Security is absolutely important, especially when you have information for thousands of clients for patients. Hospitals have to constantly worry about patient security. Doctors and nurses have to worry as well. Even places like the marijuana shop have to be concerned about having your patient information secure and safe. I work at a data storage center and all of the information for thousands of marijuana dispensaries is kept in one building. Most of the time it is very quiet and there is never anything interesting going on. Last week there was an attempt to infiltrate the software and the secured data storage center was hacked. Someone created a software program to get into the database from the recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries. It was probably a competitor trying to gain our customer information so they can send them promotional and advertising materials. This is a type of thing that has happened in the past. It’s not usually something that gets through to this level, but the hacker was exceptionally good at these programs. When I was alerted of the attack, I immediately shut down our software. Unfortunately, it was too late to stop the attack entirely and all we could do was give up. We had to shut down the entire data feed in order to keep the hacker from getting all of the materials. After that calamity, we had to rewrite all of the code for the marijuana dispensaries. This time we went with a multi-level security system that will never be infiltrated. It has five passkeys and encryption.
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