CASE WRITE-UP Case: Adobe Data Breach 1. About the Case On October 3‚ 2013‚ The Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States of America discovered that there was a cyber-attack on their network during its regular monitoring of security check. The hackers made it through breaking in to the network and stole the sensitive and personal data of the customers which includes encrypted credit and debit card information‚ illegal access of customer ID ’s and also source code of other various Adobe
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St. Mary’s Hospital Case Solution 1) Upon the story presented‚ necessary actions should be taken to overcome the hospital’s problems. St. Mary’s Hospital last year’s numbers showed the necessity of such actions. For the first time‚ since the hospital started operating‚ they presented deficit on its revenue. St. Mary’s hospital had some major problems in a few departments. During the last few years‚ the occupancy‚ or the number of patients in the hospital‚ has been declining. Such problem is explained
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Part I: Description In January of 2007 the parent company of TJMaxx and Marshalls known as TJX reported an IT security breach. The intrusion involved the portion of its network that handles credit card‚ debit card‚ check‚ and merchandise return functions. Facts slowly began to emerge that roughly 94 million customers’ credit card numbers were stolen from TJMaxx and Marshalls throughout 2006. It was believed that hackers sat in the parking lots and infiltrated TJX using their wireless network
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Case Name: Security at TJX Problem Statement How should the new CIO of TJX work to strengthen security around the IT infrastructure to prevent‚ detect‚ and analyze security breaches that had previously allowed hackers to steal sensitive data? Background 1 Describe the company/department 1 History 1 Founded in 1976 2 Operate 8 business under TJX 1 TJ Maxx 2 Marshalls 3 HomeGoods 4 A.J Wright 5 Bob’s Stores 6 Winners 7 Home Sense 8 TK Maxx
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A National Security Breach Citi mortgage‚ a subsidiary of Citi Bank has issued a national PR release. Citi Mortgage of Fenton‚ Missouri‚ has publicly notified the public as of May 20‚ 2006 several hundred mortgage applications filed by previous Citi Mortgage customers have been lost by The United Parcel Service package company of Earth City‚ Missouri. Citi mortgage member’s social security numbers‚ salary information‚ bank account identification numbers and the home address of clients and their
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information. For many people‚ this is considered a breach of security. According to wisegeek.com‚ a security breach is “an incursion into a computer or network of computers‚ usually by hackers or malicious software that compromises sensitive data or causes damage to computers or network function.”1 Most of the time these so-called “computer hackers” find ways to evade security systems to steal important personal information such as social security numbers‚ home addresses and banking information. These
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Security Breach Plan Bridget Baca HCS/533 January 28‚ 2012 Chong Daleiden Security Breach Plan Patient privacy and security is one of the most important aspects of the St. Johns Hospital code of conduct‚ they take pride in the sound policies and procedures set to maintain customer confidentiality. Each employee is held to a high standard of maintaining the highest level of privacy and confidentiality when it comes to patient health information (PHI). This paper will outline the plan that
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Nowadays‚ security breaches are prevalent in our environment‚ both physical and logical. Different types of unauthorized access are conducted by different groups of individuals for different purposes. One good example of breach is the TJX data theft that happened sometime in mid-2005 and on subsequent dates from mid-May 2006 to mid-January 2007. The TJX data theft is considered as the largest case of intrusion of data to occur to date. According to the article‚ the data stolen by hackers were
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Security Breaches On December 19th Target revealed that 40 million credit and debit card accounts were compromised by a data breach. The information had appeared to be stole around black friday of 2013. This is the busiest shopping day of the year.The retailer said that the information stolen between November 27 and December 15‚ 2013 included personal information of as many as 70 million people more than the 40 million the company originally estimated. Target discovered the breach on December 13th
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1. Identify & describe the failure points in TJX’s security that requires attention (including‚ but not limited to: People‚ Work Process‚ and Technology)? After analyzing the Ivey case on TJX data fiasco‚ I would say there were three major failure points that caused this $168MM financial hit to the corporation. • Technology: it is obvious that TJX had several technology deficiencies mainly driven by systems limitations and vulnerability. For example‚ inadequate wireless network security
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