Information Systems Discussion-2

Assignment

In 2017, one of the biggest cyberattacks ever to occur was caused by the

failure of the management and IT staff at a well

-

known, very large enterprise

to take the necessary action to prevent the hacking the pers

onal information

of over 800 million customers. The ability of the black hats to penetrate the

technology portal at mega

-

giant Equifax and steal personal information was

determined to be the simple failure to apply a patch

to fix a known risk

referred to a

s the Apache Struts vulnerability. An alert had been promulgated

and the employees at Equifax knew of the vulnerability, and even ran some

scans, but never applied the patch that would have prevented the

reconnaissance and penetration of the data farm at E

quifax. The credit

-

reporting agency had two months to apply the fix before the cybercriminals

began stealing the data.

Discuss

For this assignment, research a recent cybersecurity issue that had a

considerable impact on an enterprise.

·

Describe in detail the recent cybersecurity issue that you selected.

·

How was the enterprise impacted?

·

What could have been done to prevent the incident?

Assignment

In 2017, one of the biggest cyberattacks ever to occur was caused by the

failure of the management and IT staff at a well-known, very large enterprise

to take the necessary action to prevent the hacking the personal information

of over 800 million customers. The ability of the black hats to penetrate the

technology portal at mega-giant Equifax and steal personal information was

determined to be the simple failure to apply a patch to fix a known risk

referred to as the Apache Struts vulnerability. An alert had been promulgated

and the employees at Equifax knew of the vulnerability, and even ran some

scans, but never applied the patch that would have prevented the

reconnaissance and penetration of the data farm at Equifax. The credit-

reporting agency had two months to apply the fix before the cybercriminals

began stealing the data.

Discuss

For this assignment, research a recent cybersecurity issue that had a

considerable impact on an enterprise.

 Describe in detail the recent cybersecurity issue that you selected.

 How was the enterprise impacted?

 What could have been done to prevent the incident?