Daniel Baxter Nico Ferragamo Han Vo Romilla Syed IT 110 8 December 2015 Data Breaches The Case In July of 2014 JPMorgan Chase, a multinational banking and financial services holding company was hacked. JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the sixth largest bank in the world, and the world’s third largest public company. Initial reports from JPMorgan Chase stated that the attack had only breached about one million accounts. Further details revealed that the hack breached
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How Do Data Breaches Occur? * Employee loses an unencrypted portable device (smartphones, laptop, thumb drive, backup tape) * Property crimes (computers prime targets) * Inside job (employee steals information) * Stray faxes, emails * Phishing scams and increasingly, Spear-Phishing (social engineering) * Malware / virus attacks (especially when working remotely on an unsecured network) * Failure to purge/scrub computing devices scheduled for destruction
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Top Six Data Breach Trends for 2014 April 28, 2014 Article Reference Griffin, Joel. "Top six data breach trends for 2014." SecurityInfoWatch.com. N.p., 10 Jan. 2014. Web. 29 Apr. 2014. Summary This class has been absolutely phenomenal. I have been in the tech industry for about 5-6 years now and just recently started developing iOS apps and websites about 1-2 years ago and am still new and learning each and every day, but I haven’t really
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In my opinion I don't think Target made any mistakes. A data breach with millions of peoples information can happen to anyone big name company. Everything in the world today is digital so it makes everything much more accessible. Judicial development in the cybersecurity arena is still evolving, as courts wrestle with how the theft of personal information, proprietary business data, or even someone’s identity should be properly prosecuted and defended (Hooker, Pill, 2016). Following the well-publicized
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Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Data Breaches By Stevie D. Diggs University Maryland University College IFSM201 Section 7974 Semester 1309 Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Data Breaches Knowing and training on personally identifiable information (PII) is important in today’s society. There has been research on data breaches and identity theft that links them both together. This is to help personnel have a clear understanding on the impact of what is at steak and
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The title says it all. “Can data breaches be prevented? Congress and companies answer: For now, no.” At a congressional hearing that took place Tuesday, February 4th through Wednesday, February 5th, executives from Target and Neiman Marcus reported that they are still in the dark as to how they could have better secured their consumers from cybercriminals. The breaches to the two industry titans occurred between July and October of 2013 for Neiman Marcus, who logged some 1.1 million customers
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enterprise is information. Huge amounts of raw data are produced during every operational transaction in the company. Processing raw data into valuable information allows an enterprise to take more accurate decisions into action. Information technologies give support in big business systems like (ERP) Enterprise Resource Planning, utilized in recognizing, extracting and analyzing business data, such as, sales revenue by product and/or department. Measuring data is difficult, and companies have to have
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With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility (https://hbr.org/2014/11/with-big-data-comes-big-responsibility) Big data and the “internet of things”—in which everyday objects can send and receive data—promise revolutionary change to management and society. But their success rests on an assumption: that all the data being generated by internet companies and devices scattered across the planet belongs to the organizations collecting it. What if it doesn’t? Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of
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information system proficient in the organization of product sales, which allows management of data by employees from computers and mobile devices. This new system would contain customer records and be password protected for sales agent’s individual accounts and further promote confidentiality of client and corporate data. Information security and carbon footprints will need to be addressed with creation of a new data warehouse. The cloud computing system would be an idyllic system for addressing the needs
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