While the Federal Trade Commission has data security guidelines there is some significant room for improved regulations. The one regulation that is relevant to all companies is that they must meet cyber security compliance requirements. The FTC has the ability to charge companies for poor security practices, especially those that put consumers in danger. In order for Zara to prevent a FTC cyber security action lawsuit they must enact this incident response plan. The components of this plan include all of the compliance measures, which can avoid lawsuits similar to those faced by Zara’s competition. Retail companies are at risk to cyber incidents just as much as other industries. The size of Zara puts even more employees and customers at risk. …show more content…
Preparation is focused around stopping incidents before they occur. To reduce the likelihood of a cyber incident at Zara the company must have certain preparations in place to protect their network and systems. If the best security practices are implemented all those who need to understand the incident response plan will be ready to act and have access to all the resources they need. First and foremost, Zara will hire a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to establish and manage all internal security policies. Zara currently does not have this position or anything similar to it. Once the CISO position is created and filled, the CISO will hire or appoint employees for the primary and distributed incident response teams. Preparation can be broken down into two categories, prevention and business continuity. Prevention focuses on activities important prior to an incident, including security efforts such as internal security policies, employee training, systems protection, and protection for hardware and software (Motta, 14). When employees are properly trained and security measures are in place attacks and/or incidents are less likely to occur because there will be fewer …show more content…
This can occur through software or an employee. “If your defenses can disrupt the early stages of these attacks, you are in a far better position to minimize the damage or cause the intruder to go elsewhere” (O’Dell, 71). In general the issue must be brought to the attention of the Chief Information Security Officer. They will be able to determine if the incident is in fact a cyber security concern, severity, scope, and type. When a cyber incident occurs, the specifics of that incident must be identified in order to accurately response. There needs to verification exactly what occurred, who/what was the attack source, how long it took to detect, what damages and/or losses have already occurred, and what potential damages can still happen if no action is taken. Another goal of identification is to discover what vulnerabilities and attack vectors, internal and/or external, were targeted. It is very important to fully understand the impact to operations, legal, customers, human resources, physical security, partners, and law enforcement. There should be significant documentation of all of the identification steps. This documentation will be helpful in the analysis process and for potential legal matters after the fact. The Chief Information Security Officer will be responsible for declaring the incident and the Incident Response Team will implement the incident response plan. All of the resources necessary to complete the IRP
With the help of the Cyber Squad in the Seattle Division of the FBI, United States Secret Service and victim, Microsoft Corporation, a complaint was filed on August 28, 2003. According to the plaintiff, this individual intentionally caused and attempted to cause damage to a protected computer. Using the Homeland Security Act and the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, the complaint was filed under the U.S.C. Title 18, Sections 1030(a)(5)(A)(i), 1030(a)(5)(B)(i), 1030(b), and 1030(c)(4)(A), and Section 2.
The developing and maintaining of a homeland security plan requires an organization to evaluate all aspects of their infrastructure, as well as, to meet their obligation to the community/public in providing protection and business continuity in the event of a terrorist attack, or any form of natural disaster. Homeland security assessments are based on meeting what has been established as the Baldrige Criteria. “Conducting a comprehensive organizational assessment based on the Baldridge Criteria for homeland security preparedness provides organizational perspective of their readiness and vulnerabilities that exist within their overall infrastructure. The Baldrige Criteria can also provide
I will conduct a Homeland Security Assessment for my organization because the need for homeland security is tied to the underlying vulnerability of my company’s infrastructure in general, but I would conduct one for any threats against the infrastructure of my company. In our company we would need to establish a planning team to conduct Homeland Security Assessment for my organization by developing a plan Also, Analyzing capabilities and hazards in company to minimizing the threat.The next step is to Implementing the plan. Another, step in conducting Homeland Security Assessment is getting prepared.The company game plan for homeland security set homeland security task into six critical mission areas: (1) comprehension and caution(2) boundary and transport security, (3) Military personal design to prevent any kind of terrorism, (4) protecting the company critical organizational structure (5) guarding against disastrous terrorism in the company like people getting shot up, and (6) the company's organizational structure crisis preparedness and response. The first three critical mission areas focus on stopping a terrorist attack. The next two on reducing protectiveness, and the final one is reduced to a small amount of damage and recovery from
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
This would include developing a process for security collaboration among participating organizations. If a working group of security officers has been formed, this group might continue to meet in order to compare notes on possible security threats to the RHIO, review of activity reports, or to discuss real or alleged incidents involving the data exchange systems. Collaboration among security officers will probably require them to focus on an agreed-upon definition of security incident. The group probably will want to prioritize their limited time to deal with significant threats to the system, not just review reports that have little or no security significance. It is almost inevitable that as a result of human error, a technical failure or a novel attack that some security incident or privacy breach will occur. It is extremely important that the RHIO has agreed upon procedures for incident response, reporting and
The fundamental business strategy of Zara is very simple which is linking customer demand to manufacturing, and liking manufacturing to distribution. Zara has been running their business in fashion industry which is susceptible to seasons and quick changing customer tastes. Zara has been approached to and considered their business as a perishable commodity business just like a fresh baked cake or bread to be consumed quickly.
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Disaster Recovery Planning is the critical factor that can prevent headaches or nightmares experienced by an organization in times of disaster. Having a disaster recovery plan marks the difference between organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost, effort and with maximum speed, and those organizations that cannot. By having back-up plans, not only for equipment and network recovery, but also detailed disaster recovery plans that precisely outline what steps each person involved in recovery efforts should undertake, an organization can improve their recovery time and minimize the disrupted time for their normal business functions. Thus it is essential that disaster recovery plans are carefully laid out and carefully updated regularly. Part of the plan should include a system where regular training occurs for network engineers and managers. In the disaster recovery process extra attention should also be paid to training any new employees who will have a critical role in this function. Also, the plan should require having the appropriate people actually practice what they would do to help recover business function should a disaster occur. Some organizations find it helpful to do this on a quarterly or semi-annual basis so that the plan stays current with the organization’s needs.
When someone suspects that an unauthorized, unacceptable, or unlawful event has occurred involving an organization’s computer networks or data-processing equipment Computer security incidents are normally identified. Initially, the incident may be reported by an ultimate user, detected by a system administrator, identified by IDS alerts, or discovered
Stakeholders are individuals, groups, and organisations with the power to influence the delivery of an organisation’s strategy and thus the organisation’s performance and/or a significant interest in an organisation’s strategy and thus the organisation’s performance (Wisniewski, 2001; Ackermann & Eden, 2011). In the context of the draft BSC to be developed, however, the analysis shall focus on relatively aggregated stakeholder groups. Firstly, the aim of this stakeholder analysis is not to pinpoint individual persons as stakeholders who may then be managed more easily than large organisations, but to identify rather broad stakeholder groups interested in Zara’s performance. Secondly, addressing
Finally when the attack has occured the affected system will study the attack to know what has occured , how to prevent the eoccurence and the level of damage. The computer seience forensics study the attack and they act much like any other investigation system diong the assemblance of important piece of evidence and suggest the connections among the piece of evidence using their experience. The Computer Emergency Response Teams is also another organization dealing with security of computer by collecting data about vulnerabilities and attack patterns and warn them about the danger and possible counter measures.
This report aim to explain how is achieved risk control through strategies and through security management of information.
The network management plan and security plan is important to help the company figure out how they will improve its network and security procedures for the company. Planning involves outlining objectiv...
In most instances, victims are not aware or do not know the perpetrator of the crimes. In some instances, this may include the perpetration of crime and actually committing the crime. With the advancement in technology, there seems to be a new way to commit cyber crime each day and a great number of unsuspecting individuals eventually becomes victims. There are various types of cybercrimes that can be committed with the common ones being Computer Viruses and identity theft which can have damaging effects on individuals and businesses (Search security, 2008). Some of these crimes such as the computer viruses have crushed main servers of companies and thus crippling these kinds of companies since some of them lose important data and information which they have stored electronically. Everyone who makes use of the computer seems to be at risk of becoming a victim to cyber crime if not on the lookout. As a matter of fact most perpetrators of such crimes are not caught since technology seems to be too advanced and the various crimes seems to be taking place rapidly making it almost impossible to catch the perpetrators of the crime. The home users are the most likely group to be targeted since they are less likely to have any security measures in place. A major way to deal with cyber crime at an individual level is to install antivirus software’s, firewalls and make use of intrusion detection system (Web Root, 2015).
A critical part of network planning involves setting up of security mechanisms. Deploying the network with security configuration provides superior visibility, continuous control and advanced threat protection across the extended network. Additionally, security procedures define policies to monitor the network for securing critical data, obtain visibility, mitigate threats, identify and correlate discrepancies.