Informatics for Health Professionals

chapter9

Electronic Security

Lisa Reeves Bertin, Dee McGonigle, and Kathleen Mastrian

OBJECTIVES

1. Assess processes for securing electronic information in a computer network.

2. Identify various methods of user authentication and relate authentication to security of a network.

3. Explain methods to anticipate and prevent typical threats to network security.

Key Terms

Antivirus software

Authentication

Biometrics

Brute force attack

Confidentiality

Electronic protected health information

Firewalls

Flash drives

Hackers

Integrity

Intrusion detection devices

Intrusion detection systems

Jump drives

Malicious code

Malicious insiders

Malware

Mask

Negligent insider

Network

Network accessibility

Network availability

Network security

Password

Proxy servers ...