Essay On Security Breach At Tjx

The TJX companies breach has been labeled the largest data breach in the history of security breach and the ultimate wake up call for corporations (Dash, 2007). TJX is the parent company of chains such as TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, and a host of retail stores across the US and Canada. In January 2007, it was discovered that hackers stole as many as 200 million customer records due to a failed security system by TJX which resulted in a $4.8 billion dollars’ worth of damages (Swann, 2007). It is said that the breach occurred because they did not have any security measures in place to protect consumer’s data such as their debit cards, credit cards, checking account information, and driver’s license numbers. Reports identified three major

Zara’s IT was positioned in the support mode quadrant on the IT strategic impact grid. This demonstrates that Zara's leadership team understood that their corporate strategy focused on the expansion of the number of stores selling of high fashion, short life span clothing to young fashion conscious, city dwellers. There was a relatively low need for reliability and strategic IT, it simply existed to support employees activities (Nolan and McFarlan, 2005). By implementing a new POS system Zara could potentially have come up against the following key risks:

The steps that can be implemented to ensure the prevention of computer system failure is to regularly update the computer operating system. Hackers often look for a system that does not have the latest protection. Software must also be put into place to prevent spam and detects spyware, programs installed hidden from the outside exposure of sensitive information computer system against intruders. When using the encryption software to protect customers' financial information from theft during a transaction.

As the dominant retailer with sales totaling $264 billion in 2012 with a 2.2 % increase from the previous year Walmart has enhanced performance to align with customers’ demands by operating more efficient (“Walmart U.S.,” 2013). In order to sustain a high return on investment, Walmart has designed a unique information technology infrastructure consisting of network and software capabilities. Effective

6) Maintenance - Once the information security program is implemented, it must be operated, properly managed, and kept up to date by means of established procedures

A good policy should be concerned with providing data confidentiality, integrity, availability, resource protections, and also should be audited periodically. An example of policy is to send out critical data via the Internet, the data must be encrypted. The second part is procedures: which are a detail of the steps and documentations that explain how a particular function or job should be done. For instance, a detail instruction which tells how a particular program should be installed. The last part is the awareness and training which is very critical to take into consideration. Thus, all employees should be trained and aware of general security by providing them with security training whenever it is necessary and educate them about cyber security.

PCI DSS provide guidance on creating clear separation of data within the network, cardholder data should be isolated from the rest of the network, which contains less sensitive information. To audit the PCI DSS compliance the following documents can be helpful: network policies and procedures, documentation about network configuration, network devices, and network flow diagrams. There is no complete solution on how organization should configure network and devices to ensure PCI DSS compliance, because every organization has its own business specifics and its own technology, so we say that also segregation of duties is unique for every organization. But we also may conclude that segregation of duties depends heavily on the network configuration and network devices and because of that one of areas of auditing for PCI DSS compliance is also documentation and

This document outlines how Digits and Widgets will create an effective Security Program to ensure that business critical assets and processes are protected from disruption and to minimize any impact resulting from any form of Information Security attack. This may include internal or external threats, physical and digital risks, and mobile technology while transporting goods. We will follow a structured process to first identify what our business critical assets and process are by information gathering from each department. From this point we will assess and evaluate the risks to our assets and processes. Finally, we will choose cost effective options to address our most business relevant risks. Continuing from here we will establish a maintenance program to ensure that as our business grows and evolves, so does our Security Program to

Data integrity: This will be achieved through setting permissions on who may access individual files and menus, which will be logged into using usernames and passwords. SSL will be implemented to ensure transactions are encrypted and may not be intercepted. Antivirus software will be installed to make sure viruses cannot infect and change customer and bank information. White and Black Hat tests will be conducted to ensure security measures are able to ward off attacks such as

“Zara – IT or Fast Fashion” is a case prepared at Harvard Business School, by Andrew McAfee, Vincent Dessian, and Anders Sjoman. Zara is a fashion clothing line under the multinational clothing retailer and manufacturer Intidex. The case opens with a discussion between Xan Salgado Badas (Head of IT for Intidex) and Bruno Sanchez Ocampo a subordinate, on whether or not to update the current existing Windows DOS based POS (Point of Sale) terminals with advanced Windows operating system. The paper further details the business model and IT dependency. We try to analyze the current business model, its IT dependency, and why and how it needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure.

Successful security plans include evaluation of data sensitivity, integrity, confidentiality, and date availability. System confidentiality assures that all data in the system is protected from disclosure to unauthorized processes, people, or devices. System integrity insures that company’s data is protected from unanticipated/unauthorized, or unintentional destruction (or modification). System availability provides assurance that data, services, and IT system resources are accessible to all system-related processes and authorized users on a reliable and timely basis, while protected from denial of service (Assessing the Security of Federal IT Systems, 2007).

As per my study, the following are the recent information Security breaches in the news since last decade.

With the purchase of Swagger Distribution, a company that distributes clothing and apparel by a new owner; she is looking to make some changes in the IT area of her company. Since, she does not have any IT experience and has consulted me as an IT consultant to help her regarding the matter. After careful research and evaluation of her company’s current IT infrastructure the following areas have been explored and the recommendations that follow are best suitable for the company according to what the new owner wants.

The systems approach to problem solving is used to analyze and identify mediatory provisions, see figure 2, Appendix D, Systems Approach to Problem Solving. Loss suffered in the Societe Generale Bank security breach was substantial because the perpetrator knew where to look to acquire access to financial information and circumvent existing security measures. This defined fraudulent behavior and solidified criteria for productive countermeasures. Prevention and risk management must be addressed by establishing policies and procedures and enforced by management at all levels. In accordance with Societe Generale Bank security policy these recommendations are proposed

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