Protection Of Confidential And Integral Information

Protection of Confidential and Integral Information in Melissa’s The Melissa’s/World Variety Produce, Inc. is a delivering company which is devoted to providing the freshest fruits and vegetables products. The company is possessing 280,000 square feet warehouse and more than 1000 available items. This great company is located in the Vernon district of Los Angeles, California, so that World Variety Produce is able to support the products, imported from the world as a whole, to retailers in the Southern California region. Since 1984, the company has developed very well (â€Å"About us,† 2015). In order to come up with the Information Age, data security is becoming a serious problem for many companies. Consequently, the first and foremost concept†¦show more content†¦For instance, if World Variety Produce were going to import some low price products secretly, but this information was stolen by fraudsters, spam or virus writer, the business could fail. Worse still, if the competitor knew this confidential information, World Vari ety Produce would suffer great losses. According to the concept above, our group work is going to concentrate on protecting the confidential information and being sure the integrity of the information through protecting by users’ password, backing up data periodically, and improving data integrity. Safe Password We talk about basic questions how to set up a safe password. We usually use passwords for identification and authentication, so the way to set up passwords is very important. Now we introduce three best practices about passwords identification and authentication. The first way is using smart card. The smart card is a very safe device to get authentication. It can save up to 20 public-key certificates. It is used to log in and encrypt files with codes. The passwords that it generates just are authenticated in one time. The user can get a unique code number that is generated every 60 seconds. If people want to sign in the website, they have to enter the unique code and PIN or phrase forming a password, which is given by RSA ACE/Serve. People are required to have hardware and software at the same