went through the case of iPremier (read the full case) which is a popular case study from Harvard Business School. It was a made up case but the recent high profile hacking stories (such as Gawker) show that companies are not taking security seriously. The background is that iPremier suffered a DOS attack in the middle of the night which caused chaos in the company. After an hour the attack stopped and the company went back to business as normal. Two weeks later another DOS attack was spawned from
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CI Perp Note 7 The iPremier Company (A): Denial of Service Attack The iPremier Company was founded in 1996 and had evolved into one of thefew success stories of web-based commerce. It also sells luxury‚ rare‚ and vintage goods on the web. In the treacherous business-to-business segment‚ iPremier was one of a few survivors. Although the company was a really successful company in business field‚ during the 75 minute attack‚ iPremier performed very ineffectively and acted negatively‚ which would
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1. Premier was unprepared for the 75 minutes attack. This might have come due to too much faith in the Qdata’s abilities to control these situation and lack of vision with regards to any threats. Every ones reaction was that of panic because there were no crisis management strategy or disaster plans in place. As the communication lines got crossed and broke down‚ the sense of panic at iPremier grew higher with no defined plan on how to get out of it. 2. We would have had a teleconference with
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Subject: iPremier and Denial of Service Attack – Case Study ______________________________________________________________________________ The iPremier and Denial of Service Attack case study is a made up case from the Harvard Business School. This case shows clearly how companies may not be taking their security seriously and after several high profile hacking stories‚ we can see that is the truth. The background of the case is that iPremier‚ a high end online store‚ suffered a DOS attack during
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The iPremier Compant (A): Denial of Service Attack Summary of the case: iPremier‚ a Seattle based company‚ was founded in 1996 by two students from Swathmore College. iPremier had become one of a few success web-based commerce‚ selling luxury‚ rare‚ and vintage goods over the Internet. Most of iPremier’s goods sell between fifty and a few hundred dollars‚ and the customer buys the products online with his or her credit card. iPremier’s competitive advantage is their flexible return policies
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DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK: SIMPLE BUT DESTRUCTIVE In last several years‚ Daniel of Service attack (DoS)/ Distributed Daniel of Service attack (DDoS) has become one of the most critical threats for internet security‚ though it’s easily accomplished by the intruders. Even‚ proven and practicable attacking software are also available on the Internet. To get rid of this attack‚ first of all we have to know its consequences. Typically‚ an internet connection is established using a methodology named
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Introduction On January 12th‚ 2007 at 4:31am‚ Bob Turley‚ CIO of the iPremier Company‚ received a panicked phone call from his IT operations staff. Their external facing website was “locked up” and could not be accessed by anyone‚ including their customers. iPremier is a web-based business that generates revenue through solely processing online orders. While the web server was down‚ the company could not accept any new orders or allow their customers to view their products. An inadequately third-party
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1. How well did the iPremier Company perform during the seventy-five-minute attack? If you were Bob Turley‚ what might you have done differently during the attack? iPremier company did a mediocre job with the seventy-five-minute attack. The company’s lack of standard procedures for incident and event management. Furthermore‚ the contingency plans in place weren’t adopted by the entire company. The use of binder with policies and procedures seems perfunctory. Moreover‚ there wasn’t a plan for disaster
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In real world scenario‚ a Denial-of-Service attack DoS attack) or Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS attack) is an effort to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its genuine users. Although the means to carry out‚ motives for‚ and objective of a DoS attack may vary‚ it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or eliminate services of a host connected to the internet. One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with outside
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approximately 4:30 a.m. on January 12‚ 2009‚ iPremier’s website suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is a method used by mischievous hackers to force a computer resource to stop responding to legitimate users. The hacker achieves this by taking control of a fleet of remote computers‚ often referred to as “zombies”‚ in order to send a flood of network traffic to a specific target‚ in this case‚ iPremier’s website. The website quickly becomes so overwhelmed dealing with the
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