WMES 3106 INFORMATION SECURITY CONTROL Tutorial 1 Question 1 Distinguish between a vulnerability‚ a threat‚ and a control. Vulnerability is a weakness in the security system‚ for example‚ in procedures‚ design‚ or implementation‚ that might be exploited to cause lose or harm. For instance‚ a particular system may be vulnerable to unauthorized data manipulation because the system does not verify a user`s identity before allowing data access. A Threat to a computing system is a set
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CheckPoint: TJX Companies The data theft that TJX Companies experienced was caused by using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system. The WEP had become easy for hackers to navigate and had become quite out of date. TJX also failed to properly encrypt data on many of the employee computers that were using the wireless network‚ and did not have an effective firewall. The company had also purchased additional security programs that were not installed correctly. An alternative to the
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Communications of the Association for Information Systems Volume 23 | Number 1 Article 31 11-1-2008 Security Breach: The Case of TJX Companies‚ Inc. William Xu Carleton University‚ wxu3@connect.carleton.ca Gerald Grant Carleton University Hai Nguyen Carleton University Xianyi Dai Carleton University Recommended Citation Xu‚ William; Grant‚ Gerald; Nguyen‚ Hai; and Dai‚ Xianyi (2008) "Security Breach: The Case of TJX Companies‚ Inc.‚" Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 23‚ Article
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First of all‚ the TXJ Companies did not have as much security controls at all. The security controls that were in place were controls that were easy for hackers to have access to. The security’s controls weaknesses are that the computers that were used where computers that did not have the correct firewall installed. The firewall that was installed were firewalls that did not have as much of protection. They were not installed properly. The computers did not have any data encryption at all. These
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TJX is the largest international apparel and home fashions off-price department store chain in the United States with 26 million in revenues in 2012. It was founded in 1956 as Zayre and is headquartered in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. Globally it is one of the top 50 retailers in the world‚ specializing in cheap apparel and footwear. With over 3‚000 stores today‚ we see the potential to expand our store base by over 50%‚ up to almost 4‚800 stores‚ with our current chains in our current markets alone
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Describe the main strengths and weaknesses of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism was originally formulated by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century‚ and fully developed by John Stewart Mill in the 19th. It states that we should always act so as to produce the greatest ratio of good to evil for everyone concerned with our decision. As with all moral theories‚ utilitarianism has many strengths and weaknesses. The main strength for this theory is that it is always looking for the greatest good for the greatest
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The TJX Companies‚ Inc. is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. It was founded in 1967 and today has over 3‚300 stores around the world and is the largest off-price retailer in domestic market. The company provides quality‚ fashionable‚ brand name and designer merchandise at prices generally 20% to 60% below department and specialty stores. The TJX Companies are subject under economic forces (different rates‚ unemployment)‚ social‚ cultural‚ demographic
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Security Administration SEC330 Access Control By John McDowall September 16‚ 2012 Thesis: The decisions that need to be made when determining the types of access control you will need‚ along with the types of access control systems that are available and how they are used. Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The decision making process. 1. Do we need access control and why. 2. Access Control Functions. III. Access control systems. 1. Types of systems. 2
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NT 2580 Introduction To Information Security Teacher : Mr. Timothy Tacker Unit 5 Assignment 1 : Testing and Monitoring Security Controls April 25‚ 2015 Network baselining is the process of interpreting and understanding of data called baseline analysis. It allows you to discover the true performance and operation of the network. To determine whether a network could deliver a particular policy you need to measure the network’s current performance. By obtaining a baseline of system or
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Unit 5 Assignment 1: Testing and Monitoring Security Controls Testing and monitoring security controls can come in different factors. Monitoring security is by far important because you need to know what’s going on before you can announce it. Networking abuse is by far the biggest baseline anomaly. For employees who have access to the internet‚ the network can be used to stream media‚ to access social websites and to download unauthorized software or free software which has vulnerabilities a long
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