August 16, 2013 Cyber Security The digitization of business processes has generated appreciable edges for corporations and government agencies — but has conjointly created a replacement class of cyber risk. Public and private-sector organizations area units currently might be progressively susceptible to attack by hackers or competitors, electronic fraud, sabotage or the straightforward loss of knowledge. The threat is intense as enterprises become progressively virtual, with IT infrastructure and services to change business processes progressively being delivered from the far side the company firewall. Unfortunately, security concerns are not limited to networks. Radio-frequency identification (RFID)in the form of a card or chip is being used to track in store merchandise and aid in inventory management. As of 2006 all passports must contain the chip. Credit card companies Visa, Mastercard and American Express are offering cards with chips some names of these cards are PayWave, PayPass, ExpressPay and Zip. Disneyland is currently encouraging its customers to use “Key to the World" which is an RFID chip. RFID technology has, at this time many flaws when used as a payment process or as an information source like in the case of medical records being stored and available just incase you cannot articulate your medical history to emergency services. We strongly advise our clients to stay far away from RFID technology at this time even for inventory processes as the risk is great and all the security processes that have been implemented over the years can truly be lost in an instant.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:57:46 +0000
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