have a strong information security, no one will dare to commit this. Organization should practice evaluation when hiring new staff of doctor, and monitoring them when individual works is carry out, this will make e-health system more safer and reduce insider
1. There will be the use of a secure medical records system used in order to protect the privacy of the patient. Through the use of the WebPT, medical records can only be accessed by healthcare providers directly involved in that case. WebPT is a password protected system (HA-10). 2.
Hi all I would like to let all of you know, that all the IT request that you had have been taking care of, I have performed the hardware maintenance to the network and computers and everything should be ok. also, I have been working on meeting the HIPPA compliance for our network and there are some initial points I have been working on 1. I have set up the computer to lock the screens after 5 minutes time of inactivity, this will ensure that computer session are closed when the user is away (is still a good idea to lock the computer every time is not in use) 2. the server room need to have a server shelf or server rack that will keep the It equipment out of the floor.
Marques Underwood INSS 391 Security and the Future With the transition of companies leaning towards advancing through the usage of big data, cybersecurity and the trends in technology are creating an increase in threats. The goal is to protect the databases and devices used at these companies before they are hacked and compromised for unwanted reasons. We’ll see the general concerns with security in the IT field, and steps that specific companies are taking to prevent and adopt to the landscape of the future in security. Devices are increasing at a rapid pace these days, meaning the more data is being expanding.
Being in the medical office, when not a your desk. Make sure lock your computer, don 't give out passwords, don 't talk about patient information when people can hear you. Definitely always log out of the computer. So no look, or access it. RE: Unit 3 Discussion: Medical Identity Theft 8/24/2015 1:59:00 PM
Thing can fall through our fingers yes, but it is the organizations job to follow the right procedures mandated by the law. This in turn can contribute to finding better ways to protect patient’s personal information and keep the hospitals quality for caring and protecting their members not just their physical needs, but personal needs as
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Susan Mckinney Week 3 MOS 1 Discussion Thread What measures can be taken to guarantee the security of EHRs? So many things can be done to insure the safety of patients Electronic Health Records (EHR).
3. Dumpster divers Dumpster diver will dig for the information that has all of the information about payroll, position and title that puts business at risk Destroy or shred all of the information that is not needed to avoid the information to be misused by the attacker. Application and Network Attacks 4. Letting the Ex-employee log in to the system even after he leaves the company It will destroy and
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Healthcare is becoming more dependent on technology. From advancements in hardware that help to save lives and cure disease, to software that allows for the transferring and storage of private patient data. Healthcare systems also rely on technology to control costs and ensure an optimal patient experience. The drawback to these innovations is that hospitals have seen a marked increase in the use of electronic information and a resulting increase in the level of exposure to cyberattacks, which target an organization's use of cyberspace to steal information or disrupt, disable, or destroy related information resources. These cyber threats have made most of healthcare's trusted technology less reliable and there is a race to find solutions.