Alpharetta‚ Georgia‚ ChoicePoint was formerly a struggling insurance services unit of Equifax. Derek Smith successfully trimmed its labor-intensive operations and replaced them with technologically based ones‚ which resulted in both higher growth and higher margins. This allowed the company to spin off from Equifax and become publicly traded in 1997. The company’s initial focus was data services for the insurance industry. As its business matured and expanded‚ ChoicePoint also entered into non-insurance
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ChoicePoint Executive Summary The data broker industry has contributed positively to many aspects in our communities. From one end it helped in assessing different types of businesses in managing and evaluating risks‚ detecting possible frauds‚ lowering the risk of costly hiring mistakes‚ provide information services to law enforcements helping locating missing children and identifying suspects‚ and many others. These contributions managed to benefit different stakeholders in a lot of fields
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ChoicePoint Data Breach Brandon Harvey CSIA 301-7381 August 8‚ 2012 Professor Abraham Bloom Abstract The ChoicePoint data breach occurred in 2005. This insider data breach brought to light how a company can still be vulnerable to having data stolen from its databases even without any type of hacking of their system. By not properly vetting request for new accounts and request for information led to the theft of over a hundred thousand records of people’s personal information. ChoicePoint Data
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SWOT ANALYSIS – STAPLES SWOT Analysis – Staples Staples‚ Inc. became incorporated in 1985 by founders Thomas G. Stemberg and Leo Kahn. 25 years later‚ Staples‚ Inc. is the world’s largest office products company. The company primarily operates in the United States but also has locations in 26 countries throughout North and South America‚ Europe‚ Asia and Australia serving businesses of all sizes and consumers. Their mission statement is‚ “We’re committed to making it easy for our customers around
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1 The Gap‚ Inc. SWOT Analysis Strengths Strong Liquidity Position During the 2010 fiscal year‚ The Gap‚ Inc. saw an increase in cash inflow from operating activities of 36.4%‚ according to GlobalData. Increasing cash and cash equivalent represents the company’s ability to fund its business opportunities‚ working capital needs‚ meet shortterm obligations and other capital requirements in the future. GAP is superior competitors. According to DataMonitor‚ 2011‚ the company’s net profit margin (8
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Q2. Given ChoicePoint’s experience‚ what is the likely action of similar companies whose records are compromised in this way? This crime is an example of a failure of authentication‚ not network break-in. ChoicePoints’s firewalls and other safeguards were not overcome or harmed. To avoid such problems in the future‚ the likely action that should be taken by the similar companies is to applying more authentication methods. For example by using a unique user name and determines that the person is
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‘Sony data breach ‘case from an ethical point of view. (Laudon &Laudon‚ 2010‚ p.128) Background: The ChoicePoint Data breach: On September 27 of 2004‚ ChoicePoint‚a company that aggregates and stores personal information‚ suspected that some of its small business customers were involved in suspicious activities and informed the police. (Paine‚ Phillips‚ 2008)On February of 2005‚ ChoicePoint only notified those residents of California whose data had been leaked to the illegal customers‚ since a
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net/library/61/617/61701/items/246067/2006_Annual_Report.pdf "Banana Republic." Gap Inc. 1 Mar. 2008 http://www.gapinc.com/public/OurBrands/brands_br.shtml "Gap." Gap Inc. 1 Mar. 2008 http://www.gapinc.com/public/OurBrands/brands_gap.shtml Gap Inc. 2006 Annual Report. San Francisco‚ 2006. 1 Mar. 2008 http://www.gapinc.com/public/documents/GPS_AR_06.pdf Historical Sales by Division. 1 Mar. 2008 http://www.gapinc.com/public/documents/GPS_Quarterly_Sales.pdf "The Gap Inc - Competition." Hoovers. 3 Mar. 2008 http://www.hoovers
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STRENGTH 1. Gap Inc. opened its first stores in Serbia and Ukraine because Ukraine is the fastest growing retail market in Eastern Europe‚ while Serbia has many young customer who enjoy shopping. 2. Expansion of GAP Inc. due to growth management by divisional president in various country. 3. The company provide a wide range of family clothing product include denim‚ khakis‚ t-shirt‚ shoes. 4. GAP has a well establish code ethics‚ translated in 65 different language which is the best communication
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Brochure More information from http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/555118/ Popular‚ Inc. - SWOT Analysis - SWOT Analysis Description: The Popular‚ Inc. - SWOT Analysis company profile is the essential source for top-level company data and information. The report examines the company’s key business structure and operations‚ history and products‚ and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy. Popular is a bank holding company engaged in retail and commercial banking
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