OM Security Breach Analysis

Towards the end of 2013, OPM began to upgrade their cybersecurity polices. They added new tools and capabilities to various networks throughout their agency. The results of the new security upgrades, OPM was able to identify two different cybersecurity incidents on its systems. May of 2015 OPM discovered that their system has been under attack. Information such as background investigation records of current, former, and prospective Federal employees and contractors were stolen. After an extensive forensics investigation, it was determined that the types of information in these records include identification information such as Social Security Numbers, educational history, employment history, information about immediate family and other personal

The government and major companies have frequently leaked and misused the public’s information. For example, in Ted Koppel’s 2005 article on “Take My Privacy, Please!”, he mentions how Bank of America lost personal information on about 1.2 million federal government employees, including some senators. LexisNexis unintentionally gave outsiders access to personal files on over 310,000 people. Time Warner

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.

The first point of analysis is related to National Data Breach reporting which main goal is to protect consumers against identity theft and incentivize businesses for better cyber security. Businesses are required to inform the consumers if the intruder had access to the consumers’ personal information in order to prevent further damage or loss. The information security policy of State of Maryland is set forth to provide any data breach incident

In June of 2015, the Office of Personnel Management found out that it was being hacked. The hack had been going on for several months before authorities realized it. It was one of the largest security breaches in United States history.

Computerworld.com reported on 6th August, 2015 stating that the hacking group which targeted unclassified email systems of the U.S. Department of State and the White House is supposed to have also compromised a network used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff which is a body of senior U.S. military leaders.

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.

In September of 2001, the worst terrorist tragedy that has ever occurred on American soil, and quite possibly in the world, rocked the foundations of the United States of America. The unimpeded destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center led many to wonder how an event of such magnitude could not have been foreseen and prevented. Later, many sources led us to believe that it was not that the information was not there, but rather, it was the inability of intelligence communities and law enforcement agencies to communicate the data among themselves that resulted in the greatest security breach in American history. To combat this inability to coordinate use of data and information, the Defense Advanced

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

As of November 2015, 77% of businesses reported a data breach. Estimated worldwide total data lost to cyber crimes range from high hundreds of $B to over $1T.7

One example of a major data breach was in 2013 which affected Yahoo users. The nature of the breach resulted in the leak of names, email addresses, and passwords. It wasn’t until 2016 that Yahoo stated that 1 billion accounts were jeopardized, and it was not until 2017 that security experts revealed the original estimation of one billion accounts was

The purpose of the policy is to create the objectives and the visualization for James Greene Data Center Breach Response Process. This policy will outline to whom it relates and under what conditions, and it will include the definition of a breach, staff roles and responsibilities, standards and metrics, as well as reporting, and feedback .The policy will be made public and made easily available to all personnel whose responsibilities include data privacy and security protection.

3. Earlier this year Snapchat had a security breach. The cyber attacker pretended to be the chief executive, Evan Spiegel, and sent out a phishing email asking a current employee for payroll information. Unfortunately the employee fell for the scam. Over 700 former and current employees had personal information including social security numbers and wage data comprised in the attack. Premier Healthcare also suffered a data security breach this year when a laptop was stolen from their billing department at their headquarters. The laptop contained sensitive data pertaining to over 200,000 patients. While most patients had their basic information comprised around 1769 people may have had their social security numbers and financial information taken

On an average of 2% a year, personal records are exposed from over 700 public breaches over all areas of the departmentalized sectors. Global cost per every lost or stolen record are on the average of over $100 containing secret and touchy information. There were 35% more security incidents detected within the last

To start, there were significant issues regarding the OPM and its solutions to deficiencies found during their regular audits. These issues show a lack of Information Security management and maintenance. This is made clear in an article by ABC News that at the time of the Senate hearings regarding the OPM breach, “Only a few of the inspector general’s 29 recommendations for improvement have since been implemented” (“OPM chief ‘angry’ over hack,” 2015). Proper management of security audit findings must be implemented by the OPM, and the appropriate resources should be put in place to plan how to implement the recommendations as well as implement and maintain. Accountability should be put in place for the OPM management and the security and