In this assignment, you will read the following article:
- Riley, B. Elgin, D. Lawrence and C. Matlack. “Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It”, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, March 13, 2014.
After reading the article, discuss the data breach incident at Target, from the perspective of managing information systems infrastructures and governance of information systems. Your discussion may address the following questions:
- What could have caused this data breach?
- How did Target respond to the data breach?
- For the future, what could Target do to prevent similar incidents from happening again?
Word count : 400
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The data breach at Target, a credit card company in the US was perhaps the largest heist performed by hackers of the time. Well, one may stand back and ask themselves on what actually caused the breach. Who is to be held accountable? What led to the security breach?
Security experts and agencies report that the security firm. FireEye, which Target had contacted for their cyber security services had actually issued an alert to Target in good time. However, Target did not respond in…
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