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Case Study 1: Attacking More Than
Just the Enterprise
Suppose you are a security director for
a consulting firm that implements, secures, investigates, and supports
point-of-sale (POS) for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the retail
industry.
Read
the article titled, “Verizon DBIR 2012: Automated large-scale attacks taking
down SMBs” located at the following SearchSecurity link: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/news/2240147412/Verizon-DBIR-2012-Automated-large-scale-attacks-taking-down-SMBs.
Write
a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Evaluate
the recent trend toward attacking small and medium businesses and identify
the benefits that these types of businesses have which attract attackers.
- Compare and
contrast the digital forensic operations of small-sized companies to large
companies in terms of costs, personnel, inexperience, naivety, etc.
- Explain the
common purpose of attacks on point-of-sale (POS) systems and identify why
you as a security professional would have cause for concern for your
customers’ POS systems.
- Assess why
and how these POS systems have become a prime target for hacking groups.
- Examine the
forensics challenges that exist for investigations on POS systems.
- Use at
least two (2) quality resources in this assignment other than the article
linked above. Note: Wikipedia
and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your
assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed,
double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins
on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific
format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a
cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the
professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
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