5 Minutes Free Writing - No Access
Good morning all, doing my 5 minutes free writing with prompt - No Access. Hope you enjoy the story.
An error message pops up on the monitor that reads "This account does not have the required privilege to access the data" when Alfred tries to read the HR employee particulars table.
This is totally within expectation as Alfred, a product engineer try to acess some of the most highly sensitive data in the company, would be blocked outside the door with no access. As such action would definitely required application with justification.
As we too guard our private property and house under lock ensure strangers would have no access to your assets and money.
As the world get more interconnected and our everyday life gets more digital. Cyber security is just as important as that of physical security if not even more. Thus, the most common formof access cotrol would be usernames and passwords. But overtime ad evolution of technology, these become easily bypassed. Then we reacted by requesting for a code generating physical token that the user has access to like a phone or token. This makes it more challenging for cyber criminal to get their hands on.
Why do we need to ensure people should have no access to all the data unless necessary? Because if your item is missing, you don't see it, you will realize it. Digitally, one can lose item simply with copy and paste and one might need a longer time to discover it.