Healthcare Information Security

Healthcare Information Security              

Before responding to this week’s prompt, please watch the following two videos from the module course materials:

Human Hacking Exposed (Hadnagy, 2012)

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Public WiFi (HowTech, 2014)

Organizations spend a lot of money ensuring that their networks are secure. However, people can circumvent all that expensive security through preying on the fallibility of an organization’s employees. In fact, human error is one of the top security vulnerabilities organizations face in today’s society. Two ways that an employee might inadvertently allow someone to access confidential materials are by falling prey to Social Engineering or by using insecure wireless networks.

Please comment on human error as a security vulnerability. Here are some questions that may help you formulate a comment:

Can you think of a time when someone you know may have inadvertently provided sensitive work and/or personal information? What were the ramifications?

Can you think of an instance when you used your mobile device (e.g., laptop, mobile phone, tablet) to connect to an unsecure wireless network to conduct important business such as banking transactions and/or updating work documents? If so, did you take the time to verify the legitimacy of the wireless hotspot? If so, how did you know that your wireless session was secure?