In-class discussion questions for Mar 30

We will discuss these questions on Mon, Mar 30. Do not pose comments on this.

• If you were Mr. Barton, how would you explain the situation in Chapter 10 to your CEO, Mr. Carl Williams, in English?
• If you were Mr. Barton, how would you explain the situation in Chapter 10 to Wall Street analysts you’re scheduled to meet today?
• Did an attacker or attackers intrude inside of IVK’s systems?
• How would you explain the difference between a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and an intrusion?
• How would you explain “transaction is jammed up” or “the database is corrupted” (p. 164-165)?
• What does it mean by “Apparently a database index file had been somehow renamed, and another substituted in its place”? (p. 167)
• Why can’t IVK figure out whether an intrusion occurred or something else happened?