Walmart Monitoring Policy

* Check existing security scan reports, from WireShark and NetWitness Investigator, and see if we can identify data leakage, and setup new policies and procedures for monitoring web servers and applications.

Despite the presence of network security devices such as firewalls and other security appliances, today's corporate networks are still vulnerable to both internal and external attacks by hackers intent on creating havoc. By proactively

Walmart hand book states that they should “provide an environment free of discrimination to our associates, customers, members and suppliers.” It goes on to say that they “prohibits discrimination in employment, employment-related decisions or in business dealings on the basis of an individual’s race, color, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability’.

To know understand Walmart as a company, you need to start where it began. Walmart was started by Sam Walton in 1962 in Bentonville, Arkansas; the building still exists as a museum. When Mr. Walton started Walmart he said, he “believed in leadership through service” (Walmart,2014). He wanted to have a company that would succeed and provide exceptional customer services while his company delivered a price that people could afford. The company employed people who surpassed in customer services. Customer services was not Sam Walton’s only vision for his company. He wanted his employees to be happy. He started an open-door policy, this policy states that if an employee has an issue with any coworker, assistant manager or manager, the door is open to speak to another manager about it. When I worked at Walmart it was a very helpful policy when I was having a personal issue with my department manager. Sam Walton wanted his employees to enjoy time with their families so he would close Walmart on holidays for “family time” and employees who worked on Sunday’s got paid time and half (Walmart,2014). Sadly Mr. Sam died in 1992 leaving his company’s legacy to others.

Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world and handles more than one million customer transactions every hour and generates more than 2.5 petabytes of data storage (Venkatraman & Brooks, 2012). To put this into perspective, this data is equivalent to 167 times the number of books in America’s Library of Congress (Venkatraman & Brooks, 2012). So how can Wal-Mart use this massive amount of data and what useful information can this data provide? This paper will provide a brief overview of the importance of Business Intelligence (BI) and how the largest retailer in world, Walmart, is using it.

As stated on the corporate website (2017), “Walmart is the largest retailer in the world, where 2.3 million associates meet the needs of more than 260 million customers every week.” These numbers are huge, and with so many locations around the globe, they have had allegations been made by employees regarding their dissatisfaction about poor work conditions, gender discrimination, low wages, poor benefits, and inadequate health care. Walmart has been criticized for its policies against labor unions and this issue has prompted public outrage, (Johansson, 2005) which is of great concern for the market. The company has also faced criticism for being anti-union, but it has claimed that it is rather pro-associate, whereby employees

Walmart requires honest and accurate reporting of financial information. All financial records and accounts must accurately reflect financial transactions and events. They must conform to GAAP and to Walmart’s internal controls. No Walmart document or record may be falsified and no undisclosed account of their assets can be established (Walmart 6).

tools will help to detect intrusions and other suspicious activities on the network. The third challenge is to improve the

Network-Based Scanner helps detect critical vulnerabilities for example mis-configured firewalls, risks associated with vendor-supplied software, vulnerable web servers, and risks associated with systems administration and network.

Proactive System Security and Networking Monitoring ensures your office network infrastructure provides your firm and employees the most reliable continuity of your business activities, reducing the amount of downtime and lost revenue each year.

Although prices at Wal-Mart are considered as reasonable they are still having their own issues in relation to ethical issues and unethical practices consists of consumers were complaining about how they were not paying what they consider a fair prices for their groceries. Wal-Mart use to cover up what they were doing to their customers the advocate group followed the Food Chain Workers Alliance in order to investigate the root of the problem in the outsourcing ethical systems. Wal-Mart worker are currently complaining they are not being treated fairly because they are overworking their employees and they are not receiving enough pay based on their skills and qualifications they should determine how qualified their employees are for the job of their choice. Wal-Mart just followed existing law.

While using the web for commercial use is a great tool for data analysis, and marketing. There are ethical questions each company not just Wal-Mart will have to answer. There are ways that Wal-Mart has use the web unethically by using paid bloggers to create a positive word of mouth. This subset of covert marketing commonly is classified as stealth marketing, but also has been referred to as shill, undercover, or masked marketing (Balter and Butman 2006; Petty and Andrews 2008). “In September 2006, Wal-Mart’s public relations firm, Edelman, launched a folksy blog website on Wal-Mart’s behalf.” The blog were account from two consumers enjoying a across America country trip in a RV (recreation vehicle). The blog was popular until it was exposed by by BusinessWeek (Gogoi 2006), leading to a surge in criticism from both consumers and influential sources such as the Consumerist (http://consumerist.com/) and Walmartwatch.com. This account of misuse of

Application of context to scan results – to determine which infrastructure vulnerabilities should be targeted first and most aggressively.

Network security has changed significantly over the past years. There is more and more data to monitor and analyze in order to detect the activity of your data and systems. Securing a network has many variables. Password authentication, network access, patches, anti-virus protection, intrusion detection, firewall and network monitoring tools are just a few of the things you can do to protect yourself.

With every company there come strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and Wal-mart is no exception. Wal-mart sits at the number one spot when it comes to retail businesses but they have had many issues; in particular labor law violations because they did not allow their employees to take required lunch and meal breaks.