How did your specific experiences inform you in your practice of securely using technology for communication?
As IT professional, I am very concern about the security of the technology we used to communicate. On one hand, technology made communication very convenient and easy to use, Faculty members are using skype to teach their classes while away, they shared important research document and other sensitive information over our network channel of communication.On the other hand, It securing your communication line can be costly. Post 9/11 has created a different environment in IT department all over the country.Email, phone communication can be intercept under the "Patriot act" without a prior authorization. You don't know who is listening or tampering with the email . I have to use extra security tools to prevent any hacking or intrusion to our system.
For our patient health information data (PHI) ,federal regulation(HIIPA) prevent us to use insecure communication to transfer data. With the social media phenomena, privacy is a huge issue. We are more expose to the virtual world and taking measure to secure the data is a must.
I do not personally use the social media(Facebook, mySpace).It is disturbing how much personal info is out there. I ma not really sure if average user realize how expose they are on the web.
As IT professional, I am very concern about the security of the technology we used to communicate. On one hand, technology made communication very convenient and easy to use, Faculty members are using skype to teach their classes while away, they shared important research document and other sensitive information over our network channel of communication.On the other hand, It securing your communication line can be costly. Post 9/11 has created a different environment in IT department all over the country.Email, phone communication can be intercept under the "Patriot act" without a prior authorization. You don't know who is listening or tampering with the email . I have to use extra security tools to prevent any hacking or intrusion to our system.
For our patient health information data (PHI) ,federal regulation(HIIPA) prevent us to use insecure communication to transfer data. With the social media phenomena, privacy is a huge issue. We are more expose to the virtual world and taking measure to secure the data is a must.
I do not personally use the social media(Facebook, mySpace).It is disturbing how much personal info is out there. I ma not really sure if average user realize how expose they are on the web.
I think its great you don't use social media and you are correct when you state people don't realize how much of their info is exposed online. It's amazing what we can find out about ourselves, friends, and loved ones online when we search for them. If people actually knew whats listed online about them they might take better security measures to prevent personal information from getting out.
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