Blog Entry 7.1

The five most common security threats to a computer system are accidents and natural disasters, employees and consultants, links to outside businesses, outside intruders, and viruses. For the cabin rental company accidents and natural disasters may be common so in the case of a power outage or any other disaster the constant backing up of information will take place within the company and the storage of important databases will be stored off site away from any disaster that may take place at the company. Employees and consultants will sometimes try and share information with rival companies so in order to prevent this from happening in the cabins, the use of biometrics will be used and employee ID cards for authorized access to any information that may be important to prevent unauthorized access of data. The info shared with links to outside businesses will be conducted using secure firewalls and the virtual private network using the internet to share data, these firewalls and VPNs will prevent the access of data from other rival companies trying to access the info of the cabins. Outside intruders can harm a computer system and the biometrics will be used after hours of the company and photo ID badges will be used and the cabins with security cameras and gate access to the information building in order to keep secure data from being accessed. Viruses will really harm a computer system. In order for the cabins to keep this from happening Norton Anti-virus software will be installed on every computer in the system and emails that may contain viruses will not be access to open the files.     

Blog Entry 6.1

There are four pillars of Web 2.0. The first pillar is utilizing the web as a platform which uses peer to peer technology. The second pillar is harnessing collective intelligence and an example of that would be reviewers of a product on a website. The third pillar is leveraging the data which uses knowledge of the customer to accommodate them better. The last pillar is implementing innovative web capabilities which uses knowledge of the web to perform a service.
These pillars of Web 2.0 can fit into the cabin rental company as follows. First utilizing the web as a platform would help the cabin company in peer to peer technology by spreading the word of the company over the web as a great place to vacation. Harnessing collective data would be very helpful to the cabin company by allowing users of the web to go onto the cabin company website and sit up a review board so that customers of the cabins could express over the web how their experience was while staying at the cabins by giving positive reviews to the company. Leveraging the data would be very helpful in serving the customer better by storing data in the systems of the company databases for returning customers and this would allow the cabins to already have returning customers information on file in the database and allow the customer to return to the cabins with ease. The final pillar of implementing innovative web capabilities would be helpful to the cabins in the way that they can use the knowledge of the web to check with sister companies if the cabins are full on days that a customer would like to stay at the cabins and find the customer another place to stay that is close to the cabin rentals.