Benefits Election Systems of Huffman Trucking

Benefits Election Systems of Huffman Trucking

CMGT 442

Professor: Lisa Schultz

University of Phoenix

June 29, 2012

Many executive insurance benefits packages consist of vision plan, medical plan, and dental plan. Most of the companies arranged for employees to cover their benefit while the employer pays a set percentage, whiles other companies may cover the complete fee. Normally, information on every member on staff and his or her benefits package is stored and managed using various type of database system, which can be an electronic or a hardcopy paper file version. Security measures are put into place to protect every staff members from theft and loss of his or her data. Huffman Trucking has implemented such a system called the Benefits Election System, which assists management in tracking and reporting employee benefits (University of Phoenix, 2005). This paper will discuss the potential security requirements of Huffman's system, and the associated with this type of this type of system.

Security requirements and firewall protection can be harmful to a company or an individual on a personal level, particularly, if the results of a breach in up destruction of critical information or loss. However, critical data represents staffs name, social security, personal records, and other data that can be used intentionally or maliciously to a business. A breach consequence can cause loss of financial resources. Several requirements must be established to eliminate these consequences altogether. Firewall protection, password renewal, and password protection these are the requirements, at a minimum.

Works by "blocking certain types of traffic between a destination and a source" is a firewall in computer terminology (TopBitus, n.d.). However, firewalls avoid the increase of computer attacks. There are two ways that firewalls can be configured

1. Default-deny

2. Default-allow

Default-deny, is an administrator lists that specific network services that is not allowed into the network and block. On the contrary, default-allow administrator lists the specific network servers that are not allowed into the network but everything else is allowed. One or multiple firewalls should be used for protection of invasion because the Benefits Election Systems is a database style system.

Firewall and password protection is essential and the password protection allows the user to create a specific user identification password and screen name. The password is suggested that it be more than eight characters and must contain a number or letter each, and it can be five characters. A password protection capability should be included and