Question
The most important public consulting firm has been tasked with implementing an online patient care system that will allow a military medical facility to electronically provide military patients access to their medical records. The patients contain both active and retired military personnel located all through the world. Included in the system is a social network so patients could share information with each other and provide feedback to the medical facility.
a. Discuss and describe the potential security threats.
b. Identify potential vulnerabilities of such a system and provide your rationale.
c. explain relevant security approaches necessary to protect both patients and the military organization responsible for maintaining the new system.
d. describe the security issues related to outsourcing this work to a consulting firm over having it done in house within a military environment. How would one overcome these issues?