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 all the Technical Executives to discuss their risk assessment measures‚ then we would also included the Qdata key point of contact on the issue
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Date: April 2‚ 2013 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
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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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In a recent Information Management lecture we 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
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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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1. I believe during the seventy-five minute attack iPremier company performed in a tolerable way considering the means they had but could had a better plan and resources. Bob Turley was never acquainted with the emergency procedure therefore was unfamiliar with procedures. In addition‚ the procedure binder was out dated and missing for the other staff members to use. One of the main problems was not having access to their own data center at Qdata. The reason they been using this data center because
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iPremier‚ a Seattle based company‚ was founded in 1994 by two students from Swathmore College. iPremier had become one of the only success stories of web-based commerce‚ selling luxury‚ rare‚ and vintage goods over the Internet. iPremier’s competitive advantage is their flexible return policies which allows the customer to check out the product and make a decision to keep the product or return it. iPremier had contracted with Qdata‚ an Internet hosting business. Qdata provided iPremier with
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Situation Ipremier was attack by some reason that the website was locked up and customer was not able to access it. The systems seem operated well so the staff did not know what exactly happen and how to solve it. At the time of the attack‚ Ipremier worried about the security of customer information and the impact of stock price. The employees were tried to solve the problems and minimized the influence of the situations. However‚ they have problem to access the Qdata headquarter because of the
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1. How well did the iPremier company perform during the 75 min attack? If you were Bob Turley‚ would you have done anything differently during the attack? iPremier did not sustain any major lapse during the attack. Only a few customers were inconvenienced‚ the stock price was not affected and the company publically communicated the outage right away. They were very lucky. There are many risk factors when an attack is potentially occurring. iPremier seemed unsure of the extent of the attack
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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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