Home Depot Case Study

The Home Depot is a retail store for the more do it yourself people that have home improvement and construction products and services. This company has been at the top of the list for construction and home improvement retailers since 1978 and an annual revenue of close to $80 billion from over 2,000 locations. In 2014 this organization was hit with arguably the biggest retailer breach in history, topping the target breach in the previous year. This was the first time that Home Depot had been breached to this scale and they took a devastating blow. This breach has a story in itself as to why it took so long to detect this malware in their payment systems. With a company like Home Depot they should have enough money to detect these infections

The hack happened because of the lack of security and the use of outdated software to protect the network and the lack of security checks of customer information. After this incident many of the employees of the security team left the company because of the reputation that it was bringing the company. Facing these problems in recent years, in 2012 Home depot hired a computer engineer to help with the security of all of the locations that they possessed. Later on down the road that employee was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison for disabling computers for the company he worked at prior to Home Depot. Even though this malware was not seen prior to this incident it was very difficult for them to detect, Home Depot should have taken precautionary actions to prevent an attack like this from

Home depot is the one to blame for so many cards getting stolen throughout the months due to their lack of daily checks on the security logs as they are supposed to. Due to the payer card regulations, companies are supposed to check the security logs daily and this is something that Home Depot was not doing. Weather it was because it was too expensive or they did not put it in their budget, it is costing them over $62 million to fix this breach and the mistakes that they have made. The hackers were so good at what they did and infiltrated the payment systems so smoothly that Home Depot did not detect this in time to minimize damages to their finances and other people’s finances. If different actions were taken by Home Depot with their security logs then this might not have happened, or if it did it would have been detected