Essays on Pci

The use of cashless forms of money payments begun in the twentieth century. The entry of information and technology has taken this kind of transactions to a higher notch. A person can buy a car from the comfort of their home, pay for it using a credit card and get the vehicle brought to where they are. As such, the protection of such data is vital. A company mandated to transact using the credit cards needs to build secure network infrastructure. The organization needs to install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect the transactional data. The firewall will ...

In January 2009, Heartland Payment Systems announced that it had encountered a breach in its security system the previous year. The breach had compromised data of more than 130 million credit and debit cards transactions as the transaction data was being transmitted in an unencrypted form within its internal processing platform. The company was certified Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant and had implemented all the required controls, but could not avert the breach. This paper examines if compliance with standards is enough to ensure data security. The paper will suggest the approach to be taken ...

Nowadays various threats of malicious software are considered the most dangerous because of the sphere of their influence and rapid spread. One should be aware of the reasons for viruses attack as well as be ready to find ways to identify and eliminate malware. Considering worms, viruses and Trojans as the greatest challenges for security personnel, it is extremely important to be well aware of the issues and methods of solving problems connected with malware. Users as well as systems administrators should act fast when a potential infection is detected. This way, the key to dealing with malware is ...

Novel drug sourced from snake venom

Abstract The cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have continued to be some of the leading death causes across the globe. In the recent times, the field of medicine has received substantial advancements, particularly in the areas of pharmacological treatment and the prevention of the disorders such as the plasminogen activators, platelets GPIIb/IIIa antagonists and the direct thrombin inhibitors. The development of the novel drug, the tirofiban sourced from the Echis carinatus venom been highly reported to be of great importance. Tirofiban, an anticoagulant factors isolated from Echis carinatus has a variety of immune responses that includes both acute inflammatory responses ...

Importance of the Security Plan to the Company

Setting up and keeping up data security arrangement through a security administration arrangement is basic to an association's advancement and achievement. A vigorous and legitimately executed security arrangement helps the association with the training, observing, and continuous support of security mindfulness inside the association. One of the greatest dangers to an association's data security is frequently not a shortcoming in the innovation control environment. Or maybe it is the activity or inaction by workers and another faculty that can prompt security occurrences. For instance, through exposure of data that could be utilized as a part of a social designing ...

A. Community health nursing is a concept that seeks to identify and analyze all vital data in relation to a community or a group of people to assist in the development of appropriate interventions that can improve the health status of the community or group. It is a concept that recognizes the importance of the social-health determinants and their influence on the quality of health and be quality of life depicted by the community (Stanhope, Lancaster & Stanhope, 2014). If applied, the community health nurse has to focus on the needs of the community across the economic, social, cultural and ...

Internal vs. External Penetration Tests

Penetration testing is a form of practice aimed at improving the security system of an organization by testing the computer systems, web application, network, and databases to establish possibilities of an attacker exploiting the system vulnerabilities. Two types of penetration testing exist, the internal and the external testing. The external penetration testing aims at determining the possibility of a remote attacker to access the internal network by accessing specific crown jewels and servers within the system’s internal network. It exploits the external perimeter of the technology, people, and process and systems connected to the public network infrastructure. The ...

Abstract

This paper will focus on the meaning of the executive coach and the ethical codes which he or she must abide by while coaching other individuals; whether the coaching is conducted within an organization, or it is a one on one coaching session. In addition, we will also review ethical breaches that may often occur while under the practice of coaching. When a service professional consider themselves to be an executive coach, they must be willing to implement integrity and uphold the ethical codes which they swore by, even in the most difficult situations. Throughout this paper, we will ...

Executive Summary

Storage, scalability, accessibility and security have always been the key problems faced by technology officers across industries ever since their operations have been made to run on enterprise platforms. With the progress made in the area of information and communication technology along with the development and popularity of social media and other data sources, the volume of data generated is huge, which every organization wants to exploit in order to arrive at meaningful intelligence that can help in growing their businesses. Storage of this huge amount of data, its retrieval and the associated costs are challenges for the organizations, ...

Information Technology Auditing

Information Technology Auditing

Question 1

Final Audit Report My final audit report would be written in a manner to ensure that it encompasses the critical aspect of Information Technology aspects of Westchester Hospital. The report will give a succinct insight into the IT infrastructure of the hospital by highlighting and categorizing the machines which have root accounts alongside the specific administrative privileges which are shared with other several system administrators. The report would further incorporate a comprehensive analysis of the general operations of the Westchester Hospital’s IT system by identifying the security concerns of the systems and the best measures ...

Question 1

Since the absence of anti-virus was not detected at an earlier time, there is a possibility that some portions of the system were already affected by the virus, especially when the system is engaged into activities which permits entry of foreign objects such as e-mails and online messages (Security Standards Council, 2010). The first thing to do, as compensation, is to limit the entry or the use of data to both local and foreign concerns. This is to prevent anymore spreading of possible virus to areas which are still uninfected by the virus. After that, alerting the people or ...

PCI is an abbreviation of Payment Card Industry. PCI compliance is, therefore, the following of a particular set of security standard that was developed to protect card information during and after a financial transaction. Companies that are compliant with PCI DSS regulations are less likely to have the data breach. The data collection of the cardholder is, therefore, advised where it is deemed necessary. The information collected should also be stored appropriately according to the PCI DSS regulations. BCS, on the other hand, is an abbreviation of British Computer Society while HIPAA is legislation that provides data privacy and ...

The importance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as an integrated intervention for persistent coronary occlusion after myocardial infarction seems to have little indication of any improvements or positive benefits in the long term. When integrated with optimal medical therapy and stent placement there is little indication that in deed PCI affords the patients a higher chance of regression of coronary atherosclerosis (Hochman et al., 2006). In this regard, optimal medical therapy alone indicated significant benefits with particular reference to significant regression of coronary atherosclerosis for any period past the three years upon initiation of PCI. This in some sense ...

Social justice is essential in the maintenance of a productive society. In fact, lack thereof compromises the quality of interaction among community members, and this could result in unruliness. With this in mind, it is worth appreciating the fact that the media plays a tremendous role in promoting social justice around the globe. This situation is largely accredited to the fact that the information conveyed through different media platforms enhances people’s understanding of social justice and the problems faced in various sections of the world (Agboka 38). As such, people appreciate their role in the betterment of other ...

Acute coronary syndrome is an umbrella term for a group of clinical symptoms indicative of acute myocardial ischemia. These conditions include non-ST-segment elevation myocardial ischemia (NSTEMI), unstable angina, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). These conditions are high-risk manifestations of atherosclerosis in the coronary artery and significant causes of utilization of emergency services and hospitalization (Kumar and Cannon, 2009). STEMI causes 30% of all acute coronary syndromes in Australia (Harper and Lefkovits, 2010). This paper will describe the expected presentation, pathophysiology, ECG findings, pre-hospital management, and initial 24-hour management of STEMI in hospitals settings. These aspects will be described ...

Objective

CardConnect Company faces challenges in international management. In the recent past, the company has failed to formulate an effective strategy, structuring an appropriate organizational design and managing people in an international surrounding. The CardConnect firm is forced to handle technical, economic and social differences in the business environment. Although CardConnect has reached the global market scene, it still faces international challenges while competing with other credit card companies. CardConnect firm should take precaution to protect the Clover (POS company) because it is depicted as one of the commonly applied computing systems around the world. The hackers have targeted the ...

The world today operates in an age of IT. Almost every bit of our daily life activities has been computerized: most services and access to information is now automated, even business transactions. With such advancements in Technology (particularly access to information), comes the need for privacy and security on individuals, companies and corporate entities. For instance, most people in the world today acquire products and procure services in the form of cashless transactions. These transactions are facilitated through the use of a payment card. The payment card is given to the payment card holder, as representation of account with ...