Nt1310 Unit 2 Case Analysis

NEDS on the other hand can be sued for negligence and this is because the company was not hacked, but its equipment was stolen during the business hours. The organization is aware that they do a very important job which is to ensure that the data they have been entrusted with is completely safe. It should not be easy for people to walk into the premises and be successful in stealing equipment and since this is what happened, it can be viewed as a lapse in physical security. Security failure by NEDS also affects ABC directly and this is because customers offered their data to ABC and therefore, if the data is breached then they will sue ABC and not NEDS which is the third party. Laws regarding financial fraud may also apply for the reason that account specifics were among the data that was stolen and this credit card information can be used to authorize fraudulent purchases by other parties who are not owners of the credit cards (Baskerville, Spagnoletti, & Kim, 2014).

Unfortunately, companies are not prepared to handle a SaaS data loss, according to the EMC’s report entitled “Global Data Protection Index”. The report details the astronomical cost and consequences a company faces when they lose their SaaS data. Furthermore, this has happened to 64% of companies who store data on their SaaS account in the past 12 months. The report details that most companies have lost 400 percent more data in the past two years than they ever lost storing data on their servers. http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2014/20141202-01.htm

That’s exactly what happened to consumer data broker ChoicePoint, now a division of LexisNexis, during a 2005 security incident many experts say played a crucial role in shaping privacy law.

| * Data soon became available after authentication breach * Revealed hole in ChoicePoint security system * Trust of security standards instantly lost

“Distributed Denial of Service Attacks – Who is Legally Liable?” is an interesting article provided good insight to address the liability side of the equation. A per US computer crime statute, 18 USC 1030 (a)(5)(A) punishes whomever, “knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer.” Thus in the case of TechSpectrum, both the competitor and Gomex can be held accountable, since all the elements of the clause were fulfilled. However the biggest challenge for TechSpectrum will be to prove legally that these two parties were actually involved in conspiracy and had an agreement.

We are strong believers, that SaaS is a disruptive force in the enterprise landscape and that Salesforce in the company that has done the most to evangelize about the merits of SaaS and more recently the social enterprise. Its growth rates (most recently 32% in FY14) demonstrate its continues drive to capture market share but more importantly “mind share”. However, this comes at cost. Our measure of the business illustrates that profitability has fallen dramatically at the expense of revenue growth. Accounting policies such as deferred commissions and capitalized R&D and the considerable use of stock options has helped to inflate the income statement and keep non-GAAP results at acceptable levels. Recent M&A activity in the sector suggests

Vulnerabilities are always developing as attackers keep discovering the new purposes of flaws to obtain entrance into IT environments.

Companies are becoming more comfortable with paying for services online increasing the consumer adoption of SaaS

SaaS – Software as a Service – Users on the service are given access to the application’s software and databases, cloud providers manage the infrastructure and platforms that run the application. “On demand”.

To gain more revenue, these small SaaS businesses will need to penetrate the enterprise market with heavy hitters, like Microsoft, Adobe, and Google.

To get the maximum out of SaaS, another emerging characteristic called multi-tenancy is needed to be

As of February 2017, AWS was the market leader in public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with 40% of the market share. The other Big Three providers - Microsoft, Google, and IBM - combine for about 23%. Do the math and we’re talking about four entities responsible for two-thirds of all cloud-based storage. One of them goes down for four hours and hundreds of thousands of websites are affected. What happens if more than one cloud provider goes down at the same time?

SaaS is the most recognisable form of cloud technology for consumers. In this category, which is the most commonly used, the cloud-based service is

Liability is another limitation of cloud computing for most service providers. Pearson also states in their Terms of Use, they are not

However, the rapid growth of the Internet has introduced a completely new level of security related problems