Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report

Kudler Fine Foods IT Security Report
Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty food store that has three stores located in San Diego, Ca. Kudler Fine Food strives to ensure their customers are happy and stay shopping at their stores. Kudler Fine Foods is starting a frequent shopper program. The new program will require a new system that Kudler will need to design and secure. First potential security threats need to be identified. Throughout the system development, process security will need to be considered. Kudler will need to address concerns if the new system is ever removed. Information security policies will need to be developed to ensure the security of Kudler and their customers. The employees of Kudler will need to go through security awareness training. In addition, audit provisioning by the Kudler staff will need to be addressed. This paper will discuss each of the security issues that Kudler will have to cover.
Most Critical Threats Identified
With the implementation of the improved customer rewards program many systems will need to be secured and possible threats and vulnerabilities need to be identified. Kudler’s current servers need to be properly secured to ensure they are not hacked or attacked by malicious code. If Kudler’s servers are hacked customers information like addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses could be used by attackers to try to acquire log on information. This is known as phishing, were an attacker will contact an individual via phone, email, or instant message as an organization and request the person personal information. Malicious code can come in many different forms and attack a system in many different ways. The best-known are viruses were the malicious code will duplicate itself through the system. This will slow the system down and may even destroy vital data. The new