Description
Review the Module Six case study, choose either the case from Home Depot or the case from Target, and address the critical elements.
Cases:
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/casestudies/case-study-home-depot-data-breach-36367
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/a-first-look-at-the-target-intrusion-malware/
To complete this assignment, review the Module Six Case Analysis Guidelines and Rubric document attached.
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Running head: HOME DEPOT CASE STUDY
Home Depot Case Study
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HOME DEPOT CASE STUDY
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Home Depot Case Study
Tenets of cybersecurity that were breached
From the home depot case study, two of the security tenets in information technology
were breached. On the one hand, the confidentiality of the customer information was breached.
The system is supposed to secure all the information that belongs to both the organization and its
clients. The attackers were, therefore, able to gain access to the system and carried with them
some crucial information that belonged to the customers. The integrity of information is the other
tenet that was breached. Integrity refers to protection from unauthorized tampering of the data
(Gomzin 2014). By using the credit card information, the attackers were able to...