Blog Entry 7.1 - IS Security

The five major threats to an Information System are Viruses/Worms, Hackers/Outside Intruders, Employees/Consultants, Links To Outside Businesses, and Natural Disasters/Accidents. Our Ferrum Medical Security System can attract many of the viruses that are out there in today's world. One way to prevent this from happening is by having a antivirus system that will track down and destroy viruses, worms or spyware that the site will attract. Hackers can simply hack into the system and steal customer information such as bank information, confidential medical information or just the system in general. We will have a safeguard that will make it close to impossible to have hackers hack into the system which will be updating the system every 30 minutes with a new password so that it would be harder for the hacker or outside intruder to hack into the system. Employees and Constultants will have the password to the system and can simply accidentally lose valuable information that could cost the company so to make this work we will make sure the employees only have access to the network only while at work which will cut down the risks. Natural disasters and accidents happen everyday, but a way we will have this down is to back up our entire network so that we wont have to worry about not having our information if an accident happens. A way to not have a problem between links to outside businesses is again only have access to the network when the employee is at work so that it would cut down ties.

Blog Entry 6.1 – Web 2.0

The four pillars of Web 2.0 are Utilizing the web as a platform, Harnessing collective intelligence, Leveraging the data, and Implementing innovation web capabilities. By using the 4th pillar which is Implementing innovation web capabilities, our business Ferrum Medical will be using the most up to date technology and will constantly monitor it so that we could compete with the leading Medical centers. By leveraging the data we will use the large databases to store the customer information, orders which will be helpful to doctors and other personnel that need to access the information quickly. By harnessing collective intelligence we will have a section on our site that will allow feedback to be posted so that we can improve our content. Utilizing the web as a platform which uses the network bandwidth of all users of the software to improve download performance we will make sure each customer has the same amount of viewing capability so that they are all on the same level.