Week 4-Hardware and Computer Forensics

           This week's lecture was about hardware and computer forensics. We learn from lecture that it is very easy for an id thief to obtain our social security number and other personal information. We have to learn to protect our identity because if we don't, id thieves can use our information to ruin our credit. To protect our customers, we would encourage them to use their credit cards instead of debit cards. We would also not require them to provide us their social security numbers when it is not necessary. Usually, we would not need their social security numbers for just purchasing. If we do decide to let customers apply for our credit cards, we would have to check their credit reports.
          Since my business is online, it is very critical for me to be able to receive orders asap. It would be a plus if the computers have a large amount of RAM and a high-speed processor. With a high-speed processor, the control unit and arithmetic logic unit would make it easier for the employees to manage the orders online. The attitudes of employees are really important also. With the technology today, if employees are working with slow computers, they will be irritated.
        If I do decide to replace the hard drives of the computers, I would have to destroy, disintegrate, incinerate, pulverize, shred or melt the hard drives, according to the DoD 5220.22-M. We learned that even though we may think that we permanently deleted files from our hard drives, it is possible to retract the information deleted. I would not risk selling or just throwing away the hard drives because it would risk revealing my customers' information.