Assignment: Emerging Threats & Countermeasures
Question I (250 words): An organization will be testing a beta upgrade version of its employee's fingerprint matching system. Because it's difficult to mimic human fingerprints the company used real biometric images, data, and templates to test the beta upgrade. The previous and current versions both contain meta data, and demographic data with each fingerprint that includes the owner's name, age, sex, race, and date of birth. After a successful upgrade consider the following:
a. What data types stored by the system should be considered as PII?
b. Review the NIST Special Publication 800-122 to determine the impact level. What factors did you include to determine the impact level?
c. What privacy safeguards should be considered to protect the PII in the upgrade test.
d. Is a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) required to complete the upgrade?
e. What should be done with the test data after the upgrade?
Question II (3 pages): Personally identifiable information (PII) is any information that can identify an individual.
Review the NIST Special Publication 800-122 "Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
a. What is considered PII information?
b. How to protect PII information?
c. What are the categories of PII and how to determine what types are considered for the categories?
d. What should occur if a breach happens?
e. Did this article mention others to reference for more information? If so identify the source.
f. How should an organization address data fields?
g. Explain Intranet Activity Tracking
h. What security controls and safeguard's should be implemented (recommendations)
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.