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Case Study: Bibliofind

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Week 6 Assignment: “Case Study #C1: Bibliofind” ECOM544: Electronic Commerce Strategy Management 1. Explain how Bibliofind might have used firewalls to prevent the intruders from gaining access to its transaction servers. Firewalls need to be placed at a company’s Internet entry point as a first layer of protection in a company’s IT security system, so, however many entry points, Bibliofind may have had, they should have had a firewall installed on each one. A firewall could have helped Bibliofind in preventing crackers from accessing their network and their customers personal data, but may not have eliminated it altogether; firewalls use a combination of tools, including encryption, and intrusion detection systems which are the …show more content…

3. Present arguments for and against the type of legislation that requires companies to inform customers whose private information might have been exposed during a security breach. It is difficult to provide an argument against this type of legislation since it is ethically the right thing to do on a behalf of a company. If a customer’s private/personal information or data has been obtained by someone that the customer did not give permission to do so, and happened because of a security hole or breach by the business the customer has an account with, then it only makes common, business, and legal sense, that a customer should be informed of this violation, as it is their personal data, not the ownership of the business by which the customer engages in any type of transaction. That being said, the argument for this type of legislation is that it makes common sense and business sense for ethical and legal reasons. The argument against this type of legislation usually comes in the form of conversations and debates on “tort reform,” and “frivolous lawsuits,” from

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