Question

For this assignment, imagine you are responsible for creating a security and privacy plan for a small doctors' office that has 4 doctors and 10 staff. The purpose of your plan is to describe standards that help ensure the privacy and integrity of the many different facets of a network.

Include the following in your security and privacy plan:

• Include policies that protect the hardware and physical aspects of the network.
• Identify hardware areas that need to be secured.

Answer 1

ANSWER:

An enterprise wide network security plan for an organization depends upon the long term goals, ideas and missions of the company. A plan which suits the entire organization and provides security must be implemented. The plan must include avoiding various issues like
· Excessive user rights

· Database security backdoors

· Excessive file and directory access

· Inappropriate passwords

· Unauthorised accesses

The most common vulnerabilities that a plan addresses are password hacks, data insecurity, data loss, network intruders, firewall misconfiguration, etc.