An Intrusion Prevention System ( Anthem )

R. (2017, June 23). Anthem to Pay Record $115M to Settle Lawsuits Over Data Breach.

The security ecosystems that are available in today’s IT environments are ill-equipped and are unable to

many different things that you also need to think about as well. Just like how roads made travel easier for people hundreds of years ago but then also brought forth enemies on those very roads, you have to be aware of the problems that can come when you transfer more of your information and data online. A few of the major data breaches that have occurred recently should show exactly what you should and what you should not be doing to protect your organization from being next on the list.

Firewalls are set up on computers to help protect computers and other devices from attacks from potentially harmful websites and other resources. Proxies are servers that act as a middle man for computers. They allow users to make indirect connections to other servers. The LAN-to-WAN domain is where the infrastructure connects to the Internet. Updates, firewalls and proxies will help to keep things running and help to keep it protected.

This case study, written in 2009 is not the only case where a major data breach has occurred within organizations. In the late 2011 Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) was breached impacting up to 77 million user’s accounts including data on names, address and possibly credit card details. In late 2013 Target had a cyber-attack that compromised a large quantity of its data and had 110 million accounts compromised. Finally in September 2014 Apple had their iCloud server breached by hacking that compromised all the users of the online server. These occurrences still have some unanswered questions and several experts have yet to decipher the actual reason as to why the security breach occurred.

Anthem is a medical insurance provider that currently serves over 74 million people. On December 10, 2014, Anthem was victim to a data breach that resulted in over 37 million personal records being hacked from their servers. Fortunately, the attack was contained to only one day, but it was still enough to become one of the largest data breaches in corporate history. Shockingly, the hack wasn’t actually discovered until January 27, 2015. What lead to the discovery was when a data administrator discovered a query that was started using his own credentials (Ragan). Just over a week later - on February 4th - Anthem announced that there had been a massive data breach to the public. The breach was so severe, that even Anthem’s own CEO, Joseph Swedish, said that his personal information along with several other Anthem associates were taken during the breach.

In regards to the attack "at this point is best directed to Target." An expert with a global firm that assist companies responding to and mitigating breaches he said while he could not address the Target situation specifically, most companies — large and small — are generally under-prepared when they are faced with a breach. The most important thing is that the attack or breach be addressed quickly, to assist with getting information out to those whom are affected and to regulators, to bring in the right experts to address the breach (such as forensics experts who can stop cyberattacks) and to help preserve the public's trust in the

Aside from the Playstation Outage, there had been larger and more nefarious data breaches in history that exploited weaknesses in internet, server, and network security. One such breach is when Heartland Payment Systems had, what was called, the most massive credit card security breach in history, with hackers embedding deep into Heartland security and recording card data. According to Bloomberg Business, it was estimated that “as many as 100 million cards issued by more than 650 financial services companies may have been compromised”. The attack cost Heartland $12.6 million, which was orchestrated by a man named Albert Gonzalez, who was also the cause for several other data breaches, each costing from thousands to millions of dollars. Another such attack was when Russian, and a Ukrainian, computer hackers assaulted NASDAQ stock exchange servers and stealing “more than 160 million credit and debit card numbers, target more than 800,000 bank accounts” (NY Daily News). Separate hacking operation spanned over seven years, attacking NASDAQ, but also affected “chains like 7-Eleven”. All the operations, in the period of time and the global scale it spanned, resulted “in at least $300 million in losses to companies and individuals”. One of the latest, and possibly the largest, data breaches of 2015, Anthem, the second largest health insurer in the US was hacked, compromising millions of account and personal data, as well as social security. When Anthem discovered that they had been

The Goodwill breach is a sore point for many security researchers as the 3rd party POS vendor has not yet revealed how the attackers compromised their environment. Unfortunately, this is the case in many data breaches over the past several years. Rather than sharing details with the community, organizations instead conceal critical details of the breaches whether out of embarrassment or fear of brand damage. There are also some legal reasons to consider such as protecting customer data and confidentiality of ongoing investigations by law enforcement.

The data breach at TJX happened because TJX did not performance its due diligence in protecting customers’ financial information. TJX did not follow and meet all of PCI DSS requirements that put company’s and customers’ data as risk. The company was still using WEP which was outdated and vulnerable against hackers instead of choosing WAP2. The encryption was weak and not able to protect itself against the intrusion. TJX also made another mistake by storing unnecessary customers’ data since 2002 which allowed hackers to trace far back to transactions happened in 2002. In fact, TJX should be responsible for the breach by not taking IT security according to its standards. TJX got into this type of situation because they did not realize how

Because the hackers and the data theft are thus active in getting out the crack for the new security that even the company are not mindful that when they had been hacked. Cyber criminals are just as smart and continually adapting elusive procedures to evade security systems that put to stop them. They utilize advanced programming technique to infiltrates home and businesses and they are producing unbelievable sums of money doing what they do.

Thank you for responding to my discussion board post. You brought up an excellent point about using the proper tool for the job. In many case, depending upon the size of an organization and its information technology department, they may not properly use or implement the correct tools for the security task they want to complete or not utilize all of a systems or devices capabilities. This can also leave the devices that they implemented vulnerable.

Business and other organizations are failing to learn the lessons of past cyber-attacks, the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) reveals In (2016).

Threats to your network is becoming more complex and it is requiring lots of money, time and sacrifices to keep up with the growing amount of potential attacks. Companies cannot protect themselves with just a firewall anymore. Now it's requiring a full security department that

In an e-commerce world, organizations are susceptible to hackers and intruders. Thus creating the information technology protection systems which is used to reduce the possibility of intrusions from occurring. Intrusions occur by uninvited outsiders (sometimes intruders can be internal users like employees) who try to access an organization’s information system using the internet with the intent to gain competitive advantage of some sort. Organizations depend on security technology to avoid loss from security breach, as well as to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. However, firewalls are also vulnerable to errors, and implementing a security technology comes with challenges and critical decisions that can possibly cause a financial burden on the organization if done without seriousness and commitment. “Information security is about managing risk, and managing risk is about discovering and measuring threats to information assets; and taking actions to respond to those threats” (Al-Awadi, & Renaud, 2007, p.3). This paper will discuss a few aspects that are involved with firewalls and intrusion detection systems.