Digital Security
Learning Objectives
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1. Describe how you can protect your personal identity online.
2. Define the purpose of a password. 3. Explain why you have a responsibility to the internet community to use virus protection. 4. Compare and contrast a stranger that a child comes across in a park with an online stranger. 5. Define identity theft, phishing and online stalking |
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Digital Security Overview
Digital Security is defined by Ribble (2015) as the electronic precautions to guarantee safety. The amount of electronic information stored on each individual is extraordinary. Google maps can tell you where you were every day, google can tell you everything you search for, Facebook has your friends, pictures and activities and so on. How do we keep all of this information out of the hands of people who want to exploit it. Ribble (2015) explains the risks of not having firewalls, encrypted wireless access and virus protection. Many times people do not consider the risks of giving away their passwords or friending a stranger online (Ribble, 2015).
Connections to Digital Security
The Health Care Portability and Accountability Act provides access of medical records to patients, but requires medical providers to provide appropriate safeguards to protect health information. Safeguards that are built into the electronic medical (health) record system include: access controls like pins and passwords to protect against unauthorized access, encryption of stored medical data so that only authorized people have the key to read it and an audit trail so unauthorized access can be easily traced. If there is a breach of security, health care providers are obligated to let patients know of the breach (Rodriguez, 2011). Even with protection breaches can occur, at Howard University Hospital in Washington in 2013, an employee, Laurie Napper used her position to obtain and then sell patients' names, addresses and medicare numbers. At the same hospital, another employee had downloaded patient medical records onto a personal computer and the computer was subsequently stolen. Portable Electronic medical records can be made more secure with passwords, cloud storage and encryption, but user carelessness or errors can still result in breaches (Ozair, et al, 2015) .
NPR Radio Broadcasts
Los Angeles Hospital Pays Hackers To Regain Control of Medical Records
Date: February 18, 2016 Length 2:16
Summary: A Los Angeles hospital paid the equivalent of $17,000 in Bitcoins to hackers who took over the hospital medial records and shut down the servers for days. Cyber Security experts say that likely someone clicked on a link they should not have which locked the hospital servers. Ransomeware is getting more and more common.
Link to Podcast and transcript
How Will the Next President Protect Our Digital Lives?
Date: May 27, 2015 Length: 4:30
Summary: Americans are very concerned about cyber security so the 45th president will have to hit the ground running with a plan. From stealing national security to steeling private information breaches of security are widespread. Topics that need to be covered include- data encryption, structural reform of the National Security Agency and defining the role of Homeland Security
Link to Podcast and transcript
References
December 12, 2011, 10:24 am / Leon Rodriguez / Former Director, HHS Office for Civil Rights. (2017, January 27). Privacy, Security, and
Electronic Health Records. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/privacy-and-security-of-ehrs/privacy-security-
electronic-health-records/
How Will The Next President Protect Our Digital Lives?. (2015). NPR.org. Retrieved 9 May 2017, from
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/27/409728807/how-will-the-next-president-protect-our-digital-lives
Los Angeles Hospital Pays Hackers To Regain Control Of Medical Records. (2016). NPR.org. Retrieved 9 May 2017, from
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467253422/los-angeles-hospital-pays-hackers-to-regain-control-of-medical-records
Ozair, F. F., Jamshed, N., Sharma, A., & Aggarwal, P. (2015). Ethical issues in electronic health records: A general
overview. Perspectives in Clinical Research, 6(2), 73-76: http://doi.org/10.4103/2229-3485.153997
Ribble, M. (2015). Digital citizenship in schools: Nine elements all students should know. Eugene, OR: International Society for
Technology In Education.
Electronic Health Records. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/privacy-and-security-of-ehrs/privacy-security-
electronic-health-records/
How Will The Next President Protect Our Digital Lives?. (2015). NPR.org. Retrieved 9 May 2017, from
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/27/409728807/how-will-the-next-president-protect-our-digital-lives
Los Angeles Hospital Pays Hackers To Regain Control Of Medical Records. (2016). NPR.org. Retrieved 9 May 2017, from
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467253422/los-angeles-hospital-pays-hackers-to-regain-control-of-medical-records
Ozair, F. F., Jamshed, N., Sharma, A., & Aggarwal, P. (2015). Ethical issues in electronic health records: A general
overview. Perspectives in Clinical Research, 6(2), 73-76: http://doi.org/10.4103/2229-3485.153997
Ribble, M. (2015). Digital citizenship in schools: Nine elements all students should know. Eugene, OR: International Society for
Technology In Education.
