Is My Money Safe? America, and IT Security.

Unit 4 Discussion 2 Response 2

Original Post by Patrick Keating

Response from: Miss. Bayo Elizabeth Cary, AA, BA, MLIS

Hello,

Thank you for everyone’s continue support and work to ensure that MarketingMatters is the best company that it can be. Your continued work has contributed to the success of MarketingMatters. The company will continue to strive to serve our customers and to strive to keep their confidence that their information is safe and secure.

Breaches and compromise have become more common place than ever. It is almost every day that we hear about confidential information being stolen and possibly being released to the public. In the event of information being disclosed, intentional or unintentional, a company may lose customers resulting in less profits and reduction in workforce.

MarketingMatters has tried to address these risks by implementing a social media policy that each employee has been required to read. As an employee of MarktingMatters, you are part of brand that needs to portray confidence to our customers. Social media is an outlet that could provide an image that an employee may not want portray.

With the ever-changing threat landscape, MarketingMatters has decided to take an additional step to ensure the security of the company’s data.

Effective immediately, accessing Facebook in the office is prohibited.

Everyone within MarketingMatters is a valued employee and we want to ensure that continue success of the company. Your hard work is a critical component of the success and want to see everyone be the best can be.

Thank you for your continued hard work as we all strive to make MarketingMatters a true success to our customers, the public, and ourselves.

Sincerely,

Darcy M. Diamond

Director, Network Defense

References

Guffey, M. E. (2016). Essentials of Business Communication, 10th Edition. [Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781305990678/

Response from: Miss. Bayo Elizabeth Cary, AA, BA, MLIS    

       I thought the message was positive. There was a good combination, of: information and background about the issues begin addressed, valid discussion regarding reasons for changing the company policies regarding access Facebook at work, and then, the closing statements, were encouraging, for a bright cooperative future. “An Ounce of Loss Prevention,” by: Randy George, discusses the new, and contemporary phenomenon-constant data security threats, and data loss, and defense-in-depth, DLP (data loss prevention), that takes a stance of; “intolerance” (Randy, 2009, p. 39).

     Sometimes, a problem is soo common, and soo great-that people try to pretend, like the issues do not exist. It may seem easier, to ignore a problem-if the situation is larger-than-life, as opposed to pro-actively, working against, what has gone wrong. With the introduction, of: defense-in depth, security protocols, the idea is to be aggressive and pre-emptive, in combating, those who would thwart the security, of American data and information. Playing a predictive role, and then attempting to move, one step ahead of the “hackers,” one must really understand the “Black-markets,” and how the low life-snake through any given loop-holes, to access, what should otherwise be-completely untouchable.

        The US government, provides some limited guidance, on what must occur, in-order-to ensure the safety, of US markets (Randy, 2009, p. 39). Data loss, is a huge offense, and leaves US companies, in a precarious position, if they can no longer, protect and defend-the data, that say-secures money in a bank. The fear becomes endemic, like the stock market crash, of 1929-with Walstreet CEO’s jumping out top floor windows. If the time has really come, when US: rules, regulations, laws, and strict policies-can no longer protect, the simple livelihood, of an American penny, then-it is all over, except the weeping.

               There comes a time-whether the temptation of Facebook, and other online social networking websites exist, or not-when one must make critical ethical and moral decisions, and face-the-truth. A man is his word, and nothing else. Money is based on integrity-which is at its most fundamental-a man’s word. Am I telling the truth? Can you trust me? Do I have any integrity at all? Can America preserve private and confidential data? Do I have a right to privacy still? Is there still an American Constitution? Can America keep my money safe? How long should we continue to ask the above stated questions-if we already know the answers? And, if serious problems exist-why have we, as Americans, refused to fix them? Is your money safe? I agree, Facebook policies a work-will help some, and-Facebook, will never be, the root of all evil, it is not the final solution, to continuing massive security breach violations.

References

George, Randy. (2009). An Ounce of Loss Prevention: Our survey shows the regulatory climate is heating up sales of DLP suites. Information Week: Analytics Brief, Data Loss Prevention. 1235. p. 39-40. Retrieved from www.informationweek.com