Information Security Management And Maintenance

However, some people trying to fix the attack did an adequate job considering the problems the company had. Joanne and Leon Ledbetter did everything in their power to restore the website and protect the customer data, which even included running red lights. Leon was so new that he didn’t know exactly what to do. Training for an emergency would have proven useful. The CIO, Bob Turley, knew of the emergency protocol and out of date manuals, but never did anything to alleviate these problems. This put the company in a significant disadvantage, and created a bigger problem than what was necessary. Faced with this problem, Turley was able to facilitate direction for the company as best as he could, which ended with the security breach stopping.

OPM will continue to take aggressive action to build up its cyber security defenses and information technology systems, in partnership with experts from DoD, DHS, FBI and other security partners. OPM has identified new steps to improve security and improve its systems, including:

A root-cause analysis of the security breach revealed multi-factorial issues at the technical, individual, group, and organizational levels. At the technical level, the applications and web-tools

I was personally confronted with this very issue a few hours after attending the recent NACD Research Triangle Chapter session “Why Board and C-Suite Alignment is Critical to Managing Cyber Risk.”

The purpose of this meeting is to inform you of a security breach that occurred in our company, and to inform you of what has been affected, how we found out, and what measures have been used to correct and prevent this from happening again. The following is a bulleted list of relevant information related to the security breach.

Many people are beginning to realize how serious the ISIS and their online schemes are. “The United States of America is under attack,” warned Rep. Elijah Cummings during a House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee hearing in June of 2015. (Law Street) Katherine Archueta is the director of OPM. She faced a lot criticism at the hearing for not updating the databases, because she was already aware of the security issues. An audit was carried out on OPM on November of 2014, not long before the breach. It revealed that several databases still did not meet federal security standards. It was known that many of the databases

There were warnings that specific agencies caught on to, but they were not taken with the seriousness they should have been. They also did not take into account the different ways these attacks could be carried out.

How to deal with cyber attacks and hacking of public and private sector information. This seems to be on the side burner since this video. We have had an almost monthly hack into some so called safe citizen information. So like it was mentioned in the

For example a clerk will only be able to access a limited amount of information, such as inventory at each store. The limitations will be different for an accountant or the mangers. All information will be protected with several different layers of security. The first layers will be simple hardware protection for access to the network; from there the security will increase with password protection and restrictions to users. (Merkow & Breithaupt 2006)

It is the responsibility of the management to hold secure the data and information that they hold on behalf of the clients that they host. This attack was particularly worrying since the corporation is entrusted with highly sensitive government data and the wealth of the American government military information which it should protect from intrusion from external sources. There are also valuable projects for the organization that it protects like

The public was told of the breach on Dec 8th. It wasn’t until Dec 15th when they finally looked into the cause and fixed it. They sent out an e-mail to everyone, who they had emails for, about the breach. When they put out their response the main phrase everyone wanted

According to the 10th annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 88 percent of the analyzed 1,935 breaches were accomplished through the nine attack vectors, which means that they could have been prevented if some cyber hygiene measures had been applied. It was also discovered that 81 percent of the hacking-related breaches involved either reused/stolen passwords or weak/crackable ones. Not to mention, this year there was an increase in attacks that targeted smaller businesses; 61% of breaches that occurred involved companies with fewer than 1,000 employees. The former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested a few basic hygiene measures for organizations to follow such as the following: patching software, implementing

3. Detail at which point(s) you believe the problem occurred and suggests a safeguard for the future protection of the company

Recently, JP Morgan Chase was hacked in June 2014 which led to the compromise of data related with 83 million accounts. It was in late July when the attack was discovered and still took time till mid of August to stop the attack. [1] There are many more examples like this, which demonstrates that today organizations struggle to detect the data breach. In the wake of such undetected data breach, the strategy towards information security should be changed from static risk and vulnerability assessments to more adaptive systems and policies.

Answer: Information Security is the practice of defending (guiding) information by considering the CIA Triad Principles which are Confidentiality (Authorize access), Integrity (Accuracy and Completeness) and Availability.