Scholoarly article on data security

This article is a scholarly article that talks about how the private sector is experiencing security breaches due to optimism bias. I found this article by searching Carnegie Mellon University's webpage called CUPS. CUPS is an acronym standing for Cylab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. It is a webpage that has many scholarly writers and articles that speak of internet privacy and issues that are facing the world today. The article is written by Sasha Romanosky who is a member of CUPS. He wrote this article for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and he has been working in the e-commerce and financial security technology field for over ten years. He is also the co-developer of the Common Vulnerability Scoring system which scores computer vulnerabilities. This qualifies Romanosky, and this article as a scholarly article.

In this article, Romanosky argues that many companies in the private sector are hurting themselves and are dangerously close to being victims of security breaches based on optimism bias. He states that this optimism puts them in a state of denial, and leaves them vulnerable. He outlines a set of initiatives that every company should put in place in order to be better prepared to protect their data. These initiatives include a start with top managements commitment to security. He also advises that each company create a set of labels to classify data. This will help to ensure the data that needs to be kept private is separated and will highlight the levels of security for each level of data security. Based on where these data categories fall, different security measures should be created. Finally, these categories should be published and well known throughout the company.

This article gives ideas to companies regarding security of data. These ideas are very valid, and focus on upper managements ability to create a system of security that does not assume that a breach will not happen to you. He creates this idea by calling out potential readers and companies and the overall private sector's attitude of optimism that a security breach will not happen to them.

Cell Phones

Today, technology is getting to the point where there is no limits. With every new smart phone that comes out, the new features and capabilities that it can perform are absolutely amazing. Some of these features are extremely convenient, and very helpful. The fact that you can take a picture on your phone and it will automatically sync with your computer without plugging it in is amazing. At the same time, it can be kinda scary! I have multiple email accounts set up on my phone and I can read them at any moment throughout the day. With facebook apps and personal information on your phones, sometmies it is pretty safe to say that these phones are a large part of everyday life, and without them, people would be lost.

Because these phones are mobile and are small, phones get lost frequently. I think that with these new features and capabilities that each new phone is coming equipped with should be even more sfaeguards and privacy blockers. The newest app or the cool new feature are very well advertised, but I don't ever see advertisements reguarding safeguarding the information that is on your phone. Some of the new features themselves I do not think I would want on my phone out of fear that my information could be stolen. I think that passwords should be required to access many of the apps and features of your phone so that this information does not get into the wrong hands.