Essays on Tripwire

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 ...

Human factors are commonly referred to as a field of learning which consists of several disciplines such as psychology, industrial design, engineering, operations research, anthropology, and even statistics. Additionally the main focus of this field of learning is on the elements of engineering, empiricism, perception, and also cognition. It mostly involves the determination and identification of the different capabilities and limitations of humans including various elements of engineering such as design application, development, distribution along with the categorization of the different systems and services. These elements and information are usually incorporated into programs used in the nursing practice. The ...

The growth of information technologies stimulated the rapid development and effective use of information networks in the entrepreneurial activity and in everyday life, and the growth of new threats. Education and training are essential to creating a culture of security in the workplace. The main idea is that all employees in an organization must be involved in security policy and must be aware of the tactics, techniques, and procedures needed to protect the internal system (Tripwire guest authors, 2014). The problem in the fight against crime on the Internet is the international character of cyber criminality and the absence ...