Hrm/531 Week 3 Paper

Words: 503
Pages: 3

Materials Equipment, Inc. has three requirements in this scenario: Efficiency, Convenience, and Security. Director Joe Everson needs to be able to enhance, if not sustain sales to MEI’s clients by keeping the brand alive and thriving, IE marketing and sales. MEI’s new website must efficiently pull in customers by being attractive and having the right keywords so that it can easily be found by search engines. It needs to be convenient, meaning that it needs to be accessible to customers as not only a browser, but also to mobile devices. This is where it gets tricky, particularly with the third and most important feature- security. In order to maintain true security, mechanisms for authentication when logging in as a customer or employee must be in place to secure the content and prevent unwanted cyber intrusions, such as an SQL-Injection attack (1=1, much?). Therefore, an additional type of authentication should be issued, outside of an username and password: digital certificates. …show more content…
This is accomplished by assigning a pre-defined ‘code-word’ to a device or text file that has a unique file type in which can only be read at the server, and must match the server at the time of login. A common example of implementation are Remote Service Authenticators (RSAs) where a server randomizes a number over a short time period, broadcasts it via cellular networks to a small, battery powered cellular SIM card inside a USB-sized FOB, to display that number to use as part of the login credentials to gain access to a network. While this isn’t exact code, the fundamentals are the following in this