Your role in security of the domains of the it infrastructure

It is important to understand the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure and the risks, threats or vulnerabilities you will commonly find in today’s healthcare IT environments, as well as IT environments, generally. As an HIM professional your understanding will prepare you to undertake the roles, tasks, responsibilities and the accountability for anticipating and participating in mitigation of these common risks.

Requirements:

Part 1

• Select three of the seven domains of the IT infrastructure.
• Briefly describe the three domains you selected.
• Compare and contrast the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities for each of the three domains.
• In your own words, select an action that an organization can take for each of the three domains, which could effectively help to mitigate or help to prevent or lessen the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities for that domain.

Part 2

• Research on the internet to find an article regarding a security breach of patient health information at a health care facility that falls under one of the seven domains of IT infrastructure that we are studying this week.
• Give a brief summary of the breach.
• Select which domain you would identify as the one where the breach occurred.  You may identify more than one if appropriate.
• Identify the action that should have been taken to prevent the breach. 

Your paper should include the following criteria:

• 1 page in length, double-spaced. 
• Two (2) resources cited in APA format. 
• Free of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.