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.