Discussion: Physical access control safeguards
Discussion: Physical access control safeguards
Imagine you are an information security consultant for a small college registrar’s office consisting of the registrar and two assistant registrars, two student workers, and a receptionist. The office is near several other office spaces. The assistant registrars access student records stored on a server in the building via mobile devices over a wireless network. Additionally, each registrar’s office has a networked desktop computer to access the server and electronic student records. The receptionist station has a desktop computer with access to student records for scheduling appointments.
In 1974, Congress enacted the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to help protect the integrity of student records. The college has hired you to ensure technical safeguards are appropriately designed to preserve the integrity of the student records maintained in the registrar’s office.
Instructions
Write a 3–5 page paper in which you:
Analyze proper physical access control safeguards and provide sound recommendations to be employed in the registrar’s office.
Recommend the proper audit controls to be employed in the registrar’s office.
Suggest three logical access control methods to restrict unauthorized entities from accessing sensitive information and explain why you suggested each method.
Analyze the means by which data moves in the organization and identify techniques to provide transmission security safeguards.
Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
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The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Recommend technical security safeguards to protect private information.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.