Strayer Bus 508 Assignment 4 (Diversification)

Write clearly and concisely about topics related to cybercrime techniques and response using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation headquartered in Atlanta Georgia. It is best known for its flagship product Coca-cola. The company offers more than 500 brands in over 200 countries and serves over 1.7 billion servings per day. The company’s stock is listed on the NYSE and it is a part DJIA, S&P index and the Russell 1000 index. The company had revenues of $48.01 billion in the year 2012 and a net income of $9.01 billion. Coca-cola has a total asset base of 86.17 billion and 146200 employees worldwide. Coca-Cola’s current chairman and chief executive is Muhtar Kent.

A direct cyberattack in 2014 to JPMorgan Chase caused a compromised of accounts effecting a total of 76 million households and seven million small businesses. We are clearly, in times when consumer confidence in the digital operations of corporate America is on shaky ground. In directly, banking is taking the brunt of the fallout but major stores also have breaches which of course are directly related to their financial data. Store like, Target, Home Depot and a number of other retailers have experienced major data breaches. 40 million cardholders and 70 million others were compromised at Target alone in 2013 and an attack at Home Depot in September, 2013 affected 56 million cardholders.

During the dates of November 27 through December 2013, the department store Target experienced a data breach in which approximately 40 million customers credit and debit cards were exposed. During this breach, customer’s personal information may have also been exposed for use of possible fraud. January

A data breach incident which happened in 2014 could cost Sony Corp. $8 million in settlements, Bloomberg reported. The data breach happened when North Korean hackers were angered by "The Interview", a film that was centered around a fictional plot to eliminate Kim Jong-Un. Sony is reportedly going to pay $4.5 million to former and existing employees, while the lawyers who handled the case are expected to get $3.5 million.

Sony Corporation is a Japanese owned company, created in 1946 based in Tokyo, Japan. The company competes in the technology market with diversity. This includes video games, computers and computer hardware, television, media players, etc. With that being said, Sony has had their ups and downs over the past few years, just like everyone else in this industry. Things such as the U.S. economy can really affect the future of this company. Now that the economy is on the downfall, things such as entertainment are not as important as paying for food, gas, and other bills. It is important to realize these things as you analyze the company due to the fact that the company

The Cheesecake Factory established in the 1940s by Oscar and Evelyn Overton. Mrs. Overton began making cheesecake in the basement of her home in Detroit, using cream cheese as one of her main ingredients to give it, its scrumptious taste it has today. In 1972, the Overton’s moved there business to Woodland hills suburb of Los Angeles. By the end of the year, Cheesecake Factory moved from their previous location to its new headquarters in Calabasas Hills, California, which they hired additional staff members to increase productivity. The New facility was

On December 18, 2013, one of the security bloggers, Brian Krebs, posted in his blog that Target, one of the biggest US retailers, had suffered a massive data breach. The next day, Target announced that data from more than 40 million credit and debit card accounts had been stolen from its systems, and noting that they started a thorough investigation. Perhaps learning from Target’s mistakes, other organizations could achieve a goal of better protecting themselves and their customers’ information.

The Target data breach remains one of the most notable breaches in history, it was the first time a CEO of a major corporation was fired due to a security event. The breach received an enormous amount of attention, it caused corporations and individuals to change the way they think about information security and data protection. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2013 hackers gained access to 40 million customer credit cards and personal data of 70 million Target customers. The intruders slipped in by using stolen credentials and from there gained access to vulnerable servers on Targets network to launch their attack and steal sensitive customer data from the POS cash registers. All this occurred without a response from Targets security operations center, even though security systems notified them of suspicious activity. The data was then sold on the black market for an estimated $53 million dollars. However, the cost to Target, creditors, and banks exceeded half of a billion dollars. This report will review how the infiltration occurred, what allowed the breach to occur including Targets response, and finally who was impacted by the security event.

“To become a leading global provider of networked consumer electronics, entertainment and services.” That’s the mission of Sony, producer of the Sony Playstation. Sony, information and

Even after the attack, when the company did not know whether the customer information, which included credit card information, the company had no intention to announce the security breach to the public. This can be detrimental to the company if customers became

Sony has built a strong brand for themselves and is known as a quality, dependable brand of goods and services. Depending solely on their brand reputation isn’t something that Sony can do, they must constantly be well informed of the consumers wants, by analyzing the lifestyles of their target market and ensuring the products will fit the consumer’s wants.

Way back then, Sony entered the market originally as a supplier of components for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) home console. However, when Nintendo failed to introduce new technologies that would improve the gaming experience, Sony grabbed the chance to seize the opportunity. Sony

While they believed they were supporting the act of free speech, the attack resulted in shutdown of online service for Sony for a total of 25 days while repairs were completed. The overall cost to Sony was £105 million including a court case from a play station

Sony has may departments that they excel in, but none more than PlayStation. PlayStation has consistently brought in the most revenue for Sony over the past five years. PlayStation is consistently a global leader in digital entertainment. It was developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment and was first launched in Japan in 1994. PlayStation is a gaming console that offers more than just video games. PlayStation also is a media center and online streaming service. There have been four generations released since 1994. There are many products that branch off from PlayStation including the PlayStation Vita, a handheld device, PlayStation Plus, an online streaming services, and PlayStation VR, a virtual reality system.