at any place and any time when talking about computer security incidents. Not everything goes perfectly fine when a computer system is involved. It could be something as simple as a bad cable or it could be as horrible as a hacker trying to steal all of your information. Either way‚ it probably isn’t going to end well. Additionally‚ the FBI and the Computer Security Institute‚ in their annual survey on computer crime and information security‚ gathered the following disturbing facts in 1998: 1)
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TJX Annual Report Study Name: Siddharth Todi TJX 2013 ANNUAL REPORT QUESTIONS (Fiscal year 2014) 1. Exactly how big is TJX in revenue [Net Sales]? What is their Net Income? If the average item sells for $10 calculate how many items to they have to sell per day? How many per day per store? The Net Sales of TJX in 2013 was $27.4 billion. Their Net Income was $2.1 billion. If the average item sells for $10 then TJX will have to sell 7‚506‚849 items per day and 2332 items per day per store
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because of the aftermath of the 2013 data breach which affected up to 70 million consumers personal information (Riley et al.‚ 2014). Most of which could have been prevented if they had the principle managerial functions in place. CEO Greg Steinhafel lacked in many of these areas to which led to his ouster at Target. Greg Steinhafel made many bad decisions during his time‚ whether it is a botched expansion into Canada‚ or the mishaps before and after the data breach in 2013 (Reisinger‚ 2014). Before the
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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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TJX corporate systems had poor security controls. The computer kiosks that were located in some of their stores were supposed to be secure. They also had some firewall protection. TJX wireless network was protected by WEP encryption system. The computer kiosks were poorly secured; the kiosks were accessible from the back which made them vulnerable to tampering. The computer firewalls set up did not block malicious traffic coming from the kiosks. The wireless network used an old encryption
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As Target continues to respond to the security breach that has now been estimated to affect up to 110 million people by NBC News.com‚ analysts continue to zero in on the statements and actions by CEO‚ Gregg Steinhafel. And positively so. In the Wall Street Journal article titled‚ “Target Tried Antitheft Cards‚” authors Paul Ziobro and Robin Sidel highlight statements now being made by Steinhafel and actions taken in the past concerning chip-based credit cards. Although the article states that
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TJX Companies Jim Blackwood IT/205 January-9th‚ 2013 Gelonda Martin TJX Companies The TJC Corporation failed to protect its customers by allowing one of the largest security breaches in history. In 2007 they announced that an unauthorized user had accessed their system and compromised over 40 million customers’ data such as credit cards‚ debit cards and personal pin numbers. TJX was using an older security protocol called WEP which had proven to be easy to access by hackers and had
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TJX Companies List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? TJX companies had very little security measures in place‚ and even the ones they had were mostly outdated. The company was using a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) network encryption system. By today’s standards‚ and even at the time of intrusion‚ it is a fairly insecure system and is considered easy to hack into. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)‚ a more complex encryption system‚ was already available at the
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3.4.4 Reactions in the Case of Occurrence of Security or Safety Threats To get a little more specific information on particular security and safety issues‚ respondents were asked to indicate their likeliness to visit a destination in the occurrence of particular threats. For the next set of questions‚ the respondents were asked how likely they would visit a destination if a particular security or safety incident occurred in their holiday destination shortly before their departure. This was measured
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Target data breach is a very good example of the risks of using single level/layer defense strategies for information security in an organization. In fact‚ it taught us and the organizations in the information security industry a very valuable lesson as to how important is it to employ strategies like Defense in Depth‚ Critical Controls etc.‚ Below is a brief summary of steps that can be taken to avoid such attacks. I’ve included the chain of different events that led to the Target Data breach and the
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