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This 5 page paper considers the risks that may be present when a new computer system is put into place, these include security issues, physical and software threats and employee policies. The paper also considers how an organisation can protect against these various threats. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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File: TS14_TEdatrsk.rtf
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does it hold organisation information, it also holds personal information about third parties, whom the tax office will have a legal liability to protect. If we first consider the types
of risk that may exist we may then go on to consider how these risks may be minimised or eliminated. The first
potential risk is that of security internally and externally as well as the protection of the integrity of the information. In the software risks the main risk must be seen
as hacking, and as recent incidents where even Microsoft have had their security breached and been hacked, in the case of Microsoft it was their hotmail accounts that were compromised.
This may not seem very important, but when we also consider a recent report of the theft of over a million credit card numbers for in excess of forty e
banking and e commerce site we can start to appreciate the scale of the problem (Levitt, 2000). For the tax service hackers may be seeking to gain information, to change
information or even to collapse the system. There are four main phases to hacking are information gathering regarding the target, the exploitation of any potential vulnerabilities that have been
discovered in stage 1, the actual hacking, either to gain the information, remove funds or sabotage the software, and finally the withdrawal of the hacker from the system and
the process of covering the tracks (Barrett, 2000). This may include the erasing or altering of logs (Barrett, 2000). There is no way
of being 100% secure, but a knowledge of the way hackers work may be seen as helpful. Methods of prevention include the use of firewalls as well as encryption, as
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