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Security Architecture

MIS 5214 - Section 001 - David Lanter

Security Architecture

MIS 5214.951 ■ Spring 2023 ■ Jose Gomez
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  • Instructor
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
    • First Half of the Course
      • Unit 0a – Introduction
      • Unit 0b – The Threat Environment
      • Unit 1a – System Security Plan
      • Unit 1b – Planning and Policy
      • Unit 2a – Case Study 1 – A High Performance Computing Cluster Under Attack: The Titan Incident
      • Unit 2b – Cryptography
      • Unit 3a – Secure Networks
      • Unit 3b – Firewalls, Intrusion Detection and Protection Systems
    • Second Half of the Course
      • Unit 4b – Case Study 2 Data Breach at Equifax
      • Unit 5a – Access Control
      • Unit 5b Host Hardening
      • Unit 6a Application Security
      • Unit 6b Data Protection
      • Unit 7a – Incident and Disaster Response
  • Deliverables
    • Assignments
    • Case Studies
      • Case Study 1 – A High Performance Computing Cluster Under Attack: The Titan Incident
      • Case Study 2 – Data Breach at Equifax
    • Team Project Instructions
  • Harvard Coursepack

Unit #4a: Case Study 2 – Data Breach at Equifax

Found in the Harvard Business Publishing course pack.  (Links to an external site.)

Questions:

  1. Was Equifax careless or unlucky in mitigating its vulnerabilities?  In what ways were they careless or unlucky?  Explain…
  2. How well did Equifax’s management respond to the breach?  Explain…
  3. To what extent would you hold Equifax’s Board of Directors accountable for the company’s lack of cybersecurity preparedness?  Explain…

Upload your answers to the case study questions as a PDF file to Canvas no later than midnight of Saturday before class starts.

Use 11-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. Be sure to include each question (including number) along with the answers in your document. Do not prepare a separate cover page, instead put your name, the class number (MIS5214), and the case name in the top-left corner of the header.

Follow the instructions in the syllabus for the file naming conventions to follow for the PDF file you upload to Canvas as your deliverable.

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READINGS & CASE STUDY QUESTIONS

  • 0a – Introduction (1)
  • 0b – The Threat Environment (5)
  • 1a – System Security Plan (4)
  • 1b – Planning and Policy (4)
  • 2a – Case Study 1 (4)
  • 2b – Cryptography (4)
  • 3a – Secure Networks (5)
  • 3b – Firewalls and IDS and IPS (3)
  • 4b – Case Study 2 (4)
  • 5a – Access Control (5)
  • 5b – Host Hardening (3)
  • 6a – Application Security (4)
  • 6b – Data Protection (2)
  • 7a – Incident and Disaster Response (3)
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