As we are in the age of modern technology, there are continual advancements and innovations. Samples are collected, trials are repeated, variables are manipulated, projects are started,progress and failures are made every day. The possibilities truly seem endless. With this continual work of progress concept, there are always questions about security. When banking moved to being paperless and transitioned to online banking, issues in regard to hacking was a great concern. As we continue to move forward, customer convenience seems to increase but customer security is a dimenshing concept.
For this reason, I would invest in programs for my company to protect against identity theft and hacking. Protective measures that I would encorporate for secure browsing for users is using https certified webpages and webservices such as gmail to allow for secure exchanges of private information across different web pages. I would also shread all financial documents and check my credit report annually using Equifax and Transunion to ensure that there is no suspicious activity on my company profile. There would be a limit on the amount of staff that has login access to financial sites and continually update my anti-virus and firewall security system. When throwing out computers, I would appropriately remove and recycle them to avoid easy information retrieval. Since computers are really great at storing information even information that you may have placed in the recycling bin, when replacing computers I would rewrite the hardware by placing each item with a single character.
With applications such as Google Wallet, it is very efficient to avoid the inconvenience of carrying around a wallet. Yet there is also the disadvantage of giving someone access to all of your financial information just by the touch of a button. Even though, the user would have to input a pin, that still does not ensure security. The same precaution is used with bank accounts yet during the midst of a robbery the robber can ask you to input your pin and withdraw all of your hard cash earnings in the blink of an eye.
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