Week 5 checkpoint IT The credit card data theft at TJX Companies is considered one of the worst ever. The case is significant because of a lack of appropriate security and control. Resources: Ch. 7 & 12 of Essentials of Management Information Systems Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words: •List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? The thieves used several entry points to access TJX corporation systems. They accessed many TJX’s retail
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CheckPoint: TJX Companies The data theft that TJX Companies experienced was caused by using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system. The WEP had become easy for hackers to navigate and had become quite out of date. TJX also failed to properly encrypt data on many of the employee computers that were using the wireless network‚ and did not have an effective firewall. The company had also purchased additional security programs that were not installed correctly. An alternative to the
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As stated in our text‚ there are various categories of e-commerce and these types are‚ Business -to-consumer‚ which is the electronic commerce involving retailing products and services to individual shoppers. BarnesandNoble.com‚ which sells books‚ software‚ and music to individual consumers‚ is an example of B2C e-commerce. Another category would be Business-to-business‚ which is the electronic commerce involving the sales of goods and services among businesses. ChemConnect’s Web site for buying
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theft at TJX Companies is considered one of the worst ever. The case is significant because of a lack of appropriate security and control. Resources: Ch. 7 & 12 of Essentials of Management Information Systems Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words: • List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? • What tools and technologies could have been used to fix the weaknesses? • What was the business effect of TJX’s data loss on TJX‚ consumers
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Week 5 Checkpoint – TJX Companies IT/205 Joshua Bailey The credit card data theft that TJX Companies experienced happened because they were using WEP wireless security‚ which is the weakest form of wireless encryption today‚ and hackers could access the credit card data easily. If TJX had taken the time to implement a stronger encryption method‚ thousands of dollars would have been saved by the company. Proper site surveying could also have prevented the attackers from making a breach. TJX
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TJX Companies Jim Blackwood IT/205 January-9th‚ 2013 Gelonda Martin TJX Companies The TJC Corporation failed to protect its customers by allowing one of the largest security breaches in history. In 2007 they announced that an unauthorized user had accessed their system and compromised over 40 million customers’ data such as credit cards‚ debit cards and personal pin numbers. TJX was using an older security protocol called WEP which had proven to be easy to access by hackers and had
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TJX corporate systems had poor security controls. The computer kiosks that were located in some of their stores were supposed to be secure. They also had some firewall protection. TJX wireless network was protected by WEP encryption system. The computer kiosks were poorly secured; the kiosks were accessible from the back which made them vulnerable to tampering. The computer firewalls set up did not block malicious traffic coming from the kiosks. The wireless network used an old encryption
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CheckPoint: Don’t Count on it IT 205 Joel Balkum The FDCA project is an evolution into the technology age for the U.S. Census Bureau. Implementing handheld electronic devices improves the effectiveness of the collection process because it cuts down the use of paper for recording data‚ it replaces hardcopy maps that collectors would carry to find their way around‚ saves time and money‚ and makes staying organized easier to do which improves data quality and credibility. The problems that the
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The U.S. Census Bureau Field Data Collection Project: Don’t Count On It IT/205 July 25‚ 2013 A census is the process of acquiring and recording information from the general public to determine population or housing numbers. For the 2010 census‚ the United States Census Bureau decided to implement a program called Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA). The program was intended to improve the data collection process by using handheld electronic devices. The mobile handhelds were to canvass
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security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? I did not notice any securities in place. The article did mention a second layer or security that was not properly installed. The systems were out of date and TJX used an old Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system. Other companies made the switch to a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WAP) with more complex encryption. The article also states that they failed to install firewalls and data encryption on some of the hardware using wireless networks
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