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Security Failures and Preventive Measures at Dewar Chemical

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1. Topic and Title
Security failures and preventive measures
2. Summary of the Case
Dewar Chemical is a huge firm with massive line of products and equally growing number of customers. One customer recently called to say that his credit card information had been compromised. This was alarming to the company which has several protocols in place for protection of customer information. This company is shown to be growing fast and is becoming highly dependent on IT systems to provide security to its customers who use online website to make purchases.
After the problem was reported, the CEO of the company called in a meeting to discuss this issue with their CIO Chief Information Officer in order to brainstorm and ensure that system was completely protected, checked the system again. He found that while the system had some fitrewalls in place but it was true that information had leaked out and this could be due to the presence of viruses sent by an attacker.
Someone at the firm suggested that the solution to this issue is not pertaining to computer security only but is rather more related to the information security process, for which an entire risk management program needs to be executed. He brought in an entire proposal plan to the CEO which was approved by their audit meeting. This led to a successful installation of information security software.
Problems faced:
The Dewar chemical Company, during the attack from the worm, faced the following problems:
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