Security Assessment in Software Development

Running head: SECURITY ASSESSMENT IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
SECURITY ASSESSMENT IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Reported incident.......................................................................................................................3
Privacy implication....................................................................................................................5
How do counties avoid the privacy violation?...........................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The article which is taken into consideration is the ransomware attack which
potentially impacted more than 128000 Arkansas patient. The main technological impact
which is majorly seen in the article is related to the ransomware (Sharma, Zawar and Patil
2016). The ransomware can be considered as a malicious software or a malware which ones
takes over computer can directly deny the access to important information or the data. After
the attack is generated the attackers demand a ransom from the victim not always truthful in
order to restore the access of the data upon the payment. The user of the organization is
shown steps how to pay the fee to get the key which can be used for the process of decryption
(Henseler and Loenhout 2018). The cost can range from few hundred dollars to thousand
which are payable through the cybercriminal currency which is the bit coin.
The main aim of the report is to take into consideration an article which is related to
privacy violation. The description of the privacy implication are widely discussed in the
report.
Reported incident
The Arkansas Oral facial Surgery center which is located in the Fayetteville had
experienced a ransomware attack that impacted up to 128000 patients. The concept of the
ransomware was installed in the network between the time period of July 25th and 26th 2017
(Sharma, Zawar and Patil 2016). The most important aspect which occurred in the event was
that it was detected in an early stage, although not before the images of the x-ray and
different other documents were encrypted. The incident did not result in the encryption of the
database but on the other hand encrypted a relatively limited set of the data of the patient
related to their recent visit encrypted. The data of the patient which was effected by the attack