Cyber Security
150- 250 words. Agree or disagree support your response
Technology has been improving and privacy information is no longer as secure as it once was. Over the course of the improvements in technology, introduction to the internet, and the vulnerability discovery there has been not only frameworks and standards that have been set. Countries all over have been mitigating risk by setting law into effect providing a baseline for cybersecurity.
The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act of 2014 is described in the text as a task to evaluate the readiness and capacity of the workforce, the location of such positions, detail information on the positions held, and training that is performed by the professionals. This is just some of the information that the DHS is required to asses 180 days from the enactment of this law and every 3 years after that. This law is greatly related to threats the organization might face due to the frequent assessments of their assets. The organization will have enough information to make educated decisions on assets management, and also being able to provide enough cybersecurity training to close the threat gap enhancing the protection of data.
Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is described in the book as a law to ensure the privacy of personal medical information. The author describes HIPAA as having five fundamental principles such as consumer control of medical information, boundaries on the use of medical information, accountability of privacy on specified information, balance and responsibility on the use of such information, and the security of health information. HIPAA helps secure medical information from being sold or misused by the healthcare professionals while establishing the rules of protection to keep the information s integrity and confidentiality. This helps the organization by establishing a baseline to mitigate the threat of a data breach, or comprised data.
Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act, Public Law (2014). Retrieved from https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-113publ246/pdf/PLAW-113publ246.pdf
Whitman, M.E., & Mattord, H. J. (2018). Principles of Information Security (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning