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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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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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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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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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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The iPremier Company: Denial of Service Attack 1. Company overview The iPremier is Web-based Commerce Company and established in 1996 by two founder students from Swarthmore College. The company is one of the top two retail businesses in online transaction which selling from vintage goods and to the luxury item. Its well knows that during fiscal year 2006‚ iPremier has grabbed profit $2.1 millions with sales of $32 million from their high-end customer. The company has also recorded with
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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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INTROUCTION The iPremier Company is an e-commerce company that sells luxury and rare items on the internet to high-end (rich) customers. It has become one of the top two organizations in its line of business. In the dotcom crash of 2000‚ iPremier was one of the few companies that survived because of the cash flush due to the recent public offering in 1999. The reason of maintain the company stable In the year 2009 iPremier faced its second biggest crisis since the dotcom crash of 2000 as it
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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. To err on
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