Description:

Create a fictitious Health Care company that uses 

· Email (both encrypted and not), 

· Hash values to verify documents, 

· Databases that store

   o corporate sensitive / proprietary information

   o employee payroll, health records, etc.

   o vendor information

   o credit card information

  o other items as determined by the type of company

You will need to complete the following: 

· What methodology will you use to protect the data?

· What are the biggest challenges faced by companies using encryption?

· What are common attacks and how will you protect against them?

· How have other similar companies dealt with this and with what results?

· How will you test the method you choose?

· What are the expected outcomes?

· What new methods may be on the horizon that will help this industry?

Please note the following criteria:

Research paper:

• Research Paper must be in APA Style
• Research Paper must have at least 5 works cited      of which 2 must be peer-reviewed works/articles (note your book can be      included as a reference)
• Must be at least 10  double-spaced pages with standard 1-inch margins.

• 6 – 8 pages of prose

• Limit the number of bulleted lists

• Prose + charts + figures = 10 pages

• The total report should be 13 pages

Encryption is main topic